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Welcome to the first edition of the SaaS Founder Gems Newsletter from @PocketBryan!
The #1 criteria for anything included below is it must be actionable. No fluff, hollow inspirational silliness, or platitudes (empty feel-good content) are allowed. Every item mentioned below is worth your time (IMHO)
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Continue readingThere aren’t enough hours in the day to read through everything on Twitter, IndieHackers, Hacker News, etc and not miss anything.
Some of what I see (or have bookmarked over the years) is different than what you’ve seen, and I want to share it with you. I’m going to be sending out a new weekly newsletter I’m calling “SaaS Founder Gems 💎”. It’ll simply be little nuggets and links I’ve found useful to me, as an aspiring SaaS founder.
Now that I’ve quit my job and am taking a run at launching my own SaaS (with just a year of runway!), I’m all in! I’ll share what I’ve found and learned along the way.
If you’re interested, sign up here:
As I mentioned in “What’s this all about?“, I’ve had the startup bug since I was 12 years old, as I watched my Dad struggle with and build a successful software startup. I’ve been coding for about that long as well. Since I began writing software professionally around the year 2000, I’ve had something going on the side (“nights and weekends”-style), dreaming of the day when I could quit my day job and go full-time. I didn’t want to become a billionaire or build an empire — I just wanted to make my own decisions, mistakes, and schedule.
Continue readingIn late June, 2021, I quit my job at Amazon to pursue my life-long dream of running my own SaaS. I watched my Dad start his company as kid and have wanted to do the same for 30 years. I now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go full-time on my idea, for up to a year (probably not enough time, I know), so I’m going for it!
I’ll post updates and learnings here as I go. To learn more about what drives me and why, you can read about it in “What’s this all about?” or read the short version in the Twitter thread, below: