A podcast about building, growing, and selling digital products. Hosted by Fernanda Graciolli and Val Sopi.
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Hi all. I'm Val Sopi. I make Saas Products as a Designer, Developer, Marketer, Writer, and more. I know what you're thinking, those are way too many things one person can do. Though, I like to work alone and make products other people find useful. In these episodes I talk about lessons, ideas, thoughts, conundrums, and things I come across along the road. I've been programming since 10 and I hold a degree in Graphic Design and Photography. I've run a service business making websites and web- ...
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Bootstrapping Saas is a podcast where I document my attempts at getting to $10K in MRR with my Saas products as a one-man show: designer, developer, marketer. I talk about recent updates with my SaaS', conundrums, lessons, successful outcomes, and a few personal things here and there. Once in a while, I bring in a guest and we talk. The show is roughly prepared with bullet points, but mostly a free rain of thoughts with whatever is going on that week. The first 40 episodes have been mostly a ...
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Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi talk about their products on this bi-weekly show. Marketing, sales, and product making are at the core of their discussions.
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Latest blogstatic Numbers and Conundrums
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A quick update on how the day is going and where blogstatic is now. Thank you to all the friends who have made this day an incredible success. The goal was to end the day inside the Top 5, which it looks like it will. However, being at #4 shooting to close the day at #3. Curious to see how it all pans out.…
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Pricing–change rollercoaster of emotions
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Newsletter: https://blogstatic.io/blog/old-pricingVal Sopi
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Weighing the pros and cons of either keeping blogstatic as is and making it the best possible product at blogging OR going down the monetization route where there's more financial opportunity, but a new can of worms and a departure from the initial idea (rebrand/reposition). The big question: Are these limiting beliefs that are not allowing me to g…
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Pomodoro to the rescue
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EP70 — 11 months later 🤗
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After an 11-month hiatus recording these, I'm trying to make a comeback.Val Sopi
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blogstatic's Product Hunt launch and the aftermath
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A quick look at what it will take to get to 5,000 paid blogs in total and make blogstatic a self-sustaining operation.Val Sopi
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The week that tanked and what's next
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It was a rough week. With the registrations and payments crashing down to zero.Val Sopi
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A quick recap since my last solo episode
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Visit valsopi.com for more details on the latest.Val Sopi
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011: Road trips just like growing a SaaS is a marathon
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Val's product: blogstatic Dominic's product: parleDominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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Online authenticity and 'Build in Public' with Kevon Cheung
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Pierre de Wulf's story to $1M ARR with ScrappingBee
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Doing Email and Content "Write" with Samar Owais
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Saas and Productized Services with Benedicte Raae
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010: SaaS is hard for self-funded founders
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Val's blogstatic: https://blogstatic.io/ Dominic's parle: https://parle.ioDominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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Saas business lessons with Michele Hansen
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Sat down with Michele to talk about Geocodio, Saas lessons, luck, switching gears, and more.Val Sopi
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New pricing for blogstatic
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Val's blogstatic Dominic's StaticBackendDominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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Challenges founders face with Stefan Manku
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Stefan Manku is a founder whisperer. He has the ability to help founders guide themselves. We sat down to talk about various challenges founders face based on Stefan's continuous work with other founders.Val Sopi
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SEO & Content Talk with Dominic Kent
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Dominic's blog-writing course with 30% off for Bootstrapping Saas listeners https://domkent.gumroad.com/l/khHYb Code: bootsaas for 30% offVal Sopi
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Dominic acquires another product!
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Dominic has acquired True Fans by Ben Mann and Val decides to "shut up" saying any "big words" about the future : )Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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with Spencer Jones: indiehacking, parenting, big startup jobs...
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Indiehacking vs working at big Startups, marketing vs product, rebranding, and what it's like to make products while raising a family.Val Sopi
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"Marketing challenge" updates
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We talk about what came out of our marketing efforts in the past two weeks.Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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with Brian Casel — "How far we can push with marketing until we notice the pull"
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I sit down with Brian to talk about his new product ZipMessage, picking fights with the Goliath, Saas lessons from his journey, marketing, selling, business operations...Val Sopi
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A "Marketing Challenge!" and going down the Saas memory lane
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We spontaneously reminisce about our past Saas products and Dominic throws a curve ball by introducing a challenge!Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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Resilience, purpose, and being as we are with Alex Mathers
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Sat down with Alex to talk about presenting in public, happiness, social anxiety, productivity, some deep aspects of self and everything in between.Val Sopi
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How to sell ethically with Martin Stellar
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Martin Stellar (https://twitter.com/martinstellar) talks about what it means being a Monk and how all that relates to ethical selling. We talk about products, Martin's coaching, his new services and apps, and even tailoring. It's along one full of gems.Val Sopi
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Back from the holiday break
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We chat about Vivid, Dominic's new product and Val's growth efforts.Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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Cam Sloan: "You don't need to get your personal brand from your business!"
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I got a chance to talk to my long time online friend, Cam Sloan, who's currently working on Hopscotch. We talk about the challenges of being a solo founder, b2b/b2c Saas opportunities, personal brand, photography, and more.Val Sopi
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Talking shop with Noah Bragg
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Noah just quit his job to fully focus on Potion.so. We go deep and talk about the benefits of running a growing product, exiting, VC money, growth, lessons, building vs marketing, and more.Val Sopi
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Moving on and talking marketing
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News from Dominic about Tangara and Val's next steps to market blogstatic.Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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That period between MVP and PMF
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Dominic and Val chat about the agony of the purgatory while searching for PMF.Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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Talking to Ben: Does going slow(er) sabotage our growth?
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Ben Mann (@digitaltrouble) comes up to share what he's been up to.Val Sopi
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Dominic onboarding new clients
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We talk about the importance of features over marketing.Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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Intro to our current products
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Dominic and Val talk about the products they're currently working on and what's next for them.Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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A quick intro about what our show is about.Dominic St-Pierre and Val Sopi
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blogstatic's momentum is growing and I'm trying to maintain my pace without being overwhelmed.Val Sopi
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A quick update after a 5-month break from recording.Val Sopi
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Letting go of desperation
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We talk about how making products should come from a genuine place.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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Building social capital vs going for cash
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We talk about slow steady growth and social capital.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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We celebrate our EP10 milestone by hating on twitter : )Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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Do only what is needed to NOT fail - no more, no less
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Fernanda shares her latest projects including https://growthnotes.ghost.io/. Val talks about a few new mental models he has come across.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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All-in with your product, or not?
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We share our experiences of going all-in with a product and our risk tolerance.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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Building in public without being a show off
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We talk about how to build a personal brand, genuinely, without sounding like we're boasting.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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Keeping up with mental health
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We talk about how mental health affects our productivity and things we should (read: must!) do to be kinder to ourselves.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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Scratching your own itch, or not.
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We talk about sleep, gpt3, and if we can work on products we don't care about but might pose a great opportunity.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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The importance of being at ease when working on products
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We talk about how you feel when making your product is how users will feel when using it, deliberate marketing plans, and being an indie maker vs having a job.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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Optimize your work by getting to know yourself
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We talk about what works and what doesn't for us when working on products and projects, how we don't like cold calling, and being okay with taking on something that already exists.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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Things that boost our confidence as indie makers
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Fernanda talks in detail about the sale of her product Inspired. Val talks about his cautious optimism with blogstatic's new registrations.Fernanda Graciolli & Val Sopi
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