Above Board, the official Fathom Analytics podcast
A podcast exploring running an independent + bootstrapped software (SaaS) company. Follow Jack and Paul (the co-founders) in their journey of building and growing Fathom Analytics.
Published every month (or so), listen in on lively debates about growth, customers, software, and how they’re working to keep their business in line with their values.
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Why Google search is failing us
In the latest episode of the Aboveboard Podcast, hosts Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis discuss the decline of Google as an effective search engine, particularly in light of its increasing reliance on AI-generated content.'
Listen to the episode · Sep 30, 2024
Fathom updates and WP drama
Jack and Paul discuss what’s new at Fathom Analytics recently, like the ongoing refactor project. This paves the way for great new features, including entry and exit pages. They also give their opinions on the recent drama in the WordPress (WP) community between Automattic and WPEngine.
Listen to the episode · Sep 30, 2024
Jack and Paul talk politics
The hosts debate the complexities of freedom of speech, censorship, and the role of government and corporations in regulating discourse, emphasizing the importance of allowing open discussions to foster understanding and informed opinions.
Listen to the episode · Aug 27, 2024
Small updates, big progress
Things are humming along at Fathom Analytics - we’ve released several new features, have more in the pipeline coming soon, and the redoing of our internal processes is going quite well.
Listen to the episode · Jul 29, 2024
New Fathom UI, who dis?
Jack and Paul get into updating the application’s interface design and how that paves the way for new features coming soon.
Listen to the episode · Jul 15, 2024
Exploring the Ethics and privacy implications of AI
A new marketing site was launched, we’re still a small team navigating focus, we’re working on a brand new version of our software, and we’ve prototyped a new ingest to be the fastest analytics ingest in the world.
Listen to the episode · Jun 4, 2024More of our episodes
The problem with big projects
A new marketing site was launched, we’re still a small team navigating focus, we’re working on a brand new version of our software, and we’ve prototyped a new ingest to be the fastest analytics ingest in the world.
Listen to the episode · May 22, 2024The art of progress
Software is complex. This episode goes into the pros and cons of how Jack (developer) and Paul (designer) work in terms of how they each make progress in huge projects, start and execute tasks, and deal with analysis paralysis that comes with complicated things.
Listen to the episode · May 6, 2024The road to version 4
A new marketing site was launched, we’re still a small team navigating focus, we’re working on a brand new version of our software, and we’ve prototyped a new ingest to be the fastest analytics ingest in the world.
Listen to the episode · Apr 22, 2024Version 3.5 and the shape of things to come with Fathom Analytics
Last week, we released several new features in our software and a fresh coat of paint in the UI. Jack and Paul discuss these features and how they relate to what’s coming up next, and they chat through the pricing increase that happened simultaneously.
Listen to the episode · Dec 18, 2023