In this episode, Mitchell and Gavin celebrate their fastest client win yet, prepare for five events in seven days, share updates to the SixSides app and dashboard, and unpack the growing pressure of building a bootstrapped SaaS when the momentum finally starts to kick in.
Chapters
In this episode, we cover:
Chapters
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:19) - Fitness update and hitting new milestones
- (03:42) - Fastest client win yet
- (06:46) - Five events in seven days
- (10:35) - Building the first user guide
- (14:59) - Should we go back to AIM next year?
- (18:11) - Product updates in the app and dashboard
- (22:33) - There is so much to do
- (31:31) - Should we hire our first developer?
- (38:05) - Outro
In this episode, we cover:
- Fitness progress and how personal routines are tracking alongside startup pressure
- Our fastest client win yet and what made the sales process work
- How a quick Loom walkthrough helped close a new event customer
- Why community building keeps coming up in SixSides sales conversations
- Invoicing momentum and how March revenue is already beating last year
- Preparing for five events in seven days across multiple customers
- The operational risk of becoming the bottleneck as event volume grows
- Building a first draft attendee user guide for event clients
- Using Gamma to speed up polished documentation and onboarding assets
- Why sponsor and exhibitor workflows could become a product-led growth lever
- Recommitting to AIME as a key conference for future customer growth
- New SixSides product updates including sponsor tier layouts and feature toggles
- Fixing AI assistant tooling issues in the dashboard backend
- The growing product roadmap across the website, dashboard, infrastructure and mobile app
- Whether it is time for SixSides to hire a first developer
- The realities of bootstrapping while juggling multiple businesses
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