Startup to Something

Matt and Marc are BACK for episode 100 after taking the summer off of recording.

Marc has been relaxing, camping, and hanging with his family. Matt has been freelancing after a tragic water spill and hacking on an ecommerce AI product.

The guys discuss Rob Walling's stair-step approach and if Matt should try his hand at blogging and learning to drive traffic.

Mentions:

• PowerImporter
• MemberRow

Marc's Twitter
Matt's Twitter

The guys discuss Stripe and how it works with SaaS companies, its shortcomings and benefits.

Mentions:

• PowerImporter
• MemberRow

Matt has updates about his projects. He’s trying to stay productive while enjoying his last few weeks in Lisbon.

Mentions:

• PowerImporter
• MemberRow

Matt is in the hotseat this week: he is trying to market the amazon product finder during a reddit blackout. He’s also breaking ground and making progress on his developer assistant. The guy's discuss how they'd monetize Jon Yongfook's engineering as marketing project onlinecertificategenerator.com.

Mentions:

• PowerImporter
• MemberRow
• ProductAI

Get in touch!

• Marc’s Twitter and Mastodon
• Matt’s Twitter and Mastodon

Matt’s has a few ideas for simple projects he's working on in the AI space to help make developers more efficient.
The guys discuss hiring a life coach to help with momentum and goal setting. Could ChatGPT be that coach instead of a person?

Mentions:

• PowerImporter
• MemberRow

Get in touch!

• Marc’s Twitter and Mastodon
• Matt’s Twitter and Mastodon

Marc is in the hotseat this week and is getting back to building MemberRow and reevaluating if the idea still makes sense from its original inception. He’s been exploring BulletTrain and is loving super scaffolding and how efficient it makes him. The guys discuss building in public and if it’s right for MemberRow.

Mentions:

• PowerImporter
• MemberRow

Get in touch!

• Marc’s Twitter and Mastodon
• Matt’s Twitter and Mastodon

Marc is working on the refactoring for PowerImporter and finds himself wishing he had a better pre-composed starting blocks for his projects that he could use to get off the ground faster. Matt had an insightful discussion around the Amazon product discovery app he's building. The guys discuss Copilot and how to use it to maximize productivity.

Once you hear about how Marc uses ChatGPT to help him in the day to day, it will open your mind.
The guys talk through how they are using ChatGPT in their workflows, how to engineer better prompts, and how Marc tweaks his experiences on the web to make his life better.

Matt is back in the hot seat this week. He has been in transit to Portugal, and has a v1 of a product demo video for the Amazon product research tool he's building. The guys talk through ways to use AI to help developers be more productive.

The guys talk through the incredible innovation that is ChatGPT and what it means for emerging software engineers.
When everyone has a calculator, should we bother learning long division?