Josh Howarth

Co-founder of Exploding Topics

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

Super excited to share that Exploding Topics has been acquired by Semrush!

From just a small bootstrapped indiehacker project 5yrs ago, to fully featured trends platform and acquisition today.

Unbelievably proud of where we've come!

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@BrianEDean Great listen and quality insights. The right co-founder makes a world of difference 🫶

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@theandreboso Thank you Andrea! Haha – IH where it all started :)

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

Super excited to share that Exploding Topics has been acquired by Semrush!

From just a small bootstrapped indiehacker project 5yrs ago, to fully featured trends platform and acquisition today.

Unbelievably proud of where we've come!

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@ayushtweetshere Thank you Ayush!

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@mikerubini Thanks Mike! :)

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

14 resources to find startup ideas:

1) @explodingtopics
2) Trends[.]vc by @DruRly
3) SubredditStats[.]com
4) @ImportYeti
5) @Similarweb
6) @TegusHQ
7) @useintro
8) @GLG
9) @kernal_ideas
10) @ProductHunt
11) @myfirstmilpod
12) Founder’s Journal podcast
13) SciFi Idea Bank by @packyM
14) @uspto

[Jimmy Fitzgerald @Fitzgerald_JM]

Five key insights into the SaaS market - from @howjosh: https://t.co/xn54gQiITb

👉 There are currently approx. 30,000 SaaS companies.
👉 The US has the largest proportion of SaaS companies (60%).
👉 Incl. repeat users, the US has around 54 bn SaaS customers.
👉 @Salesforce has the largest SaaS market share: just under 10%.
👉 The SaaS market is predicted to reach $307 billion in value by 2026.

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@Fitzgerald_JM @salesforce Thanks for the shoutout Jimmy!

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@Competia Thank you Estelle!

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@spivak720 @explodingtopics Ah okay, that makes sense. It's prob the twitter JS snippet that it doesn't like then. I'll have a look – cheers!

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@spivak720 Hey Eugene, appreciate the heads up. Which browser and device type are you using?

It should show up as the blue twitter follow button like this for @explodingtopics:

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@pollock Thank you Tristan!

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@CurationMostly @MRKR Cheers man!

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@ryanalanwright Thank you Ryan 🙌

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@marie_dm_ Awesome work with Women Make @marie_dm_ 🙌😊

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@ClickPop @orlandosorio_ @explodingtopics @AWeber Haha good stuff, thanks Chris.

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@Goodluckraph @Backlinko @explodingtopics Happy new year! 🥳🍻

[Josh Howarth @howjosh]

@romainbrabant Thank you Romain 🙌