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Builders Gonna Build
by Metacast
Interviews with people who build awesome products. Hosted by Metacast co-founders Ilya Bezdelev and Arnab Deka.
Episodes
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Moment: Ditching unlimited pricing for a B2B SaaS (ep. 9)
Co-founder of Honeybadger Ben Curtis talks about unlimited pricing, its deficiencies for a bootstrapped startup, and how they ditched unlimited all-you-can-eat buffet in favor of usage-based pricing. Full episode: 9. Bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years | Honeybadger co-founders Ben Curtis and…
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Moment: It took us two years before we switched to our business full-time with Honeybadger co-founder Ben Curtis (ep. 9)
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 Where to find the badgers Honeybadger FounderQuest podcast Ben: Bluesky, LinkedIn...
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Moment: How we got first customers for our SaaS with Honeybadger co-founders (ep. 9)
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 Where to find the badgers Honeybadger…
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9. Bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years | Honeybadger co-founders Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood
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. Chapters 01:27 - Introduction of Honeybadger 03:50 -...
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8. Growing your LinkedIn and newsletter audience | John Crickett
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. Chapters 00:58 -...
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7. Jason Fried on building products, calm companies and the Jeff Bezos investment
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...
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6. Creating a niche of your own | Corey Quinn, The Duckbill Group
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…
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5. Don't do agile, be agile | Co-author of Agile Manifesto and Pragmatic Programmer | Dave Thomas
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. Chapters 10:29 - The genesis of The Pragmatic Programmer 11:41 - People don't know what they...
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4. Henry T. Kirk, entrepreneur, ex-engineer at Google & Amazon
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...
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3. Dennis E. Taylor, author of best-selling sci-fi series Bobiverse
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…
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2. Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp and Reaper
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. Chapters 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...
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1. Christian Selig, creator of Apollo Reddit app and Pixel Pals
Christian tells a story of how Apollo got started, grew and eventually had to shut down following Reddit's API pricing decision. Chapters 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 -...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Interviews with people who build awesome products. Hosted by Metacast co-founders Ilya Bezdelev and Arnab Deka.
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