Build Your SaaS

As a part of Transistor's 4-year anniversary, Jon and Justin answer your questions

Show Notes

It's the fourth anniversary of Transistor's public launch! This is part 2 of "Jon and Justin answer your questions."
  • (00:37) - When did you start paying yourself how much you wanted to make?
  • (01:39) - Any broad advice for startups?
  • (11:43) - How did you decide on your tech stack?
  • (14:21) - How did you prioritize features?
  • (15:54) - Were you embarrased by the first version you shipped?
  • (17:53) - How did you decide on pricing?
  • (21:12) - How would you have found employees without your network?
  • (27:30) - Do you have more or less freedom or stress in your lives?

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What is Build Your SaaS?

Interested in building your own SaaS company? Follow the journey of Transistor.fm as they bootstrap a podcast hosting startup.

Chris:

Hey. Welcome to Build Your SaaS, a podcast about building a web business in 2022. I've I've heard the intro many times. I should know it by now. I'm not John or Justin.

Chris:

I'm Chris, the podcast editor. And just here to tell you that you're back for part 2 of John and Justin's answer all the questions about their business. Transistor.fm. I won't waste any more of your time with my rambling and babbling, and let's just get right into the questions.

Justin:

Corey Haynes, another great transistor customer, says, when did you start paying yourself what you actually wanted to make or what you set out to make? I think he's saying. Yeah. That was probably 2020, I'm guessing. Probably.

Jon:

Know what

Justin:

your answer would be. I mean, we had stages of this. And I think when we started, we said kind of baseline for us was to each make a 100,000 a year. But the the actual goal for me personally was probably, like, I would like to be making at least $250,000 a year. And, yeah, I can't remember when we hit that, but I

Jon:

don't either. It was probably sometime in 2020.

Justin:

Yeah. I think it was sometime in 2020. Nathan Barry says, so impressed with what you've done in 4 years. Thanks, Nathan. That's great.

Justin:

Nathan Barry from ConvertKit, another Transistor customer. Brian Ray says a lot of success stories aren't helpful because of survivorship buyer bias, and a lot of answers about success start with it depends. But after these years, as you've met more and more bootstrappers who have found success, are there a few pieces of advice that you truly believe stand up to the harshest of critiques and are more likely to apply broadly to a wide audience? Thoughts, John?

Jon:

I don't know. I'm not really in touch with the bootstrapping community that much, to be honest. So

Justin:

I mean, this is my thing. I just love this part. The the, choose a good market, choose a good category is and within that advice is choose a category. You know, you have some sort of expertise in. You have, you understand the customer.

Justin:

You hopefully know a bunch of those customers. There's enough momentum in that market to give you the growth that you want. You, you know, that so much depends on the market. And then, really, it's everything else we've said, which is the life that you cultivate up to that point is really going to make a big difference. Yep.

Justin:

The people you meet, the skills you build, the experiences you have. You know, John has become very good at building product, and then it's because, you know, I didn't have to walk with him all through all those years where you were just working freelance and then working for other companies, you know, like, they got to, you you got to train yourself through all those times.

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

And then I just got this current version

Jon:

of you. It's exactly. Yeah.

Justin:

It's pretty good.

Jon:

I knew what I didn't like working on. I figured that out. I knew what type kind of people I didn't like working with.

Justin:

Whatever age you are, whatever stage of life you're in, make these, micro investments in yourself as you go along. And it's those things that are going to help you when it's time to actually build a company. So get out and meet some people, go to events, go, build some skills, build some things and put them out in public, go work in a bunch of industries.

Jon:

Yeah. I would say like, all

Justin:

of those things help.

Jon:

Don't, yeah. Don't do things you don't necessarily wanna do. Like, don't, don't become manager if you don't want to, if you're sort of just like forced into it. Like, if you don't wanna be a manager, then don't be a manager. Like, it's not for everyone.

Justin:

Yeah.

Jon:

If you wanna just build things and code and be, you know, work your way up that sort of career path instead of becoming a manager because that's what you think you're supposed to do? Like, don't I just try to avoid that.

Justin:

Yes. Yeah. Business ideas are drawn from the a trying to disparage anybody. But if you're looking at your life and you're feeling like, oh, I just don't have any good ideas for a business or good I I can't see any good opportunities. The answer is just at whatever age you are, you just need to go out and have more experiences

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

And, shake things up a bit, get curious, go to a conference that you're interested in, but you would have normally not gone to, Go take a class. These are all of the things you you once told me a story about you going and working with a baker. Yep. Like, you were just interested in baking bread. Yeah.

Justin:

And you just

Jon:

I'm trying to

Justin:

think the story there?

Jon:

I'm trying to even think, like, how I got into bread. I don't know. I got interested in bread for some reason. Like, this was before the whole pandemic, like, everyone's baking sourdough. I honestly don't remember why I got into it or what led me there, but I did and I got super interested in it and I was like, I would like to start making bread.

Jon:

Yeah. And the more I got into it, I was like, oh, I found all these, I don't know, blogs and like YouTube things about bread. I tried to make some, and it was a disaster, and then I just out of the blue, I think I saw a chef that runs a restaurant group in Chicago who also runs who also owns the bakery. He posted something online about like, oh, we're hiring bakers at public and quality breads, which is in Chicago. And so I emailed the I emailed the guy, the head baker, and there's a young guy named Greg.

Jon:

And I was like, hey, can I I'm like, I'm just interested in, like, learning how to make bread? And can I just come in and work for free? He's like, Oh, yeah. That's a thing you do in the restaurant industry. You can go stage and just show up and they'll let you work for free and they'll teach you stuff.

Jon:

Yeah. And he's like, yeah, come here at, Saturday, 8 in the morning. And I was like, alright. And I thought I was just gonna go there, like, talk to him. And he's like, alright.

Jon:

So there's an apron in the basement, and, we're gonna we're gonna get

Jason:

to work.

Jon:

And I'm like, what? That, like, hadn't eaten that day. And I just showed up and worked, like, an entire, like, 8 hour day with this guy. I was starving and not ready for this at all. And then I did it once a weekend for a couple months, and it was great.

Justin:

I just love that story.

Jon:

It was great. I mean, I learned a ton. Like, I don't you know, you just

Justin:

But what I love about that story is it it shows you it it's a perfect example of how you can cultivate these types of experiences. Like, just to be curious, to reach out, to take a rest, to and this is all while you're working full time as a software developer.

Jon:

Uh-huh.

Justin:

Yeah. And and so you just did this on the side, and you now have a much greater understanding of how to make good bread, but you also understand the restaurant industry. You've got insights about the restaurant industry. You know some people in the restaurant industry now. That's how you cultivate this life that can then produce opportunities is by kinda doing things like that.

Jon:

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I I would encourage anyone to do it. I mean, with anything, really.

Jon:

It doesn't have to be a restaurant or bread or probably there's probably tons of ways you could do that.

Justin:

Yeah. Totally. Yeah. I've I've just like, another trick I've done is I've signed up for a meetup. Like, I've gone on to meetup.com or whatever and signed up for search for cheap flights to different cities, and then just chosen a meetup in another city that I wanted to go to.

Justin:

And the great thing about that is you show up at this meetup group where there's a group of people already who know each other, and they're like, who are you? Where are you from? And they're like, well, I flew in from Canada to come to this thing, and they're like, what? Like and, you know, this is like I did this in Vegas one time, and the tickets were cheap. It was like, whatever.

Justin:

$95 flight to Vegas. But I got this experience of meeting all these people and connecting with the with people on a topic I didn't know about. Yeah. And,

Jon:

it's That was cool.

Justin:

It was really cool.

Jon:

And that's why. Yeah. I I used to go I used to go to a lot of design conferences.

Justin:

Yes.

Jon:

Because I was interest I was, you know, mostly a developer, but, like, I was really interested in design. And I was going to, like, you know, like graphic design conferences. They were fascinating. I'd meet like the most amazing people.

Justin:

Yes.

Jon:

And they were like, oh, you're a developer and you're here? I'm like, yeah, it's like super interesting. And like, you're all probably more fun to hang out with than most of the other people at other conferences. And like Yeah. I you know, you just like you absorb yourself and surround yourself in these communities and you just you just absorb information and, like, you're probably gonna get better at design even if that's not your main your main role, like, just by being around it.

Justin:

Yeah. This characteristic actually is one characteristic I found with successful founders is people who cultivate this kind of life and curiosity Yeah. Often do eventually start companies that work out. It's not a guarantee, but, Kyle Fox is very similar. And his trick was also he would start events.

Justin:

So he got really he's a software developer, but he got really into, type and typefaces.

Jon:

Mhmm.

Justin:

And so him and a friend just started a conference all about type. And, you know, what a great way to meet people that way. You know? All of a sudden, he's able to bring in the world's best typeface designers

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

To one place and meet them. And, you know, and it was he was able to learn all of this stuff about, you know, type and typefaces just from running these events.

Jon:

I mean, ultimately, that's why I ended up at XOXO and met you is because it seemed like a super interesting place to go with interesting people. Yeah. Yeah. And I wasn't I wasn't always the most outgoing extroverted person. I'm still not, but, like, it's something you can work on.

Justin:

Yeah. Yeah. And you can practice even just going to local meetups and, under and just, yeah, meeting people, taking a risk, putting yourself out there.

Jon:

I mean, for a lot of people, meeting people is meeting new people is terrifying.

Justin:

Yes. So what's your advice for people who find that terrifying?

Jon:

You just gotta try it. Just, like, go and say hi. You know? Like Yeah. I don't know.

Jon:

Yeah. Just say hi. Try to talk about something in it doesn't even have to be about, like, the topic that, you know, what wherever you're at is about, but, like Yeah. You know, find some common thread to talk about. And

Justin:

Yeah. And I think it also helps to have a good wingman or a wing person, like chase Reeves introduced me to so many people. Yeah. And, you know, that having that person there, and honestly, I met him in a way that's was not introverted, but he read one of my articles. It wasn't like, you know, we'd met in the other way.

Justin:

He read one of my articles and reached out. So there's all sorts of ways you can create these connections. Let's do a few more, and we'll get Chris to split these up however he'd like. Lars Huback says, we'd love to hear about some of the technical sides of developing the product. How did you decide on the tech stack?

Justin:

Did you develop everything yourselves? How about hosting and billing? Did you outsource some of the work design UI? And if yes, how did you do it? How did you prioritize features?

Jon:

That's a lot.

Justin:

So bit by bit, how'd you choose the tech stack?

Jon:

I chose Ruby on Rails because that's what I knew, and that's what I was comfortable with, and I knew I could be productive in it. I mean, at the time I started it, there's certainly, like, the trend was moving towards, like, building react front ends against an API, and that just didn't interest me. I I it would have taken too long for me to learn it, and I probably would have not enjoyed it because I was just I just like the way Rails is put together. That's how we that's how I chose it. I think it was a good choice.

Jon:

I mean, it could have been Laravel. I'd known PHP better, but

Justin:

Yeah.

Jon:

Went with Rails.

Justin:

I think any any full stack, web framework, Laravel, Django

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

Rails, it's all it's all fine. I I still I still think those are those old web frameworks are still amazing choices for building in the SaaS. They're just so good.

Jon:

Did we develop everything ourselves? I mean, yes and no. Like, you know, the app is obviously it's custom built, but within that, we're using all sorts of open source libraries that are helping out. We're, you know, using Tailwind CSS for, you know, helping build out the design. We used to use something else.

Jon:

I didn't wanna custom build CSS. I just wanted to, like, be able to build an interface quickly that looks pretty good.

Justin:

And we we hired we do we we've hired people at different times to contractors. I think that's been a good way. Like, the logo and, the transistor logo and stuff is somebody you hired to

Jon:

Yeah. To build The website has been you've hired people to help out with the actual, like,

Justin:

marketing website. Yeah. And even when when I decided to rebuild the website myself, I definitely got a lot of help. Like, it was me, but I was building it in public, and I was, like, cons I I mean, the transistor website probably has 30 people that helped with different things over the over the span of building it. So there's lots of ways to get, you know, other people to help.

Justin:

And how did we prioritize features? We've almost always prioritized features based on our sense of what customers want. And that's not always like what they tell us in in chat. It's it's observing people and saying, you know what? I think this is something that, you know, customers actually want in terms of, I mean, the badges is actually a great example is nobody said told us they wanted badges.

Justin:

We just saw them constantly tweeting their stats, like, hey. My podcast just hit 1,000 downloads. And so we're like, people want this. And we were able to prioritize that. We also I mean, prioritizing features.

Justin:

We have a small team. We know we're not gonna be able to build everything. We discuss a lot of ideas, but most of them just go into a document and just stay there. And

Jon:

Yeah. There's a lot of stuff that's just forgotten about. But if it comes back up, it's a good indication that it's probably something we wanna build. And I think we also prioritize, like, within the team, like, what what do you what do you think is gonna be fun for you to work on? Like, what are you excited about?

Jon:

And then that can help bubble things up to the top of the list.

Justin:

Yeah. And you you can really that's the fun thing about being at this stage is you can really do that when you're, once you've hit a certain amount of revenue and margin, you can kind of prioritize things that are more fun, which you really do need. Yeah.

Jon:

Yeah. Absolutely.

Justin:

David Thompson does the adage, if you're not embarrassed by the first version, you shipped too late, still hold. I think the best response to this is Jason Cohen's, simple lovable product, article. I will try to post that in the show notes. Yeah. So he goes he has this article called I hate MVPs.

Justin:

So do your customers make it SLC instead, which is simple, lovable, and complete. Our first version of Transistor had those elements. It was simple. It was lovable. Like, we had elements of it that made it, even, like, from the beginning, more attractive than a lot of our customers, better designed, more personable.

Jon:

It didn't work it didn't work on mobile phones, though, at all. Like, the design did not work.

Justin:

That's right. So there were things that didn't work at the beginning, but we didn't need mobile for 99% of the use cases. Right?

Jon:

Yep.

Justin:

And it was complete in that we could go to people who had a podcast somewhere else and say, hey. I know you're on Libsyn, or I know you're on Buzzsprout, or I know you're on Simplecast or whatever. Would you switch to Transistor? And they were able to look at our features when we demoed it and say, oh, yeah. This has got, like, 90% of what I need, and, they signed up.

Justin:

So simple, lovable, complete, that is, better than the MVP. I don't think you wanna be embarrassed by the first version that you put into customer's hands. You wanna feel good about it. You wanna feel like, yeah, this is actually worth switching to. You know?

Justin:

And, if you can't pull that off, then either collaborate with people that allow you to pull that off or, work on your own skills or whatever. But, yeah, you want the first version to feel good, to be simple, lovable, complete. How did you decide on pricing? We've done a number of episodes on that. Really, we talked to a lot of people, and we surveyed our category.

Justin:

So if you go back to the podcast, you can see we talked to Nathan Barry, Rob Walling, Patrick Campbell, ProfitWell. We had an episode where we debated. I debated pricing with Ben Orenstein and Jordan Goll, I believe. And then we also looked at our category and just what people are charging, and we looked for an opportunity where we could stand out from the competition. And one of that's where we came up with this idea of unlimited podcasts for one price.

Justin:

So if you had 3 shows on Simplecast, you could switch to Transistor, all three shows to Transistor, and save money. And that was our kind of our first, like, way of kind of pulling people saying, hey. Why would I switch to Transistor? Well, if you have more than 2 or 3 shows, it's a no brainer because you're gonna save money.

Jon:

And that's that's not initially how we started either. I mean, we when we had our our, like, beta tester user group, they were charged per product. They were charged differently, but with a huge discount. Yeah. And then before we launched, I don't know when we decided, but, I'm thankful we switched pricing structures for a number of reasons, but, yeah, we switched.

Jon:

We just, like, decided to do it based on downloads and features instead of per podcast, which I think worked out really well in our favor.

Justin:

Yeah. Yeah. And it's worth going back to those episodes because a lot of that is pricing theory that we got from all those people we talked to, but, specifically, Patrick Campbell, where he recommended that we that you you take your the main kind of cost structure in your business. So for us, it was bandwidth and hosting and all those things, but mostly bandwidth, and charge based on that. That's why it makes sense to charge In Slack, it makes sense to charge per seat because the more people you have, the more your costs go up as the software provider.

Justin:

And, for email, it's like the more emails you send, the more it costs you as a email service provider. For us, the more downloads that you do, the more it costs us as a service provider. So having that as our pricing, what is what does Patrick call it? It's like your value metric. So make your value metric match up with your main cost.

Justin:

And it doesn't always have to match up with your main cost, but you had to figure out a value metric that makes sense for your business and your category. And, yeah, downloads just work really well for us. And then this idea of, like, well and you could start as many shows as you want. So previously, for a lot of our competitors, the value metric was every time you start a new show, you gotta pay us again. And we said, no.

Justin:

Let's let people start as many shows as they want and then pay us based on usage. Pay us based on how many listens or downloads do you get. Super good. Alright. We're gonna finish up with a few more.

Justin:

Corey asks us about hiring. How would you have hired or found your employees if you had no following? What was your selection process for your first employees? How to hire and work with ambitious people and grow team while providing incentives to stay in the company, do I hire young and experienced and train them? So I think what I'll say we've already talked about this, but I've been hiring people since I, probably since 2,005 or something.

Justin:

In previous jobs, the best hires I've made almost every single time are people that I already had a relationship with, people I already knew. And so maybe that won't doesn't work for every company and every category, but for us, that's really worked out well. Hey? Yep. Yeah.

Justin:

I was

Jon:

I was thinking. It I mean, the the question itself is kind of tough to answer because we don't have, like, experience growing teams, like huge teams and Yeah. But, yeah, I would say hire hire people you know and you can work well with. Hire hire experienced people at first. I mean, we haven't hired anyone junior really, but I think that would be tough for a small company like us.

Jon:

Like Mhmm. We wanted to hire Jason as developer because he just has, like, a ton of experience in so many different areas and has, you know, seen seen the problems that can come up and knows how to knows how to fix things, knows how to troubleshoot.

Justin:

And same with Helen. We hire hired her, but she'd previously been with, Makerpad, ConvertKit. Like, she had all and and also doing I think she was in the I can't remember who's health care industry, doing customer success, but she had all of this experience so much better. Yeah. Like, there's just no training you need to do.

Justin:

They they can literally hit the ground running

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

And be high value contributors almost right away.

Jon:

Yeah. I I would say as far as, like, trying to keep employees around, I mean, as we record this, today is Justin's 1 year anniversary. Jason's. Jason. Jason's 1 year anniversary today.

Jon:

And Helen's been with us for, what, like, a year and a half? I mean, full time.

Justin:

Yep. I mean,

Jon:

we've been generous with, like, time off and schedules and flexible working. You know, we were really generous last year with, like, profit sharing bonuses, raises, I think have been pretty good.

Justin:

Yeah.

Jon:

I think, generally, the the key is just to, like, you know, recognize when your employees are maybe not enjoying themselves or hope that they reach out to you or just ask how they're doing. What maybe what can change and kind of allow them to like build their work day around their lives instead of the other way around. Mhmm.

Justin:

Yeah. There's a lot of times actually where you and I make decisions, based on how we were treated as employees. So, like, it always bugged me that at Christmas time, I never got a bonus. And we've done so, typically, we've done bigger bonuses at the end of the year, and it just also has this benefit of being, like, around Christmas time, and it's just, like, nice. And it was something that bugged me.

Justin:

It was, like, a reason I wanted to leave previous companies because I was like, they never give me any bonuses. Like, it kinda sucks.

Jon:

I yeah. I never got any. I knew how well they were doing.

Justin:

And it's why we're considering, like, how can we, you know, share some of the ownership with our employees, either through stock options or something like that. So mining your own experience as an employee and just realizing, like, what were the things that made me feel like, I another thing that made me wanna leave was I really wanted to work remotely and have flexibility, and that wasn't allowed at a lot of companies. So Yeah. I kind of wanted to leave right away. I think another thing that's been interesting is if people have any sort of, you can't always, like, provide for this.

Justin:

But if people, for example, wanna pay off they have a goal or a pressure to pay off student loans, let's say. If that's something they wanna do and working for you isn't helping them get to that goal, they're always gonna be looking for something else.

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

They're always gonna be looking for to do a side hustle or, you know, go and work another job. Or if another job comes along that pays better and gets them closer to that goal, they're going to do that. If they have a goal to move to a different country and work remotely, but you only have a local office, they're gonna keep trying to get to that goal. And so one way of, keeping people and, by the way, I don't know if John and I are awesome at this ad either. Like, we're, you know, we're trying to stay in touch with Helen and Jason and and, you know, ask them what they're they're aiming for or whatever.

Justin:

But I think that is part of the key is just figuring out what are some of their longings, what are some of the things they're working on, what are some of the things that are making them restless.

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

You know? And, you know, John and I know what made us restless when we were employees. Uh-huh. So, yeah, I think that's worth thinking about and and providing if you can, you can't always, but if you can provide folks with the things that will make them not restless, then my sense is they'll probably stay longer. Could we have hired and found our employees if we had no following?

Justin:

Sure. It's just about relationship building. It's about cultivating a lifetime of experiences and connections and

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

Working with different people. And, you know, it's, that's how you find good employees. It's by knowing people. So last one for Mandy Jones. Do you feel you have more or less freedom and stress in your lives than 4 years ago when you started?

Jon:

I that's a pretty easy one to answer. Yeah. I have way less stress and far more freedom.

Justin:

Doctor. Yes.

Jon:

Doctor. I mean, it, it, it's like, I can't even overstate, like how much of a positive change it had on my life. Yeah. So many different ways that I there's just a lot a lot of different ways to count it. But, yeah, I mean, stress is for work is, like, pretty much non nonexistent.

Jon:

Mhmm. I mean, once in a while, something will break or there's a bug, but it's like everyone comes together to help fix it. It's not, that's not even stressful, really. Yeah. And I mean, we've talked about this a bunch, but like, yeah, just the freedom to sort of build your day how you want.

Jon:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's incredible. Like, I wouldn't I wouldn't trade that for anything.

Justin:

I think this is a great one to end on because it just build your SaaS. What is build your SaaS? Like, it's really build the life you want. Like, that that's really what we're doing. Who I mean, if there was another way of doing this that wasn't software that we enjoyed, then that would have been equally as good.

Justin:

You know what I

Jon:

mean? Right.

Justin:

Like, if if you and I could have gone into business making bread and you just loved it, and I just loved promoting it, and we could have the life we wanted, we would we would have done that. It was Right. From the beginning, we set off on this journey with this in mind. How can we build a better life? How can we have more freedom?

Justin:

How can we have less stress? How can we have a life with margin? So that when stress does come up and none of us are immune from the regular stresses of life and people's personal lives, there's gonna be all sorts of things that come along.

Jon:

Yeah.

Justin:

Right? The the idea though is if there's stress in my personal life, it's not like everything's on fire. It's not like my job at work is stressful, and my boss is being a jerk, and I have to go to all these meetings I don't like. And I don't really like what I'm doing, and I'm not being paid as much as I want. And, you know, the big list, at least you don't have to worry about that.

Justin:

Yeah. And that is so refreshing.

Jon:

It's a huge change. I mean, I I've talked about this, I think, with you and a lot of other people, but, like, I don't remember the last time I was, like, ended the day, and I was angry

Justin:

Mhmm.

Jon:

About, you know, like, come home and you're, like, angry about work and

Justin:

Mhmm.

Jon:

Oh, my day was terrible and so and so did this and this happened. And Yeah. It just doesn't happen. And it's kind of amazing.

Justin:

We're so we're so lucky. Like, it's just I just feel so lucky that we get to have this. And, again, we never know. Like, life is not it things don't there could become a time where transition becomes a lot more stressful. And the way I just deal with that is I just enjoy the present every single day when we have a good day at work, and we can enjoy this freedom, and we can enjoy this lack of stress and we can enjoy the other rewards that come from working on something like this.

Justin:

It's just like every day is I appreciate it so much.

Jason:

Absolutely.

Justin:

I do think there's no surefire way to build a life like this, but I do the the encouragement I have for people is if you do want this to get just continue making those micro investments in your life, continue to cultivate a life that may eventually lead somewhere like this. It's not gonna happen overnight. It's not gonna happen by looking for ideas out of desperation. It's not going to happen by just, you know, throwing a bunch of spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks. Cultivate a life where you're investing in skills, in relationships, in experiences, in knowledge, in curiosity, in connection.

Justin:

And, eventually, hopefully, an opportunity will present itself, and you can take advantage of it and build a better life. And this is something I'm passionate about, something John's passionate about. For more indies to succeed, more indie software companies, more indie companies that could get to this point. And, again, even if this doesn't last forever, to have experienced, let's say, 3 years now of just a really good life is just an incredible feeling.

Jon:

Yeah. Well said.

Justin:

We wanna thank all of our customers, everybody that has ever signed up for a Transistor account and used it at any point. We are so thankful for you. We're thankful for your encouragement, for, all of your, feedback, for sticking with us even when, you know, we didn't have exactly what you needed. Just thank you. Thank you.

Justin:

Thank you. There's some customers that have been with us from the beginning, and we can't overstate, like, just how thankful we are to have customers and how pumped up we get seeing you use the product and enjoy the product. So thanks for that.

Jon:

Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. And to everyone who's listened to this show for 4 plus years. Yeah.

Jon:

I know we haven't recorded in a long time together. Yeah. And this seemed appropriate, but Yeah. Yeah. We hoped you've, enjoyed, I don't know, listening to our journey and hopefully you've learned something.

Jon:

And I mean, we learned a lot doing it too.

Justin:

Yeah. And that yeah. People encouraging us and listening and encouraging us, and it's hard to under you just can't overstate, like, how meaningful that was and continues to be. Like, when we get messages and responses and people saying, hey. Thanks so much, or, hey.

Justin:

We're cheering for you, or, hey. Here's some advice or whatever. It's been so incredible. And, yeah, maybe to close things off, we should do our shout outs to the people who have supported us, some from the very beginning.

Jon:

Yeah. And,

Justin:

we're just so thankful for these people. This is the kind this is these supporters have become kind of our biggest fans and the just the people that have been with us from the beginning. So, yeah, we're just so appreciative of everybody who listens and everybody who supported the show.

Jon:

Let's see who we got here. We have Jason Charnes, Mitchell Davis from recruitkit.com.au, Marcel Falais from we are bold dotaf, Alex Payne, Bill Kondo, Anton Zoran from prodcamp.com, Harris Kenny from the intro to CRM podcast, Oleg Kulik, Ethan Gunderson, Ward Sandler from memberspace, Russell Brown from Odivo dotcom, Noah Braille, Colin Gray, Austin Loveless, Michael Sitfer, Paul Jarvis, and Jack Ellis from Fathom. By the way, thanks to Jack for he always helps me out with some difficult dev problems, and and he's the nicest guy ever. Yeah. So thank you.

Jon:

Thank you, Jack.

Justin:

Yeah.

Jon:

My brother, Dan Buddha, Darby Frey, Adam Devander, Dave Junta. Junta. And Kyle Fox from get reward for dot com.

Justin:

Thanks everyone. We appreciate you and we will record another episode soon.

Jon:

Yeah, we should.