Welcome to this week's episode of Startups for the Rest of Us.

I'm your host, Rob Walling.

This is a show where we talk about building ambitious yet sane startups.

And this week, I had a great time answering listener questions with Laura Roder from Meet Edgar.

We talked through questions about managing annual subscriptions, going low-priced versus high, being a non-developer founder, and we talk through more listener

questions. This is Startups for the Rest of Us, episode 473.

Welcome to Startups to the Rest of Us. It's the podcast that helps developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. be awesome at building, launching, and growing startups. Whether you've built your fifth startup or you're thinking about your first. I'm Rob, and today with Laura Roder, we're going to share our experiences to hope you avoid the mistakes we've made. Welcome back to the show. This is the show where we focus on indie funded and self-funded startups, folks who want to do interesting things and are

ambitious and want to build themselves a better life, but also want to build companies that

grow. And starting a company is hard and having this community of people who are going

through the same thing that you are and having that sense of belonging and knowing

A, that it's possible, but B, that there's a place where we can all hang out and just get each

other and where you don't go in and explain what you do and everyone looks at you funny, there's

a tremendous amount of value to that. And that was a big reason why we started this podcast

almost 10 years ago back in 2010.

Startup for the rest of us has many episode formats. Sometimes I just have conversations with

folks, do interviews. Now and again, we do founder hot seats, but one of my favorite episode

formats is listener questions. And we've answered a tremendous number of listener questions over

the years. We've had a lot of episodes on this. And it's just the gift that keeps on giving because it's a time for listeners to participate and

to hear what other folks are going through and to hear the thought process of a couple of

founders typically who've been there and who've done some things. And it's not that we've been

through everything that they ask about, but you can at least hear that thought process of how we would approach it. And over

the years, we've always received positive feedback about this episode format. But before we dive in,

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