Make Lemonade

Jun 27 2024 52 ep. 37 mins 3
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The show for creators, by creators. Helping inspire today's entrepreneurs to earn money from their own lemonade stand.

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Indie acquisitions, platform risk and life after selling Tweet Hunter for 8-figures

Jun 27 2024 41 mins  
Today we’re joined by Tibo Louis-Lucas, who is most well known for starting Tweet Hunter and Taplio in 2021, before selling the company in 2022 for 8 figures. Since then, Tibo has gone on to acquire an AI video creation tool, Typeframes, which he spun Revid.ai, and Feather.so, a Notion blogging platform.Timestamps00:00 Intro01:17 Leaving Lempire and starting from scratch03:00 Lea

Lemon Squeezy CEO mid-year reflection: funding, features and football

Jun 20 2024 42 mins  
Today we’re doing a a behind the scenes episode with JR. We haven’t looked at what’s going on since December, so it’s about time I posed some questions to JR about everything from features to growth and more.LinksJohn O'Nolan episode: https://youtu.be/QXwiTZiO46gSimon Pittman episode: https://youtu.be/L11ii1qKD5oRob Walling episode: https://youtu.be/M_JbjtIYUh0JR's features

Taking on Adobe with his bootstrapped tool, Screen Studio - Adam Pietrasiak

Jun 06 2024 45 mins  
Today we're joined by one of the most successful sellers on Lemon Squeezy, Adam Pietrasiak. Adam is the founder of Screen Studio, a beautiful tool for creating and editing screen recordings that he started at the end of 2022 and now has thousands of paying users. In this episode we talk about how Adam made $30k in his first month, his approach to creating a well-polished product, a

Building a $7m non-profit tech company - John O'Nolan

May 23 2024 48 mins  
John O’Nolan is the founder of Ghost, an independent publishing platform. John sees Ghost as an experiment in doing the opposite of what every other tech company does. They haven’t raised VC, instead setting Ghost up as a non-profit that can never be bought or sold. The core product is open source, with a simple SaaS model to fund future development. John is opinionated and out

Building a calm company with a strong financial engine - Justin Jackson

May 16 2024 47 mins  
Justin is the co-founder of Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting platform that hosts over 27,000 podcasts. Justin has bootstrapped the business since 2018 and has used it to build a better life for himself and his employees.Justin was on the pod back in January and we ended feeling like there was left with lots more to discuss, particularly Justin’s thoughts on building a Calm Compan

How Better Creating built a 6-figure Notion template business

Apr 19 2024 59 mins  
Simon is the founder of Better Creating, a business he started in 2020 geared towards simplifying productivity and finding the best ideas tools and tech to help people create the life they want. His YouTube channel has over 130,000 subscribers, where he makes tutorials, tech reviews and more. Simon is another creator who has gone deep on Notion, building a second brain and many oth

Building side projects as layoff insurance - Aaron Francis

Apr 04 2024 41 mins  
On the 6th March 2024, Aaron Francis was part of layoffs at Planet Scale, where he was an educator. Since then, Aaron has had a hard decision to make: find another job, or take the leap to full-time entrepreneur. Now the job offers came in thick and fast for Aaron, with almost 600,000 people seeing his layoff tweet, but after documenting his thoughts on his own podcast, Mostly Tech

How Statamic founder Jack McDade stands out with radical design

Mar 28 2024 49 mins  
Jack McDade is the creator of Statamic, a content management system for Laravel. He’s just launched his new course, Radical Design, which teaches people Jack’s unique approach to design and building products. And when unique approach, I mean it. All you have to do it scroll through Jack’s sites, his personal, Statamic, the Radical Design landing page to be immediately enterta

How to build a business on top of Notion - Sara Loretta

Mar 14 2024 42 mins  
Today we're joined by Sara Loretta, who is the 10th US Certified Notion Consultant and Founder of SYSTMS™, an operations agency for agencies and small startups. She previously owned a design studio, 99 & Saint Claire, and spent nearly a decade before that in the nonprofit sector working in business development.Follow Sara:WebsiteYouTubeTwitterTimestamps00:00 Intro00:43 How Sara D

Project $100k Ep. 2 - Domains, positioning and course delivery

Mar 07 2024 42 mins  
Today we’re back with an episode of our Project 100k series, which is all about my journey as a creator going from 0-$100k selling through Lemon Squeezy. I’ve been a podcast producer for years but would like to stop trading my time for money and find a way to build an asset that makes me money while I sleep. In this episode we give our first update on the progress I’ve made o