Pushing Boulders

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A podcast about growing businesses with people pushing their boulders up the hill.

Chris Fidao


    • May 16, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 44m AVG DURATION
    • 11 EPISODES


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    Marie Poulin - Making a business from Notion Mastery

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 50:28


    Marie Poulin drops by to talk about notionmastery.com - a topic whose demand dragged her along to create a business around teaching Notion at a premium level! Marie and her husband are killing it - listen to hear how!Marie Poulin(Twitter)Notion MasterChris Fidao (Twitter)Chipper CI - Chris's thing

    I Quit (ft. Aaron Francis)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 19:43


    Chris is leaving UserScape after 8 years, and working as a "Laravel Specialist" at Fly (fly.io). Aaron offered to interview me to talk about it!Aaron Francis (Twitter)Refine - Aaron's thingHelpSpot (UserScape)Fly.ioChris Fidao (Twitter)Chipper CI - Chris's thingCloudCasts - Chris's one-thing-too-many (that may pivot to being specific to Laravel/PHP)

    entrepreneurship quit saas chipper aaron francis userscape
    Adam Elmore - Consulting in AWS and Public.dev

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2022 51:23


    This week I talked to Adam Elmore about his career - from funded startups, to high-paying freelance gigs for startups using AWS. Adam has EVERY certification AWS offers and has done a ton of freelancing in the AWS (serverless) space. He knows stuff about things!Links!Adam Elmore (Twitter)Public.devAWS IQChris Fidao (Twitter)Chipper CI - Chris's thingCloudCasts - Chris's one-thing-too-many (that may pivot to being specific to Laravel/PHP)

    Aaron Francis round 2 - Hammerstone changes, Refine, and finalized Chipper pricing

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2022 49:18


    Unofficial co-host Aaron Francis comes by again! We take turns talking about our stuff. I talk about Chipper & the final pricing decision I made (sorry Dan!), and Aaron talks about changes made in Hammerstone, and how they're pushing forward to start selling the things!Aaron Francis (Twitter)Colleen Schnettler (Twitter)Refine - Hammerstone's main thingTorchlight - Aaron's (amazing) syntax highlighter thingSidecar - Aaron's serverless wizardry for Laravel thingChris Fidao (Twitter)Chipper CI - Chris's thingCloudCasts - Chris's one-thing-too-many (that may pivot to being specific to Laravel/PHP)

    Alex DeBrie - Info Products and Personal Finance as a Creator

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2022 50:30


    Alex DeBrie stops by and we talk about his business - consulting, writing books, teaching, and so much more! We also talk a bit about Chipper CI, running a SaaS, and of course, personal finance!Alex DeBrie (twitter)DynamoDB Book (I highly recommend this!)DynamoDB GuideChipper CIChris Fidao (Twitter)CloudCasts

    Brian Casel - ZipMessage

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 61:50


    Brian Casel comes by and we talk about his latest product zipmessage.com - how it's grown, what he's doing for marketing, becoming a backend developer himself, podcasting, and more!Links!CasJam (Twitter)ZipMessageOpen Threads (Brian's new podcast)Chipper CIChris Fidao (Twitter)

    Jason McCreary (Jmac) - Laravel Shift & growing a side hustle to full time

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2022 57:57


    Jason McCreary joins the show to talk about how Laravel Shift works, and how Jason thinks about his business. Shift started as a side project to help developers update their Laravel applications, and has grown to provide his full time income. In particular, the pricing model and features available (Shifts, Bench, etc) are very interesting!At the end of the episode, we talk a little bit about personal finance and how we invest!Links!JMac (Twitter)Laravel ShiftChipper CIChris Fidao (Twitter)

    Matt Wensing - Summit

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2022 47:14


    We start talking about Mat's company Summit. Matt (and Summit) was part of the first batch of the TinySeed accelerator. Chris knows about Matt (and Peter, from the last episode) through the Out of Beta podcast (which you should check out)!Summit can help you model a process, giving you the abilities to simulate your business (or...anything) over time.Chris and Matt then dive into Chipper CI, talking freemium and pricing strategy. Matt's very politely schools Chris in some business metrics he should have available to him to help make decisions.Links!Matt Wensing (Twitter)SummitChipper CIChris Fidao (Twitter)

    Peter Suhm - Reform and freemium

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 46:06


    Peter talks about pricing plans and freemium for reform.app. The main idea is that people using the product for free are actually paying by spreading brand awareness of Reform (the forms are branded)! Chris talks about expanding Chipper CI usage by supporting open source, including giving unlimited builds to open source projects. We also discuss if it makes sense to have a lower pricing tier for Chipper.Links!Reform - Clean forms, on brandPeter Suhm (Twitter)Chipper CIChris Fidao (Twitter)

    Aaron Francis - Refine, Sidecar, Laravel, and Serverless

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 55:33


    Chris talks about owning all of Chipper CI, and how he's moving forward with plans to grow that business.Aaron talks about Hammerstone, and the company's main product (Refine), along with his work in the Laravel community. This includes the popular projects Torchlight and Sidecar.Links!Aaron Francis (Twitter)Refine - Aaron's main thingTorchlight - Aaron's (amazing, in Chris's opinion) syntax highlighter thingSidecar - Aaron's serverless wizardry thing for LaravelChris Fidao (Twitter)Chipper CI - Chris's thingCloudCasts - Chris's one-thing-too-many

    A Quick Intro

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2022 1:11


    I'll be interviewing founders and interesting people who run (or help run) businesses to see what their daily life is like, what their struggles are, and, hopefully, gain some ideas and insights on my own businesses (primarily the saas that I run).My businesses:Chipper CI - Continuous Integration for LaravelCloudCasts - Courses on AWS for busy developersYou can find me on Twitter @fideloper.

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