Josh Pigford
Founder, Maybe and Baremetrics · Founder, Baremetrics. On 2 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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20said about them ↓ Everything Josh Pigford said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Pigford: Sold NameSnag for $15,000 in Eight Days
“So I sold it for like 15,000 dollars eight days later and it's a hundred percent could have sold it for more, but like
I'm not, I wasn't building it to sell it.”
Pigford generated $100K in two years selling week-long micro-apps
“In the past, like, two years I've built all these different apps, like, sold for 8000, sold for 25,000, sold for 5000, sold for 12,000, sold for 24,000. Like, I think I've probably done, I don't know, close to a 100,000 dollars over the past couple of years, j…”
Pigford: Discounting SaaS plans for branding links yields negligible referral traffic
“Someone who's that price conscious, that they're like, I'm gonna save 20 bucks so that I can remove the branding, probably isn't going to send you anything anyways. Like, they're too small or too early in business or whatever, for whatever, wherever they're in…”
Pigford 'vibe codes' prototypes before passing them to professional engineers
“So like at maybe there's four of us working on that product. And one of them is I, I'll, I would say another engineer because I'm doing a ton of coding, but he's the actual engineer. Like he's the one who's actually really knows what he's doing on the engineer…”
Pigford: Shelved Twitter bookmark AI tool over $50,000 monthly API fee
“There was a Twitter bookmark AI processing thing that like I was building, got real close to finishing it, but then I realized, oh, I'm going to have to spend 50,000 dollars a month for Twitter's API to like actually make this work.”
Pigford: Users hacking spreadsheets signals an area ripe for new software
“I think with bare metrics, one of the things that I felt was sort of this indicator that something was ripe for being built in the software space was that everybody was doing like custom stuff, either like actually programming their own stuff or doing it in sp…”
Pigford: SaaS founders should constantly test pricing without publishing announcements
“And the reality is you should be testing and changing prices all the time to be figuring out, you know, what's the optimal price point? What are people willing to pay for? And there's no need to write anything every time you like test out some new pricing.”
Pigford: Hyper-focused specialists are usually poor fits for early-stage startups
“Anybody who's like hyper focused on a specific job likely wouldn't be a good fit in an early stage because they're optimizing for being the very greatest at a very specific thing, and that's not what you need in those sort of early small team days.”
Pigford: Onboarding back-end engineers takes months before driving real business impact
“Specifically with developers, there can be a very long onboarding sort of run up to them being really productive. So it's hard to bring in someone who can just like jump in. A back-end engineer, especially if you've got a pretty complex product, it could take …”
Pigford: Baremetrics rejected a $5M 2019 asset sale due to 50% tax hit
“Totally. No, I would not. Like, I remember in 2019, I think, like early, this is probably April, 2019, had an offer for, I think it was around five million, but it was an asset sale instead of a stock sale. And that would have just, I mean, like cut almost aft…”
Pigford: Hiring a CEO fails to give founders true mental detachment
“I think that until you've had the clean cut, I don't think you realize, you know, and I had explored that too, was let me, you know, hire a CEO and I'll just sit back. But then the whole brain space thing, like the whole mental break that I was talking about a…”
Pigford: Baremetrics team took 15% pay cuts and founder took 30% to survive 2016
“And the way that we did that was I think everybody on the team took a, I think it was a 15% pay cut. I took a 30% pay cut.”
Pigford: ChartMogul handled infrastructure scaling much better than Baremetrics
“ChartMogul is probably the most from a competition perspective, they're pretty strong and they've, you know, have handled the infrastructure stuff a lot better than we were able to at the time.”
Pigford: Product improvements and content, not growth hires, broke Baremetrics' plateau
“I do believe that product is ultimately what got us through the whole plateau thing, and, you know, we hired a growth person for a while, like, that didn't really work out, and didn't really have any progress there, so for us, I think still, at least the entir…”
Pigford: Avoiding building any software 'like the plague' post-exit
“Like, I'm avoiding software, building any kind of software, like the plague. Like, I just don't want to touch any software, so this is very much not that.”
Pigford: Baremetrics was built in two weeks and sold for millions
“Over the course of about two weeks or something, I built this tool that ended up like I sold for like millions of dollars back in 2020.”
Pigford launched NameSnag under 36 hours after Isenberg tweeted the idea
“From your idea to the time that like I actually launched, it was like less than 36 hours.”
Pigford: NameSnag Generated $1,000 in Revenue Within Hours of Launch
“We did a thousand dollars or something in revenue within a couple of hours of launching this thing and subscription stuff because I had just been talking about it all day”
Pigford: Baremetrics once A/B tested doubling prices before rolling it back
“There was a, that's probably two years ago or something, where we were on our company-wide retreat for Baremetrics, and one morning I was like, guys, what if we just literally doubled our prices? Like, did nothing except take every price and multiply it times …”
Pigford: Alabama does not recognize QSBS, taxing Baremetrics exit at 5%
“In classic Alabama fashion, Alabama does not recognize it. So, five percent, I actually end up paying five percent tax on mine, which is still better than capital gains.”
Pigford: Baremetrics never found a working marketing channel beyond content
“The entire time I was there, we never found this marketing sort of channel or set of channels that worked really well for us.”
Pigford: Baremetrics sold its failed Intros feature for $100,000
“And that, I do feel like that, you know, it talks about how, from a morale perspective, how that thing failing just was such a bummer for everybody, but selling it for a 100,000, it sort of flipped that over and everybody was really stoked on it.”
The other half of the tape: Josh Pigford's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 17 times in 7 episodes across the shows. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Rob Walling 10Greg Isenberg 4Dan Norris 3
Statements about Josh Pigford, by other people (3)
Isenberg: Josh Pigford built Namesnag in 12 hours, made $1,000 within hours
“It was basically an AI agent that finds profitable expired.com domains, and he just starts building it in public, and it just, like, it got, it went completely viral. He says, saw Greg Eisenberg's post yesterday, sighed, realized I was going to have to build i…”
Josh Pigford Paid Only State Tax on Baremetrics Sale Using QSBS
“In fact, Josh Pigford, who was on this show just a few episodes ago talking about how we sold bare metrics, he qualified for this and he only paid state tax because he lives in Alabama and they have a tax that wasn't exempt from.”
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Startups For the Rest of Us 13
the Startup Ideas Podcast 4
2025 4 mentions in 1 episode
2021 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 541 | Rob Solo
- Episode 539 | Post-Exit Life, Writing Six Books, and Brewing Beer with Dan Norris
- Episode 536 | A Few Things I Learned in 2020 (A Rob Solo Adventure)
- Episode 558 | Thinking Through Funding as a Bootstrapper
- Episode 546 | Hiring Entrepreneurial People, Anonymity, Disruptive Innovation, and More
- Episode 531 | How a Non-Technical Founder Grew Past $20k MRR
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| STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF USLEDGER | Founder, Baremetrics | 2 | 15 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Startups For the Rest of Us → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder, Maybe and Baremetrics | 1 | 7 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |