73: Justin Jackson - Making a Living From Your Own Projects

In this episode, Adam is joined by Justin Jackson to talk about how to start working towards making a full-time living from your own projects.

Show Notes

Topics include:

• Why you shouldn't start with SaaS
• How to find ideas from client projects
• What to do before you make a landing page
• Why your first product doesn't have to be the one that makes you rich
• Using open source to build an audience

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship

Links:

• Getting Real by 37signals (now Basecamp)
• Startups for the Rest of Us podcast
• Storemapper, interview with Tyler Tringas for IndieHackers
• Pippin's Plugins
• The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping by Rob Walling
• The Freedom Ladder by Justin Jackson
• "The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job", story of how Adam released his first product and went independent
• Marketing for Developers, Justin's book and course
• Refactoring UI landing page
• Justin's Laracon 2017 Talk

What is Full Stack Radio?

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.