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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

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

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

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

I had a conversation about building online communities on Twitter Spaces that I wanted to share with you.Show notesThanks 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

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?

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

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?

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.

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.

What's happened since we launched Transistor?

We're getting it all wrong: you have to lose a few hands if you're going to figure out the winning strategy.

Being a solopreneur doesn't mean you don't get outside help.

Justin and Nathan Allotey look behind the scenes of an indie business

Mike Herrera, frontman for the punk rock band MxPx, talks about kickstarting their new album.

When you're building a product, whose opinion should you listen to?

Justin has big news he's been sitting on for awhile.

"Dad that's a lot of money to spend at Safeway!"

Thousands of dollars were pouring into my account. And I was miserable.

2017 proved that it's harder than ever to be a solo-founder. Niches crumbled. Marketing channels were saturated. Competition increased. And more than ever, consumers got tired.

Hear Justin's year in review: what worked, what didn't, what am I going to change in the future?

Welcome back MegaMaker fans! There's been a lot going on. There's been some big changes in Justin's life. Listen to hear how he's making course corrections.

Have an idea for a new project? Here's what you should do first (before you write any code!)

Want to increase sales? Do this first.

What does the future of work and entrepreneurship look like? Here is what you need to know to run a business in a world filled with artificial intelligence, robots, and automation.

How do you go from no audience, no idea, and no revenue to quitting your day job? Justin tells his story.

Justin does a revenue breakdown for his various projects.

Justin talks about the fundamental truth to building products AND shares some "old person" computer nostalgia.

I've been thinking a lot about how important it is for potential customers to "see your product used in public."

I've been blogging since 2008 and podcasting since 2012. Why, in 2017, am I starting a YouTube channel?

Looking to make an independent living from the things you make? Is passive income a myth? In this episode I share three lessons I've learned from my first year of going solo.

We're two months into 2017. What are your plans? Justin shares his goals for this year (revenue, and what he's going to change)

Welcome to 2017! In this episode Justin reviews what happened with the 2016 maker challenge.

What do you do when you lose your motivation? When you haven't created anything in weeks? When you no longer like the project you're working on? Justin's had a hard couple of weeks. How can he get back on track?

People want to make progress in their lives. Every single one of us wants a better life. We’re all striving for more.

Everyone dreams of a better life. But how do you achieve it? Justin gives some context to the idea of "living the dream."

Justin sneaks out of the house on a cold, dark autumn night and records an episode. Topic: why you should learn from practitioners, not professors.

What kind of entrepreneur are you? Do you want to be like a solo artist, or do you want to be part of a band?

Learn how to make things that people actually want. Justin is joined by author Alan Klement to talk about the "Jobs to be Done" framework .

After a long hiatus, Justin is back to talk about a system for discovering what people want, and building solutions they'll actually buy.

What are the different stages to being a solopreneur? Your customers don't want to just "consume your stuff." They want to achieve something! They have a destination in mind.

How do you quit your day job? You need the freedom ladder.

Startups like Slack, Basecamp, and Freshbooks make millions of dollars in monthly recurring revenue by using a model called Software as a Service (SaaS). Should you get into the business? This episode isn't just for programmers and startup people! Lots of lessons for makers of all sorts.

Real life keeps going, even when you're launching something new. Listen to the podcast for people who make stuff on the internet and earn their income from the things they create.

How do you get people to know you exist? Be unexpected. Justin talks about his new book (justinjackson.ca/jolt) and talks with Mikael Cho from Crew in Montreal. They're the awesome makers behind Unsplash.com