# Johannes Nagl

> CEO at Swat.io by day. Indie hacker by night. Always dad.

## About

Johannes Nagl is the CEO Product at Swat.io, a bootstrapped SaaS company for social media management based in Vienna, Austria. He has over a decade of experience building and scaling SaaS products in Europe — without venture capital.

He started as a programmer, grew through CTO into leadership, and now leads product and company strategy. He also builds indie projects on the side, including yetanother.one.

## Key Facts

- **Role**: CEO Product at Swat.io
- **Location**: Vienna, Austria
- **Education**: Master's in Multimedia & Software Engineering, UAS Technikum Wien
- **Focus areas**: Bootstrapping, SaaS, product leadership, team building, sustainable growth
- **Tech background**: PHP, Laravel, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS

## Links

- Website: https://johannes.nagl.name
- Side project: https://yetanother.one
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesnagl/
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/johannes.nagl.name
- Company: https://swat.io

## Career

- **2011–present**: Swat.io — joined as 2nd employee, progressed from Project Manager → CTO → CEO → CEO Product
- **2008–2011**: Büro DIE ANTWORT GmbH — Web Developer, Shareholder
- **2008–2009**: Hagenberg Software GmbH — Developer, SharePoint Consultant
- **2006–2007**: pmOne GmbH — Junior Consultant
- **2004–2010**: siteworx.at — Freelancer

## Recent Publications & Talks

- Apr 2026: "Vom Entwickler zum CEO" — Hello, again. Podcast
- Oct 2025: "The Future of Social Media in 2026" — DMEXCO Podcast
- Apr 2025: "Swat.io: 14 Jahre Bootstrapping auf 7,3 Mio EUR Umsatz" — Happy Bootstrapping Podcast
- Oct 2023: "Social Media & AI: Do's and Don'ts" — Swat.io AI Academy
- Aug 2023: "Content- und Community Management mit KI" — Digital Marketing Upgrade Podcast

## This Site

This is a personal portfolio site. Single HTML page, no framework, no build step. Hosted on GitHub Pages at johannes.nagl.name.