{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Solo Founders","title":"5 Solo Founders Called In With Their Hardest Problem | Solo Founders Office Hours","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2856,"description":"Five solo founders brought their hardest current problem to a live office hours, and Julian worked each one in real time. An open-source app with 1.25 million users and a few hundred paying subscribers. A data product the market \"doesn't know it needs.\" A one-person vendor selling benchmarks to frontier AI labs. A wholesale-ordering startup whose customers keep asking for the wrong features. A robot company deciding whether the body or the brain comes first. The answers keep landing in the same place: they were building what they wanted to sell, not what the customer would say yes to.\nTopics covered:\nMonetizing an open-source app without losing user trust: charge for core value, not perks\nServices as software: why \"I want to sell a product\" can be the mistake\nCalendar spearing, and compressing every step between \"I have this problem\" and \"yes\"\nGoing solo: customers as the orienting force, building as the addictive default (add \"after a co-founder split\" only with Ryan's OK)\n\"Don't be the best, be the only\" — whether buyers take a one-person company seriously\nFeature requests are jobs to be done: the micro-app middle path\nHardware vs. software scope: ship the mind before the body\nFounders: Utkarsh Dalal (GameNative), Ryan Junejo (Crash Labs), Charlie Kahn (Brio), Andy (Phenomni). Host: Julian Weisser.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Mj10Aagf8Fn8vlPjgqrVjy6o35AHmBKx1tPfNCCPiYo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OWE2/Y2E3NGM5MjYxYmQ1/Njk2YjU5YTlkMmMw/OTZmYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}