Still Early
by Niklas Stephenson & Peter Suhm
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Building product is my safe space
Building product is my safe space
About this podcast
Every other week, Niklas Stephenson and Peter Suhm hang out and talk about what's been going on in their businesses.
Episodes
- Building product is my safe space · 46 min · Episode 16In this episode: • Phone.inc plans monthly, and a month already feels too long • Niklas is a solo founder for the first time, and with growth and sales hires coming in, he has…
- The podcast is in person now · 44 min · Episode 15In this episode: • Why Phone.inc gives away phone numbers for free • What’s getting built in October (call whispers, voice-changed greetings, maybe SMS) • A bug report button…
- My first day at Phone.inc · 46 min · Episode 14In this episode: • Peter's first day at Phone.inc (office breakfast, a design sync, and half an hour picking Lea's brain about the customer journey) • He didn't have to set up a…
- My first real job since 2012 · 43 min · Episode 13In this episode: • Tailwind is joining Shopify, and Peter isn't going with them • Why he said no to pursuing Shopify (big company, no side projects, night calls from Europe) •…
- Working while I drive · 45 min · Episode 12In this episode: • Peter went to Laravel Live Denmark, which grew out of a Copenhagen meetup he helped start in 2014 • Everyone there assumed he works full time at Phone.inc now…
- I killed my local dev environment · 54 min · Episode 11In this episode: • Why Still Early and the Phone.inc vlog are two different shows, and who each one is for • Phone.inc has 15-20 companies live on their own infrastructure, and…
- Why I'm cutting our runway · 39 min · Episode 10In this episode: • Peter's first vacation in years without a computer (and using ChatGPT as a battlefield guide from a bench) • Where memo is at: Peter is still user number one…
- The business books we keep re-reading · 40 min · Episode 9In this episode: • Summer special: Peter and Niklas each brought five business books off the shelf (plus a pile of honorable mentions) • Positioning, knowing when to quit, OKRs…
- Are building blocks the new end product? · 38 min · Episode 8In this episode: • Peter's thesis for the AI era: build building blocks, not end solutions • Memo.sh update: 43 waitlist signups without a launch tweet, and a new workspace…
- I bought a $1500 domain name · 40 min · Episode 7In this episode: - Peter bought memo.sh (a $1500 domain) about fifteen minutes before recording, mostly so he could announce it on the pod - What he's building: a shared memory…
- Fix the inputs, not the output · 49 min · Episode 6In this episode: • The Phone.inc iPhone app is out with its first users, and there's a real call on the platform every hour during Danish business hours • Why Phone.inc decided…
- LinkedIn broke my SaaS · 32 min · Episode 5In this episode: • The OG Kit LinkedIn saga: three days of debugging why Open Graph images stopped rendering, and the weirdly simple fix • Why paying for a tool like OG Kit is…
- My VC told me not to be cheap · 53 min · Episode 4In this episode: • Peter's Tailwind ui.sh support inbox after inviting 30k people to early access • The first vlog landed well on click-through but had a watch-time problem…
- Building a phone company for the second time · 52 min · Episode 3In this episode: • What Peter and Niklas are each working on right now (Tailwind, OG Kit, Phone.inc) • Niklas hired his first employee and had to buy a laptop at Denmark's…
- Why are we starting a podcast? · 17 min · Episode 2In this episode: • How Peter and Niklas met and why their previous podcast attempts didn't work out • What Niklas is building with Phone.inc and why distribution is the biggest…
- Still Early Teaser · 1 min · Episode 1The first episode of Still Early is dropping on April 23nd. Subscribe now to get notified!
