Break out

This podcast is hosted by transistor dot f m. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Build Your SaaS. This is the behind the scenes story of building a web app in 2020. I'm John Buda, a software engineer. And I'm Justin Jackson. Midsummer update, John. Midsummer pandemic twenty twenty edition. How how's it going? It's been it's been a while. It's been a while a month. I don't know. Yeah. Since we Yeah. It's been it's been a month. We were just joking offline that we haven't really taken a lot of time off. Not really. Not so much from Transistor. I know you took a break from social media. Yeah. I was never really super active. I did delete my Facebook account. Oh, good. That felt nice. Don't miss it one bit. Was that after you were watching the the stuff with congress? You're like, that's in session? No. No. This is no. This is, like, well well over a month ago. It is amazing how much brain space that stuff can take. I wasn't even really using it. I was just like it felt good to just get rid of it. It's like cleaning out Yeah. Your house or spring cleaning. You're like, I don't use I don't wear this shirt anymore. Yeah. Yeah. It it wasn't sparking joy for you anymore. No. It hasn't for years. So it's just like it's such a stream of an anxiety stream. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah. And and, I mean, even not recording the podcast, it is sometimes good to not do things. Like, I I have felt like I've had more, just time to enjoy the summer. Like, I have I'm going to the beach, going mountain biking, you know, just kinda taking it easy. And, but on the other hand, I'm always conflicted because it feels like I need some time away. But then there's this buildup of, you know, like, things I wanna talk to you about or Yeah. Just things in my head. And, I mean, you and I were talking before this, like, there was obviously a buildup. You know? Like, I think we both were kinda like, oh, wow. Like, we gotta talk about this, and what are we gonna do about this? And, you know, the you you can't have too much time elapse, it feels like. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you we were just setting up, and you sort of forgot how to even record the podcast. Right? That's that's that's how you know. What apps do I open in what order and what Yeah. Yeah. What is this? How does this work? Well, one thing I think that will be helpful for our listeners is I've I've as I've been talking to other people who are starting a SaaS, mostly, you know, bootstrap founders, one or two founders, one thing I've noticed is they basically, if you if you're bootstrapping a SaaS, you're probably going to need more trials than you think. And k. …