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Hosted by Jim Zarkadas · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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A SaaS product design podcast for non-designers. The Love At First Try Podcast explores how SaaS products become unforgettable. We unpack the idea of taste in product and brand design, deconstruct what makes beautiful products beautiful, and show how to merge growth with delight.If you’re a SaaS founder, CEO, or developer building products people love, this is for you.
Jim Zarkadas hosts Love At First Try, a business show with 19 episodes published.
This episode's guest is Mickey Alon, co-founder and CEO of Foldspace AI. Mickey has spent 20+ years building products people actually use: he founded Insightera (acquired by Marketo), created Gainsight PX and co-authored
Most SaaS founders assume a growth plateau means something is broken with the product or the marketing. Asia Orangio has spent eight years helping over a hundred SaaS companies figure out what is the actual reasons for s
A lot of SaaS teams are adding AI to their stack and hoping it shows up in output. This episode is about what it actually looks like when you build the whole workflow around it and why the thinking behind it matters as m
A lot of SaaS products ship fast and skip the thinking. This episode is about what happens when you don't, and why that actually matters for growth. Bob Baxley spent 35 years designing software at Apple, Yahoo, Pinterest
If you're a SaaS founder who keeps rewriting your homepage and it still doesn't feel right, this episode is for you. Anthony Pierri is the co-founder of Fletch PMM. He and his team have run their 2-week positioning sprin
Alicja Suska has been designing SaaS products for 10 years. She's worked at Toggle, Sourcegraph, and now leads product design at Buffer. What caught my attention: she comes from an artistic background — illustration and
This is Love at First Try — a podcast for SaaS founders and developers who care about design but aren't designers themselves. Zach Stevens is one of the co-founders of Conversion Factory, a marketing agency that works wi
Marc Thomas wrote an annual upgrade email for Senja that listed 10 stupid products you could buy with the $58 you'd save. A scarf shaped like a receipt. Random Amazon finds. People took screenshots and shared it on Twitt
Lucia Van Den Brink has run nearly 1,000 experiments in 14 years. She's worked with 100M+ brands, founded The Initial to help companies build experimentation in-house, co-founded Women in Experimentation, and teaches at
Lewis Dingley spent years at Renault, Sky, and Dyson building his CV with big names. Then he realized: he was one designer among 50. No ownership. No real impact. So he jumped into startups — and now he's designing AI-po
Kate Syuma spent 6+ years at Miro redesigning their onboarding. Now she advises Autodesk, ManyChat, and Dealfront on activation. I invited her on the podcast because she's one of the few growth people who actually cares
"What happened in your life that made you look for this tool?" This one question changed how I think about copy. Talia Wolf dropped this on the latest episode of Love at First Try — and I had to sit with it. Talia has be
Your most requested feature? Might be the worst thing you could build. That's one of the lessons from my conversation with Mitchell Tan, co-founder of Kondo. Kondo is the Superhuman for LinkedIn DMs — a tool that turns t
I pay for software I barely use. Just because I love how it's designed. My accountant has me on Exact Online for bookkeeping. It works. But the UX is so ugly I refuse to create invoices there. So I pay for Moneybird ever
Copywriters obsess over words. Alex James? He obsesses over belief shifts—and that’s why his clients win. In this episode I sat down with Alex James, a messaging strategist who helps B2B service companies stand out in cr
Your SaaS design might be functional, loved by customers… and still too shy to stand out. That was Wise before their rebrand. In this episode I’m talking with product designer Meylin Bayryamali, who’s worked on global pr
Has your SaaS growth stalled? It’s not your funnel. It’s who you’re listening to (and who you’re not). In this week’s episode, I sat down with Georgiana Laudi, co-founder of Forget The Funnel and author of Customer-Led G
What can SaaS founders learn from how Buffer builds, tests, and ships product ideas? In this episode with Amanda Marochko, Staff Product Manager at Buffer (and ex-Shopify), we dive deep into how small, thoughtful teams c
Ever wondered what “great design” looks like in a cleaning business? This conversation with Stephanie Pipkin, founder of Serene Clean, shows how design thinking can transform any industry — even one as hands-on as cleani
In this episode Jim Zarkadas and Chris Silvestri delve into the intersection of copywriting and design, exploring how taste, authenticity, and user experience shape effective communication. They discuss the importance of
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Love At First Try is hosted by Jim Zarkadas. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 19 episodes.
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