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Lunch Pail Daily

🪦🪦🪦Lunch Pail Daily was a candid podcast where I, Lola, founder of Lunch Pail Labs, shared the wins, failures, and lessons from the first three years of growing our Atlanta-based software studio. This podcast journey came to a close in April 2023, but the story of Lunch Pail Labs continues. For the latest updates and insights, please visit our blog at lunchpaillabs.com/blog. Thanks for listening and being a part of this journey. With gratitude, Lola

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    #360 — 📃 Week in review

    It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and setbacks at Lunch Pail Labs this week (04/08-04/14/23). Links mentioned in the episode: Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender “Not Much” Adds Up | Circle of Control #8 🤖 The Robots are coming

  2. 357

    #359 — 📃 Week in review

    It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and setbacks at Lunch Pail Labs this week (04/01-04/07/23). TLDR ya girl needs to simplify Links mentioned in the episode: The Truth About Consistency...

  3. 356

    #358 — 🤯 Usage Based Billing + Bubble pricing updates

    Jamming about usage-based billing and Bubble pricing updates Links mentioned in this episode: #221 — 😶‍🌫️ No-Code and Platform Risk (jamming about the Bubble pricing update in 2022 that they've back peddled) Bubble pricing updates

  4. 355

    #357 — ⏲️ AI Timeouts

    Jamming about some more AI experiments and experiences with timeouts Links mentioned in the episode: Inngest #351 — 🤖 Personal Assistants for everyone

  5. 354

    #356 — 🚢 Shipping is all that matters

    After a lackluster Q1, jamming about simplifying my daily priorities at Lunch Pail Labs.

  6. 353

    #355 — 📃 Week in review

    It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and setbacks at Lunch Pail Labs this week (03/27-04/01/23) Links mentioned in the episode: 173: Cut Your Losses—Even While Pivoting in Public—with Khe Hy — Free Time with Jenny Blake Steven Pressfield the Resistance

  7. 352

    #354 — 💥 AI Cofounders + Solo Studio Analytics

    Jamming about HustleGPT, AI Cofounders, and my new analytics pal for Lunch Pail (airtable). Links mentioned in the episode Typedream Marketing Experiment The original HustleGPT thread How to Get Ahead of 99% of People (Starting Today)

  8. 351

    #353 — ⛓️ Chain Chain Chain

    I finally got to sit down and play with LangChain. In this episode, I share some thoughts about it and using it in products! Links mentioned in the episode LangChain

  9. 350

    #352 — 🍔 Effectiveness vs. Efficiency

    In this episode, I discuss how I'm using AI, balancing effectiveness and efficiency, and some constraints I'm placing on usage.. I also explore questions around the value of imitation and innovation and whether it even matters. Links mentioned in the episode Algolia (not Agora 🤦🏿‍♀️) article comparing vector search vs. keyword search The Fast Foodification of everything Imitate then Innovate

  10. 349

    #351 — 🤖 Personal Assistants for everyone

    Jamming about personal AI assistants, the structure of companies, and how to create your own personal chatbot with OpenAI + Chatbot UI + ChatGPT and Vercel in under 10 minutes. You only need a GitHub account, a Vercel account, and an OpenAI API key. Links mentioned in the episode #161 — 👨‍👩‍👦 Nature of the firm and solopreneurship #182 — 🛠Operational tools replacing the firm Chatbot UI LangChain JS docs

  11. 348

    #350 — 😬 AI Anxiety and 🔮 Techno optimism

    Welcome back to Lunch Pail Daily! In this episode, I share some exciting updates on Lunch Pail Labs and discuss the recent AI anxiety that's been on my mind. Don't worry; it's not all doom and gloom! I've also come across some resources that have filled me with tech optimism. Moving forward, I'm looking forward to taking this 1-woman business as far as it can go with the power of AI and will continue to share the process in public. Links mentioned in the episode Generative AI: autocomplete for everything AI Research Paper on human-computer interaction (TLDR; human + ai outperforms only human, only ai) Everyone gets an upgrade Build your own LLM (large language model) powered apps with LangChain Toolformer research paper

  12. 347

    #349 — 🙋🏿‍♀️ Week in review: Annual Review Questions, Comfort Challenges, and a Linkedin Experiment

    It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (12/10/22 - 12/16/22). Links mentioned in the episode: Tim Ferris’s Comfort challenges Annual review questions by Sahil Bloom  Process Template Experimenting with Linkedin

  13. 346

    #348 — 🥅 Week in review: Goals, Solve for Happy and Chat GPT

    It's the week-in-review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (12/02/22 - 12/09/22). Links mentioned in the episode: Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat Chat GPT Repeat tasks in Notion Supercharge Notion with these 8 tools

  14. 345

    #347 — 📩 Grief and updates

    Whew it's been a while for this pod and October was a whirlwind. In this episode, I talk about losing my dad, grief, and share a week in review.  Links mentioned in this episode: We get it, your dad died S2 E2: MO

  15. 344

    #346 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (09/23/22 - 09/30/22). Links mentioned in the episode: 29 Self- Growth Rituals Autogenerate Open Graph Images with Tailgraph

  16. 343

    #345 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (09/16/22 - 09/23/22). Links mentioned in the episode: Draft.dev promotion checklist Tweet on quitting or staying the course The dip summary by Seth Godin V1 of the no-code guide to APIs and integrating code with code

  17. 342

    #344 — 😮‍💨 Taking a break

    Jamming about a break from the daily version of the pod

  18. 341

    #343 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (09/09/22 - 09/16/22). Links mentioned in the episode: Draft.dev Public lab

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    #342 — 🔎 SEO Gotchas

    Learning from some bozo SEO mistakes in this episode.  Links mentioned Wordstream Rankiq Reach out to Sukh about his Pseo community

  20. 339

    #341 — 🌶 Fact or opinion

    Jamming about discerning customer/user/advisor feedback and facts vs. opinion in this short episode Links referenced Everybody lies The mom test

  21. 338

    #340 — 📧 Types of emails

    Integrations directory has a newsletter now what's next? Jamming about the other important types of communication in this episode. Links mentioned: Outsetta's first 500 course Thread on why brand accounts don't work

  22. 337

    #339 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (09/03/22 - 09/09/22). Links mentioned in the episode: Developer experience API as a product The API economy Thread on creating content from Zooms

  23. 336

    #338 — 🥇 Integration request

    Got the very first integrations request since launching that feature on the integrations directory jamming about that in this episode

  24. 335

    #337 — 🤔 Freemium & Free trials

    Jamming about freemium and free trials in this episode. Have any thoughts? Feel free to tweet me Links mentioned; Trends #0093 — Freemium The Pricing Experiment That Doubled Outseta's Growth Rate Without Raising Prices Free Trial or Freemium? Going From 0 to 100,000 Users In Six Months Bootstrapped products with free trials (instead of freemium models) Bannerbear (40K MRR) Stridist (40K MRR) Tweethunter (50K MRR) Bootstrapped products with freemium models Testimonial ($300K ARR) Black magic (~10K MRR)

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    #336 — 🎉 Search results

    A quick jam on some results from the first week+ of monitoring search success on integrations directory and tracking failed searches Links mentioned in the episode: LogSnag #329 — 🔢 Product analytics #332 — 🏄🏾‍♂️ Feedback loops for search

  26. 333

    #335 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (08/26/22 - 09/02/22).

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    #334 — 🛠 Build trap

    I've been shipping more than I've been getting customer feedback with integrations directory lately. Jamming about that, some corrections and the build trap by Melissa Peri

  28. 331

    #333 — 📧 Mailerlite campaign #1

    Finally launched the first experiment to reengage users for integrations directory. Jamming about that in this short episode.

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    #332 — 🏄🏾‍♂️ Feedback loops for search

    Jamming about search and feedback loops in integrations.directory Links mentioned in the episode: #256 — 🔁 Feedback Loops

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    #331 — 🔁 Reengagement

    The stats are in, and users aren't returning to integrations.directory. Jamming about an experiment to try to improve that metric in this short episode

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    #330 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (08/19/22 - 08/26/22). Links mentioned in this episode: Automate all the things Stream Ayrshare blog post

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    #329 — 🔢 Product analytics

    Jamming about OKRs and Logsnag in today's episode

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    #328 — 🔎 What's in a search?

    Had a stream with AATT today, and it was too fun. Jamming about fuzzy search with the directory

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    #327 — ⏳ Procrastination

    Jamming about procrastination and how a looming deadline helped push the v2 for integrations directory

  35. 324

    #326 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (08/12/22 - 08/19/22). Links mentioned in this episode: Integrations for No-coders with Lola Ojabowale

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    #325 — 🔨 Indie API

    Jamming about another interesting stat as it relates to the API economy and some indie opportunities. Here's the source article mentioned in the episode

  37. 322

    #324 — 🔢 Gartner IT stats

    Gartner's chief of research shared some interesting API stats, TLDR the economy is exploding. Jamming about that in this short episode

  38. 321

    #323 — 🫂 API economy

    Noticed a few major no-code players (airtable, tray.io, coda) were mentioned as API-first rising stars in 2015 begs the question is no-code a subset of the api economy? Jamming about that, some differences in positioning of no-code companies vs. api companies and some thoughts on a better value prop for integrations directory 

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    #322 — 🎫 SaaS Day Passes

    Jamming about integrations directory pricing thoughts and day passes. Saw this experiment the Gummy Search team and thought their approach was interesting.

  40. 319

    #321 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (08/05/22 - 08/12/22). Links mentioned in this episode: Product-Led Growth Goals

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    #320 — 💼 Enterprise integrations

    The next content piece I'm working on to promote integrations.directory is on some integrations that help apps become enterprise-ready. Jamming about that and some low/no-code gaps in this episode. Here's the link to the guide on enterprise readiness that's referenced in the episode.

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    #319 — ⛑ Building Trust

    Another common piece of feedback for the integrations directory has been around reliability. How do I know what integrations will work for me? If some are similar, which should I choose? Jamming about ways products build trust, curation, reviews, and what I'm slotting in to experiment with next! Links mentioned in the episode: How to build trust in a marketplace Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why we need more Boutique Search Engines Wirecutter Thingtesting

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    #318 — 🧩 Directory Patterns

    Helloo, this episode continues on the series of what I'm doing to grow integrations.directory. Today jamming about some directory patterns I'm observing in the wild (moving to a true directory is my main hypothesis of reducing product overwhelm (Episode #313 — 😩 Reducing product overwhelm). Feel free to send over a dm if you have any thoughts.

  44. 315

    #317 — 👩🏿‍🔧 Maintenance

    Hey y'all 👋🏿 Jamming about some maintenance upgrades to integrations.directory today Link mentioned in the episode Use google sheets to check for broken links

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    #316 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (07/29/22 - 08/05/22). Links mentioned in this episode: When Lower intensity leads to higher results

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    #315 — 🖊 Content writers

    Testing a few content writers to improve my flow from turning threads into blog posts. I used Jasper.ai to turn this thread on Bubble plugins into a post Other links referenced in this episode: #305 — 🪄 Software stack as the firm pt 2 #307 — 🪜 Content ladder  

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    #314 — 👨🏿‍🚀 Acquiring users

    Jamming about Lenny's guide to acquiring first 1000s users (based on case studies of early user acquisition from Tinder, Uber, Instagram, etc) and some tactics I'm swiping for integrations.directory Links mentioned in the episode How to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 4: Find your early adopters by doing things that don’t scale Buffer guide on Quora marketing Get customers from Quora

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    #313 — 😩 Reducing product overwhelm

    The most recurring theme amongst critical feedback with integrations.directory is that the Airtable list is overwhelming. Jamming about making it less so. Have any feedback or thoughts? Feel free to send me a DM on Twitter Links mentioned in the episode: #213 — 🐒 Applying Fogg's behavior model to products Fogg's behavioral model Thread summary on the model Making the Fogg Behavior Model actionable (from UI-patterns)

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    #312 — 👹 What you most fear doing is probably what you most need to do

    Jamming fear, procrastination, and some necessary next steps for integrations.directory

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    #311 — 🪞 Week in review

    It's the week in review episode (here's the template I use). Discussing the wins and losses and all that jazz at Lunch Pail Labs this week (07/22/22 - 07/29/22). Links mentioned in this episode: #308 — 🧫 Embeddable experiences Thread on email courses #283— 👯‍♂️ Joining the Trends community

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🪦🪦🪦Lunch Pail Daily was a candid podcast where I, Lola, founder of Lunch Pail Labs, shared the wins, failures, and lessons from the first three years of growing our Atlanta-based software studio. This podcast journey came to a close in April 2023, but the story of Lunch Pail Labs continues. For the latest updates and insights, please visit our blog at lunchpaillabs.com/blog. Thanks for listening and being a part of this journey. With gratitude, Lola

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