I chatted to Mubs, a prolific maker, about building products for Bluesky, how AI is and isn't changing coding and why he uses Laravel to build his products.

https://sideprojectmvp.com/
https://blueskydirectory.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/mubashariqbal.com
https://bsky.app/profile/petecodes.bsky.social
https://www.highsignal.io/

I had a great chat with Milly Tamati, the founder of Generalist World. It's a 60,000-strong community of generalist professionals with mulitple skills and squiggly careers.

We discussed running a business from a tiny island in Scotland, building her Generalist World paid community, hiring tips for founders, marketing tips, how she is using AI and loads more!

High Signal newsletter: https://www.highsignal.io/
Milly's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milly-tamati/
Generalist World: https://www.generalist.world/
Generalist World course: https://www.generalist.world/unboxed
GW community: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecekurtaraner/
GW podcasts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseylexlerner/
GW emoji picker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikita-khandwala/
Back up your Slack: https://meetwaves.com/

I spoke to Lukas Hermann from StageTimer about how he's making over $10k a month from his timer app.

We talked about how he's growing and monetizing StageTimer along with a lots of other fun topics like making really ambitious goals, business ideas to avoid, doing business in Germany vs going overseas and loads more.

Chapters

00:00 Intro
00:24 What is StageTimer?
01:19 What led you to create StageTImer?
02:36 Is it a simple or complicated app?
05:16 Setting ambitious goals and Lukas's pinned tweet
09:08 What if you fail?
10:32 How much revenue StageTimer makes
10:57 Getting laid off
16:24 Viral moments for StageTimer
19:39 Did you ever explore VC?
22:12 Busineses to avoid making e.g. courses/boilerplates
26:11 Doing business in Germany vs overseas
32:07 What are your future plans?
35:50 Freemium pricing
38:08 Marketing experiments
40:47 Conclusion

Links

StageTimer: https://stagetimer.io/
Lukas personal site: https://lukashermann.dev/
Pinned tweet: https://x.com/_lhermann/status/1506665241458921476
Doing business in Germany: https://lukashermann.dev/writing/bootstrapping-a-saas-business-in-germany/

I also send the High Signal newsletter out every Wednesday and Friday. It's packed full of indie founder stories to keep you inspired and up to date with whats happening. If you sign up I'll send you a free list of 20 bootstrapped companies and what they sold for.

https://www.highsignal.io/newsletter/

Pete's personal site: https://www.petecodes.io/