Reported · from Justin Jackson's open-startup reporting and Build Your SaaS
Podcast hosting and analytics for companies and independent shows. Two founders, no investors, and the revenue published openly from the very first $33.
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More than 30,000 RSS feeds and roughly 7,500 paying accounts — the world's thirteenth-largest podcast host, run by two people.
ReportedPast $550K ARR. The open reporting ran from zero to roughly $50K a month and stopped near $1M a year.
ReportedBoth founders quit their jobs on the same day.
Reported$30K MRR in just over a year.
Reported$20K MRR, eleven and a half months after that first $33.
ReportedOfficially launched, alongside Build Your SaaS — a podcast documenting the company as it happens, wins and failures alike.
Reported$33 of revenue in the first month, as a side project between two people who had never shipped together.
ReportedAn internal tool built at Cards Against Humanity for their new podcast becomes Transistor. They are the first customer.
ReportedJustin Jackson and Jon Buda meet at XOXO in Portland. Four years of friendship before a line of Transistor gets written.
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