The best SaaS podcasts in 2026 are The Official SaaStr Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Rogue Startups, Indie Hackers, The Startup Ideas Podcast, Starter Story and The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five). SaaStr is about scaling; The SaaS Podcast is about first customers; Rogue Startups, Indie Hackers and Starter Story cover bootstrapped and micro-SaaS; and the last two add idea generation and B2B marketing.
Built This Week is our show. It isn't a SaaS podcast, so we list it at the end as "Also from us," unranked. Here's how we picked the rest.
The Official SaaStr Podcast interviews prominent operators and investors about tips, tactics and strategies for SaaS. On the operator side it centers on getting from $0 to $100M ARR faster, scaling and hiring; on the investor side, the metrics they look for in SaaS businesses and founders. It publishes weekly, as of October 2026, with episodes of about 44 minutes, and its feed goes back to March 2016.
Recent episodes lean into AI and agents: an "AEO playbook" on getting picked by AI agents, a bake-off of AI app builders on the same Salesforce org, and agent pricing from the buyer side. It suits SaaS founders, revenue leaders and investors.
Start with: How To Perfectly Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup With Y Combinator's Michael Seibel (505K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of SaaStr.
Omer Khan hosts The SaaS Podcast, part of SaaS Club, and has interviewed almost 500 founders since 2014. Each week a founder building B2B SaaS or an AI product explains how they got their first customers and kept them: finding a channel, pricing, selling without a sales team and stopping churn. It is weekly, as of October 2026, with episodes of about 47 minutes.
Recent titles include "Founder-Led Sales: A SaaS to $1 Million ARR With Just 10 Customers" and "Bootstrapping a SaaS From a $500K Goal to a $50M Company." It is the most early-stage-specific show here.
Start with: Positioning SaaS in a highly competitive market (1.2K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of The SaaS Podcast.
Craig Hewitt hosts Rogue Startups, sharing the journeys of founders growing productized services and SaaS products, with experts in sales, marketing and product development. It publishes weekly, as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 49 minutes. Recent episodes ask "Is the SaaSpocalypse Over?" and feature Hiten Shah on why "your product is now a wrapper around go-to-market."
Start with: RS299: YouTube Scripting Done Right with George Blackman (3.2K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of Rogue Startups.
Courtland Allen and Channing Allen launched Indie Hackers in February 2017, interviewing founders turning ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses, with a lot of bootstrapped software among them. The most recent episode in its feed is from June 2023, so it works as an archive of about 290 episodes rather than a current show. Episodes usually ran about 55 minutes, and it is rated 4.9 out of 5 from 493 ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026.
Start with: #281 – Seth Godin on Indie Hacking, Doing Hard Things, and Finding Significance in a Changing World (May 2023). Full profile of Indie Hackers.
Greg Isenberg, CEO of Late Checkout and a former advisor to Reddit and TikTok, shares free startup ideas two to three times a week, as of October 2026, in episodes of about 29 minutes. Many of the ideas are small software and AI products, and a recent episode covers "AI Marketing, 3D Printing and SaaS." It is a good source of SaaS ideas before you commit to one.
Start with: Model Context Protocol (MCP), clearly explained (why it matters) (1.3M views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of The Startup Ideas Podcast.
Pat Walls hosts Starter Story, where founders share their real numbers, mistakes and strategies; many are app builders and bootstrapped SaaS founders. It publishes two to three times a week, as of October 2026, with short episodes of about 14 minutes. Recent titles include "How I Built It: $30K/Month Micro-SaaS" and "My First SaaS Project Just Hit $11K/Month."
Start with: How I Built It: $40K/Month iPhone App (1.3M views on YouTube as of October 2026; its most-viewed recent episode is about Roblox, so we picked the top one about building an app). Full profile of Starter Story.
Dave Gerhardt, founder of Exit Five, former CMO and author of Founder Brand, interviews top marketers about tactical tips and lessons for growing a business. It publishes two to three times a week, as of October 2026, with episodes of about 44 minutes. The feed is heavy on B2B topics like ABM and content strategy, which makes it the marketing companion for SaaS teams.
Start with: The Role of Product Marketing in B2B: Strategies, Tools, and Metrics for Success (1.7K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of The Dave Gerhardt Show.
Built This Week, hosted by Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler, is a weekly show where we build software with AI on air; for example, Sam built ScreenEval, an internal recruiting tool, with Claude Code in Episode 29.
Schedules and lengths are as of October 2026. Related lists: the best startup podcasts, the best marketing podcasts, the best side hustle podcasts and the best venture capital podcasts, or see all our podcast lists.
The Official SaaStr Podcast, The SaaS Podcast with Omer Khan, Rogue Startups, Indie Hackers, The Startup Ideas Podcast, Starter Story and The Dave Gerhardt Show (from Exit Five). They range from scaling advice for venture-backed SaaS to bootstrapped and micro-SaaS stories.
The SaaS Podcast is built around how B2B SaaS and AI founders got and kept their first customers: channels, pricing, selling without a sales team and churn. It publishes weekly, with episodes of about 47 minutes, as of October 2026.
Rogue Startups with Craig Hewitt covers founders growing productized services and SaaS products, weekly as of October 2026. Indie Hackers' archive (latest episode June 2023) and Starter Story's revenue breakdowns also focus on bootstrapped software.
The Official SaaStr Podcast publishes weekly and episodes usually run about 44 minutes, as of October 2026. Its feed goes back to March 2016.
