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Chris is tired of coding. Christian has too many ideas and should focus on SEO. 

 00:00 Intro 
 03:53 AcornChat on Slack App Store 
 06:01 Developer advocate 
 11:42 Grass is greener 
 17:38 Three years 
 21:07 Controversial figures 
 25:07 Don't break the chain 
 27:03 Josh Kaufman's personal master plan 
 30:17 Therapy is great 
 30:42 SEO 
 39:44 Sending large files: Hot take 
 51:20 Rails vs serverless 
 53:53 Increase revenue 
 
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Christian has been reading the book "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares and has 5 marketing hot take ideas that he wants feedback on. 

 00:00 Intro 
 03:33 Kaggle updates 
 07:58 AcornChat resubmitted 
 09:54 Cold call update 
 12:33 Traction book about marketing 
 17:56 Marketing hot take #1: Blogs 
 26:16 #2: Publicity 
 33:46 #3: Unconventional publicity 
 41:08 #3a: Live video feed of Christian 
 43:28 Intermission 
 45:59 #3b: How Jason Bourne would send files 
 51:12 #4: Search engine marketing 
 55:19 #5: Social and display ads 
 01:03:37 AcornChat in the Slack App Store! 
 
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We talk with Johnny Tong about how he bought a SaaS and is now struggling to grow it. Should he rebuild it? Dive into marketing? Rework the onboarding flow? Buy a bunch of ads? 

 00:00 Intro 
 02:47 What Johnny is looking for 
 10:01 SurveyBot overview 
 15:29 Buyer's guide 
 22:00 "The funnel" 
 28:45 Onboarding friction 
 33:49 The ups and downs of build vs buy 
 41:19 Conversion rate 
 44:19 Marketing vs coding 
 50:47 The end goal 
 57:43 Getting professional help 
 59:00 Deeper understanding 
 
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 Buy Grow Repeat Podcast: https://buygrowrepeat.com/ 
 Find Johnny here: https://twitter.com/johnnytong 
 
 Books: 
 
 - The War of Art 
 - The Artist's Way

Christian went to Greece and got a new perspective on how he could be living. Chris resubmitted AcornChat to the Slack app store and finished up a Kaggle competition. 

 00:00 Intro 
 03:17 AcornChat submitted to the Slack app store 
 06:40 Kaggle Patent competition 
 16:51 Reinforcement learning 
 21:06 Covid (again) 
 25:40 Building a Second Brain 
 38:05 On Looking 
 47:14 FileInbox cold calling 
 53:24 Consulting update 
 56:26 Switching to iOS 
 
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 Book recommendations: 
 
 Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 
 On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz

Chris wants to spend a bunch of money. Christian got advice to do some cold calling, but it sounds spooky 👻. plus 2 bonus hot takes 

 00:00 Intro 
 01:30 3d printer, camera and gpus 
 06:52 Kaggle update 
 15:49 Slack app update 
 17:52 Advanced Operating Systems 
 21:28 Rust 
 23:30 Personal productivity 
 25:30 FileInbox update 
 28:09 TDD 
 33:21 Firebase security rules 
 38:26 Spooky recommendation to increase MRR 
 43:16 100 paperclips 
 52:13 Hot take 1: Finance tracker (again but different) 
 59:02 Hot take 2: NFT project 
 
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Chris is prepping for an AI for JS devs course. Christian gets engaged! Also, he wants to get to $20k MRR in 12 months, so we talk about how that would be possible. 

 00:00 Intro 
 01:28 AI for JS devs course 
 19:33 Too many Kaggle competitions 
 26:00 Christian gets engaged!!! 
 31:19 Parable of the pottery class 
 39:25 $20k MRR in 12 months 
 44:04 Do you really want that? 
 46:42 Is it better for customers? 
 50:08 Chris is mean and hypocritical 
 51:32 Personal life is all over the place 
 
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Christian makes an easy way to send email templates from FileInbox. Chris got a response from the Slack App Store, and is wasted a bunch of time on an ML bug. 

 00:00 Intro 
 02:47 Chris's week 
 04:21 Slack app store 
 11:18 Working on things that don't go anywhere 
 16:36 Christian did a bunch of stuff 
 21:31 Fileinbox email system 
 24:03 What sells well 
 28:57 ffmpeg 
 32:18 Free Fileinbox for marketing? 
 37:40 3D printing bezier curves 
 45:24 Tick Tock development (again) 
 51:44 Just do stuff (again) 
 53:32 Tinnitus 
 57:59 How to read a paper 
 
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 pubmed.gov 
 https://arxiv.org/

Chris is in 3 different AI competitions (anyone want to know how GPS works?) and Christian was gone and describes how it feels to get back to work. He's also selling a paramotor, so hopefully that goes well 😆 

 00:00 Intro 
 01:07 Life and death reflections 
 07:00 Give yourself some leeway 
 12:10 Work is hard until it's easy 
 16:00 Kaggle competitions 
 18:17 Objective measures of learning 
 27:39 Christian wants Black Mirror 🤨 
 29:24 Different types of AI problems 
 31:15 How GPS works 
 41:46 Patent competition (NLP) 
 44:57 Bird Call competition (audio) 
 49:26 Slack app store 
 49:53 MarketingChangelog.com 
 53:14 Christian's week 
 54:53 Getting started is the hardest part 
 57:02 Other tasks and projects 
 
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Chris was on a trip, and Christian fell off the co-working wagon. Also, focus on authenticity (on YouTube, but everywhere too) 

 00:00 Intro 
 04:06 Tests 
 08:57 Having a beginner's mind 
 10:32 Fileinbox bugs 
 16:21 Consulting 
 18:52 SaaS math is bananas 
 23:50 Talking to customers 
 24:31 Focus is fickle 
 27:20 Makers.dev early episodes 
 34:54 Youtube as a reliable source of information 
 36:17 Prioritize authenticity 
 50:18 Attaboy 
 54:13 Hot Take #1: personal private podcast host 
 56:49 Hot Take #2: ffmpeg as a service (again) 
 01:02:21 How to start working with other people 
 
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Chris created his buyer's guide for acornchat. Christian gets another contracting job and wonders how to leverage that or if he should try to get more similar contracts. 

 00:00 Intro 
 00:50 SaaS buyer's guide 
 11:20 Look at all these salad dressings! 
 14:00 Machine learning theory and math 
 19:01 Fileinbox updates 
 24:37 Errands and engagement rings 
 32:09 Face follower contracting job 
 39:16 Making an automated Fiverr service 
 42:58 Modularizing code 
 
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