Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product
We're joined in this episode by the founding team of Scatterspoke, John Samuelson and Colleen Johnson.What started as a lark to learn new technology has now turned into a successful business with more than $12k MRR. In this episode, we learn how they turned a side project into a successful fulltime business. The topics we cover [02:09] The launch story behind Scatterspoke[10:02] Shifting to enterprise customers[16:17] The toll of working fulltime while trying to bootstrap Scatterspoke[18:01] Hiring out for development[26:00] Free plan and raising prices Links from the show Scatterspoke | Twitter Scatterspoke | Website Colleen Johnson | Twitter Transcript Rob: Welcome to this week's episode of Startups For the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. This week, I sat down with the founding team of ScatterSpoke, John and Colleen. I like their story of how it started almost as a lark—something to learn some new technology, and it's a hobby that...Read more... »Click the icon below to listen.