Makers.dev

Apparently "worse is better" is how you get Christian to buy things.

00:00 10 episodes!

00:34 Listener shoutouts

02:59 Pumping your voice into someone else's ears

05:38 Converting internet numbers to real numbers

06:40 "Slack is down, use async!"

08:04 Meeting Place, Async.dev, and WebRTC update

09:59 How does WebRTC work?

14:59 Twilio's TURN at $0.40/GB vs. $0.01/GB

16:09 Business WebRTC bandwidth costs

18:49 STUN servers

20:09 Anyone could build AT&T from their bedroom!

20:43 Integrating audio chatting in Async.dev/Meeting Place

22:47 Chris's pandemic advantage over Meetup.com

27:32 Future plans for Async.dev and Meeting Place

35:09 Who is Meeting Place for and what problems is it solving?

42:06 Do whatcha want! You don't need a grand vision

45:29 CamHead.app

50:00 Cocoa Development

52:33 What's next for CamHead?

55:49 Influencer marketing

57:49 Turns out infoprducts are real businesses

01:00:23 THIS EPISODE IS TOO LONG

Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco

🐦 Learn React in 10 Tweets: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1175022111758442497

🐦 No Code Doesn't Exist: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1346139894398251027

🐦 Slack is Down - use async: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1346118116774989827

🔗 I'm Walking Away From the Product I Spent a Year Building—The story behind Level and why it failed by Derek Reimer: https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-away-from-the-product-i-spent-a-year-building.html

🔗 Nailing Your First (Info-Product) Launch by Adam Wathan: https://microconf.gen.co/adam-wathan/

Also Christian's video is no longer 0.25 seconds off he fixed it :)

Alternate title: doing everything right and seeing what happens

00:00 Intro

00:34 CHRISTIAN'S CHRISTMAS IGLOO

04:02 Chris's soundproofed office

05:14 Chris's co-founder breakup

08:53 Why not swing for the fences instead of bootstrapping?

09:55 Optimizing for flexibility

11:06 How do kids change business priorities?

12:46 Consulting vs. full-time for Riverside

15:44 Chris's upcoming consulting info-product

17:59 Manifesting consulting with The Secret 

19:56 Chris's Christmas thinkin' about the future of async.dev and meeting place

23:43 Slack hate is a great opportunity

28:46 Niching down Meeting Place to developers

29:53 Next steps for Chris

33:21 CamHead.app

43:15 Fileinbox customer support email resistance

46:02 Streamline customer support and standup meetings with video tutorials

50:14 Clips.Marketing for writing YouTube chapter markers

Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco

"Without Their Permission" by Alexis Ohanian: https://withouttheirpermission.com/

00:00 Hello!

00:31 How do you take vacations as a bootstrapper?

03:58 Brain dumping

04:51 How is work is more fun than skiing or ziplining?

07:44 Morning Pages from The Artist's Way

08:08 How do you balance vacations and family with work?

10:13 Needing meaningful work

10:50 YouTube to Transistor script for makers.dev

13:57 Dogfooding async.dev for makers.dev

15:53 Websocks in Rails

18:33 Doing art for art's sake vs. making art for a market

24:19 What do you want to win by doing?

27:52 Christian's non-goals for next week

30:18 The privilege to work on what you want

34:41 Track your money and time instead of trusting your intuition

36:50 What if you don't have the bandwidth to do work you love?

39:15 Chris's plan for next week

0:00 Drywall is like business

1:24 Just doing the work is more important than tips and hacks

6:00 Christian's robot video editor

11:34 The dream podcasting workflow

17:40 Automatic YouTube to Transistor.fm flow

19:20 Makers.dev vs. BusinessMan.Business work

22:58 MeetingPlace update

24:13 Dogfooding Async.dev instead of Slack

27:20 How do you decide what to work on next?

36:45 Setting immutable biweekly or monthly goals

38:50 Enjoying the work vs. growing the business

41:48 Fileinbox Sign Printer Interviews

46:12 Customer chats are more enjoyable, less stilted than scripted interviews with an agenda and they're just as useful

50:50 Christian's hypo-hypo-manic week of projects

54:13 $10 vs. $50 vs. $200 tasks

57:39 Drywall craftsmen

Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Full-time Employees for $9k/year: https://www.supportshepherd.com/

0:00 Special Acoustic Caulk and manual laber
3:22 The Jigsaw Puzzle Theory of Business
6:10 Async.dev Slackbot update
9:00 Can you charge for an unfinished project?
10:44 Niching a Time Tracker Coaching Service
22:28 What's next for Async.dev and Meeting Place?
24:54 Talking to Sign Printers update
30:25 Clipping Microconf Recap
35:17 Effective Time Design
38:07 Automated video editing
45:44 Delegating to machines vs. humans
48:51 AI is coming to take all our jobs unless you're a coach
49:38 When does it make sense to hire humans?

🔗 How to Conduct a Great User Interview: https://microconf.gen.co/chris-achard/

🔗 How To Use Jobs To Be Done To Perfect Your Positioning: https://microconf.gen.co/claire-suellentrop/

0:00 Intro
3:51 Spending money to make more money
5:47 Imposter syndrome in charging more
8:05 Micropreneurs vs. YouTubers
13:00 Marketing without feeling slimy
14:45 Doing everything wrong and seeing where it goes
17:00 Chris's MeetingPlace and Async.dev update
21:50 Tick Tock Development
24:56 Chris's Goals for next week
27:03 Christian's Fileinbox update and goals
33:16 How do you know which features to build?
34:37 Customer workflows show you adjacent problems
36:00 Tick tock audience research
37:00 Pivoting
39:12 Makers.dev is super useful for us
40:03 Repurposing interview content?
42:49 Skyscraper posts

Alternate title: Christian's smelly mouth holes