Unscripted SaaS

Unscripted SaaS

I'm interviewing SaaS founders, solopreneurs, developers and marketers who are working with, or for SaaS companies. We're exploring what makes a SaaS tick, business models, pitfalls, hard lessons and huge victories in an unscripted interview format.

Episodes

July 16, 2026 • 21 mins

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini "what's the best X?", a few brands get named — and most companies have never checked whether they're one of them. Somya Goyal built Stellarcast to change that: a platform that watches how your brand shows up in AI answers, diagnoses why you're missing, ships the fix, and then proves the needle moved.

After 15+ years in quality engineering — eig...

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Otter and Fireflies do not fail at African languages. They discard them. Unknown languages get filtered out as noise or approximated to the nearest English word. Tobiloba Sulaimon, a self-taught developer from Lagos, built AuTrans to transcribe Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo as they were actually spoken. It started as a fix for a meeting the tools could not handle.

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  • The differentiator is what incumbent...
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Tom Girgash quit his job two or three weeks before this conversation to build Taproot, a memory layer that keeps your knowledge in local files and pipes it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Claude Code over MCP. Jeremy Rivera talks with him about grounding AI in your own work, finding words for a brand-new category, and building distribution without an ad budget. Follow Tom on X at @TGIRGS.

Tom took the long way into software: an Oh...

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Fifteen years building SaaS across European scale-ups, including the unicorn Brevo, compressed into two words. Malith Gamage bootstrapped Zapdigits, a client-reporting tool for marketing agencies, and his survival advice is not a framework. It is do not die. Stay alive three or four years and you are fine. Everything else in this episode is the operational discipline that makes that possible.

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  • Survival...
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Guest Bio

Kevin Urrutia is a software engineer turned serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building tech products. He's worked at Silicon Valley companies including Mint.com and Zaarly, and founded Voy Media, a digital marketing agency that has generated over $50 million in revenue. His latest venture, Magic Rinku, tac...

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In this conversation, Jeremy Rivera of Community Clean Links and SEO Arcade interviews Angshuman Rudra, a product manager at TapClicks, discussing the company's marketing operations platform, the intricacies of ETL processes, and the challenges of product management in a SaaS environment.

Angshuman shares insights on customer needs, market trends, and the importance of sales feedback in shaping product development. He's been h...

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February 26, 2025 • 37 mins

In this conversation, Jeremy Rivera interviews Bryan Shankman, co-founder and CEO of Tool Desk and LeadTruffle discussing the origins of their SaaS products, the challenges of pricing and customer support, and the strategies for marketing and future-proofing their business.

Bryan shares insights on building a successful startup in the home services industry, the importance of customer engagement, and the risks associat...

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In this conversation, Jeremy Cohen, founder of Vooz an Omegle alternative in the anonymous video chatting space, discusses the journey of creating bootstrapping and self-motivating. He shares insights on the unique selling propositions of Vooz, including AI moderation and user engagement features.

The discussion covers the challenges of bootstrapping a startup, marketing strategies for user acquisition, and the importance o...

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Guest Introduction

  • Mark Williams-Cook: Director of Kanda (formerly Candour SEO agency)
  • Creator of Also Asked, a search intent research tool
  • P...
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