Synopsis
SaaS Reality, a podcast where two budding founders talk about their SaaS products. Join Simon Bennett and Dean LJ to see what it really takes to build, launch and run a SaaS product.
Episodes
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019 - The state of Automaily & regaining focus
23/10/2019 Duration: 21minAfter another unscheduled break Simon and Dean are back to discuss what they are working on
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018 - Dealing with competitors, taking funding or not!
30/09/2019 Duration: 25minWe discuss applying for seed funding and dealing with a competitors that are popping up everywhere!
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017 - Why no card upfront and Simon's mysterious new opportunity
18/09/2019 Duration: 23minDean explains why he's not asking for a card upfront and we learn more about Simon's mysterious opportunity with Snapshooter
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016 - Sorry no Podcast, I messed up
12/09/2019 Duration: 01minExplaining why we don't have a podcast
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015 - Bad Podcast Scheduling
23/08/2019 Duration: 23minAfter weeks off, the guys finally manage to get a recording and catchup. More AWS chat with hints of DNS
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014 - Pivot or Die. Customer Development is Hard
07/08/2019 Duration: 18minCan Dean pivot with CloudPeriscope or is it destined for the idea graveyard?
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013 - Amazon killed my product, now what?
01/08/2019 Duration: 23minDean drops the bombshell that Amazon has released key features of CloudPeriscope for FREE. Should he kill his product or pivot?
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012 - Learning from Customer behaviour & getting your books in order
24/07/2019 Duration: 25minIt all changes when you have a customer, hear how Auomaily's first customer is influencing Simon's marketing. Also, it's getting real for Dean as he starts to look at the business side and gets his accounts started
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011 - New name, new start, new features, new price anchoring
17/07/2019 Duration: 23minSimon fresh from a 1 week break talks price anchoring and Dean reveals the new name for his product
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010 - Identity Crisis & SCA Woes
10/07/2019 Duration: 28minThis week Dean reveals an identity crisis with his SaaS and Simon talks about the problems implementing SCA with Stripe
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009 - Automaily launches, positioning revisited and finding focus again
03/07/2019 Duration: 25minAutomaily has launched and has its first signups, A short geek out on AWS instances and we revisit positioning and getting your first customers.
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008 - What is positioning and where am I!
26/06/2019 Duration: 30minThis week the guys talk about Simons positioning with Automaily again as well as covering April Dunfords book Obviously awesome.
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007 - Delayed Catch up
19/06/2019 Duration: 26minAfter a few weeks off Simon and Dean have a catch up with what’s been happening.
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006 - Refactoring, Customer Research, The Mom Test and Stripe 101
29/05/2019 Duration: 26minThis week Simon updates us on his customer research feedback, Dean tells of his refactoring woes. We discuss the book The Mom Test, building an audience on LinkedIn and finally Simon gives some Stripe 101 advice to Dean
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005 - Got The Blues
22/05/2019 Duration: 23minThis week is all about getting the blues, questioning what you are building and talking it through for a new perspective to help re-focus on the task at hand.
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004 - Origins & Back Stories
15/05/2019 Duration: 23minThis week we talk origins for both our product names and where the ideas came from. Of course we have the usual progress reports too.
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003 - New Arrivals
09/05/2019 Duration: 24minWith our new mic's and pre-amps we give you a much better sound quality and talk about hitting revenue milestones, dogfooding Automaily with Snapshooter, dealing with real life issues, writing documentation and a sneak preview of the upcoming Strong Customer Authentication legislation a.k.a. PSD2 or 3D Secure v2.
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002 - Pricing
01/05/2019 Duration: 31minWe recap the events of last week and how life sometimes throws you a curve ball. The discussion then turns to pricing as we give our thoughts on pricing models and reveal how much we'll be charging for Automaily and CloudInsights.
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001 - The beginning, making our accountability public
25/04/2019 Duration: 25minSimon and Dean try their hand at making their first podcast for SaaS a reality