Mostly Technical

By Ian Landsman and Aaron FrancisBusiness Entrepreneurship Technology

Mostly Technical episodes

June 16136: Big, Audacious Goals
Ian and Aaron discuss why HelpSpot raised prices, what Aaron's building for teams with Solo, the short-lived reign of Fable 5, pros & cons of DJ's, and so much more.
Sponsored by Laracon AU, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and DropInBlog.
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(00:00) - The Great DJ Debate
(07:58) - Aaron's Going To Laravel Live UK
(14:22) - Ian Raised Prices
(27:26) - Teams & New Solo Pricing
(42:45) - New Frontiers
(56:51) - RIP Fable 5
(01:09:43) - Outro's Sponsorship System
Links:
"Forever Young"
Laravel Live UK
HelpSpot Pricing
RIP Fable 5
1 hr 16 min
June 09135: Ian's Over AI Coding?!
Ian and Aaron discuss hiring new employees, Ian claiming he's over AI coding, huge updates to Outro, going big or going home on Token Town, and more.
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(00:00) - Down to the River
(05:33) - Ian's Over AI Coding?!
(13:45) - Aaron's Employee's First Week
(21:42) - Marketing & Content
(27:27) - Ian's Been Busy With Outro
(37:41) - Slash Brag Update
(41:06) - Ian Finally Hired Somebody!
(47:00) - Token Town Update
(55:28) - Horse Business
(01:04:14) - Aaron Went Fishing
(01:13:16) - Kids Sports
Links:
Texas Hill Country
Token Town w/ Josh Pigford
Kristen Foxen
SEP IRA
Corey Haines Marketing Skills on GitHub
BlockNote
Ian's tweet about AI & coding faster
Joe Masilotti's post about deleting WebSockets
1 hr 17 min
June 02134: The Edge of Safety
Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new employee, the latest on Outro, a surprise trip to Portland, and more.
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(00:00) - Where Was Ian?
(02:26) - Outro Update
(12:32) - Kelsey Is Gone
(22:11) - Is Cloudflare Up?
(24:53) - Aaron's New Employee
(40:10) - LaraProm Update
(42:14) - A Little Technical
(54:35) - Aaron Went To Portland
(01:06:35) - Slash Brag
Links:
Brett Adcock
Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud
Outro.fm
TinySeed
Jason Lengstorf
Web Dev Challenge
Kelsey Hightower
1 hr 11 min
May 26133: Do The Hardest Thing with Jesse Hanley
Aaron is joined this week by Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, to talk about building a seven figure business, why he feels less stress now than he did when he started, migrating from Heroku to Planetscale, and more.
Sponsored by InterNACHI, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and NativePHP Ultra
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(00:00) - 5 TB of Data
(11:12) - Laravel Live Japan
(15:46) - Seven Figure Business
(24:32) - Advice for Indie Hackers
(28:57) - Pick Better Problems
(32:50) - Friends of Bento
(42:33) - Heroku to Planetscale
(01:15:02) - What's Next
Links:
Jesse Hanley
Speedshop
Jesse's Database School episode
Tatami
Dragonfly
RedisShake
Laravel Live Japan
Daniel Coulbourne
1 hr 22 min
May 19132: Ian Shipped Outro!
Ian and Aaron discuss finally recording Token Town, Ian finally shipping Outro, the benefits of working in public, what's coming next to Solo, and more.
Sponsored by InterNACHI, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and NativePHP Ultra
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(00:00) - We Finally Recorded Token Town
(07:43) - Outro Is Live!
(21:43) - Working In Public Is Required
(27:54) - What's Next For Outro
(30:22) - What's New With Solo
(43:59) - Free vs. Paid
(55:20) - First Actual Resume
(01:04:41) - Starting A Movement
(01:12:36) - Everybody Loves Discord
Links:
Token Town
Outro
Syntax
Solo
Faster
Aaron's page for Tuple
Derek Sivers's "Now" page
1 hr 19 min
May 15Token Town 001: What is Anthropic Doing?!
In the first-ever episode of Token Town Aaron & Ian break down pricing changes for Claude -p and the Agent SDK, a temporary 50% increase to Claude's limits, leaps in hacking ability, and more.
Sponsored by Bento.
Links:
Claude pricing changes
'Anthropic beats OpenAI on business adoption'
Claude Code weekly limits are 50% higher
Solo
Amp
Superpowers
Mythos & cybersecurity
40 min
May 12131: Crush My Competitors
Ian and Aaron talk about what's cooking with Solo, why Aaron's hiring his first full-time employee, Ian's frustrations with moving the team to Codex, and a feel good AI story.
Sponsored by InterNACHI, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and NativePHP Ultra
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(00:00) - Follow Up
(04:20) - Solo Update
(11:52) - Business Dad Pushback
(19:15) - Raising Money
(24:39) - Aaron's First Full-Time Employee
(31:30) - Ian's Hiring Troubles
(39:26) - A Laravel New 👀
(43:27) - Moving to Codex
(48:57) - Where's Outro?
(59:34) - A Feel Good AI Story
Links:
Solo
TinySeed
HelpSpot
Codex
Outro
Token Town
Mia's Horse Name Generator
1 hr 7 min
May 05130: Two Grandmas Roll Up
Ian and Aaron discuss the most harrowing experience of Aaron's life (complete with the funniest ad transition in Mostly Technical history), talk about Ian's trip to the Laravel Roadshow in NYC, and dive into what's cooking with Solo.
Sponsored by InterNACHI, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and NativePHP Ultra
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(00:00) - The Birthday Party Incident
(10:45) - He Starts Doing The Slip & Slide
(21:01) - The Stuff of Legends
(26:57) - More Kids = More Productive?
(32:58) - Solo Is A Meta Harness
(48:13) - It's Video Week!
(55:06) - Laravel Roadshow
Links:
Native PHP: The Vibes
Solo
Soak Testing
Faster
Vehikl
Laravel Roadshow: Dallas
1 hr 2 min
April 28129: The Bounds of My Pettiness
Ian and Aaron discuss how Aaron wants to destroy (?) Solo's competitors (!), using AI to find security holes in your app, delaying Token Town until May, and more.
Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud.
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(00:00) - The AI Apocalypse
(11:18) - Delayed (Again)
(15:04) - Let's Talk About Solo
(29:24) - Number Go Up
(42:13) - Sell More Solo
(48:17) - Wrap It Up
Links:
Nicholas Carlini - Black Hat LLMs
Codex Security
Token Town
Laravel Roadshow: New York City
Warp
Conductor
Solo's Discord
Death of a Salesman on Broadway
57 min
April 21128: LaraProm
Ian and Aaron discuss Solo finally being ready & why its MCP capabilities are so intriguing, LaraProm (?!) at Laracon US (!), Ian's conundrum corner, and more.
Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud.
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(00:00) - Vacation Is Awesome
(11:40) - Thunk Boys Follow Up
(14:12) - Ian's Conundrum Corner
(22:43) - Prom?!
(36:14) - Solo Is Ready
(52:58) - Solo's MCP Server
(01:16:02) - Token Town Debuts This Week
Links:
Southwest Airlines Assigned Seating
Episode 127
LaraProm at Laracon US
Solo
Outro
Cloudflare Mesh
Token Town
Ian's hiring!
1 hr 25 min