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Software Social

Michele Hansen & Colleen Schnettlersoftwaresocial.dev
Two indie SaaS founders—one just getting off the ground, and one with an established profitable business—invite you to join their weekly chats.
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Episodes

From Side Project to Full Time with Damon Chen and Michael Rouveure

This episode was sponsored by Calm Fund, an ecosystem of founders and funders of profitable, sustainable, calm businesses. Calm Fund invests early in profitable businesses that want to maximize their chances of success and build for the long-term. Calm Fund was founded by an exited indie SaaS founder, Tyler Tringas. Michele Hansen is one of the many indie SaaS founders who are investors/mentors in Calm Fund. You can learn more about Calm Fund at https://calmfund.com/ and apply for funding at htt...

Jul 05, 202247 minEp. 105

When Should You Let People Pay You?

Follow Vic! https://twitter.com/VicVijayakumar EveryOak, Vic's preschool communications SaaS: https://www.everyoak.com/ Try out HeyTexting: https://www.heytexting.com/ Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin And Mike from Gently Used Domains , who has a nice personality Dave from Recut Max of Onl...

Jun 28, 202240 minEp. 104

Q&A!

Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin And Mike from Gently Used Domains , who has a nice personality Dave from Recut Max of OnlineOrNot Stefan from Talk to Stefan Brendan Andrade of Bright Bits Aaron from Tuple Alex Hillman from The Tiny MBA Ramy from Memo.fm Jane and Benedikt from Userlist Ken...

Jun 21, 202240 minEp. 103

Sales Mode

Check out The Art of Product Podcast and Default Alive . And of course, Colleen's favorite twitter thread by Nathan Barry . Also mentioned, Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on what makes the top 10% of founders different . Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin And Mike from Gently Us...

Jun 14, 202232 minEp. 102

101 Episodes!

Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently Used Domains Dave from Recut Max of OnlineOrNot Stefan from Talk to Stefan Brendan Andrade of Bright Bits Aaron from Tuple Alex Hillman from The Tiny MBA Ramy from Memo.fm Jane and Benedikt from Userlist Kendall Morgan Ruben Gamez of SignWe...

Jun 07, 202237 minEp. 101

The One Where the WiFi Goes Out

Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently Used Domains Dave from Recut Max of OnlineOrNot Stefan from Talk to Stefan Brendan Andrade of Bright Bits Aaron from Tuple Alex Hillman from The Tiny MBA Ramy from Memo.fm Jane and Benedikt from Userlist Kendall Morgan Ruben Gamez of SignWe...

May 31, 202223 minEp. 100

Betting on Multiple Horses with Dan Rowden and James McKinven

Follow Dan! https://twitter.com/dr See all of Dan's businesses: https://danrowden.com/ Follow James! https://twitter.com/jmckinven See all of James' businesses: https://jamesmckinven.com/ Listen to No More Mondays: https://nomoremondays.fm/ Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently...

May 24, 202239 minEp. 99

The Water Bowl of Sorrow

Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently Used Domains Dave from Recut Max of OnlineOrNot Stefan from Talk to Stefan Brendan Andrade of Bright Bits Aaron from Tuple Alex Hillman from The Tiny MBA Ramy from Memo.fm Jane and Benedikt from Userlist Kendall Morgan Ruben Gamez of SignWe...

May 17, 202235 minEp. 98

Be a Champion with Zuzana Kunckova, Founder of Larabelles

Follow Zuzana on Twitter. Zuzana's website . Check out Larabelles . Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently Used Domains Dave from Recut Max of OnlineOrNot Stefan from Talk to Stefan Brendan Andrade of Bright Bits Aaron from Tuple Alex Hillman from The Tiny MBA Ramy from Memo.fm ...

May 10, 202251 minEp. 97

Launching, Back to the Future Style

Check out Colleen's new product, Refine: https://hammerstone.dev Huge thanks to all of our listeners who’ve become Software Socialites and support our show! You can become a supporter for $10 a month or $100 a year at softwaresocial.dev/supporters . Chris from Chipper CI The Daringly Handsome Kevin Griffin Mike from Gently Used Domains Dave from Recut Max of OnlineOrNot Stefan from Talk to Stefan Brendan Andrade of Bright Bits Aaron from Tuple Alex Hillman from The Tiny MBA Ramy from Memo.fm Jan...

May 03, 202235 minEp. 96

Don't Forget to Sell What You Have

This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Bento . Bento is an email marketing and automation company for more technical-minded marketers. If you're using drip MailChimp or Active Campaign, but wish it was a bit more developer-friendly, Bento's the email product for you. With libraries for Ruby, Laravel, Node, and JavaScript, Bento can help you create your dream customer journey. Plus, you get access to an amazing community on Discord where you'll get direct access to Jesse and his tea...

Apr 12, 202238 minEp. 93

Sales for Founders with Ben Orenstein, Co-Founder of Tuple

Follow Ben: https://twitter.com/r00k Check out Tuple: https://tuple.app Did your latest AWS bill give you a heart attack? CloudForecast sends you daily transparent reports that help you understand your AWS costs, find any overspends, and promote opportunities to save costs. CloudForecast takes complicated data and produces accurate, presentable reports so you can share stats quickly and make strategic decisions swiftly. With communication integrations like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email to sh...

Apr 05, 202255 minEp. 92

From Learning to Code to Llamas

Follow Marie: https://twitter.com/threehourcoffee Check out Llama Life: https://twitter.com/llamalifeco Check out Marie's learn to code YouTube recommendations: JavaScript 30 by Wes Bos Dev Ed Traversy Media This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Flightcontrol . You can save up to 80% of your hosting costs by switching to Flightcontrol . Flightcontrol is a new deployment platform by the creator of Blitz.js that solves the age-old Heroku vs AWS tradeoff by bringing the Heroku-style ...

Mar 29, 202254 minEp. 91

Less Codesy Stuff, More Salesy Stuff

This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Flightcontrol . You can save up to 80% of your hosting costs by switching to Flightcontrol . Flightcontrol is a new deployment platform by the creator of Blitz.js that solves the age-old Heroku vs AWS tradeoff by bringing the Heroku-style developer experience natively to AWS. The beauty of Flightcontrol is that it doesn’t require any AWS skills, but since it deploys to your AWS account, you have the ability to inspect and tweak anything should...

Mar 22, 202233 minEp. 90

Raising a Business and Family with Anna Maste

Follow Anna: https://twitter.com/skulegirl This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Flightcontrol . You can save up to 80% of your hosting costs by switching to Flightcontrol . Flightcontrol is a new deployment platform by the creator of Blitz.js that solves the age-old Heroku vs AWS tradeoff by bringing the Heroku-style developer experience natively to AWS. The beauty of Flightcontrol is that it doesn’t require any AWS skills, but since it deploys to your AWS account, you have the a...

Mar 15, 202241 minEp. 89

Finding Your Career Niche with Nate Berkopec

Nate's website: speedshop.co This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Flightcontrol . You can save up to 80% of your hosting costs by switching to Flightcontrol . Flightcontrol is a new deployment platform by the creator of Blitz.js that solves the age-old Heroku vs AWS tradeoff by bringing the Heroku-style developer experience natively to AWS. The beauty of Flightcontrol is that it doesn’t require any AWS skills, but since it deploys to your AWS account, you have the ability to insp...

Mar 08, 202235 minEp. 88

Special episode: Two additional ways you can help Ukraine

List of Ukrainian indie businesses/OSS contributors/creators to support: https://ukrainianweb.biz/ Donate to World Central Kitchen: https://donate.wck.org/ and let Michele know your donation is part of her matching campaign (michele@deployempathy.com) This is intended as *additional* help in addition to the many other places to donate to help Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, rather than instead of those efforts. Michele Hansen 0:00 Hey, everyone, it's Michele here with a, yeah, I guess a specia...

Mar 02, 20228 minEp. 87

The Business of This Podcast

This episode of Software Social is brought to you by Flightcontrol . You can save up to 80% of your hosting costs by switching to Flightcontrol . Flightcontrol is a new deployment platform by the creator of Blitz.js that solves the age-old Heroku vs AWS tradeoff by bringing the Heroku-style developer experience natively to AWS. The beauty of Flightcontrol is that it doesn’t require any AWS skills, but since it deploys to your AWS account, you have the ability to inspect and tweak anything should...

Mar 01, 202241 minEp. 86

How to Use Twitter Effectively (feat. Arvid Kahl)

Follow Arvid: https://twitter.com/arvidkahl Arvid's Twitter course: https://www.findyourfollowing.com/ This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need to work out of spreadsheets, hire translators and manually merge language files. Instead, with TranslateCI, you just use Git. Just connect your git r...

Feb 22, 202239 minEp. 85

Workshopping Pay-As-You-Go Failed Payments

This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need to work out of spreadsheets, hire translators and manually merge language files. Instead, with TranslateCI, you just use Git. Just connect your git repo and TranslateCI will pull out phrases and, after a professional translator translates everything, t...

Feb 15, 202238 minEp. 84

Selling a Business and Scaling Another Amidst Tragedy

Read the post Jesse mentions about his daughter Leia: https://jessehanley.com/blog/2021 Follow Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessethanley Check out Bento: https://bentonow.com/ This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need to work out of spreadsheets, hire translators and manually merge language file...

Feb 08, 202259 minEp. 82

From Bodybuilder to SaaS Founder

Follow Jesse: https://twitter.com/jessethanley Check out Bento: https://bentonow.com/ This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need to work out of spreadsheets, hire translators and manually merge language files. Instead, with TranslateCI, you just use Git. Just connect your git repo and Translate...

Feb 01, 202243 minEp. 81

Redefining Success with Chris Spagnuolo of Jetboost

Follow Chris: https://twitter.com/c_spags Check out JetBoost: https://www.jetboost.io/ Listen to Default Alive: https://www.defaultalive.fm/ This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need to work out of spreadsheets, hire translators and manually merge language files. Instead, with TranslateCI, you...

Jan 25, 202234 minEp. 80

January Blues and easy wins

This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need to work out of spreadsheets, hire translators and manually merge language files. Instead, with TranslateCI, you just use Git. Just connect your git repo and TranslateCI will pull out phrases and, after a professional translator translates everything, t...

Jan 18, 202233 minEp. 79

Learning How to Interview Customers: A Conversation with Jonathan Markwell

Listen to Empathy Deployed! https://empathydeployed.com/ Follow Jonathan! https://twitter.com/jot This episode of Software Social is brought to you by TranslateCI. Translate CI is a tool for developers that helps you localize applications with high quality, human translations. It supports over 70 language pairs. TranslateCI eliminates the need to work out of spreadsheets, hire translators and manually merge language files. Instead, with TranslateCI, you just use Git. Just connect your git repo a...

Jan 11, 202242 minEp. 75

It's Been a Year

Every doctor is concerned about your vital signs, but a good doctor cares about your overall health. Your website deserves the same care, and Hey Check It is here to help - Hey Check It is a website performance monitoring and optimization tool - Goes beyond just core web vitals to give you a full picture on how to optimize your website to give your users an optimal, happy experience - Includes AI-generated SEO data, accessibility scanning and site speed checks with suggestions on how to optimize...

Dec 28, 202144 minEp. 77

Enterprise Sales as an Indie SaaS featuring Josh Ho, Founder of ReferralRock

Follow Josh! https://twitter.com/jlogic Every doctor is concerned about your vital signs, but a good doctor cares about your overall health. Your website deserves the same care, and Hey Check It is here to help - Hey Check It is a website performance monitoring and optimization tool - Goes beyond just core web vitals to give you a full picture on how to optimize your website to give your users an optimal, happy experience - Includes AI-generated SEO data, accessibility scanning and site speed ch...

Dec 21, 202132 minEp. 73
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