Makers.dev

Makers.dev

By Chris Achard and Christian GencoBusinessEntrepreneurshipMarketing
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Makers.dev episodes

  • 101 How to backup all-the-things

    Chris talks about how work at Google is different than a small project or company. He's also working on the gravity waves kaggle competition. Christian tries to figure out how to backup all of his projects and files, and how to promote the video clipper.

    1 hr 5 min
  • 98 The Video Clipper

    Christian renames clips.marketing to thevideoclipper.com and is trying to figure out what he wants it to be. He also wonders if he should hire someone else to run fileinbox while he builds the video clipper. Chris is still working on the Kaggle gravity waves competition.

    1 hr
  • 95 Consultancy vs Software as a Service

    Chris has his first full week of Google, and also got his prize money from the Kaggle competition! Christian wonders if he should focus more on clips.marketing as a consultancy, or as a service, or just focus on FileInbox.

    53 min
  • 94 Freemium features

    Christian tries to figure out where his customers are coming from, and how to get more signups for FileInbox. He also is trying to figure out what freemium features are best for clips.marketing. Chris starts his first week at Google. 


     (timestamps coming later)

    55 min
  • 93 $157.126 per hour

    Chris is prepping to start his new job. Christian got $157.126 per hour on his latest consulting project for Ali Abdall, and is now wondering if he should spend a lot more time on clips.marketing instead of FileInbox. 


     00:00 Intro 
     01:07 Prepping to start a job 
     07:51 Acornchat changes 
     13:20 Marketing ideas outside an app store 
     17:34 Consulting project for Ali Abdaal 
     24:01 RailsSaaS conference 
     29:13 No progress on FileInbox 
     34:13 Stringing pearls 
     37:27 Being close to the audience of clips.marketing 
     
     Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 
     
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    47 min
  • 92 Getting a job at Google

    Chris gets a job! Christian talks about his latest marketing experiments, and wonders if he should start working on clips.marketing again. 


     00:00 Intro 
     01:28 Google Photos DevRel role 
     03:52 What about acornchat? 
     05:20 Compensation at FAANG companies 
     09:03 Salary negotiation 
     11:34 Hiring freeze 
     12:33 Using Google ads for FileInbox 
     23:13 Promoted tweet experiment 
     25:57 Education as marketing 
     28:04 Low price file sending plan? 
     34:01 Detecting bots 
     36:25 Consulting project update 
     41:47 clips.marketing ideas 
     48:35 $20k sewer repair 
     
     Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco

    51 min

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Chris and Christian build some software businesses.