THE FEAR

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 Bruta, a software engineer. And I'm Justin Jackson. I do product and marketing. Follow along as we buildtransistor.fm. It is I I didn't realize, today is a somber day. Today's September 11. It is. Yeah. That, every year, you know, that's That was a bummer of a day. Yeah. But you know what the sad part is is that we have a September 11 every day in this country now. Oh, man. Oh, those are those are laughing, tears of laughing tears. Those are sad too. Sad laugh. Yeah. It is sad. People keep telling us to not make this show political, but we've been pretty political from the very beginning. It's kinda hard not to. Yeah. I've got a I've got a interesting dilemma, and we were talking a little bit about this off camera, off off microphone. Mhmm. And you're like, well, I don't care about I don't care about that at all. But I I I think it'd still be helpful to talk it out because there might be other folks who can identify with it. So here here's the here's part of the anxiety is and and this is such a weird feeling when especially compared to when we started. When we started, you're just, like, just trying to get to a place where this thing is, you know, feeding you, paying for your mortgage. Yeah. The anxiety was right. Yeah. The Way different. Yeah. The anxiety was more like it's it's almost excitement. It's like, okay. We're doing this. It's like growing. And then you get to a nice stable spot, then the company keeps growing. And then I feel like the anxiety starts to be, we have a good business here. It's making good money every month. We have a nice, slow, and steady growth trajectory. And for me, personally, I would take if if you could guarantee me like, if the devil came and made me sign a contract and say, listen. Yeah. Here's the you get to keep you sign this contract, and you get to keep a 100% control of transistor. You get to keep working with John. You get to have this life the rest of your life until you die, and you're guaranteed to have the same revenue growth that you have right now. Yeah. I would take that deal. Yeah. Absolutely. I would sign that contract with the devil. I don't know what the I don't know what the devil gets out of it. But Yeah. Right. Yeah. There's I mean, let's be honest. If Bezos came along and gave me the same deal as he gave thirty seven signals, which is, hey, John and Justin. I really like you guys. I like your business philosophy. I like this idea of a calm company with lots …