{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Small Efforts - with Sean Sun and Andrew Askins","title":"Louis Nicholls on the future of SaaS and the top 5 rom coms of all time ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6147,"description":"We've got a special guest on the pod today! Louis from Sparkloop joins to share how they evolved from referrals to recommendations and sold to Kit! 🚀 Meanwhile Andrew gets Louis's take on MetaMonster's positioning struggles and they debate how and why the SaaS landscape is changing. Plus: the most detailed rom-com ranking you've ever heard, featuring hidden gems and heated debates about classics.\nLinks:\nAndrew’s Twitter: @AndrewAskins\nAndrew's website: https://www.andrewaskins.com/\nMetaMonster: https://metamonster.ai/\nLouis's Twitter: @louisnicholls_\nSparkloop (newsletter recommendations platform): https://sparkloop.app/\nGrow your newsletter: https://www.growmynewsletter.com/\nFor more information about the podcast, check out https://www.smalleffortspod.com/.\n\nTranscript:\n00:00:01.03\nAndrew\nHey, what's up, man?\n00:00:02.44\nLouis\nHey man, how's it going? It's been a while.\n00:00:04.43\nAndrew\nIt has. Astute listeners might notice that you are not Sean Sun, founder of Miscreants. Do you want to introduce yourself real quick?\n00:00:13.90\nLouis\nYeah, my name Louis. I am the co-founder of Sparkloop. I'm a huge rom-com enthusiast, which I think we're going to get to later. and\n00:00:23.11\nAndrew\nHell yeah.\n00:00:24.25\nLouis\nI guess I'm a probably more of like a reformed indie hacker. People might know me from that, but more likely nowadays, if you're a newsletter nerd in the newsletter space, you probably have come across Sparkloop or maybe seen me online or something like that.\n00:00:41.21\nAndrew\nReformed. Does that mean you don't identify as an indie hacker anymore?\n00:00:44.76\nLouis\nOh, no, no, I do. I just don't hang out in the as much in like the IndieHack bootstrap founder space anymore. my My Twitter and LinkedIn have been taken over by self-interested business interests of talking about newsletters, which is a lot more lucrative.\n00:00:51.89\nAndrew\nYeah.\n00:00:59.73\nLouis\nYeah.\n00:00:59.94\nAndrew\nYeah. So, okay. How long ago now did you sell Sparkloop? How long...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PgRb7nkVloWStxsA-Wu9jkGRJHzVzKvZN5NP2-jtBqk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIwNTI3LzE2MjMx/ODE4NDYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}