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A podcast exploring running an indie + bootstrapped software (SaaS) company. Follow Jack and Paul (the co-founders) in their journey of building and growing Fathom Analytics. Published every two weeks, listen in on lively debates about profit, customers, software, and how they’re working to keep their business in line with their values. This is a podcast from Fathom Analytics (usefathom.com).

Paul has retired

30 mins; December 04, 2024

Why Google search is failing us

30 mins; October 15, 2024

Fathom updates and WP drama

19 mins; September 30, 2024

Jack and Paul talk politics

47 mins; August 27, 2024

Small updates, big progress

28 mins; July 29, 2024

New Fathom UI, who dis?

41 mins; July 15, 2024

Exploring the Ethics and privacy implications of AI

21 mins; June 04, 2024

The problem with big projects

37 mins; May 22, 2024

The art of progress

42 mins; May 06, 2024

The road to version 4

22 mins; April 22, 2024

Version 3.5 and the shape of things to come with Fathom Analytics

18 mins; December 18, 2023

Dealing with negative feedback

24 mins; November 14, 2023

SaaS founder time machine (questions)

29 mins; October 30, 2023

Vacations for bootstrapped founders

29 mins; October 16, 2023

Paul’s perfect day (for productivity)

31 mins; September 25, 2023

Consultants for Startups

26 mins; August 28, 2023

Justin Jackson and Paul Jarvis chat about starting and maintaining a SaaS

74 hours 5 mins; July 31, 2023

Is a lot of startup advice incorrect?

32 mins; July 17, 2023

What does retirement look like for a SaaS founder?

39 mins; July 03, 2023

What’s important when everything’s important in your company?

17 mins; June 26, 2023

No more branches, ever!

24 mins; June 06, 2023

The saga of building our Google Analytics Importer

25 mins; May 22, 2023

How our SaaS company approaches marketing and promotion

28 mins; May 08, 2023

Ruben Gamez on marketing, long-term success and making the right decisions as business owners

51 mins; April 24, 2023

How to build a multi-million dollar SaaS without funding (an interview with Rob Walling)

56 mins; April 10, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank and bootstrapped companies

29 mins; March 27, 2023

Matt Wensing on Product Market Fit, raising money and enterprise sales in SaaS

72 hours 29 mins; March 13, 2023

Can makers become managers?

33 mins; February 27, 2023

Are programmers going to be replaced by OpenAI?

28 mins; February 13, 2023

Jack and Paul answer your questions (Pt. 2)

34 mins; January 30, 2023

Jack and Paul answer your questions (Pt. 1)

25 mins; January 16, 2023

Paul and Jack are back

23 mins; October 24, 2022

A brief history of (Fathom Analytics) time

19 mins; August 29, 2022

Can bootstrapped startups survive a recession?

22 mins; August 15, 2022

The art of making great decisions for your business

38 mins; July 25, 2022

When the business itself becomes the distraction

33 mins; July 12, 2022

Can Matt Damon save Coinbase?

29 mins; June 20, 2022

Does Jack Scale?

26 mins; June 06, 2022

Dr. Sherry Walling on the mind of entrepreneurs

58 mins; May 23, 2022

Is Google Analytics 4 a middle finger to SMBs?

28 mins; May 09, 2022

Jordan Gal on competing with giants

55 mins; April 25, 2022

Is product market fit really just luck?

38 mins; April 11, 2022

How we've failed

31 mins; March 28, 2022

Growth is testing Fathom

25 mins; March 14, 2022

How can small businesses make a difference to Ukraine?

17 mins; March 01, 2022

Should we take funding? (feat. Rob Walling)

56 mins; February 21, 2022

When to spend money

31 mins; February 07, 2022

What it took to get Fathom off the ground: Jack and Paul interviewed

49 mins; January 24, 2022

EU Ruling: Google Analytics is now illegal

24 mins; January 17, 2022

Our daily routines

26 mins; January 10, 2022

Paul quit the internet… again?!

26 mins; December 27, 2021

Sharing MRR is egotistical

31 mins; December 13, 2021

Adblockers & breaking the law

30 mins; November 29, 2021

Announcing: custom domains and EU isolation

33 mins; November 08, 2021

The episode where we initially think there’s nothing new, but in actuality a whole ton of things are new

40 mins; October 18, 2021

What’s been happening at Fathom?

35 mins; September 27, 2021

The pros and cons of being the Chief Hype Officer

29 mins; August 30, 2021

Interview with the the founder of Carrd: going from bootstrapping to raising venture capital

60 hours 3 mins; August 16, 2021

What’s the best pricing model for a SaaS?

22 mins; August 02, 2021

Hiring, firing and retiring

42 mins; July 19, 2021

Version 3 is live

16 mins; July 05, 2021

Privacy stories: The Markup

43 mins; June 21, 2021

Drug abuse and WWDC

27 mins; June 11, 2021

It doesn’t have to be fascist at work

31 mins; May 25, 2021

Privacy stories: Sparktoro

44 mins; May 11, 2021

Privacy stories: HEY + David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

54 mins; April 20, 2021

Investing in relationships

26 mins; April 05, 2021

How to destroy the privacy of your entire customer base with a single line of code

15 mins; March 22, 2021

Why ad-blockers are completely wrong

24 mins; March 05, 2021

We landed a whale!

28 mins; February 19, 2021

We don’t want your business

21 mins; January 20, 2021

Paul quit the internet

38 mins; December 11, 2020

Privacy stories: Fastmail

30 mins; December 04, 2020

Someone tried to put us out of business

24 mins; November 20, 2020

Privacy stories: DuckDuckGo

53 mins; November 13, 2020

We're taking a break

26 mins; September 04, 2020

Building an audience, analytics & virtue signalling

37 mins; August 28, 2020

Being competitive, YouTube and going viral

37 mins; August 21, 2020

Credit cards, trust and why people buy indie software products

39 mins; August 14, 2020

New hires and vacations

28 mins; August 07, 2020

Bad CEOs and Cat Jumpers

36 mins; August 01, 2020

SaaS collaboration tools, organization, pancakes and more

33 mins; July 17, 2020

You’re fired!

33 mins; July 10, 2020

Wealth

47 mins; July 03, 2020

Are you a bad person if you use YouTube?

31 mins; June 11, 2020

Is Joe Rogan a sell out?

36 mins; May 28, 2020

Were we wrong about enterprise customers?

40 mins; May 25, 2020

Customer happiness over money

42 mins; May 15, 2020

Capitalism and copycats and communism, oh my!

43 mins; May 08, 2020

Why was the first $10k MRR the hardest?

39 mins; April 24, 2020

Fighting with COVID-19

46 mins; March 23, 2020

Why do programmers suck at design?

41 mins; March 10, 2020

Jack is leaving

35 mins; February 25, 2020

Being a solo founder sucks

29 mins; February 11, 2020

Every single marketing effort Fathom has used thus far

40 mins; January 28, 2020

How many hours of work is enough?

23 mins; January 14, 2020

How to win friends and influence features

30 mins; December 03, 2019

The open-source dilemma

23 mins; November 18, 2019

Announcing Above Board, an episode about all future episodes, also known as a trailer

2 mins; November 13, 2019

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