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Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez
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Two indie makers talk about building their software businesses.

  1. 06/11/2022

    20: A bit of everything

    Recorded on March 22, 2022. Legos are fun and timeless. Mario’s business entity is finally formed and a business bank account is in place. Alan wants to play around a bit with the pricing model for DotPlan. We talk about the original idea for DotPlan, creating a short video pitch, dealing with landing pages, content, and UI for Japanese audience, and more.

    34 min

  2. 05/19/2022

    19: Legalize it

    Recorded on March 8, 2022. New Fusioncast features, plus other minor improvements and bug fixes. Mario will start working on things to prepare for launching, filed for a legal business entity, and is working on terms of use and privacy policy using iUbenda.com. We talk about pricing and figuring out possible ways to do a trial period with Fusioncast. Alan deployed his React Native wrapper app for DotPlan on Google Play. Building  with Elixir keeps Alan learning new things and enjoying writing code. Alan will record a 10 min pitch for DotPlan.

    46 min

  3. 05/18/2022

    18: Taking the Elixir and Paddling to revenue

    Recorded on February 23, 2022. Alan got the booster covid vaccine. React is good but more verbose than Vue. Playing around with Alpine.js. Mario’s continued working on refining how Fusioncast.fm handles some edge cases. Upgrading to TailwindCSS 3. Dealing with challenges building with Elixir. Alan created a React Native wrapper app for DotPlan.io, plus refactoring and cleaning things up. Dealing with multiple projects and context switching. Mario is considering using Paddle for billing management. Quick plans and goals for immediate future.

    53 min

  4. 05/18/2022

    17: Progress updates and some of the tools we use

    Recorded on February 1, 2022. Fixing some challenging issues in Fusioncast recording workflow, dealing with a participant’s sudden loss of network connection. Alan talks about adding a time-card feature to DotPlan for a specific customer, the reasons behind it, and dealing with Japanese time-card business culture, and time zones. We’re grateful for our early customers who have given us their vote of trust. Alan is using a tool called Tango.us to easily create screenshots for a knowledge base with Eager.app. Using Umso vs Statamic for the marketing website.

    48 min

  5. 05/17/2022

    16: DotPlan has launched! Plus other updates

    Recorded on January 18, 2022. Happy New Year! Back after a long break. Alan had some nice time off for the holidays. Alan also shares that he launched DotPlan and has a paying customer. Also added a timer feature to DotPlan, and pitched his app to a Japanese audience. Finding ways to work on product and on marketing. Mario reworked parts of the Fusioncast recording engine to make it even more reliable. Alan’s side-side project LinkSpeed.io is gaining traction. A simple idea with a great little product requires minimum resources and maintenance, and can go a long way. Fusioncast's infrastructure needs to be improved before launching to accommodate larger usage. A few more people were onboarded to Fusioncast private beta. Thoughts on pricing plans, models, dealing with customers price-related questions, and reducing storage costs.

    51 min

  6. 05/16/2022

    15: The credit card upfront dilemma

    Recorded on September 21, 2021. Alan continues integrating Paddle to handle billing for his SaaS. Update on Alan’s participation in Kobe mentorship program. Thoughts on pricing options for DotPlan. To require credit card up front or not, and handling the transition from trial to paid subscription -the nature of the product and target audience matters, no one size fits all.

    36 min

  7. 05/16/2022

    14: Paddling in a kanuu

    Recorded on August 31, 2021. Alan was accepted to a startup mentorship program with Kobe city for early stage founders. Alan is integrating Paddle using another service called Kanuu.io. Mario started a new day job, working remotely. Fusioncast backup recordings are now started/stopped  at the same time as primary recordings. Alan has been using Linear for issue tracking and is very impressed by it. Getting feedback, improving DotPlan, and experimenting with features. Cleaning up the Fusioncast studio UI and fixing some bugs.

    43 min

  8. 05/15/2022

    13: Off the grid and back

    Recorded on August 17, 2021. Taking time off to disconnect and go camping. Climate change. Design work and learning design principles. Tailwind UI has been very helpful to Alan. Working with TailwindCSS. UI design challenges. Marketing and onboarding for Japanese market. Alan was advised to narrow down his target audience for DotPlan.

    33 min
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Two indie makers talk about building their software businesses.

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  • Creator
    Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
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