Building with Joao 🎙️
A podcast about my journey of building products in public.
In this podcast, you can count with:
- My reflections and thoughts of my week
- What worked and didn't work
- The learnings from my experimentations
This is just me sharing unfiltered thoughts about entrepreneurship.
#22 - Working while on vacation
Launching Materiality Master: Payment provider, Landing pages, and User Testing
#21 - Gamification mechanisms
Explore gamification’s impact on user engagement with personal stories on WIP, a fasting app, and Stompers. Learn how to integrate leaderboards, streaks, and competition in your apps.
#20 - Onboarding tutorials
We drastically reduced customer support requests on Veertly by introducing an onboarding tutorial. In this episode, I share my experience and thoughts on onboarding guides for new products.
#19 - Serverless vs Self-hosted
In this episode I share how I built Veertly with thousands of concurrent participants on top of serverless system.
#18 - Internationalization (i18n) support
In this episode, I discuss adding i18n to my new app from day one, targeting the German market and navigating the complexities it introduces.
#17 - Being a Podcaster
I've become a podcaster sharing my product-building journey for 17 weeks already. In this episode, I reflect on challenges and lessons learned in this journey.
#16 - Juggling 9-5 and Building a House
Balancing my part-time 9-5 with Veertly's development, alongside updates on building my new house.
#15 - Entrepreneurship and Connections with Daniel Nastase
In this episode, I welcome the first guest of my podcast, Daniel Nastase. We talk about entrepreneurship, connections and how to own our contacts.
#14 - Finding my niche
Discovering your niche is vital in the indie hacker journey. In this episode, I open up about my struggles to find mine and the space I'm honing in on.
#13 - Importance of Daily Sport for an Entrepreneur
I do CrossFit every evening. This is my daily routine and it's crucial for a balance life
#12 - Why we Killed our Project
Being an entrepreneur also means knowing when to stop a project! This is what we decided to do with one of our projects — end it.
#11 - Parenting as an Entrepreneur
Thoughts on the importance of living experiences with your kids and how to grow your startup while raising your kids.
#10 - Growth Board Update
Update on the development of the Growth Board product and the technical decisions.
#9 - Being a good listener as an entrepreneur
Being a good listener is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. It allows you to understand your customers, your team, and create amazing relationships.
#8 - Research Interviews
For our Growth-Board project, we have conducted several research interviews before starting to build the product. I share our process and my takeaways in this episode.
#7 - Distribution Channels
In this episode I share my thoughts on the different distribution channels and which ones are better when starting your side projects.
#6 - Building Undercover
B and Matt are starting a new project with me, but they have a boring 9-5 job. They are Building Undercover!
#5 - Do you have a roadmap?
Roadmaps are important for any project, but the magic is when you find the right balance between planning and flexibility.
#4 - Solopreneur vs co-founder
Building together is much more rewarding, but it should not be forced.
#3 - Million Dollar Weekend
I spent my holiday week reading Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan. I went back to my projects and see what I did wrong.
#2 - Free credits and quick value
I added some free credits to TrailerWave project and in this episode I share how important it is to give quick value to the users.
#1 - Intro to my build in public week
Welcome to my podcast where I share weekly reflections of my build in public journey.