Reflecting on 2021

Hey, everyone. Welcome to Build Your SaaS. This is the behind the scenes story of building a web app in 2021. I'm John Buda, a software engineer. And I'm Justin Jackson. I do product and marketing. Follow along as we build transistor.fm. End of the year, John? End of the year. Last episode of the year. We actually haven't done many episodes this year, have we? We have not done as many episodes. I I think we ended up publishing I I'd be surprised if we got six. Let's see here. Oh, actually, we got more than six. No. We did one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. This is our eleventh episode. So we almost averaged one episode a month. Alright. Probably down slightly from the previous years. Well Yeah. Yeah. It was quite a bit. But not too bad. If you have stuck with us and you're still subscribed, thanks. It's it's good. You know? I you know, now Transistor is, what, three years old? I think so. I am. In 2018, but your first your first commit was in Yeah. March 2017, which is kind of crazy to think about. I think I just started it as, like, a you know, just something I wanted to hack on. Yeah. A little project on the side. Yep. And then it evolved into maybe cards could use it. Yep. And And then now look at us now. Now look at us now. That those jumps are still you know? I was listening to, the Rework podcast, and they were they were talking about the word startup and and, you know, when when should you continue to use that term? And and, you know, we're we're probably we probably can't call ourselves a startup anymore. No. We're just a business. We're just a company. Yeah. A small little company. Yeah. It is this is kind of end of the year, December is definitely where I start to reflect. And, yeah, I thought maybe we go through kind of the year and maybe some of our thoughts about next year and, hopefully, get into some of those things that that folks like. Folks seem to like it when we hash stuff out on the air Mhmm. And, you know, talk about real real thoughts, real, challenges, real plans. You know, I'm I'm sure folks are there's a lot of people that are, you know, still hoping to build a SaaS in 2022. That's that's still their dream. And, Yeah. I I feel like I wanna keep talking to those those folks too, but Yeah. From the perspective of people that are a little bit further along now. Yep. Yeah. I don't know when we changed the name to this. When did we change the name of the podcast? Built it. Built yours. Built your SaaS. Built it. We built the SaaS. Yeah. Maintain the SaaS. Yeah. Maintain it. Maintain is just it's just not as exciting, is it? …