Mar 20 2018 44 mins 1
News We’ve opened up early access! We’ve been inviting people by email. We currently have 15 shows on our platform. In four months, we’ve served 2,335,033 downloads! So far: great feedback and feature requests. We have a bunch of folks in our trial funnel. We’ll start seeing whether people convert to paying accounts on April 6. XOXO is back! Top fears when you're building a SaaS Can our servers handle the load? (So far, so good: over 2 million downloads) Will the user experience be good? Are we building the right tools? Uptime. There's this added layer of stress, because you don't want to let users down. Lack of time to build an app on the side. Or, working too much and burning out! Two co-founders can't go out drinking the same night, unless they're in the same room. ? How to get over your fears Don't focus on your competition; focus on your customers! Listen to your customers. Get on the phone with them. Read their emails. Do live chat. Get paying customers as soon as you can. Listen to their feedback. Your ego is the enemy. You're putting your product out into the world so people get value from it. Put things in context: sure, this might not work out. But that's not the worst thing that could happen. How to get over your fears? Send us a tweet (@transistorfm), or email us: [email protected]. We'd love your audio clips as well! Links 2018.XOXOfest.com Blog post: Why I'm building a SaaS in 2018 Blog post: SaaS is ripe for disruption Adii Pienaar on customer support A checklist for product validation Book: Ego is the enemy Transistor.fm Transistor.fm on Instagram Transistor.fm on Twitter ★ Please review us in iTunes ★ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
