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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.
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Code Story podcast episode S3 E13 features Dean McPherson discussing how he and his wife bootstrapped Paperform, a global no-code SaaS platform for forms, to compete with Typeform and Google Forms. The episode covers McPherson's unconventional path from a music and philosophy degree to self-taught developer, and the origin story of Paperform starting from a friend's request in 2013.
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Summary
Code Story podcast episode S3 E13 features Dean McPherson discussing how he and his wife bootstrapped Paperform, a global no-code SaaS platform for forms, to compete with Typeform and Google Forms. The episode covers McPherson's unconventional path from a music and philosophy degree to self-taught developer, and the origin story of Paperform starting from a friend's request in 2013.
Tags
bootstrapping · no-code · saas · startup · podcast · paperform · technical-founders
Key entities
Dean McPherson (person, 0.99) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.95) · Paperform (organization, 0.99) · Typeform (organization, 0.9) · Google Forms (organization, 0.9) · Code Story (organization, 0.95) · no-code (concept, 0.95) · bootstrapping (concept, 0.93) · Cloud Academy (organization, 0.8) · Transistor.fm (technology, 0.75) · Squadcast (technology, 0.7)
Classification
transcript · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 11 Aug 2026