113: Justin Jackson - Growing Transistor to $10,000/month

In this episode of Fullstack Radio, I talked to Justin Jackson about growing his new SaaS business, transistor.fm, up to $10,000 a month in MRR. This is Fullstack Radio episode 113. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Fullstack Radio podcast. I'm your host, Adam Wadden. And today, it is my pleasure to welcome back recurring guest, Justin Jackson. How's it going, Justin? Good, man. Yeah. It's good. It's always good to see your smiling face on the other side of the country. Yeah. You as well. But new room today. You're you this is like your new studio now. Yeah. We moved, last summer. So got a new office and, I got windows in this office now, not in the basement anymore. So that's great. Oh, man. That makes all the difference. Yeah. It's awesome. Cool, man. So the reason I wanna have you on the show today is, because I guess for, like, the last year and a bit now, you've sort of been on this sort of new journey of working on kind of like a SaaS business, kinda of pivoting out of the, the info product and sort of training product space and trying to do something with some recurring revenue with some software. And, recently you guys had a pretty awesome milestone with that of, 10 k a month in MRR. And I thought it'd be awesome to sort of talk about the story a little bit and talk about kind of what you had to do to get there so that listeners who want to build their own software product can get some sort of insight into what it actually takes, you know, to to build something up to a level where it's actually making enough money to feel like it's a real thing, you know, with some momentum behind it. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. I I mean, it's still pretty fresh too. I think we launched officially eight months ago in August. Nice. And then we were we've been working together since really kinda January 2018. And before that, John was working on the product for about six months. So he was working on it by himself for six months and he was really doing it because he works for Cards Against Humanity and they wanted to launch a show. And so we thought, okay. I'll just build something for cards and then maybe it'll become something else later. And so he built this really small thing that was just for cards and then he was talking to me and I'm like, John, we gotta do this together. And, he's he's pretty funny actually because we've worked together on projects before. Yeah. I really like him and I I've known him since 2014. Met him at a conference. And, you know, we'd see each other every year but I was like, John, I want in. Like, I really wanna work on this with you. And it took some convincing. I think he …