MegaMaker 2022: Recent Episodes
Justin Jackson
A podcast for indie entrepreneurs: software developers, app builders, product people, creators, bootstrappers, and makers.
Josh and Justin recorded this on Jan 19th, 2022.
Show notes
- Meeps – the best way to start a membership site
- Why haven't we launched yet?
- The anxiety of not being able to sleep as an entrepreneur: "how am I going to make this work?"
- How much revenue does the MegaMaker community make per year?
- Bootstrapping with kids
- Survey results
- ProBar.co – track your progress towards a goal publicly
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
- The best way to build a membership directory: https://meeps.app
Sorry this episode is late! Josh and Justin recorded Dec 1st, and I'm publishing it two weeks later.
Show notes
- Justin's Black Friday results
- When should we launch? January 15, 2022
- Francesco's tweet about Typefully revenue vs Mailbrew
- Tweet: "With startups, the amount of reward you get (revenue) is based on demand: "How strongly do people want what you're selling?""
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
- The best way to build a membership directory: https://meeps.app
In this episode, Josh and Justin discuss when to open up a SaaS for early-access; and how they're going to use Meeps to make it better.
Show notes
- Early-access homepage
- Our early access email
- How we're running early access for Meeps
- Tweet: anyone else noticing a slow August?
- How Justin does marketing at Transistor
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
- The best way to build a membership directory: https://meeps.app
In this episode, Josh and Justin discuss when to open up a SaaS for early-access; and how they're going to use Meeps to make it better.
Show notes
- Casey Neistat interview
- Sign up for Meeps early access!
- Meeps video update
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
- The best way to build a membership directory: https://meeps.app
I had a conversation about building online communities on Twitter Spaces that I wanted to share with you.
Show notes
- Thanks to Vineet Sinha for organizing the Twitter Spaces: https://twitter.com/VineetSinha
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
- The best way to build a membership directory: https://meeps.app
In this episode, we answer some questions from MegaMaker members:
- Val asks: "I'm super curious about this: How much of starting Meeps was a "hunch" rather than a structured discovery?"
- Ben asks: "Validation, what are ya'll trying right now/soon to get a signal if you're onto something? Also, is there a "company-wide" donut Friday? 😉"
- Tom asks: "Yes, specifically user discovery: how do you validate that the customer has, knows about, and will pay to solve the problem?"
- Jon: "(From our remote work discussion in MegaMaker): I'm interested in learning how you work together. Pros/cons?"
Show notes
- "Business ideas are observations paired with hunches." https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1258879868952952833
- Join our waiting list on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/meeps
- Community Weekly: https://communityweekly.co/
- Memberful pricing: https://memberful.com/pricing
- Justin's spreadsheet for subscription platforms
- VentureBeat: Commsor raises $16 million to unlock insights from companies’ online communities
- Commsor: a list of all the community tools
- Community.club
- Community jobs: https://www.community.club/jobs
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
- The best way to build a membership directory: https://meeps.app
In this episode: Joshua Anderton gets three months of runway so he can work full-time on Meeps.app.
Show notes
- The benefit of the TALL stack: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1409304136504414210
- MegaMaker community on Meeps: https://megamaker.meeps.app/
- How did validation work with Transistor? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNDgRcJYAEg
- Product Hunt Ship: https://www.producthunt.com/ship
- Justin's barber: https://www.instagram.com/brett_thebarber/
- Matty Conrad: https://www.instagram.com/mattyconrad/
- Podcast hosting: https://transistor.fm
- Theme music: Striker-metal.com
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
- The best way to build a membership directory: https://meeps.app
This episode Joshua Anderton and Justin explore customer demand; how to recognize it, and where to find it. Plus: what do you think of the name? 😅
Show notes
- The best way to build a membership directory: https://meeps.app
- Taylor Otwell's Laravel framework: https://laravel.com
- Adam Wathan and Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com
- Podcast hosting: https://transistor.fm
- Theme music: Striker-metal.com
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
This season, Justin is making his first investment in Joshua Anderton. In this first episode they talk about the idea for a new SaaS app.
Show notes
- Online community for indie makers: https://megamaker.co
- Upscribe: https://upscribe.net
- Justin's blog post: https://justinjackson.ca/solorisk
- Family Budget Calculator: https://www.epi.org/resources/budget
- Okanagan Developers group: http://okdg.org
- Podcast hosting: https://transistor.fm
- Theme music: Striker-metal.com
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Joshua's personal podcast: https://www.ramen.fm
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
I'm doing a new season of MegaMaker. This season I'll be investing in Joshua Anderton, and partnering with him on a new project. The first episode is coming soon!
You may have noticed: I've deleted all past episodes from this feed.
Now I have Transistor.fm, and it's going well. So, for the first time ever, I'm in a position to invest in someone else.
That's what we're going to be doing here on MegaMaker. And my first investment is going to be in Joshua Anderton. He's built a product called Upscribe.
Show notes
- Upscribe: upscribe.net
- Podcast hosting: Transistor.fm
- Theme music: Striker-metal.com
Find Josh and Justin online:
- Joshua Anderton on Twitter: @joshuaanderton
- Justin Jackson on Twitter: @mijustin
Support the show:
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts!
- Please! Share the show with your friends.
Back in July 2018, right before we launched Transistor, I was so stressed out about money. What's happened since then?
Show notes
- Read: Bootstrapper's Paradox
- My interview Jason Calacanis
- Transistor's revenue numbers are public
- Podcast hosting: Transistor.fm
- Theme music: Striker-metal.com
Find Justin online:
- Send Justin a message on Twitter: @mijustin
- Follow me on Twitch
- Subscribe on YouTube
Support the show:
- Leave a review on iTunes!
- Join MegaMaker Club