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×1 128 Catch up 2024: AI, Ruby on Rails, Bluesky, and Puppies 2:03:32
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2:03:32Chris got a puppy and is almost done with his masters. Christian switches back to Ruby on Rails, and tries to convince Chris to use more AI to write code. 0:00 Intro 1:24 Chris got a puppy 5:20 Why do people like pets? 11:59 Are AI coding assistants worth it? 42:07 How Chris' job is going 47:14 Finishing up a CS masters 54:20 Fatherhood 1:03:07 Consulting for Stacks and paying people 1:10:00 Rootabl and affiliate programs 1:19:37 Ruby on Rails vs Serverless js 1:39:59 Going through the pain to get better 1:46:01 Fileinbox rewrite in Laravel ??? 1:57:46 Bluesky 2:02:32 Outro…
Christian had a baby! and Chris is now a Kaggle Grandmaster.
Muppets Treasure Island is the best movie ever. Chris just got back from Iceland and just re-started his masters classes. He's also considering getting a 3d printer (which Christian is definitely in favor of). Christian's experiments to find new customers aren't going great. Pricing is hard. Christian expands his consulting practice.…
Christian continues to try to reach target customers for FileInbox. He's also still full steam ahead on the serverless transition before his baby gets here. Chris is prepping for a trip to Iceland.
1 124 Outsourcing development and working with people 1:10:10
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1:10:10Christian tries to outsource some development tasks. Chris built a photo frame and is getting ready for a trip to Iceland.
1 123 Setting aside SaaS for Consulting 1:09:47
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1:09:47Chris is prepping for a couple of photo trips. Christian is trying to figure out how to talk to his ideal FileInbox customer. He's also wondering how much consulting to do and what that means for his time working on his own SaaS.
Chris and Christian both went on vacation. Chris is getting back into Photography. Christian is creating user personas for FileInbox, and is getting more consulting gigs too. correction at 27:45 NVIDIA doesn't even manufacture their own GPU chips! They rely on 3rd party manufacturers too. 0:00 Fun number fact 122: Ozymandias 8:13 Chris vacation update 13:00 Photography as a hobby 23:42 tinygrad ML framework 28:28 Fileinbox user personas 36:15 Christian consulting 44:36 Home Depot adventure…
1 121 Advantages of Firebase 1:00:34
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1:00:34Chris is prepping for a trip to Iceland. Christian is trying to figure out exactly who is the target customer for fileinbox. Christian then tries to convince Chris that Firebase is the best platform on which to build a SaaS.
1 120 Estimating how long features are going to take + All the baby gear 1:12:48
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1:12:48Christian has been looking at ALL THE BABY GEAR and has opinions. Also, he's working on the serverless transition for FileInbox and is struggling with estimating how long features will take.
1 119 Losing 17 pounds + Craft and Commerce takeaways 1:22:31
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1:22:31Chris totally switches his diet and loses 17 pounds in 3 weeks. Christian went to Craft and Commerce and and takeaways for his business. He also figured out that his time estimates for FileInbox were way off.
1 118 How to Plan and Get Things Done, and How to Focus 1:04:23
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1:04:23Chris finished the StableDiffusion Image competition, but realized he was seriously outmatched in GPU power. Christian has renewed energy for FileInbox after talking with Asia Orangio. We both walk through how to plan to get things done, and how to actually follow through on those plans. Christian is trying to hire an assistant and tries to figure out what he needs to do that, and actually pay them money.…
1 117 How often should you update dependencies? Also, an update on "Dude, where's my Bitcoin?" 1:01:31
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1:01:31Christian wants to update Ruby and Rails, but has run into frustrating issues. Should he just... not upgrade? Chris gives up on the latest Kaggle competition, and is already eyeing another one. Also, Christian gets an update on the Bitcoin he lost.
1 116 Trial to paid conversion rates and Christian's big annoucement 1:02:03
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1:02:03Christian has a big announcement! (@ 36 minutes). Chris is done with Linear Algebra, working on Kaggle, and thinking about what type of AI course to make. Christian discovers that FileInbox already has a lot of traffic, but his trial to paid conversion rate is too low.
Chris tries to figure out which AI course he should make first; i.e., what skills would give developers superpowers? Christian starts talking to Asia Orangio about FileInbox to see where it can improve. What is his backwards plan?
1 114 Microconf '23 takeaways 1:10:37
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1:10:37(sorry about the weird jumpy video). We talk about Microconf and how we feel about the things we're doing as a result.
Attaboy.ai gets a bunch of users, and Christian is wondering how to charge for it. Chris tells Christian to talk to users of the video clipper in order to see what is valuable to them.
Chris and Christian talk about using AI for therapy, and re-ignite attaboy.ai (which is now a thing! visit it and send it some texts). Also: AI coaches, the Pope in a puffer jacket, AI doctors, and how AI is coming for all of us. Also: a reminder to TALK TO CUSTOMERS!
1 111 How ChatGPT actually works 1:04:13
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1:04:13Chris tries to explain how ChatGPT works. Christian tries to figure out the next steps for the video clipper.
An update from Tim Leland (originally on episode 70) about his link shortener t.ly, and his journey creating a potentially new API for detecting malicious links. T.LY https://linkshieldapi.com/ Highlights: - How to launch a new API service - Doubling MRR in 6 months! - 5 ideas for how to use a malicious link API to create a new business…
1 109 Social Media Marketing World 1:00:38
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1:00:38Christian just got back from Social Media Marketing World and has LOTS of ideas. Chris gets a new computer but it arrived broken :(
Christian continues to build the video clipper with Remotion and is experimenting with using ChatGPT to create good clips. We also talk about what it would take for him to sell FileInbox. Chris is considering buying another GPU for Kaggle.
Chris starts a new Kaggle competition using stable diffusion. Christian makes progress on how to use AI to automatically suggest clips for the video clipper.
Christian launched thevideoclipper and got it to $80 MRR! Chris comes up with another justification for buying his gpu.
Christian is about to launch thevideoclipper.com, but is feeling "The Resistance". Chris is learning linear algebra for his master's, and is trying to learn it by creating a plan to teach it. We talk about just "doing it badly" for both: and adjusting as we go.
Google did a 12k layoff. Chris started a new master's class about advanced linear algebra. Christian was on vacation, and was wondering the best way to learn AI in order to keep up with all the recent advances. He also helped his wife launch https://gymnastcode.com/
1 103 How to find consulting clients 1:02:38
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1:02:38Christian is trying to find a few consulting clients to make some extra money. He's also made progress on the video clipper, and signed a new $99/mo account for file inbox! Chris just started a new linear algebra class and finished the gravity waves kaggle competition.
1 102 First revenue for the video clipper 1:06:11
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1:06:11Christian launches a new podcast! He also got a first customer for the video clipper! AND he's also thinking about making more course content, so we talk about how much money can be made with technical courses. Chris is almost done with the gravity wave Kaggle competition. Also: How long is the coastline of England?…
1 101 How to backup all-the-things 1:04:11
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1:04:11Chris talks about how work at Google is different than a small project or company. He's also working on the gravity waves kaggle competition. Christian tries to figure out how to backup all of his projects and files, and how to promote the video clipper.
1 100 Dude, where's my email list? 1:07:01
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1:07:01Chris is still getting used to his job at Google. Christian may have (or not?) lost his email list when a service went down.
Christian has some bad news about crypto. Chris is still working on the gravity competition.
AcornChat has real users now! Christian loves how TDD makes his code bulletproof. 00:00 Intro 06:58 Kaggle GPS update 14:09 AcornChat real users 15:33 Reaching out to users is hard 19:00 Analytics 27:50 MarketingChangelog ? 30:32 FileInbox work time 33:55 New features for fileinbox 35:16 TDD 41:45 Dropbox OAuth 43:09 File uploads and virus scanning 48:32 SEO links 50:03 How to get MRR up faster 52:42 Personal updates Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris had his name and face on a billboard. Christian is pushing forward FileInbox stuff, and is looking for the next marketing task. 00:00 Intro 01:40 Face on a billboard 10:10 How to evoke emotion 11:09 Marketing strategies work until they don't 14:38 AcornChat trials 21:17 DALL-E 2 25:21 Kaggle GPS 28:12 Free shirt 30:01 FileInbox SEO 32:08 Live video chat widget 34:46 Next marketing activity 38:14 Next projects for EA 45:23 Paramotoring is dangerous Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris is tired of coding. Christian has too many ideas and should focus on SEO. 00:00 Intro 03:53 AcornChat on Slack App Store 06:01 Developer advocate 11:42 Grass is greener 17:38 Three years 21:07 Controversial figures 25:07 Don't break the chain 27:03 Josh Kaufman's personal master plan 30:17 Therapy is great 30:42 SEO 39:44 Sending large files: Hot take 51:20 Rails vs serverless 53:53 Increase revenue Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 80 5 Marketing Hot Takes for FileInbox 1:05:14
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1:05:14Christian has been reading the book "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares and has 5 marketing hot take ideas that he wants feedback on. 00:00 Intro 03:33 Kaggle updates 07:58 AcornChat resubmitted 09:54 Cold call update 12:33 Traction book about marketing 17:56 Marketing hot take #1: Blogs 26:16 #2: Publicity 33:46 #3: Unconventional publicity 41:08 #3a: Live video feed of Christian 43:28 Intermission 45:59 #3b: How Jason Bourne would send files 51:12 #4: Search engine marketing 55:19 #5: Social and display ads 01:03:37 AcornChat in the Slack App Store! Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 79 SaaS Deep Dive with Johnny Tong 1:08:25
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1:08:25We talk with Johnny Tong about how he bought a SaaS and is now struggling to grow it. Should he rebuild it? Dive into marketing? Rework the onboarding flow? Buy a bunch of ads? 00:00 Intro 02:47 What Johnny is looking for 10:01 SurveyBot overview 15:29 Buyer's guide 22:00 "The funnel" 28:45 Onboarding friction 33:49 The ups and downs of build vs buy 41:19 Conversion rate 44:19 Marketing vs coding 50:47 The end goal 57:43 Getting professional help 59:00 Deeper understanding Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Buy Grow Repeat Podcast: https://buygrowrepeat.com/ Find Johnny here: https://twitter.com/johnnytong Books: - The War of Art - The Artist's Way…
1 78 Ways to organize and live your life 1:02:15
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1:02:15Christian went to Greece and got a new perspective on how he could be living. Chris resubmitted AcornChat to the Slack app store and finished up a Kaggle competition. 00:00 Intro 03:17 AcornChat submitted to the Slack app store 06:40 Kaggle Patent competition 16:51 Reinforcement learning 21:06 Covid (again) 25:40 Building a Second Brain 38:05 On Looking 47:14 FileInbox cold calling 53:24 Consulting update 56:26 Switching to iOS Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Book recommendations: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz…
1 77 Cold calling is spooky 1:06:52
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1:06:52Chris wants to spend a bunch of money. Christian got advice to do some cold calling, but it sounds spooky 👻. plus 2 bonus hot takes 00:00 Intro 01:30 3d printer, camera and gpus 06:52 Kaggle update 15:49 Slack app update 17:52 Advanced Operating Systems 21:28 Rust 23:30 Personal productivity 25:30 FileInbox update 28:09 TDD 33:21 Firebase security rules 38:26 Spooky recommendation to increase MRR 43:16 100 paperclips 52:13 Hot take 1: Finance tracker (again but different) 59:02 Hot take 2: NFT project Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris is prepping for an AI for JS devs course. Christian gets engaged! Also, he wants to get to $20k MRR in 12 months, so we talk about how that would be possible. 00:00 Intro 01:28 AI for JS devs course 19:33 Too many Kaggle competitions 26:00 Christian gets engaged!!! 31:19 Parable of the pottery class 39:25 $20k MRR in 12 months 44:04 Do you really want that? 46:42 Is it better for customers? 50:08 Chris is mean and hypocritical 51:32 Personal life is all over the place Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Christian makes an easy way to send email templates from FileInbox. Chris got a response from the Slack App Store, and is wasted a bunch of time on an ML bug. 00:00 Intro 02:47 Chris's week 04:21 Slack app store 11:18 Working on things that don't go anywhere 16:36 Christian did a bunch of stuff 21:31 Fileinbox email system 24:03 What sells well 28:57 ffmpeg 32:18 Free Fileinbox for marketing? 37:40 3D printing bezier curves 45:24 Tick Tock development (again) 51:44 Just do stuff (again) 53:32 Tinnitus 57:59 How to read a paper Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco pubmed.gov https://arxiv.org/…
1 74 Getting started is the hardest part 1:01:20
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1:01:20Chris is in 3 different AI competitions (anyone want to know how GPS works?) and Christian was gone and describes how it feels to get back to work. He's also selling a paramotor, so hopefully that goes well 😆 00:00 Intro 01:07 Life and death reflections 07:00 Give yourself some leeway 12:10 Work is hard until it's easy 16:00 Kaggle competitions 18:17 Objective measures of learning 27:39 Christian wants Black Mirror 🤨 29:24 Different types of AI problems 31:15 How GPS works 41:46 Patent competition (NLP) 44:57 Bird Call competition (audio) 49:26 Slack app store 49:53 MarketingChangelog.com 53:14 Christian's week 54:53 Getting started is the hardest part 57:02 Other tasks and projects Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 73 SaaS math is bananas 1:07:02
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1:07:02Chris was on a trip, and Christian fell off the co-working wagon. Also, focus on authenticity (on YouTube, but everywhere too) 00:00 Intro 04:06 Tests 08:57 Having a beginner's mind 10:32 Fileinbox bugs 16:21 Consulting 18:52 SaaS math is bananas 23:50 Talking to customers 24:31 Focus is fickle 27:20 Makers.dev early episodes 34:54 Youtube as a reliable source of information 36:17 Prioritize authenticity 50:18 Attaboy 54:13 Hot Take #1: personal private podcast host 56:49 Hot Take #2: ffmpeg as a service (again) 01:02:21 How to start working with other people Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco undefined…
Chris created his buyer's guide for acornchat. Christian gets another contracting job and wonders how to leverage that or if he should try to get more similar contracts. 00:00 Intro 00:50 SaaS buyer's guide 11:20 Look at all these salad dressings! 14:00 Machine learning theory and math 19:01 Fileinbox updates 24:37 Errands and engagement rings 32:09 Face follower contracting job 39:16 Making an automated Fiverr service 42:58 Modularizing code Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 71 $183.60 per hour 1:05:14
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1:05:14Christian calculates his consulting rate per hour. Chris soft launched saastips.com and was immediately overwhelmed by email bot signups. After fixing that problem, it led to three new SaaS ideas. 00:00 Intro 02:57 Launching saastips.com 12:25 Fixing fake bot email signups 18:54 Hot take #1: email signup saas 23:55 Hot take #1.5: better newsletter sending UI 32:29 Hot take #2: Marketing Changelog 39:11 $183.60 per hour 51:45 Back to SaaS 57:14 Hot take #3: Face follower Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 70 Creating Successful Chrome Extensions with Tim Leland 1:04:08
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1:04:08We chat with Tim Leland who runs a link shortener (t.ly) and a weather extension. We cover how he came up with the ideas, how he developed and marketed them, and where he sees the future of his products and Chrome extensions in general. 00:00 Intro 00:22 Tim Leland's start as a developer 05:24 The Chrome Extension Marketplace 09:52 Security concerns about Chrome extensions 16:21 Chrome change create opportunities for new developers 20:13 400k active users 21:48 How t.ly works and compares to other link shorteners 29:28 Marketing playbook 33:01 Chrome extension marketplace tips 37:15 Malicious chrome apps 40:35 How to make money with a Chrome extension 42:54 The hard parts of running a link shortener 49:40 What's next for t.ly? 55:19 Other marketing channels 01:00:56 Be simple technically, focus on marketing 01:03:05 Where to follow Tim Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Where to find Tim online: https://twitter.com/Tim_Leland https://timleland.com/migrate-chrome-extensions-to-manifest-v3/ https://timleland.com/extensions/…
1 69 MicroConf Growth '22 Takeaways 1:02:42
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1:02:42We both share our takeaways from Microconf. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Microconf growth '22 07:46 Takeaway #1: Focus instead of niche 13:16 Takeaway #2: Buying is harder than selling 19:35 subpoint: have a buyers guide 27:18 Takeaway #3: It's OK to optimize for experience instead of growth 39:05 Tall poppy syndrome 41:37 Excited for SaaS again 46:20 A nice little Italian restaurant on the internet 50:28 Hot take #1: Google voice style frontend for Twilio 55:20 Hot take #2: Tree map for expenses in QuickBooks 01:02:00 Fixed audio Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🚽 “How to Craft a Story that Sells” by April Dunford: https://www.recap.app/april-dunford 🔍”How to Go-To-Market Across Many Verticals” by Asia Orangio: https://www.recap.app/asia-orangio 🐎”Ending Well: The Complex Psychology of Exiting Your Company” by Sherry Walling: https://www.recap.app/sherry-walling ☑️The 7-Figure To Do List: 29 Tactics To Level-Up Your Business In 60 Minutes or Less by Rob Walling: https://www.recap.app/rob-walling-2022 🚀”Here’s the exact method I used to scale to $100k MRR in 12 months”: https://twitter.com/nathanbarry/status/1512782207508643845 🌳Grand Perspective’s tree map: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ 🍝 “Nice Italian restaurant of the internet”: https://youtu.be/0CDXJ6bMkMY…
Christian renames clips.marketing to thevideoclipper.com and is trying to figure out what he wants it to be. He also wonders if he should hire someone else to run fileinbox while he builds the video clipper. Chris is still working on the Kaggle gravity waves competition.
1 97 MeetingPlace shuts down, Musk buys twitter, and crypto crashes 1:02:28
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1:02:28Chris found out that the person who bought MeetingPlace shut it down :/. Christian is evaluating whether or not he should go all in on clips.marketing, or what to do about it vs FileInbox.
Christian has a potential customer conversation for clips.marketing that didn't feel very great. Chris joins a kaggle competition about gravity waves.
Chris has his first full week of Google, and also got his prize money from the Kaggle competition! Christian wonders if he should focus more on clips.marketing as a consultancy, or as a service, or just focus on FileInbox.
Christian tries to figure out where his customers are coming from, and how to get more signups for FileInbox. He also is trying to figure out what freemium features are best for clips.marketing. Chris starts his first week at Google. (timestamps coming later)
Chris is prepping to start his new job. Christian got $157.126 per hour on his latest consulting project for Ali Abdall, and is now wondering if he should spend a lot more time on clips.marketing instead of FileInbox. 00:00 Intro 01:07 Prepping to start a job 07:51 Acornchat changes 13:20 Marketing ideas outside an app store 17:34 Consulting project for Ali Abdaal 24:01 RailsSaaS conference 29:13 No progress on FileInbox 34:13 Stringing pearls 37:27 Being close to the audience of clips.marketing Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco iFixit toolkit: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Essential-Electronics-Toolkit/IF145-348?o=5…
Chris gets a job! Christian talks about his latest marketing experiments, and wonders if he should start working on clips.marketing again. 00:00 Intro 01:28 Google Photos DevRel role 03:52 What about acornchat? 05:20 Compensation at FAANG companies 09:03 Salary negotiation 11:34 Hiring freeze 12:33 Using Google ads for FileInbox 23:13 Promoted tweet experiment 25:57 Education as marketing 28:04 Low price file sending plan? 34:01 Detecting bots 36:25 Consulting project update 41:47 clips.marketing ideas 48:35 $20k sewer repair Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Christian quickly bought a google ad for Chris (for acornchat), but there were some unexpected results that required a lot more tweaking. Christian is doing a consulting project and enjoying it, and is wondering how to get more projects like that one. 00:00 Intro 02:15 Dedicated marketing days 03:07 Buying google ads 08:45 Adding more documentation for certain install paths 15:37 Conversion tracking and SEO 17:32 Google metadata tip 20:23 Filesize vs memory error in Google cloud 25:24 Building file sending in a day 32:28 Consulting tasks and rate 38:53 Tackling a personal email backlog with an EA 46:59 Building cabinet drawers Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 90 100% user growth and profitable 1:10:52
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1:10:52Chris gets another customer for acornchat, which is 100% user growth! Christian is thinking about marketing for FileInbox using SEO, youtube, a new feature, and more. 00:00 Intro 05:55 2nd Acorn Chat user 09:18 Buying Google ads seems hard 16:35 Winning $5k from Kaggle 21:54 Twitter recommendations 30:09 FileInbox SEO changes 38:04 Youtube is underused for SaaS 45:34 File sending feature as a marketing channel 52:11 Serverless transition - using less memory 58:04 Doing more consulting 01:03:51 Making cabinets Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Twitter recommendations: Massimo: https://twitter.com/rainmaker1973 WeRateDogs: https://twitter.com/dog_rates PUNS: https://twitter.com/thepunnyworld…
1 89 Winning $5000 1:09:31
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1:09:31Chris wins $5k from Kaggle! Christian fixes some bugs and picks up woodworking to fix his new organization troubles. 00:00 Intro 02:43 Winning $5000 in an AI competition 12:10 The hardest problem in the competition 24:41 AI master's class 32:15 AcornChat: why people switch 38:32 Motivation comes and goes 42:03 FileInbox bugs and features 49:26 SegMetrics Analytics 54:27 Woodworking hobby 58:42 Cleaning and organizing 01:01:39 iPhone vs Android Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
We've reached 10,000 downloads for makers.dev! (a while ago). Chris has started his next master's class and is working on AcornChat. Christian is doing end-to-end testing with Playwright, and is still trying to figure out how to get better metrics for FileInbox. 00:00 10,000 downloads 00:54 3 redactions 03:29 Kaggle CTF updates 07:24 Learning things through challenges 10:43 Case studies in Machine Learning 15:33 AcornChat updates 19:59 Violent and original work 28:14 End to end testing 40:13 Metrics and analytics 45:43 Running paid ads? 48:52 How to throw a good party 52:35 Talking to strangers 54:44 CO2 levels indoors Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Christian came to Indy! Chris started his new ML class and is onboarding his first AcornChat customer. Christian tries to figure out a way to test dropbox file uploads. 00:00 Intro 01:28 Kaggle 4th place 04:04 AcornChat motivation 08:12 Case studies in machine learning 10:29 Christian's travels 12:27 How to test Fileinbox 14:40 File uploads to dropbox 20:14 Next steps for fileinbox Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 86 First paying customer 1:07:51
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1:07:51Christian got married! Chris got his first paying customer for AcornChat. 00:00 Intro 01:24 First paying customer 07:32 Heroku is removing the free tier 10:43 Kaggle CTF competition 20:13 Taxes 24:36 Killing grass weeds 30:03 Next marketing thing for acornchat 39:48 💍🎉 Christian got married! 47:15 2nd customer migrated for fileinbox 51:43 Next marketing channel for fileinbox 56:22 Youtube as a search platform 59:57 TikTok for B2B saas? 01:05:36 Smartwatch for kids Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco undefined…
Christian is in up state New York so he hasn't done much SaaS stuff this week - but he is preparing his business taxes. Yippee! Chris is recovering from being sick, so he's working on an AI security competition on Kaggle. 00:00 Intro 03:19 Kaggle DefCon AI security competition 15:07 DALLE prompts and AI art 22:40 Tricks to make AI art generators output a specific style 24:31 Systems to reduce friction 28:37 Business taxes 37:56 Full sized CNC machine 40:28 Neat wedding gifts with 3d printers 43:41 Manual labor Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris got covid; Christian is in upstate New York, and wonders about a new marketplace project. 00:00 Intro 05:09 AcornChat feature requests 12:41 Marketing for acornchat 15:23 What do you use for analytics? 21:20 Outreach strategies 29:59 GPS Gold Medal 32:57 AI driving to the woods 39:28 Weird birthday project with artist commisions 55:15 FileInbox Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 68 Close to feature complete 1:00:01
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1:00:01Chris almost has Acorn Chat feature complete and ready to submit to the Slack app store. Christian is getting close to finishing the serverless FileInbox v1. Also we talk about RSI and using voice commands as a potential way to limit injury. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Expectation maximization 06:06 Acorn Chat 09:10 Screenshots and video marketing 12:55 Simple can be a differentiating factor 17:50 New Kaggle competition - are patents good or bad? 28:21 AI can be both good and bad 31:48 All the Music 33:49 The Gap 35:48 FileInbox recording, uploading, and downloading 41:25 RSI causes and fixes 44:44 Talon voice control 49:22 Home automation architecture Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🔍 "The Gap" by Ira Glass: https://youtu.be/91FQKciKfHI 🎼 All the Music project: https://youtu.be/sJtm0MoOgiU 🎧 All The Music player: https://gen.co/allthemusic…
1 67 Doing work for friends: paid or free? 1:00:44
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1:00:44Chris is almost ready to submit his Slack app to the Slack app directory. Christian tries to figure out how to charge for work he wants to do for a friend. Christian also has ideas about home automation. 00:00 Intro 01:08 Kaggle essay competition 08:16 Building a Slack app 09:32 The amount of time things take to get done 17:09 Administrative poms 20:12 Home automation 37:50 Doing work for friends: paid or free? 52:48 Fileinbox update 55:36 Naming things is hard Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
MeetingPlace is sold, so Chris is working on his next SaaS. Christian keeps getting stuff done on FileInbox, and wonders when he can actually fly with his paramotor. 00:00 Intro 02:28 Microaquired 09:29 SaaS feelings 13:23 Why developers are bad at marketing 16:31 What is the core functionality? 17:58 AcornChat development roadmap 22:31 Kaggle update 28:50 Getting work done one step at a time 44:42 Hobbies Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris finalizes the sale of MeetingPlace. Christian worries that he's getting too productive. 00:00 Intro 01:03 Completing the sale of MeetingPlace 11:33 Should Christian sell something? 15:01 Data science 16:14 Coworking progress 21:30 Open vs closed mode of working 32:09 Admin work 38:49 Three Body Problem 40:29 Paramotor Adventure Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris sells a SaaS! Christian tries to figure out what makes him productive. [Sorry for the audio quality! - it gets better next week] 00:07 Slava Ukraini 03:31 Selling MeetingPlace 08:43 Advice for selling a SaaS 11:21 Strategy to build apps just to sell 13:53 Motivation to sell 16:15 SaaS valuation calculations 20:30 Data competitions 22:51 Accountability buddy effectiveness 27:03 Time estimates are hard 30:41 Another app idea 33:05 So easily tricked 34:16 Open vs Closed mode 36:58 Goals for the next week 41:26 Administrative stuff 45:18 Talking openly about work issues 48:24 Audio quality 49:05 Allergies Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco The Killer Combo of Free Content with Paid Promotion – Jordan Gal – MicroConf Growth 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9aLKqRuS7A…
Microconf is in 40 days! We talk about what we want to accomplish before then, and come up with a strategy to hold each other accountable and get stuff done. 00:00 Intro 01:18 MicroConf in 1.5 months 04:07 The next 40 days 10:22 Accountability buddies 15:13 AI competitions 19:13 Tesla safe driving score 24:20 Writing mini blog posts 31:42 Paramotoring 33:45 Flashcard app 38:54 The big SaaS idea for a flashcard app 42:17 Neuroticism Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 62 Have you ever made a french fry? 1:02:08
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1:02:08Chris has to relearn a bunch of math and tries to figure out how to teach it as well. Christian has a new way to try to get things done by delaying work on his fun projects. 00:00 Intro 03:08 ML Math 08:16 Teaching as you're learning 17:57 Games that you can't lose 22:08 Anki flashcards app 31:55 New tactic to get things done 36:04 Making clear priorities for Christian's assistant 40:18 Have you ever made a french fry? 45:11 Tesla roadtrip 50:53 Paramotoring 57:08 FSD Beta 10 Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris tries to figure out how to learn the math he needs for ML by teaching it. Christian buys a new domain name, then works on another project for 16 hours and tries to figure out how to deliver it. 00:00 Intro 03:38 Benefits of taking a break 08:28 How to teach math? 12:52 Am I a web dev or actually shifting to AI? 14:07 Snow water equivalent competition 19:23 Doge wordle 26:50 Feeling like a BOSS 34:45 Nerdle solver 38:31 Magic robot arm 43:10 Some people are controversial 52:17 Don't make work for other people Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Christian had a really productive week and would like to figure out how to have more weeks like that. Chris is doing well in a Kaggle competition and had to learn a bunch of math for ML this week. 00:00 Intro 02:11 ML math is like coding 08:45 How Kaggle promotes code and idea sharing 18:12 Balancing family life and work 27:20 Christian's super productive week 33:04 Stripe extension vs coding your own 35:36 How to handle feature flags 37:20 What can an executive assistant do? 43:10 Attaboy 49:07 Making SaaS videos (as a service?) 52:10 Wordle solver 53:32 Make more videos Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Christian's executive assistant experiment is going great. Chris has to learn a lot more math to do his ML class. Christian has great LEGO aspirations. 00:00 Intro 00:42 LaTeX 06:44 How to learn by teaching 13:28 ML for essay classification 19:39 Folding data into bins 25:22 Christian's executive assistant is great 38:13 FileInbox Stripe integration 46:33 Harry Potter LEGO Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Correction: 59 is prime 😆…
Christian finally gets an executive assistant! Chris finishes the pet kaggle competition and prepares to start the next semester of his masters program. 00:00 Intro 02:47 Chris cleans up 07:13 Adam Savage's rules for putting things away 13:16 Kaggle top 6% 18:34 Overcoming futile feelings 21:08 Public and private leader boards are different 27:13 Crypto trading is still gambling 28:46 AcornChat Slack App Store 30:48 Morning pages 34:33 Executive assistant for Christian 41:44 Stripe integration with Firebase 43:40 Whole house humidifier 46:31 Dude, where's my heart? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Can we only get a lot accomplished if we have something more important to do that we are ignoring? Both Chris and Christian had productive weeks, but only by ignoring other things that we were supposed to do... 00:00 Intro 01:07 Getting stuck on features 07:25 Why features feel good 10:03 Next steps for AcornChat 11:04 Frustrated at Kaggle competition 17:21 Difference between cats and dogs 18:13 Applying AI to business 21:09 MeetingPlace features 22:18 Best way to do HTML embedding 23:15 Productive procrastination 24:21 Wordle solver 29:59 Getting things done only if you have something more important to do 32:34 Won't you be my boss goals 37:45 Dude, where's my Chipotle? 43:31 YC now offers $500k 49:51 We only get one life 54:13 Reading books gives you multiple lives Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris re-learns that to go fast you have to slow down. Christian rediscovers who his best customers are and tries to focus on getting more like them. Then he tries to sell a laptop... 00:00 Intro 00:27 Chris did nothing 01:26 Go slow to go fast 05:55 Software is magic 11:04 Dropbox api upgrade 19:01 Won't you be my boss? 31:16 Dude, where's my laptop? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
We talk to Brian Casel about launching ZipMessage and growing a SaaS business (vs a productize service). We talk to him about his previous business successes, how he got started programming, and how he's thinking about growing ZipMessage. 00:00 Intro 01:08 Brian's backstory 05:35 Scaling by hiring more people 09:40 ZipMessage 12:22 Audience Ops 13:14 Move towards software businesses 18:14 Christian's backstory 20:42 Chris's backstory 21:38 Tech stack: Rails vs React vs Laravel 28:24 ZipMessage company structure 30:26 Business structure: selling just part of an LLC 33:13 What to spending money on 38:18 Freemium 42:44 Buying a Tesla 48:01 Reading books 49:29 Investing thoughts 54:23 Outro Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco https://zipmessage.com/ https://twitter.com/casjam…
The exciting finale of "Dude, Where's my Car???"; plus we talk about crypto: is it gambling? or is there a way to make money with it? 00:00 Intro 00:25 The Matrix Resurrections 03:49 VR Movies 08:29 AcornChat next steps 12:38 Work time vs vacation time 13:45 AI competitions 24:04 Crypto Trading Compeition 30:03 Efficient vs inefficient markets 32:01 Why you can't make money trading crypto 34:16 Markets and crypto 38:27 Crypto breads discipline in normal markets 40:53 FileInbox Dropbox deadline 43:31 Dude, where's my car? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
SaaS is complicated... Christian has FileInbox go down and has to figure out what that means. Chris works on his final lab and runs into issues. Also: what would you do if your car got stolen? 00:00 Intro 00:46 SuperTuxKart AI 13:05 Acorn Chat 17:47 FileInbox was Down! 21:06 SaaS is... complicated 28:25 Programming languages for SaaS 32:49 Dude Where's my Car? 43:28 How to deal with a car thief? 48:54 Health issues are like cold taffy Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris finished his final lab using MPI (used in supercomputers). Christian tries to get his car back, and then we both ask: do you have to be kind of a terrible person to be a billionaire? 00:00 Intro 01:47 MPI to solve the n-body problem 12:40 Dude where's my car? 17:02 Spending money to make money is hard 21:25 Road trip in a Tesla 30:11 The relaxed pace of Barbados 33:54 Steve Jobs was kind of a terrible person Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Brains: Talking Money with Anthony Pompliano and Sam Parr: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/bonus-brains…
Chris builds an AI to play virtual go kart icy hockey. Christian wants to track his mood and talk to customers. 00:00 Intro 01:29 SuperTuxKart AI Control 13:51 Kittens idle game 20:06 Kaggle Superpermutations 27:22 Youtube good? Youtube bad? 34:50 The formula for retention 36:45 Christian's projects 41:10 Mood tracking 46:40 Theranos 51:23 Deploy Empathy 54:47 Talking to customers Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
This was supposed to be an interview with Michele Hansen, co-founder of Geocodio and author of "Deploy Empathy", but due to interview issues that part was lost :(. Instead, Chris and Christian talk about the book and do a customer interview exercise from it - which worked way better than either of us thought it was! 00:00 Intro 01:24 Don't just ask what people want 05:10 You have to be bad before you're good 07:11 Customer interview exercise 08:31 Q1 Can you tell me about a product you bought recently? 11:02 Q2 Where were you when you bought this? 13:07 Q3 Were you with anyone else when you bought it? 13:57 Q4 How did you make the purchase? 17:21 Q5 Before you bought it, was there any open questions for you? 19:34 Q6 Where did you first learn about this product? 21:52 Q7 What did you do when you first came across this product? 22:53 Q8 What were you hoping this would do for you? 24:54 Q9 What other products did you try before this? 26:22 Q10 How did it go when you first used this product? 27:07 Q11 Can you tell me about whether it did everything you were hoping it would do? 27:51 Q12 Would you buy it again? 28:19 Meta discussion about the interview exercise 30:49 Audio book as a private podcast 32:06 The not-interview Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Stay tuned for a future episode that is actually an interview with Michele, or find her here now: https://twitter.com/mjwhansen deployempathy.com…
1 49 Strongly Typed Languages and Talking to Customers 1:00:44
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1:00:44Chris has been learning Rust and has thoughts about strongly typed languages. Christian has been building "Treebooks" - a new way to read ebooks - and is wondering how to get customers and authors onto this new format. Also and update about Christian's passive income experiment of renting out his card 00:00 Intro 01:36 Chris's update 03:21 What has Chris's GPU been doing? 06:53 Does GPU mining of cryptocurrencies make sense? 12:08 Rust and strongly typed languages 19:08 Deploy Empathy book 24:51 Treebooks - a different way of reading books 37:43 How to get customers and books for treebooks 42:43 You don't have to solve everything - just make something a little bit better 45:26 Naming a process gives it power 46:23 Passive income experiment: renting out a car Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco https://deployempathy.com/ - Book about talking to customers…
Chris is learning Rust for his next lab. Christian has been renting out his old car to someone who uses it to drive for Uber, and it makes us think about wealth inequality. Also: what actually is the metaverse? 00:00 Intro 01:33 Rust 05:28 Process for learning a new language 09:37 Worrying about memory size and resources 14:43 Custom designed silicon chips 19:34 Low level vs high level programming 20:43 Buying vs making wizard wands 26:25 Aliexpress 31:07 What is the Metaverse? 39:26 The best tech item to bring back in time 41:57 Renting out a car update 52:30 Switching between work and taking breaks 🎩 Christian opening stuff from AliExpress: https://youtu.be/mCfMk1NaFUs Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris gets a list of all 160 million registered .com domain names and tries to figure out what to do with them. Christian has been looking into Solidity programming and has some hot take ideas. 00:00 Intro 02:39 All the .com domain names 08:31 Using AI to generate new domain names 16:31 Twitter algorithm 17:39 What type of work do you want to be doing? 26:41 Motivation 28:28 Solidity programming 34:56 Hot take #1: unique blockchain auctions 37:52 Squid Game on the blockchain 42:12 Hot take #2: NFT Secret Santa 45:26 Hot take #3: Dead man's switch on the blockchain 48:33 Hot take #4: Embedded JS widget to make NFTs 55:44 Renting out a car (car as an asset) Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco ICANN's Centralized Zone Data Service https://leandomainsearch.com/…
What makes a tweet thread either go viral or go to zero? Christian talks about his recent tweet thread that didn't get any likes, and Chris talks about some of the ways he's used tweet threads in the past. Also: is twitter really the best medium for what we want to share anyway? 00:00 Intro 00:27 Diminishing returns and catching little bugs 05:43 The Go programming language 10:09 Deleting youtube and twitter experiment 22:26 The feeling of flow 26:37 Why tweet threads do well or poorly 39:04 Why do people click retweet? 40:49 The importance of consistency on twitter 45:46 Digital gardening Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
We both took a road trip and was able to do some thinking about what he should focus on. We talk about if you should or shouldn't worry about competitors, and some good ways to focus. Then we delete twitter and youtube from our phones in an effort to regain some wasted time. 00:00 Intro 00:38 Deep thinking on a road trip 04:07 Losing interest once you have the end in sight 07:28 Worrying about competitors 11:50 Getting to "done" 15:51 Sticky notes on our monitors 19:38 Focus by being distracted 25:42 So how are we feeling? 34:48 OAuth deadline 39:17 Deleting YouTube and Twitter 42:04 M1 Max 51:55 Touchbar or no touchbar? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 44 Marketing Channel Experiments 1:02:28
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1:02:28Christian goes through a list of 20 potential marketing channels and we think about ways to make those work for Fileinbox. We also try to figure out what to focus on and how to frame the work we're doing as "experiments": with a hypothesis, success and failure criteria, and a completion timeframe. 00:00 Intro 03:25 Talking to people as an experiment 13:12 How to figure out what to focus on 15:34 Pushing work forward 16:55 Fighting yourself about what to work on 20:41 How to create work experiments 23:08 Tracking time: good or bad? 26:13 What a work experiment actually is 36:03 Fileinbox experiments 40:55 App store integrations 43:18 Tech debt 46:41 20 Marketing channels 55:30 Ranking marketing channels Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 43 MicroConf Europe and Austin Recap 1:01:20
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1:01:20We talk about MicroConf Local Austin and MicroConf Europe: Do we need to be focusing on just one thing? We also come up with a framework for doing small experiments with post mortems as a way to push us forward. 00:00 Intro 01:23 MicroConf in 2021 vs before 04:54 Isolation as an Indie Dev 06:17 MicroConf Takeaways 08:45 Focus as a bootstrapper 16:33 Results oriented post mortems 21:39 MeetingPlace, or something new? 24:59 But why is MeetingPlace hard to grow? 29:08 Support Shepard to handle support 38:29 AI powered writing buddy hot take 44:03 How we things about a focus on growth 46:22 Fileinbox marketing channel 50:56 Post mortem structure 51:48 Potential FileInbox growth strategy 55:43 Riding a big wave with clips.marketing 01:00:17 Chrstian gave a talk Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco How Veed.io grew to $1.7m ARR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgFGokLcq6E https://www.supportshepherd.com/ Post mortem structure: - Timeframe - Action - Hypothesis - What does success look like? - What does failure look like?…
Christian has an idea for a financial visualization app and we talk about how to market it. Chris has been doing C++ recently, and has just started GPU programming. 00:00 Intro 00:16 What to do with GPT-3? 05:08 C++ 07:41 Programming video games 09:38 CUDA GPU programming 13:23 AI loss functions 14:20 How Chris learns new things 15:34 Reading an ebook like a tree 24:43 Releasing an audiobook as a private podcast 25:43 Hot Take: visualizing finances with a treemap 30:11 Business accounting - do we have to itemize expenses? 35:17 Better understanding business expenses 37:37 Marketing a finance visualizer 41:52 Pricing a financial SaaS 42:35 Competition is good Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🤑 The Killer Combo Of Free Content With Paid Promotion by Jordan Gal: https://microconf.gen.co/jordan-gal/…
A short episode this week: Christian is in Europe! He just got access to GPT-3 so he's really itching to play with that. Chris does his first big project for his masters, and is going to Austin in a few weeks. 00:00 Intro 00:51 Christian got access to GPT-3 09:43 C++ threads 15:45 Microconf Local Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris explores how a non-fiction writing buddy app might work. Christian ponders if freemium is a good fit for his app or not and talks about progress on his time tracking app. 00:00 Intro 00:25 We made attaboy.ai 01:51 Offline vs online AI 06:41 Deploying web apps with Vercel and Netlify 08:24 Non-fiction writing tools 23:20 Chris starts his masters 24:05 AI generated narratives 31:38 Is freemium a good idea? 43:05 Time tracking project progress 51:22 Talk to your customers 55:04 Holding office hours for customers Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 39 When giving up on a project is actually a good thing 1:05:00
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1:05:00Christian gives up on a project and Chris convinces him that it's actually a big win. Chris is about to finish his summer work and start his masters. Also: How much is a SaaS worth? Is $100k too much to pay for a SaaS that only makes $600 per month? 00:00 Intro 01:10 attaboy.ai 04:58 Chris finishes summer work 11:47 0-shot learning 14:18 The logistics of an online masters program 21:28 Wacky AI experiments 24:31 Instagram vs twitter vs tik tok vs youtube 26:58 First paying customer! 28:55 Give up on gmail integration? 29:33 tailwindui 31:12 Giving up once you almost get to the finish line 34:48 Building camhead in Electron 37:37 App Store vs direct release 42:23 meta time statistics 46:05 Product research as entertainment 54:52 Is $100k too much for a SaaS with $600 MRR? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Christian is out this week so Chris is joined by Matt Swanson (https://twitter.com/_swanson). We talk about making decisions about features and user roles in his software consulting role, how he grew a twitter audience to 4,000 and what he learned, and "Boring Rails", his latest project, where he talks about writing software using the tride-and-true "boring" rails stack.…
1 22 Refocusing on SaaS 1:04:37
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1:04:37Both of us refocus on the businesses we had when we started makers.dev, and we become each other's boss again. 00:00 Intro 01:38 Taking breaks is good for work 03:52 Chris's update - AI plus WIP 09:25 Specific marketing next steps 21:39 A tool for finding "watering holes" 23:54 Make specific next steps and cultivate long term habits 31:12 Chris might buy a computer 34:12 The most effective way to allocate money 44:17 Should Christian transition to serverless? 49:44 Making plugins for every site building app 56:20 OneDrive and SharePoint integrations 01:03:58 Want us to "Hot Take" your business idea? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🧠 https://www.kaggle.com/c/indoor-location-navigation/ 🚀 joinwip.com 🔎 https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ 🤑 The Killer Combo of Free Content with Paid Promotion – Jordan Gal – MicroConf Growth 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9aLKqRuS7A 🎤 https://softwaresocial.dev/ 30x500 query generator: https://gen.co/qgen/…
1 21 Graphics Cards and Hot Takes 1:04:19
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1:04:19Chris dives deeper into data science and complains that crypto currency miners are buying all the graphics cards. Christian talks about how to decide what to work on, plus has 6 new business ideas to think about. 00:00 Intro 01:11 Chris's projects 03:43 When to buy vs rent (graphics cards and more) 12:34 Trying to rise in a Kaggle competition 16:44 MeetingPlace - what to do next, committing to action 23:55 Mining Ethereum 30:40 Hot take 1: better YouTube suggestions 35:08 *YouTube history tip* 36:34 Hot take 2: solar system Oculus Quest app 39:23 Hot take 3: selling physical products 42:45 Hot take 4: a better way to read ebooks 51:51 How to parse an epub 53:35 Hot take 5: non-birthday cards 59:29 Hot take 6: paid coaching calls Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Links from the show: 📖 Permutation City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City 📄 How to Read a Paper https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPaper.pdf…
1 20 It's never as good as it seems, it's never as bad as it seems 1:01:17
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1:01:17Chris enters a Kaggle competition to expand his data science skills, and Christian tries to figure out what to work on and how to prioritize time. We also talk about personality and learning traits, and how we get things done. 00:00 Intro 01:23 Data science update 02:37 Kaggle indoor positioning competition 11:51 How Chris dives into learning a new topic 14:18 Balancing short term vs long term 17:02 ADHD styles of getting things done 22:53 Studying personality 27:06 Christian defeats email mountain 32:47 It's never as good as it seems, it's never as bad as it seems 39:47 3D printers are SO FREAKING COOL 45:59 How to choose what to work on 49:43 Selling a SaaS? 55:49 Recapturing attention by streamlining processes 57:07 Hot Take: online grocery ordering Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris talks about learning more AI and ML, and how learning that is helping as he teaches others. Christian is about to get a new 3D printer, and talks about how it's so cool that we can just download and print real things - we're living in the future. 00:00 Intro 02:15 Doing things under your own name vs a new domain name 07:18 Learning new things makes you a better educator 09:27 Consuming the content you create is important in business 14:33 Penny wise and pound foolish 19:11 Paying money for human experts to cover your blindspots 21:39 Updates on Chris's projects 24:14 Solutions for reducing the support load of a SaaS 29:27 3D printer + CNC + laser cutter 39:50 Openscad as a programmable 3D modeling software 42:16 Living in the future 46:07 NFTs Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Links mentioned: 🖨 https://snapmaker.com/ 💻 https://www.openscad.org/ 📖 https://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/1469246864 💎 Diamond Age: https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Age-Illustrated-Primer-Spectra/dp/0553380966 📱 Kindle Fire Kids Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-HD-10-Kids-Edition/dp/B07KD7K4B1 🎨 https://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/…
"Christian just do your emails" 00:00 Plumbing problems 01:31 When do you outsource vs. do it yourself? 13:18 Chris's AI research 17:38 Overview of Machine Learning 22:24 PyTorch vs. TensorFlow 26:02 Python, Javascript, and Ruby 29:41 Slogging through email 33:34 Email systems 40:43 Bookmark bankruptcy 41:44 Zettelkasten Google Search browser plugin HOT TAKE 44:34 Just do your emails Christian Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 9️⃣MNIST number dataset AI practice: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1369313924970143749 🌊TensorFlow: https://www.tensorflow.org/ 🔥PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/ 🏃🏻fast.ai: https://www.fast.ai/ 🌭Not a Hotdog app from Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIci3C4JkL0 ☕TensorFlow.js: https://www.tensorflow.org/js 🎒Learn X in Y minutes: https://learnxinyminutes.com/ 🐍Effective Python: https://amzn.to/30t9fOS 🐓Data Science from Scratch: https://amzn.to/3t476pd 🤘🏻Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw: https://amzn.to/3t6u8f5 🚶🏻StumbleUpon: https://www.stumbleupon.com/ ⛰Email Mountain: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1369407654809001986…
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1:09:47Apparently makers.dev is now the #1 Entrepreneurship podcast in Albania 00:00 Intro 01:45 2^4 episodes and the #1 Albanian Entrepreneurship Podcast 04:00 Chris's GAN AI research 09:32 How hard is it to make a GAN? 14:56 Feeling like you should be working on something else 21:31 EMAIL 24:56 Building a book reader in public 28:47 Orders of magnitude of views vs. engagement 31:12 Letting projects incubate 36:28 Boutique paper scanning business idea #HOTTAKES 41:40 Google lockout insurance #HOTTAKES 45:57 Chrome Extensions, npm, and other dangerous ecosystems #HOTTAKES 56:59 Christian spends several minutes reinventing Squarespace 01:08:04 gen.co domain name Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🇦🇱 #1 Entrepreneurship podcast in Albania: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1366427624659185664 🎓Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/generative-adversarial-networks-gans 🆒Tesseract OCR: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract 👻This Person Does Not Exist: https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ 🏫 fast.ai: https://www.fast.ai/ 📖Christian making an ebook reader in public: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1365354786422460419 🐦Use AI summarizations to help summarize a book: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1365681397365628934 🗻Iron Mountain enterprise scanning: https://www.ironmountain.com/ 🖌Tom Sawyer painting a fence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAHXwLRI88Q 🤨"I no longer trust The Great Suspender": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846504 ❌"The Great Suspender extension has been removed from Chrome Web Store for containing malware": https://9to5google.com/2021/02/04/the-great-suspender-extension-has-been-removed-from-chrome-web-store-for-containing-malware/ 🏚"How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript ": https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ 🍔"McDonald’s Didn’t Know What the Internet Was in the 90’s ": http://www.factfiend.com/mcdonalds-didnt-know-internet-90s/ 🚗Nissan.com: https://nissan.com/…
Eight new ideas hot and fresh from a week of impromptu urban camping in Dallas, Texas. 00:00 SNOVID 02:39 Iceballs 03:43 Acorn Chat 04:44 Standard landing page vs. Long Form Copy 09:52 AB testing 14:55 SNOVID idea #HOTTAKES 16:30 Amazon mobile app for all Shopify stores idea 19:07 donotcall.dev API idea 22:13 ffmpeg as a service idea 27:47 transcriptions with a good API idea 32:43 Every YouTube channel is a podcast idea 35:18 Custom email frontend idea 40:18 Positive feedback hotline idea 44:50 Audiobook/ebook note taking app idea 50:11 Generative Adversarial Networks Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco ⏲Noko time tracker: https://nokotime.com/ 📈Fileinbox long form copy AB test: https://imgur.com/KDfDYmi 🛍Main Street Fights Back: https://justinjackson.ca/main-street-fights-back 🚚air.com searching network of independent stores: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1363648414882271233 🥊Fight Amazon: https://justinjackson.ca/fight-amazon 🏦Mastering Modern Payments: https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com/ 🤖GPT-3 beta: https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/ 🏋️♀️Jane Fonda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM3SslJP31Y 🎧Pocket Casts podcast app: https://www.pocketcasts.com/ 🎓Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/generative-adversarial-networks-gans 💀"I tried to warn them": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPgL8O5mwLg…
Perfect is the enemy of good, show your work, and get more of yourself out there. 00:00 Keeping the monkey healthy 03:00 Crunched audio? 05:02 Building Acorn Chat in a week 13:15 Why have separate app. and www. subdomains? 18:44 Embedded customizable .ejs templates per customer 21:13 Perfect is the enemy of good 24:00 The next 48 hours for Acorn Chat 27:08 Clips.marketing goals were CRUSHED 31:29 Show your work 42:56 Acorn Chat on Fileinbox? 46:20 Next week Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 💬 Building a SaaS in a week: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1357029859046875137 🐦 "Something easy to fix now and hard to fix later is to separate out your marketing site from your backend app": https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1358147298979627008 ⛪ Perfect is the enemy of good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good ✂️ Clips.marketing: https://clips.marketing/ 🎞 API for video clipping and encoding: https://cloud.qencode.com/ 🤩 A moderately popular tweet about clips.marketing that only took 25 minutes to make: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1357476125228871681 🐉 fluent-ffmpeg: https://github.com/fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg…
Virtual Reality, project prioritization, and smart but upset tummies 00:00 Intro 00:56 Syndicating makers.dev clips 03:35 Clips.marketing as a consultancy vs. SaaS 13:58 Avoidant attachment style 16:00 Virtual Reality and the Oculus Quest 2 19:21 Unity VR development 21:23 Chris's 17 projects from 2020 26:02 How do you prioritize what to work on next? 31:22 Optimizing for fun work is important 34:23 Runway anxiety and optimization 39:31 Kids are productively challenging 42:14 Is your stomach or your brain in charge? 43:00 Gotta make the monkey happy 44:43 Camhead.app as a profitable Tamagotchi 48:38 Clips.marketing architecture Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🐦 Clip retweeted by @arvidkahl: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1355180904235188229 💡 Making the Most of Social Media with Whitney Hansen on the Run With It podcast: https://share.transistor.fm/s/75366d71 🍯 Parable of the Pottery Class: https://aliabdaal.com/pottery/ 📚 The Artist's Way: https://amzn.to/39LFYEy 🧠 "The second brain contains some 100 million neurons, more than in either the spinal cord or the peripheral nervous system": https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/ 💔 Heartbleed SSL vulnerability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed…
00:00 Christian and Chris are converging 00:40 Maker.dev interactions on twitter 01:47 Audio quality is bad and it's not the microphone's fault 04:56 Chris's talking head videos 08:46 Why is Facebook's moneymaker backend so bad? 15:01 What's the plan for clips.marketing? 20:52 Build your audience first (unless you can build really quickly and cheaply) 26:16 Manually onboard to make sure you talk to customers 28:24 Talk to dirty messy humans about their FeElInGs 30:48 Clips.marketing as a productized service? 37:22 Christian's next week 39:36 Chris's next week Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🎙 Our new matching microphones: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1352332392367841280 💛 Positive twitter feedback for makers.dev: https://twitter.com/petersuhm/status/1353368545715863553 🐦 Some of Chris's talking head videos: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1352376272878493699 💡 Making the Most of Social Media with Whitney Hansen on the Run With It podcast: https://share.transistor.fm/s/75366d71 🦓 How To Use Jobs To Be Done To Perfect Your Positioning by Claire Suellentrop: https://microconf.gen.co/claire-suellentrop/…
Apparently "worse is better" is how you get Christian to buy things. 00:00 Intro 00:23 Seeing the zoo through a child's eyes 02:56 Kids are like startups 05:27 Stripe Checkout 13:53 Microphone upgrades 17:52 Camera upgrades 21:54 Aspirational purchases 22:31 How would you live differently with more money? 28:25 A programmable phone in search of a problem and audience 34:40 Next week's plans Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 💳 Stripe Checkout: https://stripe.com/payments/checkout 🎙 Shure SM7B with cloud lifter: https://amzn.to/3p4y9z1 📷 Sony a7 III: https://amzn.to/3p1VcKX 📷 Ricoh GR III: https://amzn.to/2XVuCan ☁️ Salesforce Platform: https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/features/app-builder/ ⚛ Close API Documentation: https://developer.close.com/ 🅾️ Zoho Extensions: https://www.zoho.com/developer/extensions.html…
It's usually better to just get something done and out there rather than obsess over every little detail. Christian also figures out a better way to handle customer support emails.
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1:00:5800:00 10 episodes! 00:34 Listener shoutouts 02:59 Pumping your voice into someone else's ears 05:38 Converting internet numbers to real numbers 06:40 "Slack is down, use async!" 08:04 Meeting Place, Async.dev, and WebRTC update 09:59 How does WebRTC work? 14:59 Twilio's TURN at $0.40/GB vs. $0.01/GB 16:09 Business WebRTC bandwidth costs 18:49 STUN servers 20:09 Anyone could build AT&T from their bedroom! 20:43 Integrating audio chatting in Async.dev/Meeting Place 22:47 Chris's pandemic advantage over Meetup.com 27:32 Future plans for Async.dev and Meeting Place 35:09 Who is Meeting Place for and what problems is it solving? 42:06 Do whatcha want! You don't need a grand vision 45:29 CamHead.app 50:00 Cocoa Development 52:33 What's next for CamHead? 55:49 Influencer marketing 57:49 Turns out infoprducts are real businesses 01:00:23 THIS EPISODE IS TOO LONG Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🐦 Learn React in 10 Tweets: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1175022111758442497 🐦 No Code Doesn't Exist: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1346139894398251027 🐦 Slack is Down - use async: https://twitter.com/chrisachard/status/1346118116774989827 🔗 I'm Walking Away From the Product I Spent a Year Building—The story behind Level and why it failed by Derek Reimer: https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/17/im-walking-away-from-the-product-i-spent-a-year-building.html 🔗 Nailing Your First (Info-Product) Launch by Adam Wathan: https://microconf.gen.co/adam-wathan/ Also Christian's video is no longer 0.25 seconds off he fixed it :)…
Alternate title: doing everything right and seeing what happens 00:00 Intro 00:34 CHRISTIAN'S CHRISTMAS IGLOO 04:02 Chris's soundproofed office 05:14 Chris's co-founder breakup 08:53 Why not swing for the fences instead of bootstrapping? 09:55 Optimizing for flexibility 11:06 How do kids change business priorities? 12:46 Consulting vs. full-time for Riverside 15:44 Chris's upcoming consulting info-product 17:59 Manifesting consulting with The Secret 19:56 Chris's Christmas thinkin' about the future of async.dev and meeting place 23:43 Slack hate is a great opportunity 28:46 Niching down Meeting Place to developers 29:53 Next steps for Chris 33:21 CamHead.app 43:15 Fileinbox customer support email resistance 46:02 Streamline customer support and standup meetings with video tutorials 50:14 Clips.Marketing for writing YouTube chapter markers Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco "Without Their Permission" by Alexis Ohanian: https://withouttheirpermission.com/…
00:00 Hello! 00:31 How do you take vacations as a bootstrapper? 03:58 Brain dumping 04:51 How is work is more fun than skiing or ziplining? 07:44 Morning Pages from The Artist's Way 08:08 How do you balance vacations and family with work? 10:13 Needing meaningful work 10:50 YouTube to Transistor script for makers.dev 13:57 Dogfooding async.dev for makers.dev 15:53 Websocks in Rails 18:33 Doing art for art's sake vs. making art for a market 24:19 What do you want to win by doing? 27:52 Christian's non-goals for next week 30:18 The privilege to work on what you want 34:41 Track your money and time instead of trusting your intuition 36:50 What if you don't have the bandwidth to do work you love? 39:15 Chris's plan for next week…
0:00 Drywall is like business 1:24 Just doing the work is more important than tips and hacks 6:00 Christian's robot video editor 11:34 The dream podcasting workflow 17:40 Automatic YouTube to Transistor.fm flow 19:20 Makers.dev vs. BusinessMan.Business work 22:58 MeetingPlace update 24:13 Dogfooding Async.dev instead of Slack 27:20 How do you decide what to work on next? 36:45 Setting immutable biweekly or monthly goals 38:50 Enjoying the work vs. growing the business 41:48 Fileinbox Sign Printer Interviews 46:12 Customer chats are more enjoyable, less stilted than scripted interviews with an agenda and they're just as useful 50:50 Christian's hypo-hypo-manic week of projects 54:13 $10 vs. $50 vs. $200 tasks 57:39 Drywall craftsmen Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup Full-time Employees for $9k/year: https://www.supportshepherd.com/…
0:00 Special Acoustic Caulk and manual laber 3:22 The Jigsaw Puzzle Theory of Business 6:10 Async.dev Slackbot update 9:00 Can you charge for an unfinished project? 10:44 Niching a Time Tracker Coaching Service 22:28 What's next for Async.dev and Meeting Place? 24:54 Talking to Sign Printers update 30:25 Clipping Microconf Recap 35:17 Effective Time Design 38:07 Automated video editing 45:44 Delegating to machines vs. humans 48:51 AI is coming to take all our jobs unless you're a coach 49:38 When does it make sense to hire humans? 🔗 How to Conduct a Great User Interview: https://microconf.gen.co/chris-achard/ 🔗 How To Use Jobs To Be Done To Perfect Your Positioning: https://microconf.gen.co/claire-suellentrop/…
0:00 Intro 3:51 Spending money to make more money 5:47 Imposter syndrome in charging more 8:05 Micropreneurs vs. YouTubers 13:00 Marketing without feeling slimy 14:45 Doing everything wrong and seeing where it goes 17:00 Chris's MeetingPlace and Async.dev update 21:50 Tick Tock Development 24:56 Chris's Goals for next week 27:03 Christian's Fileinbox update and goals 33:16 How do you know which features to build? 34:37 Customer workflows show you adjacent problems 36:00 Tick tock audience research 37:00 Pivoting 39:12 Makers.dev is super useful for us 40:03 Repurposing interview content? 42:49 Skyscraper posts…
1 04 async.dev, Atomic Habits goal improvements, interviewing customers, and knowing your audience 45:34
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While talking about weekly goals, Chris and Christian talk about the feeling of procrastination and how to overcome it.
Talking to customers is important! Chris talks to potential business customers for meetingplace.io, and Christian gets ready to convert fileinbox to serverless before he turns on more marketing.
Chris and Christian introduce themselves and figure out what this podcast is going to be about.
Who wants to take bets about when Tesla Bot will be ready? Chris is finishing up his summer consulting project and getting ready to start his CS Masters program. Christian spent 0 hours on fileinbox last week, and instead created a mini web app to show people's "life timelines"... was that time well spent? 00:00 Intro 06:25 Using AI for a large variety of problems 12:54 Tesla bot 18:05 Is Elon Musk a positive or negative role model? 21:46 Singular minded focus 24:39 Chewing glass and staring into the abyss 26:52 Life timeline - Christian's latest project 37:09 OpenAI Codex for code creation 46:40 Finding motivation 48:15 Why is OAuth so hard? (meta point) 51:37 Relationship with email 55:33 How to reach people like Christian? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Demeo VR turn based "D&D" style game: https://www.resolutiongames.com/demeo Life Timeline: https://www.lifetimeline.app/…
1 37 Generative AI as a Business Model 1:10:25
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1:10:25How do you feel about NFTs? Chris has finished his GPS competition and is now using his fancy GPU to generate AI art. Christian got clips.marketing past his internal goal line! Now he has to figure out the next steps. We also talk about a potential business idea for sharing family photos 00:00 Intro 00:14 Kids back in school 05:35 Chris got 5th place in the GPS competition 10:03 Learning new things: projects vs classes 16:43 Using AI to generate art 17:55 AI art web app hot take 20:57 NFTs 27:03 What would make NFTs interesting? 36:32 Generative games 40:09 The IKEA Effect 41:40 clips.marketing update 46:06 Software profit margins are silly good 55:15 Sharing family photos (as a business?) 01:08:58 TV photo frames Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🤖 robohash.org - generate random robots…
1 36 Show up every day 1:03:06
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1:03:06How do you decide what to work on every day when there's no one really telling you what to do? Christian thinks about ways to keep himself on track, and Chris talks about what motivates him to do Kaggle competitions (hint: it's not money). 00:00 Intro 00:58 GPS competition update 06:29 Olympics data scraping 08:41 Chris's summer work with Hidden Door 12:38 How to choose a day/time for different timezones 29:46 Productivity and the most important work you can be doing 35:54 Sometimes you just have to dig the hole 39:31 Show up every day 44:36 Different kinds of work and timelines 50:09 Purpose in life 58:52 Updates for next week 59:42 AI art Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 35 Spending Money to Make Money with SaaS 1:02:51
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1:02:51Christian gets back from New York with an unwelcome update, but is plowing ahead by taking care of himself first. Chris has a new contract for the summer - his first AI position! Then we talk about how great SaaS is compared to other assets. 00:00 The Lost Episode 01:51 Health is important - take care of it! 08:22 The most effective productivity hack 10:15 GPS competition update 17:51 Chris's new job! (for 2 months) 22:43 Are educational games always too contrived? 29:22 Christian geeks out about Tesla 34:08 Can cars be assets? 45:58 SaaS is great 50:29 Automating customer support with an assistant 54:07 Finally taking SaaS seriously 59:37 Spending money to make money Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Personal assistants: https://www.gosquaredaway.com/ Support help: https://www.supportshepherd.com/…
1 34 Planning an AI based text bot 1:00:47
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1:00:47Learning AI is like learning to program all over again. Christian tries to plan what an AI based text-bot business would look like. Chris talks about an AI coding assistant (we recorded this before GitHub copilot was released :0 ), and we both marvel as self driving cars. 00:00 Intro 03:46 GPS data competition basics 08:04 Time is hard 11:56 GPS data formats 14:45 The AI Hammer 16:43 Christian experiences self driving 18:21 Tensorflow.js 22:42 Prebuilt AI models 25:35 AI business idea progression 35:13 Self driving isn't self driving yet. Why? 38:40 Why isn't Christian's Roomba smarter? 43:50 Twitter OAuth flow 50:33 No code works great, until it doesn't 53:06 Clippy AI assistant for code 54:53 What are humans going to do when AI is good enough? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
1 33 Pushing forward when you feel stuck 1:05:03
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1:05:03Chris gets stuck on his kaggle competition and when trying to figure out how to move forward, started researching how to buy a farm :). Christian asks about how AI works and also talks about how he got ffmpeg working in the cloud. 00:00 Intro 02:20 The ability to take time off 03:48 Pushing forward when you feel stuck 09:46 Exciting work - buying land 16:37 Self driving cars 25:29 How AI works 40:01 What is the difference between AI and ML? 46:04 What is the future of work? 50:47 Robotics is hard 01:01:05 ffmpeg in the cloud Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Christian gets advice about how to focus to make more money... but is that what he wants? We also talk about how to start and maintain programming projects as a solo dev. 00:00 Intro 03:47 Chris's next week 05:20 Learning math for a masters - making a product from it? 10:52 Short form content plays better in today's world 13:56 What kind of assistant aligns with Christian's business goals? 19:34 Focus to make more money? 33:36 Using business skills for personal projects 38:46 How to start a new programming project 48:17 Syncing changes across projects Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🧮 3 Blue 1 Brown Linear Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PL0-GT3co4r2y2YErbmuJw2L5tW4Ew2O5B 🧠 Imperial College of London Linear Algebra for Machine Learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T73ldK46JqE&list=PLiiljHvN6z1_o1ztXTKWPrShrMrBLo5P3…
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1:01:50If you could just spend money to save time - would you do it? Where is that line? Christian explores a personal assistant and Chris finally gets his new computer. 00:00 Intro 00:04 New computer 03:03 Camping and shiny toys 07:12 Freeze dryer 16:13 Exposing yourself to different ideas 17:43 Selling the core thing vs selling an experience 21:07 The value to the customer 25:07 Chris update 27:54 Apple is focused on the story 29:12 Novelty 32:30 Passion 35:36 Christian update 39:33 "Why don't you just..." 42:42 Applying work tools to family projects 47:27 Consumers are terrible customers 48:52 What is your time worth? 55:32 Spending money instead of time Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco ❄️ Home freeze dryer https://harvestright.com/product/home-freeze-dryer/ 🥩 Alinea https://www.alinearestaurant.com/…
1 30 ADHD chat with Jesse J. Anderson 1:03:37
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1:03:37Even if you don't have ADHD, learning about your brain and how it works will pay dividends for your entire life. We chat with Jesse J. Anderson about his journey with ADHD, what symptoms to look for if you think you might have it, and some processes and systems you can try to get a handle on it. If you want to hear more, check out Jesse on twitter! https://twitter.com/jessejanderson 00:00 Intro 00:53 How Jesse came to learn about ADHD 03:28 ADHD symptoms and behavior 07:32 Where's the line? What makes a diagnosis? 09:08 It's not just willpower 09:37 Motivation and importance 10:19 Rewards and consequences 10:41 5 factors of motivation 13:31 Are these strengths or weaknesses? 14:39 Privilege and support systems 15:46 Reasons to get a diagnosis 18:33 ADHD and kids 20:20 What if you're stuck 22:56 Would you flip a brain switch if it existed? 27:42 Doctors vs therapists 31:00 Whiteboards help 36:05 ADHD effects on significant others 38:50 Co-morbidities 40:36 The "caretaker" role 42:38 Criticism and complements 48:47 Positive reinforcement and positive accountability 50:45 External systems and processes that help 01:00:04 Manufacturing urgency and gamification 01:02:02 Outro Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🧠 The ADHD Nervous System: https://jessejanderson.com/posts/the-adhd-nervous-system 🤪 You Mean I'm not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?! The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults w/ Attention Deficit Disorder: https://amzn.to/3x7CYem 🍬 I Love Lucy candy making factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ58I53mjk 💍 The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps: https://amzn.to/3pxclgz 👶🏻 Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get On with Life: https://amzn.to/3w5Uqjt 😠 Rejection Sensitive Disphoria: https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/rejection-sensitive-dysphoria 🦸♂️ Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child: https://amzn.to/3cpJVj6 ⏱ Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day: https://amzn.to/3x5W9VY 📄 Tactical Time Blocker by Jesse J. Anderson: https://gumroad.com/l/timeblocker 📓 ReMarkable: https://amzn.to/3v2efGY 🌅 Morning Pages: https://www.chriswinfield.com/morning-pages/ 🧭 Roam Research: https://roamresearch.com/ 💠 Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/ ✅ Due app: https://www.dueapp.com/…
Competition isn't bad, it's good! If you target a narrow market and tell your story, then people will buy your product just for that. This week, Christian figures out who to hire first and Chris preps for his CS masters to start. 00:00 Intro 03:13 Podcasts are cool 04:13 Next week: ADHD chat 06:28 Prepping for a CS masters 10:30 Teaching as you learn 16:38 Future Christian tells past Christian who to hire 26:36 Activation energy to hire someone 30:56 Choosing what you spend time on 36:00 Hot take: clips.marketing is B2-me 42:52 If you hit a wall, go for a walk 46:04 Competition is not what you think 48:50 Target a narrow market - pick your angle and tell your story Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Delegate and Done: https://start.growthlab.com/delegate-and-done/ Your World Class Assistant: https://yourworldclassassistant.com/ Great Assistant: https://greatassistant.com/…
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1:01:36Chris has big news about the next few years. Christian thinks about how and who to hire. Also, we talk about ADHD again: how to handle it, and what it means. 00:00 Intro 00:29 Meal prep 03:29 Solving AI problems 08:38 MS CS 10:40 Why get a college degree? 15:28 What makes someone a student? 17:10 Work in Progress update 19:56 Having more capacity to do work 25:48 Live streaming as accountability for work 31:50 ADHD behaviors and tactics 45:35 How to get started in practical AI 47:38 Who and how to hire help 58:44 Email access for a personal assistant Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco…
Chris's Kaggle competition wrapped up and he finished in 5th! Christian goes on a hunt to figure out what is wrong with his parents house, and contemplates what the future of life and business is once an AI is better than humans at most things. 00:00 Intro 02:29 Chris finally bought a computer 12:39 GPT-3 and the future of AI 21:52 Home diagnosis 33:11 How do you curate when there's too much information? 35:28 Dusting tips with Chris and Christian 37:47 Negative externalities 42:05 Makermade CNC Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco undefined…
Burnout is sneaky. Chris and Christian talk about what makes work meaningful, and how to find that work. Christian talks about onboarding and how many info products get the checkout flow all wrong. Also, Christian is building a tiny house and is super excited about it. 00:00 Intro 01:29 Burnout 09:22 AI Update 11:10 What makes work exciting? 16:44 Work in progress 18:51 Deep learning machine 21:09 Meaningful work 23:28 COVID 25:17 Tiny houses 29:04 Improving checkout flows and onboarding 33:32 How to transition to serverless 40:58 Should Christian do a kickstarter? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Book: "Drive" by Dan Pink The perfect wall system: https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-the-perfect-wall…
How much would you spend to increase your MRR by $1000? Christian thinks he has been thinking about customer acquisition all wrong, and could be spending a lot more to get customers. 00:00 Intro 00:26 Kaggle contest update 06:34 Christian had A WEEK 13:53 Making a super simple info product 21:48 How much is $1000 MRR worth? 26:57 LTV = ARPU / Churn 31:09 Acquiring a small saas or info product Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco Profitwell blog: https://www.profitwell.com/recur/all Microaquire: https://microacquire.com/…
Chris talks about overfitting to the public leaderboard (on Kaggle and in life), and Christian tries to figure out a direction for two different projects: a hierarchical book reader (or writer?), and his timetracking app: should he go more B2B, or be more like Scott's Cheap Flights or Nomad List? 00:00 Intro 02:48 Overfitting to the public leaderboard 06:48 Different approaches to life, business and problems 11:40 Buying a new computer? 20:04 SaaS Work in Progress and 30x500 23:03 Hot Take: hierarchical book reader 37:29 Hot Take: timetracker: B2B or start a cult? Timestamps created with https://clips.marketing by @cgenco 🎙🗺 Confronting Your Fears and Taking a Leap with Pieter Levels of Nomad List: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/043-pieter-levels-of-nomad-list 🎙✈️ Building a Million Dollar Mailing List with Scott of Scott's Cheap Flights: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/020-scott-keyes-of-scotts-cheap-flights 📺 Don't start a business, start a cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gj7Qb9w_Kk…
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