85: The Hype Is Real

The hype about Tuple is real! Ben’s been busy adding a bunch of new customers. He’s selling and delivering the dream.

Derrick is back after mentally struggling in the midst of moving, which meant a week of zero productivity on Level. Now, he’s in a better place, mentally and literally.

Today’s Topics Include:

Ludicrous Mode: Full-resolution, uncompressed video stream option added to Tuple

Tuple’s lack of scaling challenges due to peer-to-peer connections

Tuple’s conversion rate for email list

Ben’s “I’m bad at sales” email message and demo video

Things to do and features to add in the future for Tuple

Tuple achieves semi-milestone of customer renewals

Ben’s fear of public availability to post Tuple’s pricing

Bandwidth forces AoP podcast back to one episode per week

Derrick ships fun and addictive emoji reactions feature in Level

Inviting more people to increase Level’s sample size and address skepticism

Links and resources:

Art of Product on Twitter

Derrick Reimer Website

Derrick Reimer on Twitter

Ben Orenstein Website

Ben Orenstein on Twitter

Level

Tuple

Heroku Dynos

Spaceballs

Adam Wathan on Twitter

Ruby on Rails Action Cable Server

Technical Debt - Our Approach to Building Cool Tech Profitably

Steve Schoger - Refactoring UI: Tuple   

Drip

Soapbox from Wistia

Superhuman

Jason Fried