What's up everybody?

This is Cortland from andyhackers.com and you're listening to the IndieHackers podcast.

On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.

How do they get to where they are today?

How do they make decisions both at their companies and in their personal lives?

And what exactly makes their businesses tick? Today I'm talking to Brian Jagger, one of the co-founders of a company called Casting Calls America. Brian, you and I have gotten to meet face-to-face at various conferences a few times over the course of the last year, which is great because I've been able to see your business kind of evolve over time. And now I have the pleasure of having you on the podcast.

So welcome to the show. And thanks so much for joining me.

Thank you, Cortland. It's an honor to be a guest on the show.

So tell us about Casting Calls America. What is it exactly and how does it work?

Yeah, so Casting Calls America is a software as a service business that connects casting directors and producers from regional areas to local actors that are looking for acting opportunities.

So basically, if you're a casting director in Boston and you're looking to find an actor for your short film or your

independent film or commercial, etc. Then you would post what you're looking for as far as

actors go on our site. And then the actors who are registered with our local Boston site would be able to get the notification that there is a role that they may be a match for based upon their age demographics, et cetera.

And they are able to then submit through our software to that project.

Cool. So you're like a marketplace connecting people making movies and doing casting with the

actual actors looking for these roles. Yeah, exactly. I realize now that we're a two-sided

marketplace, though I didn't even know what that term was when we got started. Yeah, give us an idea

of some of the basics behind your company. When did you get started? How many employees do you have? How

much money are you making, et cetera?

Yeah, so we've been around just a little over four years. It was four years this past June.

And we started with one site. We do a little bit different than other companies in our space and other companies in general that are SaaS.

We regionalize it.

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