Mostly Technical

Ian is joined by Caleb Porzio and we talk about recent consumer product acquisitions, a dive deep into Flux's multi-select and more advanced components like charts, and we do a Business Dad corner about hiring.

* Joel Spolsky on how to find great developers (A little dated, but still good)

A special bonus episode from a post-show Tiermaker. We were doing this for video so sorry in advance if it's not totally clear on audio. You can watch on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IIvZtrrzs

Ian's joined by Matt Swanson while Aaron is out ✂️. We cover the forgotten victims of the Wordpress drama like Gravatar and Day One, if a bootstrapper should be happy about $10k/mrr and make the case for jobs as being good, should the government sell ads on the Penny, and "things Aaron should do".

Don't miss our bonus Youtube video this week as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IIvZtrrzs

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Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's trip to San Francisco, Bluesky vs. Twitter, and why Ian's not doing his secret side project plus our tier rankings for...pizza toppings?!

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Links:

• Amoxicillin
• Sanity
• Web Dev Challenge
• Kent C Dodds
• NextJS Conf
• Thomas Frank on YouTube
• Elo Rating Algorithm
• Tartine
• Bluesky
• Five Families in The Godfather
• Justin Jackson's Laravel starter pack for Bluesky
• Louie's in Dallas

Ian and Aaron discuss updates on Aaron's house, the Try Hard Factory, his course launch, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Mostly Arguing About Mars

• Bootstrapped Web Podcast
• Europa Clipper
• James Webb Space Telescope
• Voyager Program
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Limestone
• Dan Shipper
• All-In Podcast
• Chris Morrell on Twitter

Ian and Aaron discuss everything from Aaron's dream for a Try Hard Factory to Ian being unimpressed with SpaceX rockets to the biggest question of all - what do you want to do with your life?

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• (00:00) - Terrible Business Idea

Ian and Aaron reunite to talk about bad design, WordPress drama, Aaron's secret physical product, why you want to be liquid, and more.

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• (00:00) - Freaking Wrecked

• Mailcoach
• Statamic Roundtable
• Laravel Cloud
• Wall Street (IMDB)
• What the heck is going on with WordPress?
• Ian's tweet about designers
• Linear
• Mastering Postgres
• Aaron's tweet about post-it notes

Ian is joined this week by Jack McDade, creator of Statamic, and a motley crew (John O'Nolan, Caleb Porzio, and Adam Wathan) to discuss what the future of Statamic might look like.  Should the price change?  Should it be open source?  Who should it be marketed at?  Does Statamic need an enterprise offering?  All that & a ton more.

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Note: Recorded and streamed live on September 30th, 2024

Links:

• Jack McDade on Twitter
• John O'Nolan on Twitter
• Caleb Porzio on Twitter
• Adam Wathan on Twitter
• Jack's tweet that started this whole conversation
• Statamic
• Ghost
• Ghost's Kickstarter
• Statamic Starter Kits
• Flat Camp

Ian and Aaron are joined this week by Caleb Porzio (friend of the show) on our very first live stream in honor of Flux, which Caleb literally launches live on the podcast.  Plus everything from password hygiene to cloud exits to hiring people to, of course, all the ups & downs of launching a product like Flux.

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Note: Recorded live on September 23rd, 2024.

Links:

• Flux
• Digital Ocean
• Notes on Work: How to drink tea
• Hugo Sainte-Marie on Twitter
• Caleb's launch tweet for Flux
• Caleb's blog post on crossing $1 million on GItHub Sponsors
• Shadcn
• Zenvoice
• Billion Dollar Creator on YouTube

Ian is back (!) with Aaron to check in about what happened to Ian's gallbladder, Aaron's announcement video, dreaming big, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - They Failed Again

• Mailcoach
• Ian's tweet about his gallbladder surgery report
• Laparoscopic surgery & gas
• Seinfeld Junior Mint clip
• InterNACHI
• David Hill on Twitter
• Laravel Investment Announcement
• Aaron interviews Taylor about the investment
• Gordon Gekko
• 'How to succeed in MrBeast Production' 
• Ian's thread about the document
• Mastering Postgres announcement video