startup incubator & community
Join Us on Your Journey to Reach Escape Velocity
We focus on helping software developers pick an idea, validate & launch.
Startup ideas. Show and tells. Live mentoring. Hacker Community.
If you're ready to put in the hard work, we have solid information and resources that can help you get the job done.
Our mission is to help you launch and grow a SaaS side project to reach escape velocity and become self sustaining.
We do this by helping you find and validate an idea, show and tells, live Slack mentoring, and a helpful community of like minded hackers and entrepreneurs.
We haven't built multi-million dollar companies but we have built and grown successful side projects while holding down a day job. It's something we know how to do.
Justin bootstrapped & sold the social media dashboard Pluggio. He co-hosts TechZing, a well known tech startup podcast with over 300 episodes of interviews and discussions. He founded Nugget and is also CTO of a large educational technology company.
Brandon eats, breathes and sleeps growth hacking and business development. He is consultant to a number of startups, including Nugget, where he runs marketing and is community manager.
One of the hardest aspects about launching a side project is believing in yourself and having the confidence to do it.
We solve this problem by encouraging everyone in our commuity to show and tell their progress. This way you get to see the process that other founders are going through. It's not just you!
A number of founders show and tell exactly what they do from picking an idea and beyond.
The biggest killer of side projects is... you. Or, more specifically, your ability to maintain momentum, keep pushing through hard stuff.
We solve this problem by encouraging you to share your progress with the rest of the community. This is a very powerful motivator.
If you get blocked, for any reason, you can reach out to the community or Justin & Brandon directly and brainstorm how to get past that issue.
If you don't have a good idea for your new SaaS project... we got this.
We have over 407 extremely high quality SaaS business ideas you can browse and use as you see fit. We also email a new SaaS business idea to all members every day.
Each idea is pre-screened and many have accompanying analysis such as market size, links to competition, ideas to find customers etc.
If you want to discover your own idea, we also have a number of resources to help you get started with that and sensibly qualify anything you come up with.
