The DEVpreneur
Charlie Reese and Tom Zaragoza
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The DEVpreneur, hosted by founders Charlie Reese and Tom Zaragoza, is a podcast about building and growing (micro) SaaS businesses from 0 to 10,000 dollars a month. Every now and then, guests join the show to share their experiences and insights. Welcome software developers, tech enthusiasts, and entrepreneurs!
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Jun 13, 2022
Finding Time For Your Side Project
In this episode, Tom Zaragoza and Charlie Reese discuss how they find time to work on their side projects. They also discuss how they choose what projects to work on (or not work on), and why going full-time on side projects isn't the answer for everyone.
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Jun 8, 2022
Yes Code vs No Code vs Low Code
In this episode, Tom Zaragoza and Charlie Reese talk about when it makes sense to use lower level, customized code (i.e. yes code), no code tools (i.e. no code), or low code (i.e. high-level libraries).
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Jan 3, 2022
David Kong of Somm.ai - Startups, Software, and Hot Takes
Meet David Kong - a friend, ex hedge fund analyst, and founder of Somm.ai and Glasvin!
Learn who he is, why he pursued his own startups, and what he thinks people get wrong.
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Dec 6, 2021
Dealing with Refunds
Charlie and Tom chat about customer refunds: when you should give them, when you shouldn't, and why
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Dec 3, 2021
Roger Kirkness, Co-Founder of Convictional | Talking Y Combinator, Fundraising, Startups, and More
Listen to Roger, the Co-Founder of Convictional, talk about his background, his startup, his Y Combinator experience (winter 2019 cohort), and more!
*Show notes:*
List of laser therapy studies
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Mar 10, 2021
We Feel Unmotivated
Tom and Charlie don't feel motivated right now. They chat about it, and how sometimes the easiest thing to do is the hardest thing you're interested in.
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Feb 15, 2021
Should You Build An Audience?
DEVpreneurs Tom and Charlie discuss whether you should build an audience for your online (SaaS) business.
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Jan 31, 2021
Build vs Buy - What to Consider
DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom discuss whether you should build vs buy an online (SaaS) business.
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Jan 24, 2021
Staying In Shape - Software Developers
DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom discuss how they stay in shape in between writing all the codes.
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Jan 18, 2021
Yearly Standup
A yearly standup episode with DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom. They talk about their greatest hits (i.e. projects) of 2020, and their plans for 2021.
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Dec 14, 2020
Ex-Facebook Employee, Khalid Hamadeh - Growing Businesses With Ads
In this episode, ex-Facebook employee Khalid Hamadeh shares his experience working at Facebook (in Toronto, then San Francisco), managing ad campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. He also shares tips and tricks for using Facebook Ads to grow your business. Finally, he shares a new project he's building in the digital marketing (specifically Facebook Ads) ecosystem. Learn more about Khalid at khalidhamadeh.com
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Nov 10, 2020
Selling Apps On Third-Party Marketplaces Like Shopify
DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom discuss why you should consider developing applications for third-party marketplaces, like Shopify and Heroku, for fun and profit.
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Oct 15, 2020
Time Tracking for Productivity, and Building a Fast Food App
Another weekly standup episode for DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom. Charlie talks about tracking time as a creator to achieve long-term goals (without burning out). Tom talks about the new fast food app he's developing.
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Oct 4, 2020
Strava, Email Marketing, and Social Media
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Charlie talks about tracking his exercise with Strava. Tom talks about growing an email newsletter, and consuming / sharing content.
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Sep 20, 2020
Tiny Capital - Micro-Cap Tech Private Equity
Charlie and Tom talk about Tiny Capital: a micro-cap, tech private equity firm that starts, buys, and invests in wonderful internet businesses.
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Sep 13, 2020
Building a Startup - the First Step
Charlie and Tom talk about the first step to building a startup, and how it often isn't the step most people start with.
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Sep 7, 2020
Weekly Standup: New Job, Viral Blog Post on Hacker News, and Building a Rails Engine
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Tom talks about his new job at HomeX. Charlie talks about his viral blog post on Hacker News, and landing_boi, an in-development rails engine for creating SaaS landing pages.
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Aug 30, 2020
Weekly Standup: Terra_Boi, AWS Infrastructure Generator / Deployment Tool for Rails Apps
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Charlie talks about terra_boi: a rails gem for deploying your rails application to AWS using 'rake deploy'
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Aug 17, 2020
Weekly Standup: Shopify Apps and Programming Language Flamewars
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Tom talks about Shopify apps he has built and his writing pursuits. Charlie talks about a programming language flame war he may start with his new blog post.
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Apr 19, 2020
Weekly Standup: Growth Hacks and CSV Uploads
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. In this episode, Tom talks about new Vocalmatic growth hacks, and Charlie talks about releasing Clientelify bulk CSV text message creation.
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Mar 15, 2020
Weekly Standup: Subdomains and Sales Calls
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs.
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Feb 16, 2020
Weekly Standup: Tom's New SEO Course For Founders
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as a DEVpreneur.Tom also tells us about his new SEO course for founders bootstrapping their products!
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Feb 1, 2020
Weekly Standup: Ben Weiler's Coaching App
Ben Weiler tells us about Coachable, his web app for coaching and athlete development. Tune in to hear Ben's journey!
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Jan 6, 2020
Weekly Standup: Daniel Miller's E-Sports App
Daniel "Dan-the-man" Miller talks to Charlie and Tom about what software, products, ideas, and interests he spent time on this week as a DEVpreneur. Tune in to hear about his e-sports project E-Spotlight.
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Dec 13, 2019
Weekly Standup: New Customers and Features
Charlie and Tom discuss what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Topics this week include Charlie's first users for Clientelify and Tom's new product (under development) Vocalmatic Teams.
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Nov 29, 2019
Weekly Standup: Finishing Clientelify and Terminal Twitter
Charlie and Tom discuss what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Topics this week include Tom's online course pursuits, Charlie finishing v1 of Clientelify, and using Twitter from our terminals.
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Nov 25, 2019
Weekly Standup: Google Auth for Growth
Charlie and Tom discuss what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs
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Nov 7, 2019
A week in the life of a devpreneur
Charlie and Tom discuss what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as devpreneurs
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Nov 3, 2019
18: Why we use long form content for personal branding
Charlie and Tom discuss the benefit of creating and sharing long form content for personal branding.
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Oct 25, 2019
17: How to start an information security consulting business
Charlie, Tom, and Itai discuss how Itai Marongwe started Grey Waters Information Security, an information security consulting business
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Oct 10, 2019
15: How to rank on the first page of Google results using YouTube
Charlie and Tom discuss how you can rank on the first page of Google results by creating YouTube videos matching certain search queries.
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Oct 1, 2019
14: Launching our new SaaS projects
Charlie and Tom discuss plans to launch MicroSaasFounder and Clientelify. Charlie also talks about two open source software projects he recently released, blog_boi and terra_boi.
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Sep 13, 2019
13: Growing Vocalmatic to 10,000 organic visitors / month
Charlie and Tom discuss how Tom grew Vocalmatic, an automatic transcription SaaS business, to 10k organic visitors per month.
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Sep 5, 2019
12: Why we want to be DEVpreneurs
Charlie and Tom discuss why being a DEVpreneur (i.e. software developer and entrepreneur) is appealing to them.
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Aug 29, 2019
11: Looking for a business idea? Start with a problem
Charlie and Tom discuss why you should look for a business problem instead of a business idea.
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Aug 25, 2019
10: Best software framework for building a SaaS product
Charlie and Tom discuss what you should consider when choosing software framework(s) and language(s) for your next SaaS product.
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Aug 15, 2019
9: Steal our idea - tree planting as a service
Charlie and Tom come up with a business idea on the spot for you to consider / steal. The idea (in the forestry industry) is tree planting as a service.
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Aug 13, 2019
8: Startups - here for a good time and a long time
Charlie and Tom discuss how (famous) entrepreneurs typically take a long time to become successful.
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Aug 1, 2019
7: How to validate your startup idea
Charlie and Tom discuss how to quickly validate your startup idea before talking to potential customers.
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Jul 29, 2019
6: Talk to your customers first
Charlie and Tom discuss why you should talk to your customers before you start building your product.
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Jul 27, 2019
5: Why B2B > B2C
Charlie and Tom discuss why you should build a product for businesses (vs consumers) as a default.
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Jul 22, 2019
4: DEVpreneurs we look up to
Charlie and Tom discuss DEVpreneurs they look up to, like David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) and Patrick McKenzie (patio11).
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Jul 19, 2019
3: How to estimate your project's timeline
Charlie and Tom discuss how they estimate the timeline of software development projects they work on.
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Jul 15, 2019
2: How we generate business ideas
Charlie and Tom discuss how they think of new business ideas / problems worth solving.
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Jul 9, 2019
1: Intro and 3 biggest misconceptions
Charlie Reese and Tom Zaragoza introduce themselves. They then talk about the three biggest misconceptions they have encountered in tech pertaining to software development / product management / entrepreneurship.
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