Recorded on March 22, 2022.Legos are fun and timeless. Mario’s business entity is finally formed and a business bank account is in place. Alan wants to play around a bit with the pricing model for DotPlan. We talk about the original idea for Do

19: Legalize it

May 19th, 2022 46m 28s

Recorded on March 8, 2022.New Fusioncast features, plus other minor improvements and bug fixes. Mario will start working on things to prepare for launching, filed for a legal business entity, and is working on terms of use and privacy policy us

18: Taking the Elixir and Paddling to revenue

May 18th, 2022 52m 57s

Recorded on February 23, 2022.Alan got the booster covid vaccine. React is good but more verbose than Vue. Playing around with Alpine.js. Mario’s continued working on refining how Fusioncast.fm handles some edge cases. Upgrading to TailwindCSS

17: Progress updates and some of the tools we use

May 18th, 2022 47m 44s

Recorded on February 1, 2022.Fixing some challenging issues in Fusioncast recording workflow, dealing with a participant’s sudden loss of network connection. Alan talks about adding a time-card feature to DotPlan for a specific customer, the re

16: DotPlan has launched! Plus other updates

May 17th, 2022 51m 13s

Recorded on January 18, 2022.Happy New Year! Back after a long break. Alan had some nice time off for the holidays. Alan also shares that he launched DotPlan and has a paying customer. Also added a timer feature to DotPlan, and pitched his app

15: The credit card upfront dilemma

May 16th, 2022 36m 1s

Recorded on September 21, 2021.Alan continues integrating Paddle to handle billing for his SaaS. Update on Alan’s participation in Kobe mentorship program. Thoughts on pricing options for DotPlan. To require credit card up front or not, and han

14: Paddling in a kanuu

May 16th, 2022 43m 2s

Recorded on August 31, 2021.Alan was accepted to a startup mentorship program with Kobe city for early stage founders. Alan is integrating Paddle using another service called Kanuu.io. Mario started a new day job, working remotely. Fusioncast b

13: Off the grid and back

May 15th, 2022 32m 42s

Recorded on August 17, 2021.Taking time off to disconnect and go camping. Climate change. Design work and learning design principles. Tailwind UI has been very helpful to Alan. Working with TailwindCSS. UI design challenges. Marketing and onboa

12: Why we do this

Apr 20th, 2022 57m 48s

Recorded on July 28, 2021In this episode we talk about starting a new full time job (Mario), problems with editing the podcast in Garage Band, which lead to trying Descript, and Alan participating in two business/founder mentorship events, and

11: IMJ × Justin Jackson

1 Apr 12th, 2022 1h 13m

Mario and Alan are joined by a very special guest! Justin Jackson, co-host of Build Your SaaS, co-founder of Transistor.fm and founder of the MegaMaker community talks about the state of the Indie SaaS world and the importance of choosing the r

10: Product Manager Think

Mar 26th, 2022 45m 1s

Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.In this episode, Mario and Alan discuss the difficulties of choosing which product features to prioritize, problems with overheating MacBooks and options for Product A

9: Remote Work Reflections

Mar 25th, 2022 55m 37s

We’re going to drop a whole load of episodes over the next few weeks in order to get up to date, so hold onto your butts!Mario and Alan detail the latest progress of building fusioncast and dotplan.Alan and Mario talk about their experiences of

8: Landing Page Learnings & Onboarding Observations

Mar 24th, 2022 56m 43s

7: Obfuscation Investigations & Time Picker Pickles

Mar 23rd, 2022 47m 27s

6: Life, Challenges, and Progress

Dec 14th, 2021 54m 22s

In this episode we talk about life challenges while trying to make progress with our products, technical challenges, UX/UI, tools, cloud services, and more.

5: To unit test, or not to unit test

Oct 25th, 2021 52m 50s

We're back after a short break! We talk about how we tackle testing of their applications and Mario details the latest updates to fusioncast.We also discuss the difficulties of knowing when to let users in, what are the requirements for releasi

4: Introductions (finally!)

Sep 14th, 2021 37m 11s

A little late, but better late than never - Alan and Mario introduce themselves and their products. They talk about why they've picked these products, and what motivates them to build them.Mario is building https://fusioncast.fm, a web-based po

3: 99 Seconds of Pitch

Aug 31st, 2021 26m 7s

In this episode, Alan talks about his Founder’s Live pitch and the difficulties of getting your message across in 99 seconds and we discuss the benefits of talking about your product development on twitter. We also contemplate about the time co

2: Nuggets of Wonder

Aug 2nd, 2021 40m 41s

In this episode, Alan talks about showing (and hiding!) primary keys in URLs, Mario shares all the new feature updates that he's made to fusioncast. We discuss our options for billing services and the difficulties of deciding pricing for our ap

1: It Worked!

Jun 29th, 2021 1h 9m

In this episode Mario shares about some technical issues developing Fusioncast's recording feature, some UI/UX design mistakes, and more. Alan shares about building his business in Japan, and the challenge of reaching different types of audienc