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

Want to start a podcast?

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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
• Want to start a podcast?

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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.

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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.

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.

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

Sponsors:

• Donkey Kong Coffee – high-octane beans for software developers.