FounderQuest

Jan 03 2025 120 ep. 35 mins 145
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Developers building a software business on our own terms.

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Will AI replace developers?

Jan 03 2025 48 mins  
Ben and Josh discuss the benefits and perils of using AI assistants for programming.CursorCodeium WindsurfGitHub Copilot announcementPerplexity

How to Sponsor a Conference

Dec 06 2024 49 mins  
Ben, Josh, and John Nunemaker are back from RubyConf and take the opportunity to discuss how to sponsor a conference as a small software company. Protip: bring your furniture from home.https://wiki.c2.com/?ResultObjectPattern=https://www.chairigami.comhttps://twenty.comhttps://rubycentral.org/news/make-railsconf-happen/Adam’s Judo Scale infomercialhttps://boxoutsports.com/graphic

Why does Bluesky love Alf so much?

Nov 22 2024 42 mins  
Ben and Josh go off-script for a fun and hopefully-not-too-long chat about their favorite Twitter-like social network, Bluesky.https://faineg.substack.com/p/how-i-accidentally-ruined-blueskyThe hosts of WSUA9 call it skeeting on airAOC endorses “team skeets”Jake Tapper says “skeeted” live on CNNProtocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech by Mike Masnic

Selling Metrics Watch with JP Boily

Oct 25 2024 47 mins  
Josh and Ben reconnect with their friend JP Boily to discuss building his startup Metrics Watch for just over 9 years before finding a new owner on Acquire.com.Bluesky startups & bootstrappers starter packJoin the Honeybadger/FounderQuest Discord server!https://metricswatch.com/https://github.com/topfunky/gruffhttps://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homerhttps://jumpstartrails.com

Acquiring Fireside with John Nunemaker

Oct 11 2024 54 mins  
Josh and Ben catch up with John Nunemaker after Rails World and dig into John's recent acquisition of Fireside.fm, the podcasting platform created by Dan Benjamin. What's next for John? In short, he's curating some Very Good Software™.https://www.johnnunemaker.com/acquiring-fireside/https://www.johnnunemaker.com/how-to-find-a-business-partner/https://danbenjamin.com/http://sifter

Pricing

Aug 30 2024 49 mins  
Ben, Josh, and John discuss pricing, including how to approach pricing, what they do and don't like about pricing, and how pricing works at Honeybadger and Flipper.https://cottonbureau.com/p/9EMACZ/shirt/the-process#/17943854/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-mhttps://blog.flippercloud.io/per-seat-pricing-sucks/https://garrettdimon.com/journal/posts/data-modeling-saas-en

Shipping in Layers with Will and John

Jul 19 2024 35 mins  
While Josh is on vacation, Ben chats with guests Will King and John Nunemaker about the process and perils of trying to ship reliably. https://www.wking.dev/logs/shipping-in-layershttps://longform.asmartbear.com/slc/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_producthttps://archive.ph/20130719182750/http://www.businessballs.com/treeswing.htmhttps://www.amazon.com/How-Fight-Hydra-A

Dogfooding, Developers, and Discord!

Jun 21 2024 37 mins  
Ben and Josh catch up after a few weeks of heads-down product work, and they have lots to talk about—including a new Discord server for FounderQuest listeners! Plus, hear Josh’s thesis on why it’s a huge problem if you’re not using your product to the max.Shape UpSeth GodinBlue Ridge RubyMonitoramaJoin the Honeybadger Discord! https://discord.gg/aQaDVBedRf

Scaling Judoscale with Adam McCrea

Jun 07 2024 37 mins  
Longtime friend of the pod Adam McCrea joins Josh and Ben to catch up and chat about his journey building Judoscale—an autoscaling service for Heroku, Render, and AWS!Blue Ridge RubyJosh’s Blue Ridge Ruby recapKyle SholdPrintfectionJudoScaleSignWellHeroku Add-onsRouter blog post: https://judoscale.com/blog/heroku-router-post-mortem

Writing and Content Marketing for Developers

May 24 2024 48 mins  
John Nunemaker returns to FounderQuest to discuss his writing process—after the guys debate code linters and formatters, of course. It's important to start with the essentials.Links:StandardrbJosh’s 2013 Ruby Style GuideGitHub CopilotCopilot Chat for NeovimSeth GodinAmy HoyMy Life in Advertising by Claude HopkinsThis book will teach you how to write better by Neville MedhoraCar