Brad Touesnard

Husband. Father. 3x Founder (Zenutech '11, Delicious Brains Inc '22). Currently Founder & CEO @spinupwp. Created event @bigsnowtinyconf. Former programmer.

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

@adamwathan Welcome. Do yourself a favour and get a Philips Head Shaver Pro 7000. I travel with 3 freaking machines now: Philips Norelco 9500, Philips Multigroom 5000, and that one.

[SpinupWP @spinupwp]

You can now manage common PHP settings directly from the SpinupWP dashboard, eliminating the need to SSH into your server and manually edit configuration files. https://t.co/pd6QSzjsuK

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

"There just isn’t enough revenue and there never can be enough revenue. The world just doesn’t have the ability to pay for this much AI."
https://t.co/6oKBoCMPiZ

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

A few of my thoughts on AI search and how AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them.
https://t.co/9ivhhu0I9s

[SpinupWP @spinupwp]

Assistant has been upgraded! 🚀
It's now just a couple of clicks to remove an old version of PHP from your server. And if you have a bunch of sites still on that old version of PHP, it's really easy to update them all to a newer version of PHP. https://t.co/oIJrLfGkC8

[SpinupWP @spinupwp]

Assistant has launched! 🚀 Customers can now get a weekly or monthly email with a prioritized list of things they ought to do to keep their servers and sites secure. And when something really needs attention, they'll get an in-app alert. https://t.co/bTJ3UfhydC

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

There must be a special room in hell for the IT people who configure their email systems to automatically add EXTERNAL to the subject line and break threading in email apps. I imagine it's right next to the special room for those that created the laws for the cookie popups.

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

Sooo good 😍

[Mike McAlister @mikemcalister]

💥 Ollie Pro 2.0 has arrived! With this release, the full vision of Ollie starts to become a reality:

- A no-code site builder in the world's most popular website platform
- An intuitive onboarding experience
- Beautiful design democratized

Read more: https://t.co/jhPW9nemwU

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

@adamwathan @rbarona @braedencreative @thdxr And I thought ours was big! We added a 16'X11.7' motorized awning at the cottage and it's great. We ordered through Costco but the company is https://t.co/4DsXxiUays.

[SpinupWP @spinupwp]

Check out our new pricing: https://t.co/oqR3hJT9sm

Get all features for just $19/mo! Plus get 25% off your first 3 months with our Black Friday sale.

Start serving your WordPress sites lightning fast with SpinupWP, the developer-centric cloud server control panel.

[Larajobs @laraveljobs]

🚀 New Opportunity Alert!

Join SpinupWP as a Senior Laravel + Vue.js App Developer! Work 100% remotely from Canada and be part of our small, talented team. If you have advanced PHP, Javascript, and Bash skills, apply now!

Link: https://t.co/7FcIvdwp2a

#laravel

[SpinupWP @spinupwp]

🚀 One-click install of phpMyAdmin has shipped!
https://t.co/VPaRqOPVoe

[SpinupWP @spinupwp]

You can now schedule up to four daily, four weekly, and four monthly site backups. 🗓 💿 🚀 https://t.co/5p7TgdZ5k7

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

@jimthornton Not planning to sell anytime soon. Definitely not in 2025. Ideally we'd eventually sell to Vultr, AWS, or another provider to help their customers succeed with managing their own server for WordPress. 🙂

[SpinupWP @spinupwp]

Our founder and CEO @bradt will be attending #WCUS Wednesday and Thursday and would love to talk to customers and the SpinupWP-curious. If you'd like to chat, reply or DM or email and let us know.

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

@pie6k Have you considered doing an AppSumo deal? That's what I'd do if I went the lifetime route.

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

If you're an early-stage software entrepreneur with a bit of traction, this is a great opportunity. I wish this had existed when I was first starting out. It was a difficult, lonely road!

[TinySeed @tinyseedfund]

Looking for community, mentorship, and a bit of funding to help you grow your B2B SaaS?

Applications are open for the TinySeed accelerator: https://t.co/8fMLai6hNE

Get your application in before the September 15th deadline! 📅

[Brad Touesnard @bradt]

@gilbitron Congrats sir! 🎉

[Ben Orenstein @r00k]

If you are a software developer today and would like to own a profitable SaaS business within five years, I recommend this path:

1. Start saving 25%+ of your income. This will serve as your runway when you self-fund your business, which you should absolutely do. Saving this much isn't easy, but it is straightforward. Starting a successful company is neither easy nor straightforward, so consider this your warmup.

2. Launch a series of small products in your spare time. Your first goal is to get a stranger from the internet to pay you even one dollar for something you've made. Start by selling one-time purchases (videos, ebooks, courses, workshops, repos) and work your way up to simple apps with recurring revenue. Don't work on anything for more than 60 days without trying to charge for it.

3. Make friends with the founders of profitable SaaS companies. Go to MicroConf a few times. Notice these people aren't usually smarter than you. Ask lots of direct questions. Find out how much revenue *and profit* they're doing.

4. Learn things from your day job: the tools they pay for that aren't very good, what it actually takes to get it to adopt a new tool, what the procurement process looks like.

5. Keep your eyes open for co-founders. You want at least one, ideally two. Prioritize integrity and conflict resolution skills above all else. Make sure at least one of you has a very strong work ethic. Try to launch some small things with your best candidates.

6. Avoid at all costs: raising venture capital, listening to advice meant for VC-backed companies, worrying about "scaling", starting anything B2C.

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Several years from now, you will have 18 months of runway, 1-2 great co-founders, hard-won wisdom from launching a series of side projects, and insider knowledge about how and why companies buy things.

At that point, you're ready to quit your job and take a crack at your best B2B app idea. Lower your expenses even further and try to become sustainably profitable before you run out of cash.

Good luck!

[SpinupWP @spinupwp]

🚚 WordPress Magic Login has arrived! 🪄 Log into the WordPress Admin with one click in your SpinupWP dashboard. https://t.co/e5NLk4hotN