Podcast Episodes
Back to Search413: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat
You know that moment when you realize the ground has shifted beneath your feet? I had one of those moments recently. I was watching an AI agent build out a complex feature for Podscan in about twenty…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
412: The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers
It took me a long while to realize this: AI isn't just something like a chatbot for my customers. AI can work behind the scenes to facilitate getting the right stuff in front of the right people for …
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
411: The Currents of a Founder
I was reading Brandon Sanderson's latest novel, Wind and Truth, when I came across a sentence that stopped me cold: "A stronger current makes for stronger fish."
That's it. That's what entrepreneurshi…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
410: Building for the Age of AI Consumers
I think we're at the precipice of a pretty significant change in how we build software products. Obviously, the recent ascent of vibe coding and all the agentic coding tools that we find very useful …
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
409: James Phoenix — Claude Code Masterclass
James Phoenix is an expert in agentic coding, particularly Claude code, a tool that I have been using to great effect over the last couple months. I chatted with James just a couple days ago and have…
Published on 3 months ago
408: The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing
Today I'll be talking about a successful marketing project within my software business that turned out to be so successful that it spawned a business built on top of that business.
This episode of The…
Published on 3 months ago
407: Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI's Impact on Modern Design
Nick Groeneveld is a designer and User Experience expert who has been a valued collaborator on Podscan, my own software product. Nick works as a freelancer for a lot of companies that have no in-hous…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
406: Making Your Business Sellable (Even If You Never Plan to Sell)
Today, I’ll share how I’ve been preparing Podscan (and long before that, another SaaS business) to be ready to be acquired at a moment’s notice.
This episode of The Bootstraped Founder is sponsored b…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
405: The Friction Paradox: Why AI Might Be Making Us Worse at What We Do
Today we’ll talk about how AI systems, particularly the ones that do all the work for us, can both massively amplify and hinder our effectiveness. The good get better, and the bad get worse. It's a p…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
404: The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World
Today we’ll talk about keeping up with an avalanche of audio data and how I built Podscan’s transcription infrastructure.
This episode of The Bootstraped Founder is sponsored by Paddle.com
The blog pos…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago