In this episode I’m joined by Colleen Schnettler, which a lot of you would have heard from through her Software Social podcast she co-hosts with Michele Hansen. Colleen has been on quite the journey over the past few years, going from years of contracting to launching her first product, Simple File Upload, then getting a large contracting gig with Hammerstone, landing a separate full-time job to then quit 3 weeks later to rejoin that Hammerstone as a co-founder.What we covered:
00:00 Intro
02:03 Why start the Software Social podcast?
02:59 Why start building products
04:04 Colleen's first product: Simple File Upload
05:07 Why they stopped the podcast
06:37 Joining Hammerstone
08:50 Being a solo founder
10:16 Hello Query
11:47 Closing down a successful product
13:50 Reccos
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