EPISODE · Aug 5, 2020 · 46 MIN
#25 –Too many jobs
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Show 25: Too many jobs Justin's been doing a lot of performance work at the day job. He's been doing some strategic caching and optimizing of queries and has managed to drain a job queue from over 42,000 items, down to about 10. The problem may not be fully solved, though. Mark failed to hit his primary goal, but he did a bunch of other stuff, including Manning's Rust in Motion which was an explicit goal not to get too sucked into. He also had quite the HN adventure, submitting a post that quickly got to #2 and then flagged off of the site. After a few revisions to make it a bit more personal and re-posting it, it went up to #2 again and did much better the second time. Also, the Facebook interview went well and they've invited him to a "virtual onsite" interview. A fairly successful indie hacker who runs a site called Semicolon and Sons strongly recommended Rob Walling's book, Start Small, Stay Small to Mark, and its lessons on out-sourcing in particular. Mark never read it, but did see a lot of similar advice in 4HWW around the same time and Justin's had a great experience with outsourcing work on his upcoming Roblox game. If you're coding everything on the back-end for it anyway, is it better just do all life-cycle emails from a transactional email service? Justin's considering moving all of Nugget's marketing off of Drip and just using Mailgun for everything. Speaking of email software, Noah Kagan has been promoting a new service called Send Fox. It may be worth keeping an eye on, given his success with his SumoMe suite of list-building tools. Mentioned Web apps aren't tech. They're "tech" John Carmack's BAFTA speech Semicolon and Sons Start Small, Stay Small Nugget Academy Alchemist Camp Justin's goals for next time Work on Nugget Eat 90% vegan Keep blood sugar in check Mark's goals for next time Work on Phoenix Igniter (double dog for reals this time) Blog Publish the already recorded screencasts Video version at https://youtu.be/6GUXIgFd_4M Comment at https://reactor.am/podcasts/25 Recorded on 2020-08-05
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#25 –Too many jobs
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