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Sounds Good.

Anna Nadeina

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Frequency: 1 episode/40d. Total Eps: 9

Sounds Good is a podcast where I ask the questions you actually wanted answered.

I am Anna Nadeina, and I talk to founders and operators about the playbooks, growth hacks, and frameworks the internet swears by — and whether any of it actually worked.

Expect real numbers, honest post-mortems, and the occasional confession that the thing everyone recommended was a waste of six months.

Topics: SaaS growth, bootstrapped and VC-backed startups, product-led growth, sales-led growth, founder-led marketing, exits and M&A, remote teams, AI tools, indie hackers, building on the internet.

A little about me: 3 years Head of Growth at saas.group, 300+ episodes hosting saas.unbound, currently building cucobooks.com.

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🇩🇪 Germany - entrepreneurship
20/08/2026
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You don't need to go shopping ever again — Felix Hoffmann @ 7Learnings

Season 1 · Episode 6

Tuesday, July 7, 2026 • Duration 55:06

Felix Hoffmann has been inside Zalando's pricing engine. Now he's building the tools retail brands need to survive the AI.

We talked about what agentic shopping looks like these days, why European platforms are dangerously slow to react, and why asking "how do I use ChatGPT in my company" is completely the wrong question.

In this episode:

- Why 30–50% of online purchases already start with an AI conversation

- The real reason OpenAI paused agentic shopping (hint: Amazon)

- How product decisions — not just pricing — will be shaped by what AI assistants recommend

- Why Zalando is losing to Amazon

- The offline retail impact nobody's talking about yet

- Why predictive pricing beats LLM-based pricing for explainability and trust

- The chess computer analogy: why specialized AI beats general AI for enterprise use cases

- What a €500M investment commitment would actually look like for a European platform to win

Felix is one of the clearest thinkers on what AI actually changes in commerce versus what's just noise.

Timestamps:

00:00 - The Future of AI in Shopping

03:47 - The Role of Discoverability in Retail

06:47 - Personalization and Production in Fashion

10:58 - The Impact of AI on Consumer Behavior

13:59 - 7Learnings: Optimizing Retail Decisions

16:48 - Consumer Readiness for AI Shopping Assistants

19:35 - The Offline Shopping Experience and AI

22:50 - Luxury Brands and AI Integration

27:43 - The New Gatekeepers of Retail

28:57 - The Competitive Landscape of AI in Shopping

31:02 - Opportunities for Independent Brands

32:14 - Navigating Uncertainty in AI Adoption

36:14 - Strategic AI Investments for Retailers

37:56 - The Risks of Inaction in Retail

40:55 - Pricing Strategies in the Age of AI

46:28 - Trust and Explainability in AI Systems

51:07 - The Future of Decision Automation

Felix - https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-hoffmann-7learnings

7Learnings - https://7learnings.com/

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SaaS isn't dead but old playbooks are — Mac Martine @ Demandbird

Season 1 · Episode 7

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 56:24

Mac Martine has been building and acquiring SaaS for 20 years. He still doesn't think it's easy — and that's the point.

We talked about what it actually looks like to run a small SaaS portfolio as a two-person team, why buying a boring Slack backup tool led to Fortune 500 clients and a 50x price increase within 48 hours, and why the fundamentals of distribution haven't changed as much as the hype suggests. Plus: AI search, third-party dependency risk, building in your own voice, and why bot media is quietly replacing social media.

In this episode:

- Why buying beats building for early validation right now

- The graveyard SaaS market and what makes something worth acquiring

- How good SEO still converts overnight — even in 2026

- AI search vs regular search: is there actually a difference yet?

- Third-party dependency risk: Aware, Shield, and what comes next

- Why AI-assisted humans beat AI alone — and where the line breaks down

- Content production, scheduling tools, and keeping your voice when AI helps you write

- What won't work anymore in micro SaaS

Timestamps:

00:00 - Navigating Uncertainty

06:05 - The Shift from Building to Buying: Exploring Holdco Strategies

12:29 - Validating Ideas: The Importance of Community and Feedback

18:27 - SEO's Enduring Relevance in the Age of AI

23:31 - Building with Dependencies: Risks and Strategies

29:18 - Finding Value in Content Production and Scheduling Tools

32:25 - The Evolution of Retail and Music

Stop the slop. Here's how to do founder-led content — Finn Thormeier @ Project 33

Season 1 · Episode 4

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 • Duration 01:02:25

Good content still wins. Finn Thormeier has spent years building LinkedIn presence for B2B executives and he's got a genuinely uncomfortable take on why most of it fails — and it's not the algorithm.

Finn runs Project 33, an executive LinkedIn agency working with B2B founders and C-suite leaders to turn their actual opinions into content that moves pipeline. He's obsessed with the gap between what people think LinkedIn content does and what it actually does.

In this episode:

- Why AI ghostwriting and human ghostwriting have almost identical failure modes

- The real reason LinkedIn reach is dropping (hint: it's supply, not algorithm)

- How to train an AI — or a writer — to not produce slop

- Why Finn stopped using em dashes and what that tells you about the platform right now

- The "VP of Supply Chain" rule: what good engagement actually looks like in B2B

- When LinkedIn posting can't save you (and what product-market fit has to do with it)

- Where Finn would go if LinkedIn disappeared tomorrow: newsletters, in-person, and why

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction

03:59 - The Role of AI in Content Creation

07:01 - Human Touch vs. AI in Content Strategy

09:44 - Navigating AI Biases and Content Quality

12:54 - The Importance of Clear Communication in Content

15:53 - The Shift in Audience Perception of AI Content

19:02 - The Impact of Algorithms on LinkedIn Engagement

22:55 - Understanding Content Effectiveness and ROI

Don't start SaaS right now — Mike Hill @ Curator.io

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 53:35

Sounds Good Podcast #1 — Mike Hill on whether bootstrapped SaaS is still worth starting in 2026. His advice to anyone asking him right now: don't.

Not because SaaS is dying. He doesn't buy that — neither do I. But the gap between building a product (easier than ever) and getting your first SaaS customer (harder than ever) got pretty broken.

Mike Hill is a serial bootstrapper. His newest thing is Smile — a Slack app for sending dorky cards to your team (which I love using!).

What we got into:

- Why the SaaSpocalypse started five years ago and has nothing to do with AI

- The Google-to-ChatGPT shift is wiping out bootstrappers

- AI makes senior people better and junior people worse

- Lifetime deals stop making sense when token costs are ongoing and buyers already have your competitor's LTD

- The day Claude went down and Mike just went home, and what that says about all of us

- Why he still recommends every founder who emails him to get a technical co-founder

Timestamps:

00:00 - Is SaaS Still Worth Starting?

00:57 - SaaSpocalypse Explained

03:14 - AI Makes Seniors Faster

04:30 - Content Led Growth Edge

06:00 - Why Not Start SaaS

07:47 - AI Search Hurts Discovery

11:11 - Building SaaS for Fun

15:46 - Ship Fast New Process

17:59 - Agent Overload Limits

The $500M SaaS company that doesn't chase AI hype — Ken Weary @ Hostaway

Season 1 · Episode 8

Monday, July 20, 2026 • Duration 51:05

Hostaway has raised more than $500 million. It still hasn't acquired a single company.

Ken Weary, COO at Hostaway, believes that's not a missed opportunity—it's discipline. Instead of buying competitors, the company has spent the last decade building a single platform, staying profitable, and resisting the temptation to chase every shiny new thing.

We talked about what AI is actually changing inside SaaS companies (and what it isn't), why "SaaSpocalypse" is mostly a story about adaptation rather than extinction, how to think about third-party platform risk when your business depends on Airbnb and Booking.com, and why founder-led companies often win by acting like they still have no money.

In this episode:

Why Hostaway has never made an acquisition despite evaluating hundreds of companies

What a $500M-funded company can teach bootstrappers about spending money

The real relationship between AI and layoffs

Why AI should augment people, not replace them

Building software on top of platforms like Airbnb without becoming dependent on them

What SaaSpocalypse gets right—and what it completely misses

Why customer events matter even more in a fully remote company

How Hostaway uses AI to improve customer support and guest experience

"Be frugal, not cheap"—the mindset behind sustainable growth

The marathon lesson that applies surprisingly well to building SaaS

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction to Hostaway

Bootstrapping in an over-funded market — Antoine Minoux @ Fernand

Season 1 · Episode 3

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • Duration 54:39

What happens to bootstrapped SaaS when AI levels the playing field — and VC money controls distribution? Antoine Minoux, serial founder and builder of Fernand (a customer support tool for founders doing their own support), gets real about what's actually broken right now: UI as a moat is dead, cold email is harder than it looks, and "distribution is king" is not just a cliché anymore — it's existential.

In this episode we cover:

- Why Antoine rebuilt Fernand's AI layer (and what his power users are doing instead)

- The 3,000-email cold outreach experiment that looked genius and flopped

- Bootstrap vs. VC-funded SaaS in 2025 — who actually wins

- Why product-market fit is harder to find when everyone has the same AI stack

- The case for done-for-you services as SaaS's next pivot

- Why "sounds good" and "works well" are two completely different things

Timestamps:

00:00:01 - Fernand, a customer support tool.

00:02:23 - Rebuilding with an AI layer.

00:03:07 - Thoughts on rebuilding and innovation.

00:05:17 - Customers not asking for current developments.

00:06:28 - AI can do 90% of the work.

00:08:04 - Not using the interface anymore.

00:09:29 - Uncertainty about UI needs.

00:11:11 - Two hypotheses in the world.

00:13:29 - Brutal market for SMBs.

00:18:42 - Distribution is the main thing.

00:19:51 - Hypothesis about bootstrapping challenges.

Your AI product needs an accountability layer — Sai Dhanak @ deduction.com

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 • Duration 55:58

Most AI companies make big claims. Sai built a guarantee into the business model.

Sai Dhanak is the founder of Deduction, an AI tax firm that pairs licensed CPAs with AI agents to deliver tax advice, planning, and filing for US consumers — at a fraction of traditional accountant prices. We talked about what happens when accountability is actually on the line, why services that were "unscalable" are suddenly the hottest pitch in VC rooms, and what the SaaSpocalypse gets completely wrong about junior talent.

In this episode:

- Why "own the customer outcome" might be the only real moat right now

- The CPA shortage nobody's building fast enough for

- AI agents with names and phone numbers (meet Taylor at deduction.com)

- Why predictable workflows scale and litigation doesn't

- The Deduction partner program — a franchise model for the AI era

- Whether Google I/O just quietly ate vibe coding for the masses

- The real reason companies are laying people off (hint: it's not productivity)

- Senior engineers saying they need zero engineers on their team — and whether that ends in burnout

Sai is one of those founders who thinks clearly about messy questions.

Timestamps: 00:00 - Navigating the AI Landscape

11:06 - The Role of Human Touch in AI Services

21:59 - Building Trust in AI-Driven Tax Services

30:28 - The Need for AI Guidance

31:50 - Integrating AI into Daily Life

Why the Best product doesn't win anymore — Joseph Lee @ Supademo

Season 1 · Episode 2

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Duration 45:37

Your product isn't defensible because it's hard to build. The tough news: you're in trouble.

Joe Lee, founder of Super (200,000+ users, growing without a sales team), joins Sounds Good to dismantle the idea that technical complexity is a moat.

We get into why distribution and brand eminence are what's left, why "we're just watching AI" stance might have been the smartest move of the year, and why "ever-boarding" beats onboarding every single time.

In this episode:

→ Why tech defensibility has collapsed — and what actually replaces it

→ Is waiting on AI a power move or a mistake?

→ "Ever-boarding" — Joe's framing for why switching cost beats features

→ Why ARR can mask structural problems (and what to look at instead)

→ Buyer personas are converging — enterprise buyers now self-qualify like PLG users

→ AI is becoming invisible — and why sophisticated buyers stopped caring about the label

→ The "build with Claude on the weekend" family activity rant

→ Would you trade shoes with Warren Buffett for $5 billion?

Timestamps:

00:00 - Defensibility Is Dead

01:00 - Meet Joe From Supademo

01:11 - SaaS Whiplash Era

03:57 - Escaping The AI Echo Chamber

10:06 - Hype Versus Outcomes

11:53 - Freshline Versus Supademo

15:39 - Founder Market Fit

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