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131 GXB Update

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130 Job Search Update

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129 Looking for a job

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128 Catch up 2024: AI, Ruby on Rails, Bluesky, and Puppies

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127 Baby!

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126 10x Developer

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125 LinkedIn Outreach

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124 Outsourcing development and working with people

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123 Setting aside SaaS for Consulting

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122 Ozymandias

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121 Advantages of Firebase

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120 Estimating how long features are going to take + All the baby gear

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119 Losing 17 pounds + Craft and Commerce takeaways

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118 How to Plan and Get Things Done, and How to Focus

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117 How often should you update dependencies? Also, an update on "Dude, where's my Bitcoin?"

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116 Trial to paid conversion rates and Christian's big annoucement

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115 Demystifying the AI Genie + Identifying a SaaS Vision

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114 Microconf '23 takeaways

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113 Attaboy.ai gets interesting. Also: TALK TO YOUR USERS.

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112 We freak out about AI. Also attaboy.ai becomes a thing

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111 How ChatGPT actually works

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110 Detecting malicious links with Tim Leland

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109 Social Media Marketing World

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108 What would it take to sell FileInbox?

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107 AI Clip Suggestions

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106 $80 MRR

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105 "Just do it badly": Fear of Launching + Teaching to Learn

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104 Tech layoffs and how to learn AI

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103 How to find consulting clients

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102 First revenue for the video clipper

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101 How to backup all-the-things

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100 Dude, where's my email list?

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99 Dude, where's my crypto?

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98 The Video Clipper

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97 MeetingPlace shuts down, Musk buys twitter, and crypto crashes

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96 When customer conversations feel bad

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95 Consultancy vs Software as a Service

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94 Freemium features

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93 $157.126 per hour

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92 Getting a job at Google

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91 Unexpected Google ads results

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90 100% user growth and profitable

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89 Winning $5000

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88 10,000 Downloads + end-to-end testing

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87 Christian comes to Indy

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86 First paying customer

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85 Is DALLE going to take over art? + Business taxes

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84 What do you use for analytics?

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83 Christian loves TDD now

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82 Face on a billboard

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81 Tired of Coding

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80 5 Marketing Hot Takes for FileInbox

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79 SaaS Deep Dive with Johnny Tong

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78 Ways to organize and live your life

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77 Cold calling is spooky

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76 $20k MRR in 12 months (also Christian gets engaged 💍🥳)

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75 What sells well

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74 Getting started is the hardest part

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73 SaaS math is bananas

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72 Weeding and contract jobs

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71 $183.60 per hour

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70 Creating Successful Chrome Extensions with Tim Leland

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69 MicroConf Growth '22 Takeaways

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68 Close to feature complete

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67 Doing work for friends: paid or free?

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66 Why developers are bad at marketing

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65 Selling MeetingPlace Part 2

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64 Selling a SaaS

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63 Accountability buddies

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62 Have you ever made a french fry?

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61 Like a Boss

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60 Having a Really Productive Week

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59 Baby's First Employee

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58 Christian gets an Executive Assistant

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57 Productive Procrastination

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56 Dude, where's my laptop?

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55 Brian Casel - Launching and growing a SaaS

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54 The finale of "Dude, Where's my Car?" + is buying Bitcoin basically gambling?

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53 Is Ruby on Rails still good for SaaS?

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52 Digital products are nice - the physical world is hard

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51 Is Youtube helpful or harmful?

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50 Deploying Empathy

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49 Strongly Typed Languages and Talking to Customers

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48 What is the Metaverse?

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47 Squid Game on the blockchain

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46 The Psychology of Viral Content

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45 Deleting YouTube and Twitter

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44 Marketing Channel Experiments

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43 MicroConf Europe and Austin Recap

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42 Working from Rome

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41 Christian is in Rome

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40 Is Freemium a Good Idea?

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39 When giving up on a project is actually a good thing

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38 Compare yourself to who you were yesterday

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37 Generative AI as a Business Model

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36 Show up every day

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35 Spending Money to Make Money with SaaS

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34 Planning an AI based text bot

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33 Pushing forward when you feel stuck

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32 To Focus or Not to Focus