The Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast

The Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast

By Ryan ChenkieBusinessTechnology
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The Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast episodes

  • #16 - Daniel Vassallo - Why I Left a $500k/year Job at AWS to Work For Myself

    Daniel is a software engineer and entrepreneur who recently took the plunge to go independent. Before that, he was with Amazon for 8 years where he worked on building tools for developers and was handsomely rewarded, getting up to a half million dollar per year salary prior to leaving.

    Daniel lives with his family in Seattle where he is now focusing on his startup, Encrypted.dev, a platform allowing developers to build applications with end-to-end user encryption.

    Daniel's Links

    Daniel's Website
    Daniel's Twitter
    Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts

    Userbase.dev (Encrypted.dev)
    Userbase on GitHub

    56 min
  • #15 - Joel Hooks - The Benefits of Building a Calm Company

    Joel is a software developer living outside Portland, OR who is passionate about home educating his 5 kids. Joel helps run egghead.io, the internet’s best resource for teaching developers modern programming. When not running egghead or hanging out with his family, Joel likes to read, cook, and spend time with his local community of friends.

    Joel's Links

    Joel's Website
    Joel's Twitter
    Understanding by Design
    Company of One by Paul Jarvis
    StripePress Books
    The Personal MBA
    30x500
    Stacking the Bricks
    Authority by Nathan Barry
    MicroConf
    An Elegant Puzzle

    38 min
  • #14 - Kitze - Github Stars Won't Pay Your Rent

    Kitze is a JavaScript developer and founder of React Academy where he teaches React and GraphQL around the world. He's the maker of Sizzy - the browser for designers and developers and he's documenting his journey building Sizzy on YouTube. He’s made products like JSUI, Twizzy, Lucky Retweet, OK Google, and more.

    Kitze's Links

    GitHub stars won't pay your rent
    Sizzy
    Twizzy

    54 min
  • #13 - Sean Grove - What It's Like to Go Through Y Combinator, Twice

    Sean is a software engineer turned startup founder who has gone through Y-Combinator twice - first in the summer of 2011 with a company called Bushido, and more recently in Summer of 2018 with a company called OneGraph.

    In the gap, he ran engineering for a payments company, gave dozens of conference talks, contributed to several open-source projects, tinkered with NES emulators, and started meetup groups in San Francisco for ClojureScript, ReasonML, and GraphQL.


    Sean's Links

    OneGraph
    OneGraph Product Demo
    Y Combinator
    Super Mario Land 2 - Memory Exploration

    Sean's Twitter
    @sgrove

    57 min
  • #12 - Jason Resnick - How to Network and Stand Out by Serving

    Jason's Bio

    Jason Resnick helps freelancers discover their niche, plan out and market themselves to build recurring revenue, and stay in the feast. So that they can live the life that they want and ultimately reach the goals of why they started their own business in the first place.

    He has run his own web development business since 2010 helping established online businesses, increase sales through optimization, conversion, and behavioral strategy. He does this through on-site personalization, email, and marketing campaigns to learn more about the potential and existing customers to decrease the time to first purchase and increase repeat purchases.

    He's an avid baseball fan of the NY Mets, loves to travel and spend tons of time with his family.


    Jason's Links

    Jason's Website
    Live in the Feast (Podcast)
    Ask Rezzz (Podcast)
    Twitter
    ConvertKit (Email Marketing)
    Drip

    54 min
  • #11 - Chris Ferdinandi - Building an Audience by Being Consistent

    Chris's Bio

    Chris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript. He believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web.

    Chris is the author of the Vanilla JS Pocket Guide series, creator of the Vanilla JS Academy training program, and host of the Vanilla JS Podcast. His developer tips newsletter is read by thousands of developers each weekday.

    He’s taught developers at organizations like Chobani and the Boston Globe, and his JavaScript plugins have been used by Apple and Harvard Business School.

    Chris loves pirates, puppies, and Pixar movies, and lives near horse farms in rural Massachusetts. He runs Go Make Things with Bailey Puppy, a lab-mix from Tennessee.


    Chris's Links

    Go Make Things
    Vanilla JS Pocket Guide
    Vanilla JS Academy
    Chris's Twitter

    1 hr 3 min
  • #10 - Nader Dabit - How to Be a Prosperous Software Consultant

    Nader Dabit is a web and mobile developer currently working as a Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. He's also the founder of React Native Training, the author of React Native In Action, & the creator of React Native Elements and an aspiring futurist. When he's not programming he's probably traveling, spending time with his family, or reading.

    Nader's Links

    React Native in Action
    React Native Training
    React Native Elements
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    AWS AppSync

    55 min
  • #8 - Chris Sevilleja - How to Build Traffic and Generate Revenue for Your Blog

    Chris is a full stack developer from Las Vegas, NV and is the founder of the popular web development tutorial site Scotch.io. He is a Google Developer Expert in web technologies and is a frequent live-coder on Twitch. When not coding he can be found rolling up the Vegas strip in his Model 3 or squatting, bench-pressing, or deadlifting major weight.

    Chris's Links

    Scotch.io
    Twitter
    Twitch
    Syndicate
    The 10 Things We Built on Twitch in March

    1 hr
  • #7 - Justin Jackson - The Ups and Downs of Building a SaaS

    Justin the co-founder of Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting and analytics platform. He's worked with SaaS companies since 2008, mostly as a Product Manager. Justin also runs a community for bootstrappers called MegaMaker.

    Justin's Links

    Justin's Website
    Justin on Twitter
    Build Your SaaS
    Transistor.fm on Baremetrics
    Rewardful Affiliate Links
    Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
    Josh Pigford's Spreadsheet of Projects
    Screely
    Atomic Habits by James Clear

    51 min

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An interview show where I talk to programmers, developers, and coders of all types who have gone into business for themselves. I find out the secrets to their success so you can make the move into an…