Category: SaaS
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How to fire yourself as a founder
In my previous post I wrote about the process I went through growing Gymdesk from a one-person operation to a company with over 10 FTE at that point in time. One of the least expected outcomes of this process was that hiring more people did not reduce the amount of work I needed to do…
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Building A Fitness Tech Company During COVID
In my previous article I stopped just before things got interesting. Gymdesk (then Martial Arts on Rails) had reached $12k in MRR in the middle of 2019, then remained stagnant for the rest of the year. $12k / month was enough for me to quit my full time job and dedicate my full attention to…
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Bootstrapping to Profitability, the story of a B2B SaaS founder
When I started building Gymdesk at the end of 2015, I had no idea how long it would take for it to be profitable enough that I could live from it full time. At previous companies and roles I had primarily been the technical founder / lead, focused mostly on building the product and underlying…
