Mostly Technical

By Ian Landsman and Aaron FrancisBusiness Entrepreneurship Technology

Mostly Technical episodes

April 14127: Charge It To The Game w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne
Ian is joined by John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne of Thunk to talk about their new app Tidy, what constitutes a moat in the age of AI, why phone spam is the absolute worst, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Bottomless Pits
(03:05) - Tidyup.agency
(15:30) - Zero Risk Agency
(23:23) - The Schtick Is The Moat
(37:52) - You Might Need To Pay Some Professionals
(44:53) - Everyone's Playing Their Hands
(52:39) - Business Dad Thoughts
(01:22:03) - The Hard Pitch
Links:
Thunk
Daniel Coulbourne
John Drexler
Tidy
Talking Businessly Ep 89 w/ Justin Jackson
Laravel Road Show: New York City
Silicon Valley clip 'Why would you go after revenue?'
Laravel Partners
Arango
1 hr 25 min
April 07126: Scope Explosion
Ian and Aaron talk about why neither of them shipped this past week, how to surface features in an application, tweets going viral....oh, and they're starting a new podcast. Welcome to Token Town.
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(00:00) - Ian Didn't Ship
(06:33) - Aaron Didn't Ship
(11:48) - Solo & MCP
(21:16) - Surfacing Features
(32:45) - Is AI Hype Dying Down?
(37:42) - Viral Tweets
(50:29) - Filter Out vs. Filter In
(01:01:07) - Claude vs. OpenClaw
(01:15:29) - Durable Objects & Databases
(01:27:04) - Welcome to Token Town
Links:
Aaron's tweet about getting to 120fps
Aaron's viral tweet about the astronaut
Nate Silver vs. Nikita Bier on Twitter
Ian's viral tweet about Claude & OpenClaw
OpenAI acquires TBPN
Aaron's course on durable objects
Laravel Cloud MySQL
Token Town
1 hr 36 min
March 31125: No Turning Back
Ian and Aaron talk about setting a release date (!) for Outro, huge updates to Solo, a new Cloudflare course, exciting news on the real estate front, and so much more.
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(00:00) - It's Shill Season
(04:02) - Ian's Gotta Ship Outro
(15:00) - Superpowers Are So Good
(20:15) - Cloudflare Durable Objects Course
(31:32) - Cloud Pricing
(36:41) - MCP Servers
(47:23) - Solo Updates
(01:00:18) - Aaron Francis Empire Update
Links:
Modal
Slingshot
Superpowers
UConn vs. Duke - Final two minutes
Producer Dave
Cloudflare Durable Objects
Void
1 hr 13 min
March 24124: Old Man Yells At Cloud
Ian and Aaron talk about choosing between Faster.dev & Solo (which one is more likely to pay off?), the pros and cons of using AI to build bespoke internal apps, youth sports, Project Hail Mary, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Kids Sports
(05:19) - Building Internal Tools
(17:23) - Empire of Scripts
(24:41) - Everybody Wants CLI & MCP
(29:46) - Solo Will Never Be Done
(45:46) - Faster.dev vs. Solo
(59:36) - Vibe Coding An App To $10k
(01:06:11) - Project Hail Mary
Links:
Aaron on the baseball field
Project Hail Mary
Jason Fried on Twitter
Laravel AI SDK
Laravel MCP
Solo
Will King
Aaron's video on YouTube
Eric Barnes' new venture
1 hr 16 min
March 18123: Isolate The Claude
Ian and Aaron talk about more poker adventures, transcoding videos at scale, escaping the permanent underclass, worktrees vs. copy on write, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Ian Keeps Winning
(10:00) - Transcoding Videos
(25:33) - Superpowers
(39:40) - A Parade In Boston
(47:36) - Run Dangerously
(55:20) - Ire of the Worktree Maxi's
(01:02:56) - Escape the Permanent Underclass
Links:
Daniel Coulbourne
Chris Morrell
Modal
Mux
HTTP Live Streaming
Superpowers
Jason Beggs
Fast User Switching
Worktrees
1 hr 12 min
March 10122: I Just YOLO'd It
Ian and Aaron discuss their trip to Laracon EU, the all-new Solo, using the AI SDK for Outro, "poker propaganda", Gen-Z Abby's 2004 camera, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Europe Can't Contain Us
(07:04) - Poker Propaganda
(12:34) - Laracon EU Recap
(17:42) - Good Feedback
(23:07) - Big Solo Update
(42:03) - What's Next for Solo
(01:01:20) - The Worktrees Question
(01:10:57) - The Finalized Skill
(01:17:28) - Outro & Gopher
(01:26:43) - New Deadlines Are Coming
(01:31:25) - 2004 Camera
Links:
Sinners
JetBlue Mint
Encore Boston Harbor
Daniel Coulbourne
Pete Heslop
Solo
Xterm
Typora
Faster
Outro
1 hr 38 min
February 24121: Let Ian Cook
Ian and Aaron discuss Ian shipping (!) the HelpSpot website and cooking on Outro, Aaron's complete overhaul of Solo, why it's nice to have a wife, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Hell Week 3
(12:01) - The Haters Were Right
(22:09) - Ian Shipped!
(27:09) - Does Aaron Know Who Snoop Is?
(32:29) - Cooking On Outro
(46:17) - Counselors Update
(01:05:28) - The Learning Skill
(01:16:47) - It's Nice To Have A Wife
(01:19:23) - Gamification of Software
Links:
OpenCode
Xterm.js
Will King
Jason Beggs
HelpSpot
Outro
Solo
Counselors
1 hr 23 min
February 17120: The Counselors
Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new AI tool Counselors, something called "Hell Week", what's new with Solo and Outro, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Achieving The Impossible
(11:26) - Making Things Easy For Humans
(19:53) - Ian's Hyperkey Setup
(28:59) - Aaron's Hell Week
(44:42) - The Future
(51:38) - Outro Is Cooking
(58:36) - Valentine's Day & Other Updates
(01:09:26) - OpenClaw
Links:
Counselors
Hyperkey
Raycast
Space Cadet Keyboard
Solo
Faster.dev
Outro.fm
Aaron's cardboard box saw
1 hr 16 min
February 10119: Anti Slop Vibe
Ian and Aaron talk about the launch of Solo, Aaron's new terminal app for the desktop (!) plus Ian's return to Twitter and so much more.
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(00:00) - Back On Twitter
(08:20) - Mute The Super Spreaders
(23:51) - HVAC Guys
(28:40) - AI.com Ad
(32:23) - The Launch of Solo
(45:39) - Questions About Solo
(56:53) - An Ode To Laravel's Queues
(01:00:18) - Even More About Solo
(01:06:35) - Behind The Scenes
Links:
Ian on Twitter
Ian on Bluesky
Peter Steinberger on Twitter
AI.com's Super Bowl Ad
Onions.com
Solo
Mary Perry on Twitter
Tauri
NativePHP
Behind the scenes of Aaron's video
Memento Mori
1 hr 26 min
February 03118: We’re Going To Europe
Ian and Aaron talk about the Mostly Technical Pre-Party at Laracon EU (!), Aaron's new desktop app (!!), sleeping on planes, and so much more.
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(00:00) - Burn The Candle at Three Ends
(06:12) - We Got Some Feedback
(12:31) - Laracon India & AI SDK
(17:49) - Tell The Machine To Do It
(25:10) - Boost & Skills
(29:55) - The Big Announcement
(38:25) - Business Class Stage of the Castle
(43:25) - Sleeping On Planes
(49:33) - Unofficial Claude Code Meetup
(01:00:09) - Aaron's Desktop App
Links:
Afrin
NyQuil
Neti Pot
Casey Neistat's video on NYC trash
Laracon India
Laravel Live Japan
Zoolander - Magnum
Laracon EU
Unofficial Claude Code Meetup
Visakan Veerasamy
Sara Dietschy
Aaron's Desktop App
Tauri
1 hr 12 min