RentalTide

The Next Marker - A RentalTide Podcast

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The Next Marker is RentalTide’s look at the future of boating, adventure booking, marine operations and beyond. Hosted by the team behind RentalTide, the show dives into the systems powering modern boat rentals, navigation, safety, data, payments, regulation, and customer experience. We talk with people working on the water and behind the technology to uncover what actually works, what doesn’t, and what’s changing next. Clear conversations for an industry in motion.

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Episodes

Episode 5: From Rental Problem to SaaS Problem. 09.02.2026 15:52

In this episode, Nick brings the podcast back to the root of why RentalTide exists — fragmentation. What started as a rental industry problem quickly turned into something deeper: a systems problem that every SaaS founder eventually runs into. This episode breaks down how building RentalTide forced hard decisions around clarity, flexibility, customization, and trust, and why most SaaS challenges a...

Episode 4: When “Good Enough” Starts Holding You Back 02.02.2026 7:18

Nothing is on fire. Bookings are coming in. Revenue is stable. So why does everything feel harder? In this solo episode, Nick talks about the quiet signals that a system is no longer serving your business, why waiting feels safer than changing, and how operators get stuck managing workarounds instead of running the business. This conversation leads directly into our next episode with one of our fi...

Episode 3: Should I Switch? A Start-to-Finish FAQ on Choosing and Launching New Software 18.01.2026 31:46

In this episode, Eric and Nick do something different a pure FAQ , walking through the entire customer journey in chronological order . From the moment you start wondering “Have I outgrown my current system?” to evaluating new software, navigating the fear of switching, launching a new platform, and figuring out whether it’s actually working — this episode breaks it all down. They answer the most...

Episode 2: Getting to Know Us (and Why We’re Building This) 12.01.2026 26:47

Corrections: RentalTide is for any company with 2, 3, 4, 5 or 500+ assets. WetRentals is geared towards hosts with 5 or less boats. In Episode 2 of The Next Marker , we take a step back. After releasing our first episode, the biggest piece of feedback we got was simple: “We want to know you before we go deeper.” So that’s what this episode is about. We talk through who we are, how we ended up in t...

Episode 1: Pressing Record Before We’re Ready 04.01.2026 29:52

In the first episode of the Next Marker podcast , we sit down on the couch and talk through how this whole thing really began. No polished origin story—just the messy conversations, early assumptions, scrappy first moves, and the moments where we weren’t sure this would work at all. This podcast isn’t about pretending we’ve figured everything out. It’s about documenting what it actually looks like...

Pilot - The Next Marker 20.12.2025 0:34

The Next Marker takes you behind the scenes of building the future of rentals. Hosted by the team at RentalTide , each episode dives into the technology, operations, and real-world experiments that power modern rental businesses—beyond just boating. From product tests and honest feedback to insights from operators, founders, and customers, we explore the challenges, wins, and lessons of creating a...