Hammerstone - Bootstrapping a Software Company

Hammerstone adds a new partner.

Refine is getting more and more Rails-y, Aaron talks about Torchlight and the Hammerstone thesis, and we debate the merits of the "launch immediately" trope.

So many updates! Aaron has twins now, which is a lot of babies. Sean talks about his job changes. We talk about Sidecar, Torchlight, the Laravel ecosystem, and much more.

Sean pitches Aaron on using YNAB for our business. We're making good progress in Rails and people want the Laravel version already.

Sean and Aaron attempt a "Sales Safari" for Torchlight.dev. It gets a little painful because there aren't many results, and Aaron kind of feels like giving up. 

Sean has had an extremely busy week with work, other work, and house stuff. Aaron has torchlight.dev up and running and ready to start selling.

Aaron has a bunch of mystery pain, Sean has a fix that's kind of "out there". Aaron runs into the owner of hammerstone.com in a Twitter thread. Launching torchlight.dev.

Colleen and Sean have the Rails integration working, and Aaron talks about Laravel admin panels as a potential marketing channel.

Aaron gets pushed out of his house for a week thanks to the freak storm. Sean makes some great progress on Hotwire.