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Out of Beta

Matt Wensing & Peter Suhmoutofbeta.fm
Follow our journey as we build and launch two startups. Hosted by Matt Wensing, founder of Summit, and Peter Suhm, founder of Reform.

Episodes

Scratching your own itch and starting a startup - The Eduflow Story part 1 of 3

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Eduflow (build internal courses for your company) ! Eduflow makes it really easy to build out courses and training material for your employees, customers, and other collaborators. It's a great way to onboard a new team member or train your sales team etc. Listeners of Out of Beta get 50% off Eduflow Pro for one year, by going to Eduflow.com/outofbeta . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . This is the first part of three where we tell the story about Eduflow...

Jul 16, 202229 minEp. 136

Freeing up some runway

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Eduflow (build internal courses for your company) ! Eduflow makes it really easy to build out courses and training material for your employees, customers, and other collaborators. It's a great way to onboard a new team member or train your sales team etc. Listeners of Out of Beta get 50% off Eduflow Pro for one year, by going to Eduflow.com/outofbeta . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Peter's got some big personal news this week that he just shared with...

Jul 13, 202240 minEp. 135

Putting the Go in Go-To-Market

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Eduflow (build internal courses for your company) ! Eduflow makes it really easy to build out courses and training material for your employees, customers, and other collaborators. It's a great way to onboard a new team member or train your sales team etc. Listeners of Out of Beta get 50% off Eduflow Pro for one year, by going to Eduflow.com/outofbeta . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Matt and the Summit team are close to the release date for all the st...

Jul 06, 202245 minEp. 134

Back again

Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Matt is back from France and Peter is back from Scotland. They are both eager to get back to work. Reform has soft-launched their ConvertKit integration and are planning to announce it very soon. Summit is getting closer to general admission where users will be able to launch public-facing apps and calculators on top of their Summit models. Links: Matt on Twitter Peter on Twitter Out of Beta on Twitter Summit - Matt's startup Reform - Peter's startup...

Jun 29, 202237 minEp. 133

Q&A with Matt & Peter pt. 2

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Feature Upvote (Product feedback and upvoting tool) ! Overwhelmed with too much customer feedback coming from too many channels? Centralize your feedback in one online board. Users add and upvote feedback directly. Get 20% off Feature Upvote here . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Before heading off on vacation, Matt and Peter recorded a marathon Q/A session answering all the questions they got from the listeners on Twitter. In this episode, you'll hear...

Jun 22, 202240 minEp. 132

Q&A with Matt & Peter pt. 1

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Feature Upvote (Product feedback and upvoting tool) ! Overwhelmed with too much customer feedback coming from too many channels? Centralize your feedback in one online board. Users add and upvote feedback directly. Get 20% off Feature Upvote here . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Before heading off on vacation, Matt and Peter recorded a marathon Q/A session answering all the questions they got from the listeners on Twitter. In this episode, you'll hear...

Jun 15, 202246 minEp. 131

Product Hunt And Product Velocity

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Feature Upvote (Product feedback and upvoting tool) ! Overwhelmed with too much customer feedback coming from too many channels? Centralize your feedback in one online board. Users add and upvote feedback directly. Get 20% off Feature Upvote here . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Peter launched Reform Free on Product Hunt and became the number two product of the day. A result that is better than he expected! However, the launch has left him exhausted. ...

Jun 08, 202235 minEp. 130

Bootstrapper questions with Feature Upvote

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Feature Upvote (Product feedback and upvoting tool) ! Overwhelmed with too much customer feedback coming from too many channels? Centralise your feedback in one online board. Users add and upvote feedback directly. Get 20% off Feature Upvote here . This is a special episode with our sponsor this month, Feature Upvote. In this episode, Matt and Peter are tackling some questions and challenges that Steve, the founder of Feature Upvote, are facing in his bootstrap...

Jun 02, 202223 minEp. 130

Optimism

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Feature Upvote (Product feedback and upvoting tool) ! Overwhelmed with too much customer feedback coming from too many channels? Centralise your feedback in one online board. Users add and upvote feedback directly. Get 20% off Feature Upvote here . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Peter is optimistic about the early results of his SEO efforts and Reform's free plan, which has started to contribute a meaningful amount of traffic to Reform's website. Matt...

Jun 02, 202240 minEp. 129

It Clicks

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Whimsical (Docs, Flowcharts, Wireframes, Mind Maps, & Projects)! Get started for free. Sign up in seconds and start creating in Whimsical -- no credit card required. Create a free Whimsical account here . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Peter is back from London where he went to MicroConf Local and attended the IndieBeers meet-up. Though the largest Reform customer recently churned, Peter has some optimistic news about Reform's churn. On the market...

May 25, 20221 hr 13 minEp. 128

Net Negative Churn

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Whimsical (Docs, Flowcharts, Wireframes, Mind Maps, & Projects)! Get started for free. Sign up in seconds and start creating in Whimsical -- no credit card required. Create a free Whimsical account here . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . After getting slightly derailed by a home construction project, Matt is back in gear working on getting Summit ready for general access. Him and the Summit team has been on a shipping spree and Matt has noticed that...

May 18, 202253 minEp. 127

How is it going?

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Whimsical (Docs, Flowcharts, Wireframes, Mind Maps, & Projects)! Get started for free. Sign up in seconds and start creating in Whimsical -- no credit card required. Create a free Whimsical account here . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Matt and Ryan have been working on their investor update, including their new positioning for Summit. A seemingly simple question from one of his investors got Matt thinking more about the big picture of Summit's la...

May 11, 202253 minEp. 126

BONUS: Talking about Whimsical

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Whimsical (Docs, Flowcharts, Wireframes, Mind Maps, & Projects)! Get started for free. Sign up in seconds and start creating in Whimsical -- no credit card required. Create a free Whimsical account here . This is the full version of Matt and Peter's conversation about Whimsical. Snippets from this episode will be published in our regular episodes....

May 05, 202224 minEp. 126

Bye, Redis

Thank you to this month's sponsor, Whimsical (Docs, Flowcharts, Wireframes, Mind Maps, & Projects)! Get started for free. Sign up in seconds and start creating in Whimsical -- no credit card required. Create a free Whimsical account here . Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Peter has had a rough week with illness, broken Redis servers, and a toddler starting daycare. He and Bjørn finally were able to say "Bye, Redis" and rely on a simpler, more stable setup for the Reform queue infrast...

May 05, 20221 hr 4 minEp. 125

Newsletters For Founders

Thank you to this month's sponsor, SnapShooter (an awesome backup service) ! Listeners get 50% off for 6 months when signing up with the coupon code "outofbeta". Thank you to our Show Notes sponsors: Mailman: Make your inbox, truly yours. Mailman allows you to control who can send you emails, and at what hours. Tame your inbox with Mailman - check out Mailman (and get 30% off the first year on annual plans). Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Peter is considering starting a newsletter so h...

Apr 20, 20221 hr 5 minEp. 124

Setting The Tone

Thank you to this month's sponsor, SnapShooter (an awesome backup service) ! Listeners get 50% off for 6 months when signing up with the coupon code "outofbeta". Patio11's two threads about Snapshooter. Thank you to our Show Notes sponsors: Mailman: Make your inbox, truly yours. Mailman allows you to control who can send you emails, and at what hours. Tame your inbox with Mailman - check out Mailman (and get 30% off the first year on annual plans). Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Peter ...

Apr 13, 20221 hr 2 minEp. 123

Reform Free

Thank you to this month's sponsor, SnapShooter (an awesome backup service) ! Listeners get 50% off for 6 months when signing up with the coupon code "outofbeta". Thank you to our Show Notes sponsors: Mailman: Make your inbox, truly yours. Mailman allows you to control who can send you emails, and at what hours. Tame your inbox with Mailman - check out Mailman (and get 30% off the first year on annual plans). Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch . Sorry for the poor audio quality in this episod...

Apr 06, 202243 minEp. 122

Placing Bets

Thank you to this month's sponsor, SnapShooter (an awesome backup service) ! Listeners get 50% off for 6 months when signing up with the coupon code mentioned in the episode. Thank you to our Show Notes sponsors: Mailman: Make your inbox, truly yours. Mailman allows you to control who can send you emails, and at what hours. Tame your inbox with Mailman - check out Mailman (and get 30% off the first year on annual plans). In this episode, Matt shares some big bets he's planning on making for Summ...

Mar 30, 202248 minEp. 121

End of the Beginning

Matt is back from a ski trip in Colorado, which inspired him to model an entire ski resort in Summit. Peter shares some of the work he's been doing on the podcast and gets it on the record that he's about to make a big bet with Reform.

Mar 23, 202240 minEp. 120

Going Freemium

Matt and Peter share some of the behind-the-scenes planning of the next iteration of Out of Beta. Peter updates Matt on the current status of Reform's upcoming freemium version and Matt is about to launch the ability to write formulas based on Summit's simulation output.

Mar 09, 202241 minEp. 119

Cool Down

With team members taking more and more off of his plate, Matt is able to spend more time on high-level thinking, such as the mission of Summit. Meanwhile, Peter is planning to roll out a free plan for Reform.

Feb 23, 202255 minEp. 118

A Disturbance In The Force

Peter is wrestling with two big problems at Reform: The stability (or lack thereof) of their hosting provider and how to dramatically increase the top-of-funnel. Matt is recruiting founders to build startups on top of Summit, using the Summit API as a modeling layer.

Feb 16, 202249 minEp. 117

Putting the Re in Reform

Matt and Peter update the listeners on how things are going with Summit and Reform. Reform had its second-best month of trials, and Summit is adding engineering capacity behind the Summit API. Peter also shares his idea for an updated version of Reform's pricing, and Matt has an idea for how to put the "Re" in Reform.

Feb 02, 20221 hr 3 minEp. 116

SELECT * FROM SUMMIT

Peter has found his groove at the new coworking space and is working on marketing for Reform. Meanwhile, Matt is working on some big changes to the Summit frontend that will give users more powerful query and charting capabilities.

Jan 26, 202240 minEp. 115

Going Against The Niche

Common advice for bootstrapped or indie founders is to carve out a niche of the market. But is that always the right advice?

Jan 19, 20221 hr 6 minEp. 114

Local Highs

Matt is riding a local high at Summit where he just onboarded his new engineering teammate, Pieter. At Reform, Peter is trying to find out where the next stream of customers will be coming from. Vote for Reform in the Product Hunt Golde Kitty Awards: https://www.producthunt.com/golden-kitty-awards-2021/no-code

Jan 12, 202243 minEp. 113

Gearing Up For 2022

Matt and Peter are mentally already in 2022 as they're tying up all their loose ends from 2021.

Dec 15, 202139 minEp. 112

Keepalive

Matt and Peter share a quick update from their lives and businesses and ponder the next phase of Out of Beta.

Dec 06, 202148 minEp. 111

Planning Ahead

Matt shares his 15-month roadmap for Summit, including some big infrastructure changes he has in mind for Q4. Meanwhile, Peter is thinking through the tradeoffs of losing short-term momentum by focusing on long-term scalability for Reform.

Nov 10, 202153 minEp. 110

Non-Specific Primitives

Matt wants to let other people build apps and calculators on top of Summit. Peter is heads down thinking about growth.

Nov 03, 202152 minEp. 109