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Co-founder of Honeybadger Ben Curtis discusses freelancing before switching to work on the product full-time.

Full episode: 9. Bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years | Honeybadger co-founders Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood

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Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood discuss getting the very first customers and making first sales for their app and error monitoring SaaS Honeybadger.

Full episode: 9. Bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years | Honeybadger co-founders Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood

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Honeybadger co-founders Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood discuss the origins and growth of their app monitoring product, challenges of bootstrapping, calm work environment, evolution of co-founder relationships, and buying out a departing co-founder.

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John Crickett is the creator of Coding Challenges, a newsletter for engineers that has over 54k subscribers. John’s LinkedIn profile grew from 3k to 150k+ followers in a year. In this episode, we dive into the process and mindset that allowed John’s following to grow so quickly.

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Jason Fried is a co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the company behind Basecamp and HEY. Together with his business partner David Hannemeier Hanson, Jason co-authored seminal entrepreneurship books Rework, Remote, and It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work.

This episode was originally published on the Metacast podcast, episode 28 in July 2023.

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Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group and a big celebrity at the AWS circles well known for his sense of humor and unrelenting focus on making some good fun of the cloud providers.

In our interview, we are learning Corey’s background, how The Duckbill Group got started, and how he runs the media side of his business. As usual, we talked about bootstrapping and running consulting services while build...

Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Agile Manifesto, on the true spirit of being agile (vs. "doing agile"), mistakes engineering teams make, and common practices of successful teams.

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[10:29] The genesis of The Pragmatic Programmer
[11:41] People don't know what they want, ...

For 10 years, Henry built mobile apps at Google and Amazon. Now he is a partner at a software development agency studio.init(). Henry shares his thoughts on using cross-platform frameworks vs. native languages, argues that Apple’s 30% cut of the in-app purchases is acceptable, and tells us how Google layoffs became a blessing in disguise.

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Dennis E. Taylor built software for 35 years before trying himself as a sci-fi author. His first novel Outland earned him some “Starbucks money” on Amazon, but his second book We Are Legion made him a best-selling author. Dennis retired as an engineer and became a full-time writer.

In this episode, we talked about the parallels between writing software and writing books, Dennis’s process of coming up with ideas and turning...

Justin shares how he created Winamp and sold it to AOL at age 20 and tells us about his current project, digital audio workstation (DAW) Reaper.

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[03:16] The genesis of Winamp

[11:07] Winamp whips the llama's ass

[14:06] Nullsoft

[16:27] Winamp as a platform

[23:16] The business side of Winamp

[24:11] What was it like to work at AOL?

[27:06] Why Justin doesn't use streaming services

[30:03] Justin's website

[32:06]...

Christian tells a story of how Apollo got started, grew and eventually had to shut down following Reddit's API pricing decision.

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[00:46] Introduction of Christian

[01:58] How Christian got into app development

[03:36] Internship at Apple

[06:38] The origin of the name for Apollo

[07:49] Launching v1 of Apollo

[13:12] Pricing the app

[17:46] Apollo t-shirts and custom app icons

[21:38] Adding notifications and being rej...