Welcome back to this week's episode of Tiny Seed Tales. Season 3, episode 4, in which Cloud

Forecast doubles their MRR, and Tony uses the phrase, it feels like we cheated. It's a really good

episode. You're going to want to stick around for it. Quick reminder that applications for our next

Tiny Seed batches are currently open until September 25th, just a few days after this podcast airs. Head to tinyseed.com

slash apply if you're interested. And let's dive into this episode of Tiny Seed Tales.

It felt like we cheated, to be honest. I'm trying to change my thinking a bit that, hey, everything

and all the effort that we put in has led up to this, and it's not cheating.

We did get lucky, right? But the work that we've done the last three years has culminated

to be able to close that deal.

Welcome back to Tiny Seat Tales, a series where I follow a founder through their struggles,

victories, and failures as they build their startup.

I'm your host Rob Walling.

I'm a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Tiny Seed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers.

We're back with Tony Chan of Cloud Forecast, the cost management tool for Amazon Web Services. It's been about a month since our

last conversation, and there are big changes afoot. So Tony, listeners may not realize the way we

do these episodes. Sometimes it's a month, sometimes it's three months between them. And I record voiceovers.

We send it off to a producer. And then we get it back a few weeks later. And usually what's happened with

the past two seasons is I listen to it. The founders, listen to it. Give me the thumbs up because you

have final cut. But what was interesting with the last episode, because I sent you episode three

just a few days ago, five days

ago, and you listened through it, and you sent me an email and you say, wow, how much has

changed since then? Great episode. I hope people can relate to the highs and lows, the

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