Something that's been on my mind lately: Why is a customer going to choose my product? There's tens to hundreds or even thousands (looking at you CRM's) of every app for every problem. Why would someone choose mine? Price? I'm a firm believer in charging a price that works for| John Nunemaker
When not playing basketball, I am a programmer/owner at Box Out Sports and Fewer & Faster.| John Nunemaker
When not playing basketball, I am a programmer/owner at Box Out Sports and Fewer & Faster. Previously, I was a co-owner of Ordered List, first acquisition by GitHub, where I then worked for 7 years.| John Nunemaker
Podcast interview where I share my journey building lasting SaaS businesses, the power of partnerships, and why I'm obsessed with onboarding, risk reduction, and hiring ‘batteries included’ people.| John Nunemaker
A few weeks back I joined Chad on his Giant Robots podcast to talk Ruby, Rails and a bit of business – including our acquisition of Fireside last year. The episode just went live and I hope you enjoy it. Fun fact: their podcast is actually hosted on Fireside –| John Nunemaker
Last, but not least for this week, I was on Founder Quest. I'm doing my best third wheel impression over there and appreciate that Ben and Josh haven't kicked me off yet. We talked about a lot of things but mostly focused on the fireside acquisition| John Nunemaker
I joined Adam and Jerod to share my new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. The conversation was great! This new moneyball approach (dubbed so by Jess) has been swimming around in my head for a few months now. So it's great to talk about it| John Nunemaker
Last week Drew invited me on his podcast. I loved the format (what are you working on, what are your blockers, what have you learned recently) and suspect I'll become a regular listener. The episode summary pretty much sums it up... Ever wondered why a seasoned entrepreneur would| John Nunemaker
I've had business partners for every business I've been a part of. Yet, I've never asked myself "Why?". Yesterday someone did. You’ve been fairly prolific over the years, and I was wondering what your thoughts were on taking a business| John Nunemaker
I had a nice chat with Brendan and Ryan on the Rails Business podcast a few weeks ago and now its live! Search for "Rails Business" in your favorite podcast app or you can listen at the following link: John Nunemaker - Rails BusinessIn this episode, Brendan and Ryan welcome| John Nunemaker
I was stoked when I discovered that the Ruby on Rails podcast is hosted on our platform – fireside.fm. So I reached out to Elise for feedback and to volunteer Garrett and I for an episode. We recorded last week and its already live today. Our chat covered taking over| John Nunemaker
It's out and it's stout. Actually, I don't know if it's stout or not. I just like to rhyme (all the time). My 3 Fav Quotes “What if instead of discounts, we focused on lowering the risk for customers to try| John Nunemaker
For those that haven't subscribed to the fireside blog or the podcast, I figured I'd update here as well. We released episode #3 on Mastering Prioritization in SaaS last week. Give it a listen and subscribe in your favorite podcast app. At some point I'll get too lazy to post| John Nunemaker
Episode #1 went out last Thursday. Now here we are on Tuesday and ANOTHER EPISODE FOR YOU. I know right?! Christmas came early this year. On today's episode, we hit on a few topics: 🙋 Customer feedback. 😖 Podcasting pains. 🆕 Future features. 🏆 Recent wins. Just hit| John Nunemaker
We did it! The Fireside crew went through the entire process of setting up a podcast and recording our first episodes. #1 is live wherever you enjoy podcasts (probably). Drinking Our Own Champagne In this debut episode of Standing in the Fire, hosts John Nunemaker, Garrett Dimon, and Kristopher Priemer| John Nunemaker
Ok folks, this is kind of a weird one. I'm going to put it in the "you won't ever need this, but if you do, you are going to be glad I wrote this up for ya" category. As you may or may not know, I recently acquired fireside.fm,| John Nunemaker
First, let's set the scene. It's Saturday, July 20th in South Bend, Indiana. My kids are playing in the driveway (yes they left their toys out) while my wife and I work on some tweaks to our camper. My phone dings. Just kidding. My phone never dings. It's always on| John Nunemaker
The query, cache, code, feature flag, graph and point: control your code, even the tiny bits.| John Nunemaker
