January 3, 2025Episode 2148 min
Will AI replace developers?
Ben and Josh discuss the benefits and perils of using AI assistants for programming. Cursor Codeium Windsurf GitHub Copilot announcement Perplexity
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Developers building a software business on our own terms.
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December 6, 2024Episode 2049 min
How to Sponsor a Conference
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.com https://twenty.com https://rubycentral.org/news/make-railsconf-happen/ Adam’s Judo Scale infomercial https://boxoutsports.com/graphics/multi-format/multi-format-gameday-90-s-series https://boxoutsports.com/graphics/tags/saved-by-the-bell
November 22, 2024Episode 1942 min
Why does Bluesky love Alf so much?
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-bluesky The hosts of WSUA9 call it skeeting on air AOC endorses “team skeets” Jake Tapper says “skeeted” live on CNN Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech by Mike Masnick Composable moderation How to set your domain as your handle Bluesky reaches 20M users https://go.bsky.app/HD2Ty2o https://go.bsky.app/EGczjGA https://bsky.app/profile/bencurtis.com https://bsky.app/profile/joshuawood.honeybadger.io https://bsky.app/profile/founder.quest https://bsky.app/profile/honeybadger.io https://deck.blue/ https://brid.gy/
October 25, 2024Episode 1847 min
Selling Metrics Watch with JP Boily
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 pack Join the Honeybadger/FounderQuest Discord server! https://metricswatch.com/ https://github.com/topfunky/gruff https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer https://jumpstartrails.com https://microconf.com https://businessofsoftware.org https://rubyconferences.org
October 11, 2024Episode 1754 min
Acquiring Fireside with John Nunemaker
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://sifterapp.com/ https://www.indierails.com/
August 30, 2024Episode 1649 min
Pricing
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-m https://blog.flippercloud.io/per-seat-pricing-sucks/ https://garrettdimon.com/journal/posts/data-modeling-saas-entitlements-and-pricing https://basecamp.com/pricing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion https://statamic.com/
July 19, 2024Episode 1535 min
Shipping in Layers with Will and John
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-layers https://longform.asmartbear.com/slc/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product https://archive.ph/20130719182750/http://www.businessballs.com/treeswing.htm https://www.amazon.com/How-Fight-Hydra-Ambitions-Destined-ebook/dp/B07J57YF47
June 21, 2024Episode 1437 min
Dogfooding, Developers, and Discord!
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 Up Seth Godin Blue Ridge Ruby Monitorama Join the Honeybadger Discord! https://discord.gg/aQaDVBedRf
June 7, 2024Episode 1337 min
Scaling Judoscale with Adam McCrea
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 Ruby Josh’s Blue Ridge Ruby recap Kyle Shold Printfection JudoScale SignWell Heroku Add-ons Router blog post: https://judoscale.com/blog/heroku-router-post-mortem
May 24, 2024Episode 1248 min
Writing and Content Marketing for Developers
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: Standardrb Josh’s 2013 Ruby Style Guide GitHub Copilot Copilot Chat for Neovim Seth Godin Amy Hoy My Life in Advertising by Claude Hopkins This book will teach you how to write better by Neville Medhora Carbon
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