FounderQuest

Ben and Josh catch up after a few weeks of heads-down product work, and they have lots to talk about—including a new Discord server for FounderQuest listeners! Plus, hear Josh’s thesis on why it’s a huge problem if you’re not using your product to the max.

• Shape Up
• Seth Godin
• Blue Ridge Ruby
• Monitorama
• Join the Honeybadger Discord! https://discord.gg/aQaDVBedRf

Longtime friend of the pod Adam McCrea joins Josh and Ben to catch up and chat about his journey building Judoscale—an autoscaling service for Heroku, Render, and AWS!

• Blue Ridge Ruby
• Josh’s Blue Ridge Ruby recap
• Kyle Shold
• Printfection
• JudoScale
• SignWell
• Heroku Add-ons
• Router blog post: https://judoscale.com/blog/heroku-router-post-mortem

John Nunemaker returns to FounderQuest to discuss his writing process—after the guys debate code linters and formatters, of course. It's important to start with the essentials.

Links:
Standardrb

Josh’s 2013 Ruby Style Guide

GitHub Copilot

Copilot Chat for Neovim

Seth Godin

Amy Hoy

My Life in Advertising by Claude Hopkins

This book will teach you how to write better by Neville Medhora
Carbon

Josh and Ben are joined by John Nunemaker to discuss their recent trip to Detroit for RailsConf, as well as the announcement from RubyCentral that 2025 will mark the final RailsConf (though not the last Rails conference!). Later in the episode, Josh and Ben reveal the outcome of their Honeybadger Insights launch goal and discuss the team's last dev cycle. John also shares an update on his work with Flipper!

Links:
Chartkick

Frictionless Generators

Flipper

todo_or_die gem

heya gem

Userlist

John Nunemaker

Last RailsConf announcement and survey

Detroit People Mover
FounderQuest
Mastodon - @[email protected]
Twitter - @honeybadgerapp
Honeybadger

This week, Josh and Ben dive deep into the marketing strategy for their new product, Insights, in response to a listener question. They talk about what groups they are targeting first, some of the planned marketing tactics for reaching each group, and how they are building awareness within the Honeybadger app without annoying existing users.

Links:

pg_cron

Judoscale

Traction

Insights tour page 

Insights announcement blog post 

Meet the badgers
FounderQuest
Mastodon - @[email protected]
Twitter - @honeybadgerapp
Honeybadger
ClickHouse - hosted by DoubleCloud

This week Josh and Ben discuss shipping Insights, what's next for the product, and their strategies to get people to actually use it. Plus Ben shares the results from his latest performance science projects. Grab your safety glasses and headphones!

Links:
Lab Tech

Yabeda
Yabeda for Insights

Vector

Fluentd

Evil Martians blog

Scientist

Meet the badgers
FounderQuest
Mastodon - @[email protected] 

Twitter - @honeybadgerapp
Honeybadger
ClickHouse - hosted by DoubleCloud

This week Josh and Ben discuss shipping a Clickhouse migration and Honeybadger's new look. They also talk about Exceptional Creatures hitting number one on Hacker News and being featured at the top of Ruby Weekly. Plus, did Ben get interviewed by a rubber duck?

Links:

Exceptional Creatures

Kamal

Daily Lex
Clickhouse Activerecord

Scientist

RealGeeks 

Meet the badgers
FounderQuest
Mastodon - @[email protected] 

Twitter - @honeybadgerapp
Honeybadger

Today Josh and Ben are talking about UI changes in order to lay the foundation to launch and integrate Insights into Honeybadger as well as steps they are taking to avoid some rollout mistakes they've made in the past. They also reveal how testers are liking Insights so far!

Links:
Derek Sivers
Flipper
Meet the badgers
FounderQuest
Mastodon - @[email protected] 

Twitter - @honeybadgerapp
Honeybadger

GOOAAALLL!!! This week Ben and Josh discuss how to get Honeybadger's growth back on track by setting a company-wide goal. They also talk about how to promote new features in your product without annoying your users and what Santa brought them for Christmas!

Links:
BHAG
Meet the badgers
FounderQuest
Mastodon - @[email protected] 

Twitter - @honeybadgerapp
Honeybadger

This week Josh and Ben discuss Honeybadger's recent revenue struggles, how they got to this point, and the steps they're taking to weather the storm. They also explain why 2024 could be the company's best year ever!

Links:
Steve Jobs - "Saying No"
Meet the badgers
FounderQuest
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Twitter - @honeybadgerapp
Honeybadger