PODCAST · technology
Code and Bootstrapping
by Alchemist Camp
I'm Mark and I've long had a love of both business and programming. I've run two moderately successful brick and mortar businesses, a failed tech startup and now a lifestyle business.This podcast is inspired by what I've learned over the past several years making the transition into the tech industry, working at startups in Beijing, Silicon Valley and elsewhere and then building my own profitable side projects. Whether you're currently an employee at a tech startup, an aspiring digital nomad with an interest in tech or already running a small lifestyle business, you just may learn something that saves you a lot of time, money and pain in your journey.
Episodes
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S1E9 - Bootstrapping and selling Feedback Panda with Arvid Kahl
Arvid and his partner Danielle just sold their company, Feedback Panda, after scaling it to a $55k MRR in just under two years. The product is aimed at online English teachers serving the Chinese market, but they were working from Germany. We talked a bit about how he evaluated the market...
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S1E8 - Tactics of a prolific builder with Mubs
Episode Notes Mubashar Iqbal is a multi-time Product Hunt maker of the year. At the time of this recording, he's released 67 products and most have 100+ upvotes! I asked him about he ships so quickly. Mubs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mubashariqbal His latest project: https://podhunt.app...
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S1E7 - Julien of EatTheBlocks
Episode Notes I sat down for a chat with my friend, Julien and asked him about his story of moving from the finance industry into tech, why he did it and how he goes about jumping into a new tech stack. Recorded for the Code and Bootstrapping podcast: Find Julien at EatTheBlocks Related: Engines…
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S1E6 - Using Heatmaps and Surveys
Episode Notes In this episode Mark talks about how heatmaps and surveys were useful in the very early days of Alchemist Camp, how he used them and a common pitfall when taking surveys. Links Companion screencast: Using heatmaps and surveys to drive content production The heatmap and survey tools…
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S1E5 - Rise to the level of confusion
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about feeling confused as a developer, why the feeling continues despite gaining technical skills and why a lack of confusion could be a bad sign. Links From Nand to Tetris Also see the previous episode on Automation
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S1E4 - Scalability Arrogance
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about common scalability concerns and why they're not generally a good thing for an early stage boot-strapper or even most funded startups to worry about. Links Firebase Costs Increased by 7,000%! Twitter crashes hard, Internet freaks out Twitter can't…
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S1E3 - Automation
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about automation, where Unix luminaries saw its rise and where it's still undervalued, decades later. See: The Practice of Programming
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S1E2 - Frugality
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about the single largest reason Alchemist Camp has worked—frugality. Leaving the San Francisco / Silicon Valley area to be a digital nomad and drastically cut rent, using open source and very inexpensive equipment and spending under $10/month total for a...
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S1E1 - An experiment
Episode Notes Alchemist.Camp has been running for a year and it's time for a new experiment. In this episode, Mark gives a brief introduction and shares his motivations and plans for this podcast.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I'm Mark and I've long had a love of both business and programming. I've run two moderately successful brick and mortar businesses, a failed tech startup and now a lifestyle business.This podcast is inspired by what I've learned over the past several years making the transition into the tech industry, working at startups in Beijing, Silicon Valley and elsewhere and then building my own profitable side projects. Whether you're currently an employee at a tech startup, an aspiring digital nomad with an interest in tech or already running a small lifestyle business, you just may learn something that saves you a lot of time, money and pain in your journey.
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Alchemist Camp
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I'm Mark and I've long had a love of both business and programming. I've run two moderately successful brick and mortar businesses, a failed tech startup and now a lifestyle business.This podcast is inspired by what I've learned over the past several years making the transition into the tech...
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