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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Indie Riches: He Makes More Now Than The $100k Job That Laid Him Off in 2019

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Cam Sloan is a Canadian entrepreneur who worked as a full-stack developer until he was laid off in 2019. Instead of finding a new job, he started freelancing with the goal of eventually starting a product business. Today he juggles both as he works towards building a profitable software business.

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I have a few early access customers.

0:03.3

And so, yeah, pretty much pre-revenue as I'm just trying to build out a product that's going to work for the current customers before I really open up the floodgates there.

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interviews. Check it out right now at getlatka.com. Hey folks, my guest today is Pam Sloan,

0:51.7

the Canadian entrepreneur who works for a full stack developer until he was laid off in 2019. Instead of finding a new job, he said, you know what,

0:58.7

I'm going to start freelancing. And his goal was eventually starting a product business.

1:02.6

Today, he juggled both as he works towards building a profitable software company. He's building

1:07.1

hopscotch.combe. Pam, you ready to take us to this up?

1:11.6

Yeah, let's do it.

1:12.7

All right. What is hopscotch?

1:15.3

So, hopscotch is an app for doing interactive customer onboarding tours for SaaS companies.

1:24.1

And you're a developer, so I'm sure you looked at other solutions out there before you started

1:27.8

building this. What are you building that people can't currently get at tools like Tendo or other

1:32.8

onboarding tools? Yeah. So in terms of right now, you know, still an early stage product. And so

1:40.7

in terms of like product differentiation, I wouldn't say that it's quite where

1:45.4

I'd like it to be with hopscotch. But there's another huge problem in this market is that all

1:51.0

these other solutions have gone so far up market that they're really inaccessible to the

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