Indie Maker Journey Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/indiemakerjourney Two indie makers talk about building their software businesses. (C) 2021 Indie Maker Journey 46e1e9b1-5b00-5a4b-9c73-5514d9abc290 yes Trailer en Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:23:56 -0700 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:24:14 -0700 https://indiemakerjourney.com https://img.transistor.fm/kmgZxhz-4cdjXQgwcHmGAk6wwwQ0LGFPelXVEaDdM_U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI0ODgvMTU1OTQ0/NDcxMC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.jpg Indie Maker Journey https://indiemakerjourney.com episodic Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Two indie makers talk about building their software businesses. Two indie makers talk about building their software businesses.. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas Mario Rodriguez No No 20: A bit of everything 20 20 20: A bit of everything full a0aaa100-e7c2-415d-b06e-f6ce618cc92e https://share.transistor.fm/s/71f0ab44 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2022 12:43:24 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2027 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.

]]> self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 19: Legalize it 19 19 19: Legalize it full bccef0db-9d48-4377-a25d-4874335716aa https://share.transistor.fm/s/462cbe5f 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Wed, 18 May 2022 20:57:53 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2788 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.

]]> self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 18: Taking the Elixir and Paddling to revenue 18 18 18: Taking the Elixir and Paddling to revenue full 346d0fa0-67d8-474e-b154-0a202028c63f https://share.transistor.fm/s/e6befd26 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Tue, 17 May 2022 21:37:07 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 3177 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.

]]> self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 17: Progress updates and some of the tools we use 17 17 17: Progress updates and some of the tools we use full 40da5407-a24b-4904-83a7-2b4407fcb7de https://share.transistor.fm/s/12c1c2f6 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Tue, 17 May 2022 20:28:11 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2864 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.

]]> self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 16: DotPlan has launched! Plus other updates 16 16 16: DotPlan has launched! Plus other updates full b41edd0e-90ab-4e3c-b89a-b567b811aabe https://share.transistor.fm/s/7106aec8 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Mon, 16 May 2022 17:00:00 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 3073 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.

]]> self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 15: The credit card upfront dilemma 15 15 15: The credit card upfront dilemma full 5061173b-215f-460f-bbc7-2121225c15f8 https://share.transistor.fm/s/db586509 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Sun, 15 May 2022 18:09:17 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2161 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.

]]> self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 14: Paddling in a kanuu 14 14 14: Paddling in a kanuu full 2795ac52-8cb0-4c04-995f-9f2d0217cf5a https://share.transistor.fm/s/5870e5bc 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Sun, 15 May 2022 17:29:07 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2582 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.

]]> self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 13: Off the grid and back 13 13 13: Off the grid and back full adbff660-4e72-4569-84bd-60698ba9ea0f https://share.transistor.fm/s/d5b10844 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.

]]> 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.

]]> Sun, 15 May 2022 16:34:47 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 1962 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.

]]> self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 12: Why we do this 12 12 12: Why we do this full 1fcf92cf-2e76-4139-ad27-6ad32b4a6a03 https://share.transistor.fm/s/8c9ae7b3 Recorded on July 28, 2021

In this episode we talk about starting a new full time job (Mario), problems with editing the podcast in Garage Band, which lead to trying Descript, and Alan participating in two business/founder mentorship events, and pitching DotPlan in Japanese instead of English.

We also talk about our reasons behind why we're working on our products, and overall goals for our businesses. We talk about where we stand with regards to the idea of taking investment, and the hard-work/reward experience of being on this solo founder journey tackling different kinds of challenges.

Alan shares about new features added to DotPlan. Mario's been trying to work on fixing an issue with recording, onboarding users, and spending a lot of time thinking and strategizing ways to fix a critical issue with the Fusioncast recording engine.

]]> Recorded on July 28, 2021

In this episode we talk about starting a new full time job (Mario), problems with editing the podcast in Garage Band, which lead to trying Descript, and Alan participating in two business/founder mentorship events, and pitching DotPlan in Japanese instead of English.

We also talk about our reasons behind why we're working on our products, and overall goals for our businesses. We talk about where we stand with regards to the idea of taking investment, and the hard-work/reward experience of being on this solo founder journey tackling different kinds of challenges.

Alan shares about new features added to DotPlan. Mario's been trying to work on fixing an issue with recording, onboarding users, and spending a lot of time thinking and strategizing ways to fix a critical issue with the Fusioncast recording engine.

]]> Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:45:11 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 3468 Why we do what we do. Plus some updates on mentorship events, new features, fixing issues, onboarding, and overall work being done on DotPlan and Fusioncast. Why we do what we do. Plus some updates on mentorship events, new features, fixing issues, onboarding, and overall work being done on DotPlan and Fusioncast. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 11: IMJ × Justin Jackson 11 11 11: IMJ × Justin Jackson full 80e76775-fff7-45f8-8b2c-c3fd2b7c01e6 https://share.transistor.fm/s/45d001e8 Mario and Alan are joined by a very special guest!

Justin Jackson, co-host of Build Your SaaS, co-founder of Transistor.fm and founder of the MegaMaker community talks about the state of the Indie SaaS world and the importance of choosing the right market.

We talk about the growth of Transistor.fm and dealing with a growing team, not being afraid of building products that you think might already be 'done', and ideas for connecting with your market quickly.

You can try out dotplan for free at dotplan.io
Subscribe to fusioncast's mailing list to be notified when it's launched at fusioncast.fm

]]> Mario and Alan are joined by a very special guest!

Justin Jackson, co-host of Build Your SaaS, co-founder of Transistor.fm and founder of the MegaMaker community talks about the state of the Indie SaaS world and the importance of choosing the right market.

We talk about the growth of Transistor.fm and dealing with a growing team, not being afraid of building products that you think might already be 'done', and ideas for connecting with your market quickly.

You can try out dotplan for free at dotplan.io
Subscribe to fusioncast's mailing list to be notified when it's launched at fusioncast.fm

]]> Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:53:23 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 4411 Mario and Alan are joined by Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm, to talk about the state of indie SaaS and the importance of choosing the right market for your product. Mario and Alan are joined by Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor.fm, to talk about the state of indie SaaS and the importance of choosing the right market for your product. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 10: Product Manager Think 10 10 10: Product Manager Think full 7922ae15-c025-495a-b26c-eafb0b1fd659 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b9c881df Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.


In this episode, Mario and Alan discuss the difficulties of choosing which product features to prioritize, problems with overheating MacBooks and options for Product Adoption platforms.

]]> Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.


In this episode, Mario and Alan discuss the difficulties of choosing which product features to prioritize, problems with overheating MacBooks and options for Product Adoption platforms.

]]> Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:00:00 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2701 In this episode, Mario and Alan discuss the difficulties of choosing which product features to prioritize, problems with overheating MacBooks and options for Product Adoption platforms. In this episode, Mario and Alan discuss the difficulties of choosing which product features to prioritize, problems with overheating MacBooks and options for Product Adoption platforms. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 9: Remote Work Reflections 9 9 9: Remote Work Reflections full 5e651678-bbcd-4a57-bcaf-560cbe0c0456 https://share.transistor.fm/s/a5384d7b We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts!

Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.


Alan and Mario talk about their experiences of remote working and Alan talks about his reasons for building on dotplan to improve remote communications.

The guys discuss difficulties of using color when designing a UI and how challenging UI design is in general!

]]> We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts!

Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.


Alan and Mario talk about their experiences of remote working and Alan talks about his reasons for building on dotplan to improve remote communications.

The guys discuss difficulties of using color when designing a UI and how challenging UI design is in general!

]]> Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:00:00 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 3337 Alan and Mario talk about their experiences of remote working and Alan talks about his reasons for building on dotplan to improve remote communications. Alan and Mario talk about their experiences of remote working and Alan talks about his reasons for building on dotplan to improve remote communications. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 8: Landing Page Learnings & Onboarding Observations 8 8 8: Landing Page Learnings & Onboarding Observations full 73024435-465e-4b22-9a73-5d587a5e42ab https://share.transistor.fm/s/96432033 We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts!

Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.


Alan talks about the difficulties of launching a product with lots of different use cases, onboarding ideas and subtle problems with microcopy.


Mario discusses the latest changes to fusioncast’s landing page.

]]> We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts!

Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.


Alan talks about the difficulties of launching a product with lots of different use cases, onboarding ideas and subtle problems with microcopy.


Mario discusses the latest changes to fusioncast’s landing page.

]]> Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:41:08 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 3403 Alan talks about the difficulties of launching a product with lots of different use cases, onboarding ideas & subtle problems with microcopy, and Mario discusses the latest changes to fusioncast’s landing page. Alan talks about the difficulties of launching a product with lots of different use cases, onboarding ideas & subtle problems with microcopy, and Mario discusses the latest changes to fusioncast’s landing page. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 7: Obfuscation Investigations & Time Picker Pickles 7 7 7: Obfuscation Investigations & Time Picker Pickles full 2cf2f199-faac-484b-ab71-dda43eec3bd5 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f4bce865 We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts!

Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.


In this episode, Mario discusses his JavaScript debugging nightmares and Alan complains about cultural differences in dealing with time and laments about web time & date pickers.

]]> We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts!

Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.


In this episode, Mario discusses his JavaScript debugging nightmares and Alan complains about cultural differences in dealing with time and laments about web time & date pickers.

]]> Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:12:50 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2847 In this episode, Mario discusses his JavaScript debugging nightmares and Alan complains about cultural differences in dealing with time and laments about web time & date pickers. In this episode, Mario discusses his JavaScript debugging nightmares and Alan complains about cultural differences in dealing with time and laments about web time & date pickers. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 6: Life, Challenges, and Progress 6 6 6: Life, Challenges, and Progress full f479a94d-d057-44e9-9a50-58057df7f758 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f5c5a855 Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:25:59 -0800 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 3262 In this episode we talk about life challenges while trying to make progress with our products, technical challenges, UX/UI, tools, cloud services, and more. In this episode we talk about life challenges while trying to make progress with our products, technical challenges, UX/UI, tools, cloud services, and more. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 5: To unit test, or not to unit test 5 5 5: To unit test, or not to unit test full 66772a67-467a-4fe2-a4d8-53ac46892145 https://share.transistor.fm/s/4aa75eee We're back after a short break! 

We talk about how we tackle testing of their applications and Mario details the latest updates to fusioncast.

We also discuss the difficulties of knowing when to let users in, what are the requirements for releasing and how to approach onboarding.

Along with the continuing attempts to try to convince each other to launch sooner rather than later! 

]]> We're back after a short break! 

We talk about how we tackle testing of their applications and Mario details the latest updates to fusioncast.

We also discuss the difficulties of knowing when to let users in, what are the requirements for releasing and how to approach onboarding.

Along with the continuing attempts to try to convince each other to launch sooner rather than later! 

]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2021 23:02:07 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 3170 We're back after a short break! Alan and Mario discuss how they're testing (or not!) parts of their app, the latest development updates and different approaches to onboarding new users. We're back after a short break! Alan and Mario discuss how they're testing (or not!) parts of their app, the latest development updates and different approaches to onboarding new users. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 4: Introductions (finally!) 4 4 4: Introductions (finally!) full 08e45547-6ecd-4078-95df-d4a75cffa878 https://share.transistor.fm/s/e8618acd A little late, but better late than never - Alan and Mario introduce themselves and their products.
They talk about why they've picked these products, and what motivates them to build them.

Mario is building https://fusioncast.fm, a web-based podcast recording tool.

Alan is building https://dotplan.io, a daily check-in tool for small teams.

]]> A little late, but better late than never - Alan and Mario introduce themselves and their products.
They talk about why they've picked these products, and what motivates them to build them.

Mario is building https://fusioncast.fm, a web-based podcast recording tool.

Alan is building https://dotplan.io, a daily check-in tool for small teams.

]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:30:45 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2231 Alan and Mario finally get around to introducing themselves and the products they are working on. Alan and Mario finally get around to introducing themselves and the products they are working on. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 3: 99 Seconds of Pitch 3 3 3: 99 Seconds of Pitch full 602f9363-d819-44d4-8ce6-0ac2b15f2c7c https://share.transistor.fm/s/c2fbf882 In this episode, Alan talks about his Founder’s Live pitch and the difficulties of getting your message across in 99 seconds and we discuss the benefits of talking about your product development on twitter. We also contemplate about the time constraints of bootstrapping and application while working another job.

Mario’s App - Fusioncast
https://fusioncast.fm/

Alan’s App - dotplan
https://dotplan.io

Founder’s Live
https://www.founderslive.com

Alan’s Founder’s Live pitch and Q&A
https://youtu.be/HRlq97sRgF0

]]> In this episode, Alan talks about his Founder’s Live pitch and the difficulties of getting your message across in 99 seconds and we discuss the benefits of talking about your product development on twitter. We also contemplate about the time constraints of bootstrapping and application while working another job.

Mario’s App - Fusioncast
https://fusioncast.fm/

Alan’s App - dotplan
https://dotplan.io

Founder’s Live
https://www.founderslive.com

Alan’s Founder’s Live pitch and Q&A
https://youtu.be/HRlq97sRgF0

]]> Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:15:26 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 1567 The one where Alan talks about his Founder’s Live pitch, the benefits of talking about your product on twitter and some of the difficulties of bootstrapping. The one where Alan talks about his Founder’s Live pitch, the benefits of talking about your product on twitter and some of the difficulties of bootstrapping. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 2: Nuggets of Wonder 2 2 2: Nuggets of Wonder full 1f394a98-d896-481f-8ac9-e26c8dfa5382 https://share.transistor.fm/s/748d6004 In this episode, Alan talks about showing (and hiding!) primary keys in URLs, Mario shares all the new feature updates that he's made to fusioncast. We discuss our options for billing services and the difficulties of deciding pricing for our applications. We also ponder the length of an ideal podcast episode.

]]> In this episode, Alan talks about showing (and hiding!) primary keys in URLs, Mario shares all the new feature updates that he's made to fusioncast. We discuss our options for billing services and the difficulties of deciding pricing for our applications. We also ponder the length of an ideal podcast episode.

]]> Sun, 01 Aug 2021 23:22:54 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 2441 The one where we talk about IDs in URLs, updates to fusioncast, and how long an ideal podcast should be. The one where we talk about IDs in URLs, updates to fusioncast, and how long an ideal podcast should be. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No 1: It Worked! 1 1 1: It Worked! full 4a83c224-da9c-49b1-8bd3-532f73221a5d https://share.transistor.fm/s/ff728885 In this episode Mario shares about some technical issues developing Fusioncast's recording feature, some UI/UX design mistakes, and more. Alan shares about building his business in Japan, and the challenge of reaching different types of audience. We also talk about the difficulty we have of finding a good stopping point to end a coding session, creating content and owning it, adding in-product help features with video, and more.

]]> In this episode Mario shares about some technical issues developing Fusioncast's recording feature, some UI/UX design mistakes, and more. Alan shares about building his business in Japan, and the challenge of reaching different types of audience. We also talk about the difficulty we have of finding a good stopping point to end a coding session, creating content and owning it, adding in-product help features with video, and more.

]]> Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:05:12 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 4165 The one where we talk about the challenges of building software, and other business-related stuff. The one where we talk about the challenges of building software, and other business-related stuff. self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No Trailer Trailer trailer fe3a0bc6-1940-4620-a873-4e3a26916063 https://share.transistor.fm/s/231e983e Sat, 12 Jun 2021 23:30:26 -0700 Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez Alan Bradburne & Mario Rodriguez 93 We introduce ourselves and the projects we're working on. Welcome to Indie Maker Journey! We introduce ourselves and the projects we're working on. Welcome to Indie Maker Journey! self-funded, indie, independent, maker, business, software, technology, saas No