#13: Boiler Room

Ian and Andrey discuss getting ready to deploy Uberdeck, Snappy progress, what’s next for Snappy marketing, stories of first job interviews, the benefits, if any, of a college education, selling into the consumer space, the experience of buying software in a box, selling software before making software and vetting product ideas.

• Uberdeck – Andrey’s new product. ( preview screenshot)
• Fabric – a Python SSH tool.
• Snappy – Ian’s newest product.
• SupportOps.co – a site dedicated to customer support best practices.
• Helpspot – Ian’s first product; a helpdesk application.
• SmallSpec.com – Chris Hawkins‘ new product for building functional specs.
• Boiler Room – movie.
• Songwriter gets paid $16 for 1 million plays.
• xkcd – the pace of modern life.

Creators and Guests

Host

Andrey Butov

Founder of Antair

Host

Ian Landsman

Founder HelpSpot, LaraJobs, and Laracon Online.

Producer

Dave Hicking

OG podcast producer on Bootstrapped, Mostly Technical, Cheese & Weather, and Clock Radio Speakers

What is Bootstrapped?

This is the archive of Bootstrapped.fm. A seminal Bootstrapper-oriented podcast started in 2013 by Ian Landsman and Andrey Butov. The first iteration ran for 104 episodes. In 2019, Steve McLeod took over for another 139 episodes. We've set this podcast to release order so you can experience it as it was initially presented.