The Creation Story of SquareKicker: An Interview with Nick and Rowan on the Code Story Podcast

Released On December 15, 2022

Show Notes

Nick Ippolito has been involved with youth work for many years, and stumbled into web design and taught himself how to code. He’s been married for 15 years, and he and his wife have 3 children – along with a budding startup the run together. They enjoy mounting biking in New Zealand and all things tech.

For Rowan Findlay, tech has always been his blood, with his family members working in the industry. In his younger years, he was into technical legos, and used to mod Xbox for pocket money. He has spent a lot of time in tourism, and has done a lot of freelance work, building sites for your local technicians.

During a few days off, Rowan decided to tinker with an idea and build a tool to enable custom Squarespace site tooling. When he came back, he immediately showed off what he had built to Nick and his wife – who immediately saw the value, and the future, in the product.

This is the creation story of Squarekicker.

Highlights

2:12 - The origin story of SquareKicker.

8:21 - What tools we used to build the MVP.

13:15 - Deciding the roadmap.

16:05 - How we built our team.

20:04 - Did we build SquareKicker to scale.

22:56 - What are we most proud of building.

24:56 - What mistakes did we make along the way.

26:32 - What does the future of SquareKicker look like.

28:34 - Who influences the way we work.

30:57 - What advice do we have for young entrepreneurs.