The Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-entrepreneurial-coder-podcast An interview show where I talk to programmers, developers, and coders of all types who have gone into business for themselves. I find out the secrets to their success so you can make the move into an entrepreneurial pursuit yourself. © 2019 Ryan Chenkie 8e3120b0-13a5-5caa-ac52-90e0deedddd4 no en Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:36:50 -0400 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:06:18 -0500 https://www.ecpodcast.io https://img.transistor.fm/GBFHf3_PWoAg-7Xy_-VbCBY6Ytp1N7-Lamr2bQBorNk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzk2My8xNTQ4Nzgy/OTkzLWFydHdvcmsu/anBn.jpg The Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast https://www.ecpodcast.io episodic Ryan Chenkie An interview show where I talk to programmers, developers, and coders of all types who have gone into business for themselves. I find out the secrets to their success so you can make the move into an entrepreneurial pursuit yourself. An interview show where I talk to programmers, developers, and coders of all types who have gone into business for themselves. Ryan Chenkie No No #46 - Josh Comeau - How to Have an Amazing Course Launch 46 46 #46 - Josh Comeau - How to Have an Amazing Course Launch full 671efefc-c43e-4d98-952a-eaafaf799077 https://share.transistor.fm/s/e0cdae99 Josh is a senior software developer from Montreal. He’s worked at organizations like Khan Academy, DigitalOcean, and Gatsby, and is now working as an independent course creator. He recently released CSS for JavaScript Developers, an interactive learning experience designed to help JavaScript developers become confident with CSS.

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CSS for JavaScript Developers
Josh on Twitter
Josh's Blog

]]> Josh is a senior software developer from Montreal. He’s worked at organizations like Khan Academy, DigitalOcean, and Gatsby, and is now working as an independent course creator. He recently released CSS for JavaScript Developers, an interactive learning experience designed to help JavaScript developers become confident with CSS.

Josh's Links
CSS for JavaScript Developers
Josh on Twitter
Josh's Blog

]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2021 12:40:02 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3195 Josh talks about his experience building CSS for JavaScript Developers, a comprehensive course that helps JavaScript devs become confident with CSS that sold almost $600k in the first week. He talks about his process for building it, how he went about marketing, and more. Josh also talks about how he became proficient with web design and how people can take a similar approach. Josh talks about his experience building CSS for JavaScript Developers, a comprehensive course that helps JavaScript devs become confident with CSS that sold almost $600k in the first week. He talks about his process for building it, how he went about mar No #45 - Gonto - Billion Dollar Marketing Practices 45 45 #45 - Gonto - Billion Dollar Marketing Practices full 76e516dd-97a9-4d7e-8ca1-9b448bb4b1d3 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9ccf4705 Gonto is a software engineer turned marketer who is a strong proponent of the “engineering approach to marketing”. He spent seven years at Auth0 where he led marketing and helped grow the company to 9 figures before it’s sale to Okta for $6.5b. Gonto is now running his own company as co-founder of Hypergrowth Partners, a sweat equity advisor that invests time and knowledge into startups to help them achieve Hypergrowth.

Gonto's Links
Hypergrowth
Gonto's Website
Gonto on Twitter

]]> Gonto is a software engineer turned marketer who is a strong proponent of the “engineering approach to marketing”. He spent seven years at Auth0 where he led marketing and helped grow the company to 9 figures before it’s sale to Okta for $6.5b. Gonto is now running his own company as co-founder of Hypergrowth Partners, a sweat equity advisor that invests time and knowledge into startups to help them achieve Hypergrowth.

Gonto's Links
Hypergrowth
Gonto's Website
Gonto on Twitter

]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:28:50 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2462 Gonto talks about his journey leading marketing at Auth0 up until its acquisition to Okta for $6.5b. He's now the co-founder of a sweat-equity advisory, Hypergrowth Partners. Gonto talks about how bootstrappers and indie devs can apply the marketing practices of large companies, where to focus sales and marketing effort, and how to increase your chances of being more successful in your company. Gonto talks about his journey leading marketing at Auth0 up until its acquisition to Okta for $6.5b. He's now the co-founder of a sweat-equity advisory, Hypergrowth Partners. Gonto talks about how bootstrappers and indie devs can apply the marketing pract marketing,sales,entrepreneurship,startups No #44 - Monica Lent - How to Build a Blog with Great SEO 44 44 #44 - Monica Lent - How to Build a Blog with Great SEO full a31e738e-84b3-405f-bfc8-02561a0e9c2a https://share.transistor.fm/s/55424293 Monica Lent is a software engineer and former engineering manager who has been coding since the age of 10. Her main focus now is Affilimate, a SaaS product which provides a unified dashboard and content analytics for affiliates. Monica also writes a weekly newsletter called Blogging for Devs which teaches developers about blogging and SEO.

Monica's Links
Blogging for Devs
Affilimate
Monica's Website
Monica on Twitter

]]> Monica Lent is a software engineer and former engineering manager who has been coding since the age of 10. Her main focus now is Affilimate, a SaaS product which provides a unified dashboard and content analytics for affiliates. Monica also writes a weekly newsletter called Blogging for Devs which teaches developers about blogging and SEO.

Monica's Links
Blogging for Devs
Affilimate
Monica's Website
Monica on Twitter

]]> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:44:47 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3111 Monica talks about her journey building Affilimate, a SaaS product that provides a unified dashboard and content analytics for affiliates. She also talks about her other products including Blogging for Devs, an email course and newsletter that teaches developers how to be effective with their blogs. Monica talks about her journey building Affilimate, a SaaS product that provides a unified dashboard and content analytics for affiliates. She also talks about her other products including Blogging for Devs, an email course and newsletter that teaches dev affiliates,saas,bootstrapping No #43 - Arvid Kahl - How to Build and Sell a SaaS Company 43 43 #43 - Arvid Kahl - How to Build and Sell a SaaS Company full a5ea0d98-99f4-4ea1-882f-34d5ec4b58a1 https://share.transistor.fm/s/381f30d5 Arvid is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and writer. He co-founded and bootstrapped FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, two years after founding the company.


He writes on TheBootstrappedFounder.com to share his experience with bootstrapping as a desirable, value- and wealth-generating way of running a company.


Arvid's Links

The Bootstrapped Founder
Zero to Sold
The Embedded Entrepreneur
Arvid on Twitter

]]> Arvid is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and writer. He co-founded and bootstrapped FeedbackPanda, an online teacher productivity SaaS company with his partner Danielle Simpson. They sold the business for a life-changing amount of money in 2019, two years after founding the company.


He writes on TheBootstrappedFounder.com to share his experience with bootstrapping as a desirable, value- and wealth-generating way of running a company.


Arvid's Links

The Bootstrapped Founder
Zero to Sold
The Embedded Entrepreneur
Arvid on Twitter

]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2021 11:36:49 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3550 Arvid talks about his experience building and selling FeedbackPanda, a SaaS product that helps English teachers save time and earn more money. He goes into detail about how he and his partner came up with the idea for the product, how they validated it, and how they brought it up to $55k/month before selling it. Arvid also talks about his book "Zero to Sold", a guide which helps bootstrapped founders find and validate their SaaS ideas, grow their business, and eventually sell. He goes into a lot of detail about why the preparation phase is so important and how you can validate your ideas before proceeding. Arvid talks about his experience building and selling FeedbackPanda, a SaaS product that helps English teachers save time and earn more money. He goes into detail about how he and his partner came up with the idea for the product, how they validated it, a saas,bootstrapping,entrepreneurship No #42 - Michael Lynch - How to Hit the Front Page of Hacker News 42 42 #42 - Michael Lynch - How to Hit the Front Page of Hacker News full fd1cab2d-09fa-42e4-9930-0f451cde11d9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/26d42b43 Michael is a developer and blogger who has worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Google. He left Microsoft in 2018 to try building his own businesses.


His current business is TinyPilot, where he makes $15,000/month selling an open source server administration device. He recently created his first first-ever video course, entitled Hit the Front Page of Hacker News, which describes the writing techniques that have helped him reach the front page of Hacker News 18 times in the past four years.

Michael's Links

Hit the Front Page of Hacker News
Michael's Website
Michael on Twitter
TinyPilot

]]> Michael is a developer and blogger who has worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Google. He left Microsoft in 2018 to try building his own businesses.


His current business is TinyPilot, where he makes $15,000/month selling an open source server administration device. He recently created his first first-ever video course, entitled Hit the Front Page of Hacker News, which describes the writing techniques that have helped him reach the front page of Hacker News 18 times in the past four years.

Michael's Links

Hit the Front Page of Hacker News
Michael's Website
Michael on Twitter
TinyPilot

]]> Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:19:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2519 Michael talks about his experience consistently getting on the front page of Hacker News. One example of where he's done so is his product TinyPilot, a remote server administration device. He talks about the benefits of ranking on Hacker News, which topics will be of interest to readers, the best way to engage with Hacker News users, and more. Michael talks about his experience consistently getting on the front page of Hacker News. One example of where he's done so is his product TinyPilot, a remote server administration device. He talks about the benefits of ranking on Hacker News, which topic No #41 - Hassan El Mghari - Building/Selling a Game Publishing Company and How to Stay Productive 41 41 #41 - Hassan El Mghari - Building/Selling a Game Publishing Company and How to Stay Productive full f9f5155a-226b-418d-9fd4-8caeec2a4f3c https://share.transistor.fm/s/d488d1c8 Hassan is a two-time startup founder, consultant, and final year student majoring in Computer Engineering. He founded UltraShock Gaming, a game marketing startup with a community of 500,000 members on Steam, and ran it for five years before selling it. He's passionate about startups and solving problems using software.

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Hassan's Blog
Hassan on Twitter

]]> Hassan is a two-time startup founder, consultant, and final year student majoring in Computer Engineering. He founded UltraShock Gaming, a game marketing startup with a community of 500,000 members on Steam, and ran it for five years before selling it. He's passionate about startups and solving problems using software.

Hassan's Links

Hassan's Blog
Hassan on Twitter

]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:44:21 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2386 Hassan talks about his experience building and selling UltraShock Gaming, a game marketing startup. He goes into detail about how he built it while being in school and how he approached selling it. He also talks about productivity and how you can use tools like calendars to your advantage to be more productive. Hassan talks about his experience building and selling UltraShock Gaming, a game marketing startup. He goes into detail about how he built it while being in school and how he approached selling it. He also talks about productivity and how you can use tool entrepreneurship,startups,indie hacking No #40 - Kyle Mathews - How To Know If You Should Start a Startup 40 40 #40 - Kyle Mathews - How To Know If You Should Start a Startup full 9ff420db-bb21-4018-b3c6-8f5d4796eeec https://share.transistor.fm/s/f5e13ddc Kyle Mathews is the founder and CEO of Gatsby, one of the most popular frameworks around for creating websites with React. After authoring Gatsby as an open source project in 2015, he later started a company of the same name to take it even further. He's fascinated by technology, open source, and making the web better.

Kyle's Links

Gatsby
Kyle and Twitter
Kyle's Website

Transcript
[0:00] [music]

Ryan Chenkie: [0:07] My guest today is Kyle Mathews. Kyle is the founder and CEO of Gatsby one of the most popular frameworks around for creating websites with React. After offering Gatsby as an open source project in 2015, he later started a company of the same name to take it even further.

[0:22] He's fascinated by technology, open source, and making the Web better. Kyle, welcome to the show.

Kyle Mathews: [0:28] Yeah, thanks. Glad to be here. Thanks for inviting me.

Ryan: [0:31] Absolutely. I have been following your work for quite some time. I've been seeing the great things that have been going on in the Gatsby world. We did some interview stuff a couple years back, which was a lot of fun. I'm excited to chat to you today about startups more in general.

[0:47] One thing that piqued my curiosity was a tweet that you had recently where it sounded like you had done a talk at your college perhaps, and you mentioned in the tweet that you were giving the advice or wanting to give the advice that may be startups aren't a great idea for everybody. Maybe it's not everyone that should go out and start a startup.

[1:11] I was hoping to chat with you on that. Give me some of the background around that sentiment. Why is it the case do you think that maybe not everyone should be looking to do a startup?

Kyle: [1:25] The scenario was that there was a technology club at my college that's part of the major I did. They invited me like, "Hey, Kyle. You created Gatsby. Come talk about it. Gatsby is cool." I guess the person inviting me has been using it recently. That was fun, and a weird trip, like, "Oh, college. I remember that. That was fun." Then like, "Why y'all look younger than I used to," sort of thing.

[1:52] [laughter]

Kyle: [1:54] Been just long enough that all these weird like, "I'm getting old" feelings are coming into play. Anyways, they had some question about Gatsby, but a lot of people in the Q&A started asking about startups. They were like, "How did you come up with the idea," on and on?

[2:13] It was funny because I had this thought a lot, but it just afterwards, I don't know. Talking about startups is weird because there's this really strong glamour field around doing the startup that is not...The lived reality of doing a startup is not actually how it's perceived a lot of the time from the outside.

[2:44] Anyway, I always have this feeling when people are asking about startups because I downplay it a lot and discourage people more because, startups are absolutely right. Doing a startup, having a startup, absolutely the right decision for some people. For a lot of people, if they get into it, it'd be actually a very difficult, dispiriting, unpleasant experience for them. That was an interesting reaction.

[3:14] Having all these people like, "Oh," fascinated by the idea of startups, and me, cringing a little bit like, "I don't know. You're probably better off getting a nice job and going home and having fun with your friends and family, and doing side projects and stuff like that."

[3:34] The actual lived reality of a startup is, it's hard. It's emotionally super intense. Intellectually, it's very challenging. It depends, of course, but there's often very difficult challenges that you have to figure out immediately or the whole thing goes kaput.

[4:02] There's tons of uncertainty. That's the emotional stuff. It takes a lot of courage to do anything in a startup because there's a lot of pressure to make the right decision. You just don't know enough to figure that out. There's a whole bunch of things that...Unless you sort of weirdly tuned to enjoy that.

[4:23] [laughter]

Kyle: [4:25] You're going to have an unpleasant time. There's really no point.

Ryan: [4:29] That makes a lot of sense. I wonder, in your experience, are those things that you had in mind going into founding Gatsby as a company? You're working on the open source projects, decided to build a company around it. Did you have those things in mind when you entered this venture, or are these things they have become apparent to you over the course of time?

Kyle: [4:52] I've done startup pretty much my whole career. I started my first startup in college. I moved out to SF and joined an early-stage startup there. Did another startup before Gatsby. I knew I liked startups and enjoyed that space before going into Gatsby, for sure. No new discoveries per se, just all the same.

Ryan: [5:20] Got it. A lot of people who listen to this podcast, they are the indie hacker types. They're people that want to do stuff. Business wise, they want to create products and release products. They are people that might want to do startups, or maybe they're doing startups or whatever.

[5:37] For those people who have it in mind, in the future they would like to do a startup around whatever, what would you say is the best way to assess whether or not it would be a good fit for you?

[5:50] It's possible that you've got these lofty goals of like, "Yeah, I'm going to do a start up. Maybe it'll be a little tough, but it'll be awesome eventually." Then, of course, reality hits when you settle into the thing. Any advice you'd give for people that are trying to make that assessment now?

Kyle: [6:11] A lot of it's knowing yourself and learning about what makes you tick. To me, life should be lived to the fullest. What is the answer to living your life to the fullest? It depends on who you are. The first question's like, "What should I do with my life? What do I enjoy? What matters to me?"

[6:36] The answer's very different for every person. There's no one right answer. You shouldn't make decisions based on, that's what I was saying, like the glamour field. People are like, "Ooh, doing a stripe looks glamorous." It's not actually what it is.

[6:49] You have to understand what makes you tick. You have to understand where to put yourself so that you're going to be enjoying your life.

[6:57] I would say the type of person that enjoys a startup, and there's a few types, but a lot of it boils down to a desire for adventure, for intense experience, for life being interesting, and prioritizing that over comfort and security.

[7:28] When I was a kid, I read a lot of kid adventure novels. I loved them. I devoured them and read them over and over again. All these stories about trudging through jungles and exploring outer space and inventing rockets and whatever, I don't know.

[7:46] Tom Swift, I don't know if there's anyone out there that's read that, I loved those books. The idea of adventure and inventing things and doing things is really fun.

[8:02] Another good clue for me was I've had one normal job-ish. It was even at an early-stage startup, and I still found it kind of boring. I would go in, fix an issue or two, write a new component. It was like, "Man, this is boring and predictable."

[8:25] It was a great job. It was a super-good company. The founders are awesome, really cool product. Everything could have, should have been perfect, maybe, but I was still dissatisfied with the whole thing. I wanted more.

[8:41] If that's what you want and you're comfortable with the risk associated with it, but your soul might be crushed by...

]]> Kyle Mathews is the founder and CEO of Gatsby, one of the most popular frameworks around for creating websites with React. After authoring Gatsby as an open source project in 2015, he later started a company of the same name to take it even further. He's fascinated by technology, open source, and making the web better.

Kyle's Links

Gatsby
Kyle and Twitter
Kyle's Website

Transcript
[0:00] [music]

Ryan Chenkie: [0:07] My guest today is Kyle Mathews. Kyle is the founder and CEO of Gatsby one of the most popular frameworks around for creating websites with React. After offering Gatsby as an open source project in 2015, he later started a company of the same name to take it even further.

[0:22] He's fascinated by technology, open source, and making the Web better. Kyle, welcome to the show.

Kyle Mathews: [0:28] Yeah, thanks. Glad to be here. Thanks for inviting me.

Ryan: [0:31] Absolutely. I have been following your work for quite some time. I've been seeing the great things that have been going on in the Gatsby world. We did some interview stuff a couple years back, which was a lot of fun. I'm excited to chat to you today about startups more in general.

[0:47] One thing that piqued my curiosity was a tweet that you had recently where it sounded like you had done a talk at your college perhaps, and you mentioned in the tweet that you were giving the advice or wanting to give the advice that may be startups aren't a great idea for everybody. Maybe it's not everyone that should go out and start a startup.

[1:11] I was hoping to chat with you on that. Give me some of the background around that sentiment. Why is it the case do you think that maybe not everyone should be looking to do a startup?

Kyle: [1:25] The scenario was that there was a technology club at my college that's part of the major I did. They invited me like, "Hey, Kyle. You created Gatsby. Come talk about it. Gatsby is cool." I guess the person inviting me has been using it recently. That was fun, and a weird trip, like, "Oh, college. I remember that. That was fun." Then like, "Why y'all look younger than I used to," sort of thing.

[1:52] [laughter]

Kyle: [1:54] Been just long enough that all these weird like, "I'm getting old" feelings are coming into play. Anyways, they had some question about Gatsby, but a lot of people in the Q&A started asking about startups. They were like, "How did you come up with the idea," on and on?

[2:13] It was funny because I had this thought a lot, but it just afterwards, I don't know. Talking about startups is weird because there's this really strong glamour field around doing the startup that is not...The lived reality of doing a startup is not actually how it's perceived a lot of the time from the outside.

[2:44] Anyway, I always have this feeling when people are asking about startups because I downplay it a lot and discourage people more because, startups are absolutely right. Doing a startup, having a startup, absolutely the right decision for some people. For a lot of people, if they get into it, it'd be actually a very difficult, dispiriting, unpleasant experience for them. That was an interesting reaction.

[3:14] Having all these people like, "Oh," fascinated by the idea of startups, and me, cringing a little bit like, "I don't know. You're probably better off getting a nice job and going home and having fun with your friends and family, and doing side projects and stuff like that."

[3:34] The actual lived reality of a startup is, it's hard. It's emotionally super intense. Intellectually, it's very challenging. It depends, of course, but there's often very difficult challenges that you have to figure out immediately or the whole thing goes kaput.

[4:02] There's tons of uncertainty. That's the emotional stuff. It takes a lot of courage to do anything in a startup because there's a lot of pressure to make the right decision. You just don't know enough to figure that out. There's a whole bunch of things that...Unless you sort of weirdly tuned to enjoy that.

[4:23] [laughter]

Kyle: [4:25] You're going to have an unpleasant time. There's really no point.

Ryan: [4:29] That makes a lot of sense. I wonder, in your experience, are those things that you had in mind going into founding Gatsby as a company? You're working on the open source projects, decided to build a company around it. Did you have those things in mind when you entered this venture, or are these things they have become apparent to you over the course of time?

Kyle: [4:52] I've done startup pretty much my whole career. I started my first startup in college. I moved out to SF and joined an early-stage startup there. Did another startup before Gatsby. I knew I liked startups and enjoyed that space before going into Gatsby, for sure. No new discoveries per se, just all the same.

Ryan: [5:20] Got it. A lot of people who listen to this podcast, they are the indie hacker types. They're people that want to do stuff. Business wise, they want to create products and release products. They are people that might want to do startups, or maybe they're doing startups or whatever.

[5:37] For those people who have it in mind, in the future they would like to do a startup around whatever, what would you say is the best way to assess whether or not it would be a good fit for you?

[5:50] It's possible that you've got these lofty goals of like, "Yeah, I'm going to do a start up. Maybe it'll be a little tough, but it'll be awesome eventually." Then, of course, reality hits when you settle into the thing. Any advice you'd give for people that are trying to make that assessment now?

Kyle: [6:11] A lot of it's knowing yourself and learning about what makes you tick. To me, life should be lived to the fullest. What is the answer to living your life to the fullest? It depends on who you are. The first question's like, "What should I do with my life? What do I enjoy? What matters to me?"

[6:36] The answer's very different for every person. There's no one right answer. You shouldn't make decisions based on, that's what I was saying, like the glamour field. People are like, "Ooh, doing a stripe looks glamorous." It's not actually what it is.

[6:49] You have to understand what makes you tick. You have to understand where to put yourself so that you're going to be enjoying your life.

[6:57] I would say the type of person that enjoys a startup, and there's a few types, but a lot of it boils down to a desire for adventure, for intense experience, for life being interesting, and prioritizing that over comfort and security.

[7:28] When I was a kid, I read a lot of kid adventure novels. I loved them. I devoured them and read them over and over again. All these stories about trudging through jungles and exploring outer space and inventing rockets and whatever, I don't know.

[7:46] Tom Swift, I don't know if there's anyone out there that's read that, I loved those books. The idea of adventure and inventing things and doing things is really fun.

[8:02] Another good clue for me was I've had one normal job-ish. It was even at an early-stage startup, and I still found it kind of boring. I would go in, fix an issue or two, write a new component. It was like, "Man, this is boring and predictable."

[8:25] It was a great job. It was a super-good company. The founders are awesome, really cool product. Everything could have, should have been perfect, maybe, but I was still dissatisfied with the whole thing. I wanted more.

[8:41] If that's what you want and you're comfortable with the risk associated with it, but your soul might be crushed by...

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:46:11 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3021 Kyle Mathews talks about his experience building Gatsby as an open source project and starting a venture-backed company around it. He goes into detail about the ups and downs of a high-growth startup and how you might be able to tell if it's the right choice for you. Kyle also talks about what's involved with raising money from investors, his specific challenges as the CEO of Gatsby, and more. Kyle Mathews talks about his experience building Gatsby as an open source project and starting a venture-backed company around it. He goes into detail about the ups and downs of a high-growth startup and how you might be able to tell if it's the right cho startups,entrepreneurship,gatsby,react,javascript No #39 - Shawn Wang (swyx) - How to Launch Your Product and Sustain Revenue 39 39 #39 - Shawn Wang (swyx) - How to Launch Your Product and Sustain Revenue full e7f1c491-0f11-4441-b917-e3d748c326c6 https://share.transistor.fm/s/1cfa55cb Shawn Wang (aka swyx) is an Infinite Builder passionate about Developer Tooling and Developer Communities. He currently works as a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Amplify and recently published the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developer careers. In his free time he teaches React, TypeScript, Storybook and Node.js CLI's at Egghead.io, and helps run the Svelte Society community of meetups.

Shawn's Links
Coding Career Handbook
Launch Cheatsheet
Shawn's Website
Shawn on Twitter
Hacker News Topic
Circle

]]> Shawn Wang (aka swyx) is an Infinite Builder passionate about Developer Tooling and Developer Communities. He currently works as a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Amplify and recently published the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developer careers. In his free time he teaches React, TypeScript, Storybook and Node.js CLI's at Egghead.io, and helps run the Svelte Society community of meetups.

Shawn's Links
Coding Career Handbook
Launch Cheatsheet
Shawn's Website
Shawn on Twitter
Hacker News Topic
Circle

]]> Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:54:11 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3703 Shawn Wang (aka swyx) chats about his experience writing and publishing his book, The Coding Career Handbook. He goes into detail about the challenges he encountered, how he learned from other people's launches, and how he was able to successfully launch the book and make it into something that provides meaningful revenue. He also talks about how to sustain revenue for your product after you launch. Shawn Wang (aka swyx) chats about his experience writing and publishing his book, The Coding Career Handbook. He goes into detail about the challenges he encountered, how he learned from other people's launches, and how he was able to successfully launch entrepreneurship,coding,self-publishing,products No #38 - Peter Piekarczyk - Going From Solopreneur to Startup Co-Founder 38 38 #38 - Peter Piekarczyk - Going From Solopreneur to Startup Co-Founder full 0c8a3552-82b0-4486-95f8-c93569f903bc https://share.transistor.fm/s/e9222fd2 Peter (PieCarChick) Piekarczyk is the co-founder and CTO of Draftbit, a platform that helps teams build React Native and Expo apps visually. He's been an entrepreneur his whole life but still has trouble spelling the word. Peter's built and maintained projects for React Native, React Navigation, Apollo GraphQL and now ReasonML. He strongly believes in self-reflection and meditation.

Peter's Links

Draftbit
Peter on Twitter
Peter's Website

]]> Peter (PieCarChick) Piekarczyk is the co-founder and CTO of Draftbit, a platform that helps teams build React Native and Expo apps visually. He's been an entrepreneur his whole life but still has trouble spelling the word. Peter's built and maintained projects for React Native, React Navigation, Apollo GraphQL and now ReasonML. He strongly believes in self-reflection and meditation.

Peter's Links

Draftbit
Peter on Twitter
Peter's Website

]]> Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:40:38 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2650 Peter talks about his entrepreneurial journey leading up to now being the co-founder and CTO of Draftbit, a platform that helps teams build React Native and Expo apps visually. He talks about the benefits of working with and building a team as opposed to being a solopreneur and the mindset shift he went through when switching. Peter also talks about the challenges he has encountered co-founding a company, including how to handle disputes between teammates, how to make the most of Y Combinator, and more. Peter talks about his entrepreneurial journey leading up to now being the co-founder and CTO of Draftbit, a platform that helps teams build React Native and Expo apps visually. He talks about the benefits of working with and building a team as opposed to entrepreneurship,programming,react,react native,startups No #37 - Greg Thomas - The Benefits of Writing for a Specific Audience 37 37 #37 - Greg Thomas - The Benefits of Writing for a Specific Audience full b2eabb9e-9eba-4032-b22d-5654bd5ed08f https://share.transistor.fm/s/e5921d99 Greg is a veteran software developer, a consultant, and is the author of Code Your Way Up, a guide for junior developers to rise to the challenge of team leadership roles. When not coding, Greg can be found coaching his kid’s sports or fixing up his cottage.

Greg has two free coupons for his book for the first two to get in touch with him. To get a copy of the book, email Greg at codeyourwayup@betarover.com.

Greg's Links
Code Your Way Up
Greg and Code Your Way Up on Twitter

]]> Greg is a veteran software developer, a consultant, and is the author of Code Your Way Up, a guide for junior developers to rise to the challenge of team leadership roles. When not coding, Greg can be found coaching his kid’s sports or fixing up his cottage.

Greg has two free coupons for his book for the first two to get in touch with him. To get a copy of the book, email Greg at codeyourwayup@betarover.com.

Greg's Links
Code Your Way Up
Greg and Code Your Way Up on Twitter

]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2020 12:12:15 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2268 Greg talks about his journey writing and publishing his book, Code Your Way Up: Rise to the Challenge of Software Leadership. He talks about his purpose behind writing the book, how he went about publishing and marketing it, and how he even got a quote from Seth Godin. Greg gets into detail about the upside of working with a publisher vs self-publishing. Greg talks about his journey writing and publishing his book, Code Your Way Up: Rise to the Challenge of Software Leadership. He talks about his purpose behind writing the book, how he went about publishing and marketing it, and how he even got a quote fr management,entrepreneurship,publishing No #36 - Joe Eames - Building and Running a Conference Business 36 36 #36 - Joe Eames - Building and Running a Conference Business full 6ac636b9-2789-4885-a61c-cdfc2a9c0288 https://share.transistor.fm/s/2f0ca9af Joe is the CEO of Thinkster.io where he works to improve online learning for developers. He also organizes ng-conf, React Conf, and the Framework Summit. He gives a lot of talks and workshops, is a Google Developer Expert, and loves board games, Dungeons and Dragons, and Star Wars.

Joe's Links

Joe on Twitter
Thinkster
Joe on Pluralsight
ng-conf
10k-raise.dev

]]> Joe is the CEO of Thinkster.io where he works to improve online learning for developers. He also organizes ng-conf, React Conf, and the Framework Summit. He gives a lot of talks and workshops, is a Google Developer Expert, and loves board games, Dungeons and Dragons, and Star Wars.

Joe's Links

Joe on Twitter
Thinkster
Joe on Pluralsight
ng-conf
10k-raise.dev

]]> Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:54:28 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3450 Joe talks about his experience starting and running multiple conferences including ng-conf, the world's largest conference centered around Angular. He goes into the ups and downs of running conferences and what you should do to make sure your conference is a success. Joe also talks about his latest venture as the CEO of Thinkster.io. Joe talks about his experience starting and running multiple conferences including ng-conf, the world's largest conference centered around Angular. He goes into the ups and downs of running conferences and what you should do to make sure your conference i entrepreneurship,conferences,programming,business No #35 - Noah Labhart - Leaving Corporate America to Build a Startup 35 35 #35 - Noah Labhart - Leaving Corporate America to Build a Startup full a83bf7d9-2a25-47ed-927b-3ce9063dd7ad https://share.transistor.fm/s/dce7ac0c Noah is the CTO and cofounder of Veryable and the founder and CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, he’s intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Noah is also the host of CodeStory, a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.

Noah's Links

Noah on LinkedIn
Noah's Website
Veryable
CodeStory

]]> Noah is the CTO and cofounder of Veryable and the founder and CEO of Touchtap, a digital solutions studio. A tech veteran himself, he’s intimately familiar with the challenges, risks and rewards of introducing new tech into the world. Noah is also the host of CodeStory, a podcast featuring tech leaders, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.

Noah's Links

Noah on LinkedIn
Noah's Website
Veryable
CodeStory

]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:21:14 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2679 Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started with a prototype as a side project, how he focused on starting small, and how he honed in on the correct value-adds for the market. Noah also talks about developing and running his podcast, CodeStory. Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started with a prototype as a side project, how he focused on starting small, and how he honed in programming,podcasts,entrepreneurship No #34 - Helen Ryles - Building and Selling Side-Projects 34 34 #34 - Helen Ryles - Building and Selling Side-Projects full 1282ff6d-2cb6-49a3-af1c-4e2895256e30 https://share.transistor.fm/s/fbc57dae Helen is a full time project manager and helps out with support for MakerPad and TransistorFM. She’s the founder of NamesAce, PodWords and OfficeHourCards. Helen is a strong proponent of side-projects and helps makers understand how they can benefit from creating and selling their own side hustle.

Helen's Links

NamesAce
PodWords
OfficeHourCards
Helen on Twitter
Epic Twitter Thread
Helen's 2020 Side-Projects

]]> Helen is a full time project manager and helps out with support for MakerPad and TransistorFM. She’s the founder of NamesAce, PodWords and OfficeHourCards. Helen is a strong proponent of side-projects and helps makers understand how they can benefit from creating and selling their own side hustle.

Helen's Links

NamesAce
PodWords
OfficeHourCards
Helen on Twitter
Epic Twitter Thread
Helen's 2020 Side-Projects

]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:28:34 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2004 Helen Ryles talks about her experience building side-projects and selling them. Over the last few years, Helen has built and sold multiple businesses that were solely done on the side of her regular work. She talks about how to think about building a side-project with the aim to sell it, the places you can sell your projects, and how you can attract potential buyers. Helen Ryles talks about her experience building side-projects and selling them. Over the last few years, Helen has built and sold multiple businesses that were solely done on the side of her regular work. She talks about how to think about building a side entrepreneurship,side projects,business No #33 - Scott Mathson - Bootstrapping a Profitable Side Project 33 33 #33 - Scott Mathson - Bootstrapping a Profitable Side Project full d0c8e1e8-e51c-486f-be25-ad2ceb624293 https://share.transistor.fm/s/6a831af6 Scott is the Senior Web Strategy Manager at Netlify and the bootstrapped founder of Plink. Plink makes smart podcast links that podcasters love and listeners deserve. Scott has been working remotely full-time in software and tech for over a decade, previously with Auth0 and onXmaps.


With a background in woodworking, audio production, songwriting, and far beyond, Scott's always creating and has been developing side projects, doing agency and consulting work, and much more throughout his career. He happily calls western Montana home with his wife, and they enjoy exploring/traveling around the Pacific Northwest and plan to eventually move to the Seattle area.

Scott's Links
Scott's Website
Scott on Twitter
Plink
Mathson Design Co
Makerviews

]]> Scott is the Senior Web Strategy Manager at Netlify and the bootstrapped founder of Plink. Plink makes smart podcast links that podcasters love and listeners deserve. Scott has been working remotely full-time in software and tech for over a decade, previously with Auth0 and onXmaps.


With a background in woodworking, audio production, songwriting, and far beyond, Scott's always creating and has been developing side projects, doing agency and consulting work, and much more throughout his career. He happily calls western Montana home with his wife, and they enjoy exploring/traveling around the Pacific Northwest and plan to eventually move to the Seattle area.

Scott's Links
Scott's Website
Scott on Twitter
Plink
Mathson Design Co
Makerviews

]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:56:28 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3542 Scott Mathson talks about his journey bootstrapping Plink, a SaaS product that creates smart podcast links. He goes into detail about how he came up with the product idea, how he thought about what features it should have, what the pricing structure should look like, and how it should be marketed. Scott Mathson talks about his journey bootstrapping Plink, a SaaS product that creates smart podcast links. He goes into detail about how he came up with the product idea, how he thought about what features it should have, what the pricing structure shoul entrepreneurship,programming,bootstrap No #32 - Randall Kanna - How To Rapidly Build a Twitter Audience 32 32 #32 - Randall Kanna - How To Rapidly Build a Twitter Audience full f8ae1bd1-e2f3-4fa3-853f-6fb3d3883cf8 https://share.transistor.fm/s/69aeb21b Randall is a senior software engineer and published O’Reilly author and has worked at companies such as Eventbrite and Pandora in the past. She’s currently finishing up her second book, a guide on helping developers land jobs.

Randall's Links

The Standout Developer
Randall on Twitter
Randall's Website
Smart Contract Development

]]> Randall is a senior software engineer and published O’Reilly author and has worked at companies such as Eventbrite and Pandora in the past. She’s currently finishing up her second book, a guide on helping developers land jobs.

Randall's Links

The Standout Developer
Randall on Twitter
Randall's Website
Smart Contract Development

]]> Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:30:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2592 Randall chats about her experience rapidly building a Twitter audience and how it has helped her with new opportunities including job offers, book deals, and overall credibility. She goes into detail about the tactical steps she took to craft valuable Tweets that have received huge engagement. Randall also talks about her books, including one that was published with O'Reilly and her new book that will be self-published on Gumroad. She goes into detail about the tradeoffs between publishing with an established publisher like O'Reilly versus self-publishing. Randall chats about her experience rapidly building a Twitter audience and how it has helped her with new opportunities including job offers, book deals, and overall credibility. She goes into detail about the tactical steps she took to craft valuable Twe entrepreneurship,twitter,audience building,publishing,programming No #31 - Zeno Rocha - Monetizing an Open Source Project 31 31 #31 - Zeno Rocha - Monetizing an Open Source Project full 5d7a6adf-551e-49ce-b707-389aa9bf0547 https://share.transistor.fm/s/2e3df2dc Zeno Rocha is the Chief Product Officer at Liferay Cloud, a newly created Liferay, Inc division.

His lifelong appreciation for building software and sharing knowledge led him to speak in over 110 conferences all over the world. He’s now focused on bringing the cloud revolution to the enterprise market while also building and selling digital products on the side.

When he's not working, Zeno likes running, watching movies, and eating cheese. For this last one he even created an app for it.

Zeno's Links
Zeno on Twitter
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
Dracula Theme
Dracula Theme About
Launch - Jeff Walker

]]> Zeno Rocha is the Chief Product Officer at Liferay Cloud, a newly created Liferay, Inc division.

His lifelong appreciation for building software and sharing knowledge led him to speak in over 110 conferences all over the world. He’s now focused on bringing the cloud revolution to the enterprise market while also building and selling digital products on the side.

When he's not working, Zeno likes running, watching movies, and eating cheese. For this last one he even created an app for it.

Zeno's Links
Zeno on Twitter
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers
Dracula Theme
Dracula Theme About
Launch - Jeff Walker

]]> Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:30:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3860 Zeno talks about his journey building and selling Dracula Pro, a color scheme and UI theme tailored for programming. He goes into detail about his launch, overcoming doubt leading up to it, and how he marketed the product to make it a success. Zeno talks about his mindset shift going from an open-source developer who was against monetization to now embracing offering a paid product to his audience. Zeno talks about his journey building and selling Dracula Pro, a color scheme and UI theme tailored for programming. He goes into detail about his launch, overcoming doubt leading up to it, and how he marketed the product to make it a success. Zeno talks entrepreneurship,digital products,programming No #30 - Philip Kiely - Nailing a Book Launch With Only 13 Twitter Followers 30 30 #30 - Philip Kiely - Nailing a Book Launch With Only 13 Twitter Followers full 82cc6b87-a4ec-4998-83eb-0bebbc2389e9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/a3b9c5fb Philip is a developer, writer, and entrepreneur who focuses on where code and words intersect. He has written for the likes of CSS tricks, Smashing Magazine, and Twilio. He’s a very recent college grad and is the author of Writing for Software Developers which is available now.

Philip's Links
Writing for Software Developers
Who Pays Technical Writers
Philip's Website
Philip on Twitter
Philip on YouTube

Transcript
[0:00] [background music]

Ryan Chenkie: [0:08] Hello, and welcome back to "The Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast." This is a show where I talk to you developers who are in business of one form or another and I try to get a sense of how they got to where they are and how they do the things they do.

[0:21] If you're a developer and you want to get into business, or maybe if you're already into business and you want to see where to go next, then hopefully this show is of value to you.

[0:29] This is Episode 30 with Philip Kiely.

[0:42] Quick announcement. I have just launched my latest teaching focus, which is going to be on "Security for React Applications." You can find it at reactsecurity.io. If you're a React developer and you want to find out how to do things like add authentication and authorization to your app, if you want to find out how to harden your frontend react code, then I got some courses that will show you how to do just that.

[1:03] There are some free course offerings, there are some pro courses. Hopefully, you can find something that is useful for you. Head over to reactsecurity.io to check it out.

[1:21] My guest today is Philip Kiely. Philip is a developer, writer, and entrepreneur who focuses on where code and words intersect. He has written for the likes of CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine, and Twilio.

[1:33] He's a very recent college grad and is the author of "Writing for Software Developers" which is available now.

[1:39] Philip, welcome to the show.

Philip Kiely: [1:40] Hi, Ryan, thanks for having me on today.

Ryan: [1:43] It's a pleasure to have you here. I was really intrigued to talk to you because you recently launched a book called Writing for Software Developers. This is something that's super interesting to me because I've done a lot of writing, and I'm a software developer. I'm very fascinated about how these two things coincide and why it's important to be a good writer as a software developer.

[2:08] Maybe that's where we could even start. I'd love to get your thoughts on why you think it's important to be good with words when you are also good with codes. Maybe give us just a breakdown of why is that you think that's important to be a good writer as a software developer.

Philip: [2:25] Sure. Imagine you went and sat down in front of your computer and said, "Hey, Siri, make a website." It's not really going to do anything because you haven't been specific enough.

[2:36] [Siri speaks]

Siri: [2:38] I found this on the web for "Make a website..."

Ryan: [2:40] There goes Siri. [laughs]

Philip: [2:41] Sorry about that.

Ryan: [2:41] [laughs] That's OK.

Philip: [2:42] You instruct your computer to make a website and it's not going to do anything because it doesn't know what you want. You have to use the actual language, you have to use HTML, CSS, use some frontend, some backend. Writing is kind of the same way. If you just tell someone, "Hey, make a website," they're not going to really know what to do.

[3:05] You need to practice communicating with the same level of specificity and technical detail in a way that's readable to humans as you do when you're programming.

[3:18] Studying writing in this context, the book doesn't really talk about grammar, syntax, that sort of stuff. It's more about how you can define your audience, like, if I'm writing against the Python interpreter, I'm going to need to write Python 3 code.

[3:34] Similarly, I'm writing for an English-speaking audience, I'm going to need to write in English. My audience has a couple years of background in these topics, so I'm allowed to make certain assumptions about what they're already going to know coming to the article.

[3:48] It's taking the same approach to technical communication that you take with your computer and just translating it to a new language that happens to be, instead of a programming language, whatever human language you're writing in.

Ryan: [4:02] That makes sense. Have you found, in your experience, that software developers in particular aren't generally great writers at the same time? I sense that perhaps you found a need here with this book you've written, "Writing for Software Developers."

[4:23] Have you found it the case that -- and I've heard this from various people that I've spoken with, that if you got a really great software developer, chances are...Maybe not chances are, but there is a chance that they won't be that great of a writer at the same time. They may not know how to communicate with words to quite the same skill level that they can communicate with code.

[4:45] Have you found that to be true at all?

Philip: [4:48] I think that that can be true for a lot of people, but for the industry as a whole, I think that as more and more people are getting into software development, we are getting a broader range of backgrounds in the field, and thus a lot of people are coming in with more pre-existing communication skills.

Ryan: [5:07] Right.

Philip: [5:08] I think that there are a lot of reasons why this perception that software developers are inherently bad at writing exists. I've definitely seen some of my friends coming into college as international students struggling with writing, just due to having to write in their second or third language, and many of them gravitate towards software development.

[5:29] There are plenty of people who get into software development because they don't like writing. I think that overall, there's no inherent reason that someone who is good at programming can't also be good at writing.

[5:42] When people talk about, "You can be the best in the world at one thing or it's a lot easier to become really good at two things, find that intersection and be really effective operating there," I think that when you take two, especially disconnected things or apparently disconnected things, like writing code and writing words, and find that intersection, that's a very powerful place to operate.

Ryan: [6:09] If someone's out there and they're thinking, "Maybe my writing skills are all right. Maybe I don't even know if they're OK or not."

[6:16] If you were trying to convince them that they should take a look at the skills that they got, writing-wise right now, and try to improve upon them, and you were to try to give them some reasons why that's beneficial to do, what would you say? What are the benefits of being a better writer as a software developer?

Philip: [6:35] Being a writer can help you develop your expertise in anything. The first thing I would do is I would ask them what their goals were because I'm sure that writing could help them reach their goals. In order to tell them a specific path or give them specific reasons, I'd have to know exactly what they wanted.

[6:56] For me, I knew that I wanted to be able to teach a bunch of people the same stuff that I had struggled to learn myself. For me, practicing my writing was for the purpose of gaining access to large publications that would be able to magnify and amplify my voice t...

]]> Philip is a developer, writer, and entrepreneur who focuses on where code and words intersect. He has written for the likes of CSS tricks, Smashing Magazine, and Twilio. He’s a very recent college grad and is the author of Writing for Software Developers which is available now.

Philip's Links
Writing for Software Developers
Who Pays Technical Writers
Philip's Website
Philip on Twitter
Philip on YouTube

Transcript
[0:00] [background music]

Ryan Chenkie: [0:08] Hello, and welcome back to "The Entrepreneurial Coder Podcast." This is a show where I talk to you developers who are in business of one form or another and I try to get a sense of how they got to where they are and how they do the things they do.

[0:21] If you're a developer and you want to get into business, or maybe if you're already into business and you want to see where to go next, then hopefully this show is of value to you.

[0:29] This is Episode 30 with Philip Kiely.

[0:42] Quick announcement. I have just launched my latest teaching focus, which is going to be on "Security for React Applications." You can find it at reactsecurity.io. If you're a React developer and you want to find out how to do things like add authentication and authorization to your app, if you want to find out how to harden your frontend react code, then I got some courses that will show you how to do just that.

[1:03] There are some free course offerings, there are some pro courses. Hopefully, you can find something that is useful for you. Head over to reactsecurity.io to check it out.

[1:21] My guest today is Philip Kiely. Philip is a developer, writer, and entrepreneur who focuses on where code and words intersect. He has written for the likes of CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine, and Twilio.

[1:33] He's a very recent college grad and is the author of "Writing for Software Developers" which is available now.

[1:39] Philip, welcome to the show.

Philip Kiely: [1:40] Hi, Ryan, thanks for having me on today.

Ryan: [1:43] It's a pleasure to have you here. I was really intrigued to talk to you because you recently launched a book called Writing for Software Developers. This is something that's super interesting to me because I've done a lot of writing, and I'm a software developer. I'm very fascinated about how these two things coincide and why it's important to be a good writer as a software developer.

[2:08] Maybe that's where we could even start. I'd love to get your thoughts on why you think it's important to be good with words when you are also good with codes. Maybe give us just a breakdown of why is that you think that's important to be a good writer as a software developer.

Philip: [2:25] Sure. Imagine you went and sat down in front of your computer and said, "Hey, Siri, make a website." It's not really going to do anything because you haven't been specific enough.

[2:36] [Siri speaks]

Siri: [2:38] I found this on the web for "Make a website..."

Ryan: [2:40] There goes Siri. [laughs]

Philip: [2:41] Sorry about that.

Ryan: [2:41] [laughs] That's OK.

Philip: [2:42] You instruct your computer to make a website and it's not going to do anything because it doesn't know what you want. You have to use the actual language, you have to use HTML, CSS, use some frontend, some backend. Writing is kind of the same way. If you just tell someone, "Hey, make a website," they're not going to really know what to do.

[3:05] You need to practice communicating with the same level of specificity and technical detail in a way that's readable to humans as you do when you're programming.

[3:18] Studying writing in this context, the book doesn't really talk about grammar, syntax, that sort of stuff. It's more about how you can define your audience, like, if I'm writing against the Python interpreter, I'm going to need to write Python 3 code.

[3:34] Similarly, I'm writing for an English-speaking audience, I'm going to need to write in English. My audience has a couple years of background in these topics, so I'm allowed to make certain assumptions about what they're already going to know coming to the article.

[3:48] It's taking the same approach to technical communication that you take with your computer and just translating it to a new language that happens to be, instead of a programming language, whatever human language you're writing in.

Ryan: [4:02] That makes sense. Have you found, in your experience, that software developers in particular aren't generally great writers at the same time? I sense that perhaps you found a need here with this book you've written, "Writing for Software Developers."

[4:23] Have you found it the case that -- and I've heard this from various people that I've spoken with, that if you got a really great software developer, chances are...Maybe not chances are, but there is a chance that they won't be that great of a writer at the same time. They may not know how to communicate with words to quite the same skill level that they can communicate with code.

[4:45] Have you found that to be true at all?

Philip: [4:48] I think that that can be true for a lot of people, but for the industry as a whole, I think that as more and more people are getting into software development, we are getting a broader range of backgrounds in the field, and thus a lot of people are coming in with more pre-existing communication skills.

Ryan: [5:07] Right.

Philip: [5:08] I think that there are a lot of reasons why this perception that software developers are inherently bad at writing exists. I've definitely seen some of my friends coming into college as international students struggling with writing, just due to having to write in their second or third language, and many of them gravitate towards software development.

[5:29] There are plenty of people who get into software development because they don't like writing. I think that overall, there's no inherent reason that someone who is good at programming can't also be good at writing.

[5:42] When people talk about, "You can be the best in the world at one thing or it's a lot easier to become really good at two things, find that intersection and be really effective operating there," I think that when you take two, especially disconnected things or apparently disconnected things, like writing code and writing words, and find that intersection, that's a very powerful place to operate.

Ryan: [6:09] If someone's out there and they're thinking, "Maybe my writing skills are all right. Maybe I don't even know if they're OK or not."

[6:16] If you were trying to convince them that they should take a look at the skills that they got, writing-wise right now, and try to improve upon them, and you were to try to give them some reasons why that's beneficial to do, what would you say? What are the benefits of being a better writer as a software developer?

Philip: [6:35] Being a writer can help you develop your expertise in anything. The first thing I would do is I would ask them what their goals were because I'm sure that writing could help them reach their goals. In order to tell them a specific path or give them specific reasons, I'd have to know exactly what they wanted.

[6:56] For me, I knew that I wanted to be able to teach a bunch of people the same stuff that I had struggled to learn myself. For me, practicing my writing was for the purpose of gaining access to large publications that would be able to magnify and amplify my voice t...

]]> Thu, 28 May 2020 10:30:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2626 Philip takes us through his journey writing and launching his new book, Writing for Software Developers, and how he nailed the launch with a very small audience. He talks about the tactical decisions he made, how he used his existing knowledge of communities to help his marketing efforts, and also how he collaborated with well-known developers to help the launch go so well. Philip offers a lot of practical advice for people who are interested in launching a book but who may not have a large following. Philip takes us through his journey writing and launching his new book, Writing for Software Developers, and how he nailed the launch with a very small audience. He talks about the tactical decisions he made, how he used his existing knowledge of communit product launch,entrepreneurship,writing No #29 - Christopher Gimmer - Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to $1,000,000 ARR 29 29 #29 - Christopher Gimmer - Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to $1,000,000 ARR full e317ca80-ec1c-45e4-a455-0f90e9453ce2 https://share.transistor.fm/s/86217b7f Christopher is an entrepreneur and investor and is the co-founder of Snappa, a self-funded SaaS app that helps non-designers create online graphics. Christopher left his day job in 2014 to work on startups full-time and has been focusing on business and investing ever since.

Christopher's Links
Snappa
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Lean Customer Development
Christopher on Twitter
Christopher's Website

]]> Christopher is an entrepreneur and investor and is the co-founder of Snappa, a self-funded SaaS app that helps non-designers create online graphics. Christopher left his day job in 2014 to work on startups full-time and has been focusing on business and investing ever since.

Christopher's Links
Snappa
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Lean Customer Development
Christopher on Twitter
Christopher's Website

]]> Mon, 11 May 2020 09:30:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2997 Christopher takes us through his journey building his SaaS app, Snappa, which just recently hit $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. He goes into detail about why it's important to remain bootstrapped and also which situations might warrant raising venture capital. Christopher also talks about some of the tactical aspects of running a bootstrapped SaaS company, including topics like pricing, churn, competition, and more. Christopher takes us through his journey building his SaaS app, Snappa, which just recently hit $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. He goes into detail about why it's important to remain bootstrapped and also which situations might warrant raising ven startups,entrepreneurship,bootstrapping No #28 - Saron Yitbarek - The Business of Running a Tech Conference 28 28 #28 - Saron Yitbarek - The Business of Running a Tech Conference full 8ced5bb9-868d-43a5-b9e6-201f6841e73d https://share.transistor.fm/s/c5671b75 Saron is a developer, international tech speaker, and podcaster, and is the founder of the recently acquired CodeNewbie, the most supportive community around for people learning to code. She’s the host of the Command Line Heros podcast and you can find her online at saron.io.

Saron's Links
Codeland
Saron's Website
Saron on Twitter

]]> Saron is a developer, international tech speaker, and podcaster, and is the founder of the recently acquired CodeNewbie, the most supportive community around for people learning to code. She’s the host of the Command Line Heros podcast and you can find her online at saron.io.

Saron's Links
Codeland
Saron's Website
Saron on Twitter

]]> Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:15:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2402 Saron talks about her journey founding, building, and recently selling CodeNewbie, the most supportive community around for people learning to code. She also talks about her experience running tech conferences and the business considerations that go into doing so. Saron goes into detail about how to think about running the CFP process, how to attract and retain sponsorship, and how to overcome challenges as they arise. Saron talks about her journey founding, building, and recently selling CodeNewbie, the most supportive community around for people learning to code. She also talks about her experience running tech conferences and the business considerations that go into tech conference,entrepreneurship,programming,business No #27 - Dan Wahlin - How to Establish Yourself as an Entrepreneurial Coder 27 27 #27 - Dan Wahlin - How to Establish Yourself as an Entrepreneurial Coder full 30b0ae25-765e-4380-b87f-9d96d6122fc2 https://share.transistor.fm/s/6f519d03 Dan founded Wahlin Consulting which provides training and architecture services on front-end and back-end web technologies, Docker/Kubernetes, and Cloud technologies. He’s published multiple courses on Pluralsight.com and is a Docker Captain, Microsoft MVP/Regional Director, and Google GDE. Dan speaks at multiple conferences and runs the Code with Dan development newsletter.

Dan's Links
Code With Dan
Dan on Pluralsight
Pluralsight Author Programming
Dan on Udemy
Dan on Twitter

]]> Dan founded Wahlin Consulting which provides training and architecture services on front-end and back-end web technologies, Docker/Kubernetes, and Cloud technologies. He’s published multiple courses on Pluralsight.com and is a Docker Captain, Microsoft MVP/Regional Director, and Google GDE. Dan speaks at multiple conferences and runs the Code with Dan development newsletter.

Dan's Links
Code With Dan
Dan on Pluralsight
Pluralsight Author Programming
Dan on Udemy
Dan on Twitter

]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:40:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3022 Dan talks about his experience being a self-employed programmer since the 1990s. He reflects on what has changed, what has remained the same, and how you should think about establishing yourself as an entrepreneurial coder. Dan provides some advice on how to approach consulting and teaching as a developer. Dan talks about his experience being a self-employed programmer since the 1990s. He reflects on what has changed, what has remained the same, and how you should think about establishing yourself as an entrepreneurial coder. Dan provides some advice on how programming,entrepreneurship,consulting No #26 - Marc-André Giroux - The Road to a $70,000 E-Book Launch 26 26 #26 - Marc-André Giroux - The Road to a $70,000 E-Book Launch full 3c70ed12-8f8a-4589-9d66-723b254c6234 https://share.transistor.fm/s/c63889f1 Marc is a GraphQL expert who currently works as a platform interface engineer at Github where he builds GraphQL APIs. He previously did the same at Shopify and the experience from both of these roles has led him to write his new book, “Production Ready GraphQL”. Marc is also a frequent conference speaker and travels the world to share his knowledge and experience on how to do GraphQL the right way.

Marc's Links

Production Ready GraphQL Book
Marc on Twitter

]]> Marc is a GraphQL expert who currently works as a platform interface engineer at Github where he builds GraphQL APIs. He previously did the same at Shopify and the experience from both of these roles has led him to write his new book, “Production Ready GraphQL”. Marc is also a frequent conference speaker and travels the world to share his knowledge and experience on how to do GraphQL the right way.

Marc's Links

Production Ready GraphQL Book
Marc on Twitter

]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:05:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3181 Marc talks about the recent launch of his first e-book, Production Ready GraphQL, and how it netted him over $70k during the launch. He talks about the fears he had going into launch day, the challenges he faced during the writing process, and how he was able to overcome impostor syndrome to make the launch happen. Marc also goes into detail about the tools he used to sell his book, his writing process, how he built an audience over time. Marc talks about the recent launch of his first e-book, Production Ready GraphQL, and how it netted him over $70k during the launch. He talks about the fears he had going into launch day, the challenges he faced during the writing process, and how he was ebook,launch,entrepreneurship,programming,graphql No #25 - Jamon Holmgren - Scaling Up and Sustaining an Agency 25 25 #25 - Jamon Holmgren - Scaling Up and Sustaining an Agency full 11fe1440-575a-4737-89f0-dffd2c8bf80c https://share.transistor.fm/s/163362b8 Jamon is a co-founder and the CTO of Infinite Red, an app design and development studio specializing in UX/UI design and React Native. He’s also the organizer of ChainReactConf, a two-day conference focusing on React Native in Portland, OR.

Jamon's Links
Jamon on Twitter
Jamon's Website
Chain React
Building Infinite Red Podcast
Building Infinite Red Episode on Cashflow
Reactatron
Gluegun

]]> Jamon is a co-founder and the CTO of Infinite Red, an app design and development studio specializing in UX/UI design and React Native. He’s also the organizer of ChainReactConf, a two-day conference focusing on React Native in Portland, OR.

Jamon's Links
Jamon on Twitter
Jamon's Website
Chain React
Building Infinite Red Podcast
Building Infinite Red Episode on Cashflow
Reactatron
Gluegun

]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:45:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2967 Jamon talks about his experience as a developer and business owner and his journey co-founding and building his React and React Native agency, Infinite Red. He talks about how the 2008/2009 recession impacted business as a web developer and how he was able to navigate that rough period. Jamon also talks about the importance of delegating work to ward off burnout, the importance of cashflow, some tips for managing developers, and much more. Jamon talks about his experience as a developer and business owner and his journey co-founding and building his React and React Native agency, Infinite Red. He talks about how the 2008/2009 recession impacted business as a web developer and how he was abl agency,programming,entrepreneurship,coding No #24 - Dominic Monn - How to Test Ideas and Ship Products Quickly 24 24 #24 - Dominic Monn - How to Test Ideas and Ship Products Quickly full 1565e2b1-69dc-478b-bdff-a23adebec3ca https://share.transistor.fm/s/e3dfc875 Dominic Monn is a Machine Learning engineer and product founder from Zurich, Switzerland. He has created a number of products focused around communities, including MentorCruise, a mentorship resource, RemoteML, a remote machine learning community, and Intravert, an online billboard for communities.

Dominic's Links
MentorCruise
Dominic on Twitter
Dominic's Website

Resources
Mixpanel
Amplitude
FullStory
Hotjar

]]> Dominic Monn is a Machine Learning engineer and product founder from Zurich, Switzerland. He has created a number of products focused around communities, including MentorCruise, a mentorship resource, RemoteML, a remote machine learning community, and Intravert, an online billboard for communities.

Dominic's Links
MentorCruise
Dominic on Twitter
Dominic's Website

Resources
Mixpanel
Amplitude
FullStory
Hotjar

]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3242 Dominic talks about his experience testing, building, and shipping many different digital products, including MentorCruise and Intravert. He gives advice on how to test ideas by starting with a simple landing page and also how to attract attention to your products early to gauge interest. Dominic goes into detail about the metrics that he pays attention to the most when building products and why you should do the same. Dominic talks about his experience testing, building, and shipping many different digital products, including MentorCruise and Intravert. He gives advice on how to test ideas by starting with a simple landing page and also how to attract attention to your entrepreneurship,programming,digital products No #23 - Eve Porcello & Alex Banks - How to Build a Business as a Workshop Instructor 23 23 #23 - Eve Porcello & Alex Banks - How to Build a Business as a Workshop Instructor full 29278b53-2afb-46e7-afb1-0e9b2100a24a https://share.transistor.fm/s/44546ba2 Eve and Alex operate Moon Highway where they teach cutting edge JavaScript to developers of all skill levels. They are the authors of Learning GraphQL and Learning React for O’Reilly and they have a workshop offering focused on full stack GraphQL. When not coding, they enjoy their time in beautiful Lake Tahoe.

Eve and Alex's Links
Moon Highway
Eve on Twitter
Alex on Twitter
Eve's Egghead Lessons
Alex's Egghead Lessons
GraphQL is for Everyone

Eve and Alex's Books
Learning GraphQL
Learning React

]]> Eve and Alex operate Moon Highway where they teach cutting edge JavaScript to developers of all skill levels. They are the authors of Learning GraphQL and Learning React for O’Reilly and they have a workshop offering focused on full stack GraphQL. When not coding, they enjoy their time in beautiful Lake Tahoe.

Eve and Alex's Links
Moon Highway
Eve on Twitter
Alex on Twitter
Eve's Egghead Lessons
Alex's Egghead Lessons
GraphQL is for Everyone

Eve and Alex's Books
Learning GraphQL
Learning React

]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:30:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3327 Eve and Alex talk about their experience building a business around teaching workshops. They go into detail about how they got started offering workshops, how they think about what to offer and how to price it, and how they have been able to teach developers at some of the largest companies in the tech world. They also talk about their experience publishing books and speaking at conferences and how these have bolstered their workshop business. Eve and Alex talk about their experience building a business around teaching workshops. They go into detail about how they got started offering workshops, how they think about what to offer and how to price it, and how they have been able to teach develop entrepreneurship,programming,javascript,graphql,workshops No #22 - Kelly Vaughn - How To Build a Successful Agency 22 22 #22 - Kelly Vaughn - How To Build a Successful Agency full e835720b-9f9b-4af2-ac09-ba9c1904a3a0 https://share.transistor.fm/s/bf6e13de Kelly is a front end developer and entrepreneur who runs The Taproom Agency, a marketing agency specializing in building excellent Shopify storefronts. She’s a Shopify Plus partner, co-host of the Ladybug Podcast, and runs the most important store on the web, dev merch at kvlly.com.

Kelly's Links

Kvlly.com
Kelly on Twitter
The Taproom Agency
Ladybug Podcast
The E-Myth

]]> Kelly is a front end developer and entrepreneur who runs The Taproom Agency, a marketing agency specializing in building excellent Shopify storefronts. She’s a Shopify Plus partner, co-host of the Ladybug Podcast, and runs the most important store on the web, dev merch at kvlly.com.

Kelly's Links

Kvlly.com
Kelly on Twitter
The Taproom Agency
Ladybug Podcast
The E-Myth

]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:00:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2557 Kelly talks about her experience going from being a solo freelancer to now running The Taproom Agency, a marketing agency specializing in building excellent Shopify storefronts. She goes into detail about what has worked well for her to build up her agency, the benefits and challenges of having a remote-first staff, and her approach to social media. Kelly talks about her experience going from being a solo freelancer to now running The Taproom Agency, a marketing agency specializing in building excellent Shopify storefronts. She goes into detail about what has worked well for her to build up her agenc agency,entrepreneurship,programming,shopify No #21 - Preethi Kasireddy - The Tradeoffs Between Entrepreneurship and Employment 21 21 #21 - Preethi Kasireddy - The Tradeoffs Between Entrepreneurship and Employment full e439646d-9187-4909-8cf4-48264db0efd7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/bfdf9399 Preethi is engineer, author, and blogger who writes on a wide range of topics at her site, preethikasireddy.com. She’s the author of “Fundamentals of Functional Programming” which focuses on teaching functional programming from a beginner’s mindset. Preethi is an avid traveler and you can find her on Instagram at preethikasireddy where you can follow along.

Preethi's Links

Preethi's Website
Preethi on Twitter
Preethi on YouTube
TruStory

]]> Preethi is engineer, author, and blogger who writes on a wide range of topics at her site, preethikasireddy.com. She’s the author of “Fundamentals of Functional Programming” which focuses on teaching functional programming from a beginner’s mindset. Preethi is an avid traveler and you can find her on Instagram at preethikasireddy where you can follow along.

Preethi's Links

Preethi's Website
Preethi on Twitter
Preethi on YouTube
TruStory

]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:30:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3159 Preethi talks about her journey going from working for top companies like Goldman Sachs and Andreessen Horowitz to founding her own startup called TruStory. She goes into detail about the tradeoffs between working as a full-time employee and being a startup founder. Preethi also talks about her experience going through an acquisition with TruStory and some of the highs and lows involved in the process. Preethi talks about her journey going from working for top companies like Goldman Sachs and Andreessen Horowitz to founding her own startup called TruStory. She goes into detail about the tradeoffs between working as a full-time employee and being a start entrepreneurship,programming,startups No #20 - Michaela Greiler - How to Pick Which Business Idea to Focus On 20 20 #20 - Michaela Greiler - How to Pick Which Business Idea to Focus On full 715850fd-0e36-4660-8a25-4b0a691f7c91 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7b361659 Dr. Michaela Greiler helps software teams build high-quality software in an efficient and effective way. Her mission is to lead teams to unlock their full potential in company workshops and during team coaching sessions. She specializes in teaching effective code review techniques.

Michaela's Links

michaelagreiler.com
Podcast: Software Engineering Unlocked
Michaela on Twitter

Michaela's Book Recommendations

The Lean Startup
Running Lean

]]> Dr. Michaela Greiler helps software teams build high-quality software in an efficient and effective way. Her mission is to lead teams to unlock their full potential in company workshops and during team coaching sessions. She specializes in teaching effective code review techniques.

Michaela's Links

michaelagreiler.com
Podcast: Software Engineering Unlocked
Michaela on Twitter

Michaela's Book Recommendations

The Lean Startup
Running Lean

]]> Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:30:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2718 Dr. Michaela talks about her journey leaving her dream job at Microsoft to focus on being her own boss. She takes us through how she developed and launched a successful online marketplace but ultimately stopped working on it because it wasn't where her passion was. She then talks about how she found a business idea she really wanted to focus on through being playful. Michaela also discusses how you can find freedom but focusing on running a lean business and lifestyle. Dr. Michaela talks about her journey leaving her dream job at Microsoft to focus on being her own boss. She takes us through how she developed and launched a successful online marketplace but ultimately stopped working on it because it wasn't where her pa programming,entrepreneurship,javascript No #19 - Kent C. Dodds - How To Replace Your Salary by Creating Content 19 19 #19 - Kent C. Dodds - How To Replace Your Salary by Creating Content full c99a3712-b683-4703-b75a-a1477d9b5461 https://share.transistor.fm/s/810d4a7b Kent is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of TestingJavaScript.com and he's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and React.

Kent's Links

2010s Decade in Review
Start with Why
Frontend Masters
Testing JavaScript
Tribes
How To Egghead
Kent's Fantasy Writing
How I am so productive
Twitter

]]> Kent is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. Kent is the creator of TestingJavaScript.com and he's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and React.

Kent's Links

2010s Decade in Review
Start with Why
Frontend Masters
Testing JavaScript
Tribes
How To Egghead
Kent's Fantasy Writing
How I am so productive
Twitter

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:30:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 4154 Kent shares his experience building a business in developer education content which replaced his salary and allowed him to leave his full-time job. He talks about how he uses a mix of content types (written, video, and workshop material) to build his audience. He also talks about why it's important to offer free content and why building an audience is crucial for selling courses. Kent shares his experience building a business in developer education content which replaced his salary and allowed him to leave his full-time job. He talks about how he uses a mix of content types (written, video, and workshop material) to build his audi javascript, entrepreneurship, programming No #18 - Shirley Wu - How To Be A Successful Niche Freelancer 18 18 #18 - Shirley Wu - How To Be A Successful Niche Freelancer full 23ebc35a-bad9-41d5-addd-d41f441f2535 https://share.transistor.fm/s/82ae2bc6 Shirley is an award-winning creative who focuses on art and data visualizations. She’s a freelancer who helps companies with tough data visualization problems. In her spare time, Shirley enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.

Shirley's Links

Shirley's Website
Shirley's Twitter
Work For Money, Design For Love
Data Visualization Society
Frontend Masters Data Visualization Course

]]> Shirley is an award-winning creative who focuses on art and data visualizations. She’s a freelancer who helps companies with tough data visualization problems. In her spare time, Shirley enjoys traveling and spending time with family and friends.

Shirley's Links

Shirley's Website
Shirley's Twitter
Work For Money, Design For Love
Data Visualization Society
Frontend Masters Data Visualization Course

]]> Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:15:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3361 Shirley talks about how she went from doing data visualization work for prominent tech companies to going out on her own as a full-time data visualization freelancer. She dives into some of the important aspects to consider when freelancing in a specific tech niche, including the importance of a great portfolio and strong relationships within the industry. She also gives some great advice on how to ease the transition going from full-time employee to full-time business owner. Shirley talks about how she went from doing data visualization work for prominent tech companies to going out on her own as a full-time data visualization freelancer. She dives into some of the important aspects to consider when freelancing in a specific javascript, freelancing, entrepreneurship, data visualization No #17 - Greg Schier - How I Built and Sold Insomnia 17 17 #17 - Greg Schier - How I Built and Sold Insomnia full 295d3482-d94b-42fd-9d26-272ece6e3aa9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/926c076e Greg is a developer, product creator, and entrepreneur from Montreal, Canada. He built Insomnia, a cross-platform and open source tool for debugging REST and GraphQL APIs that is loved by developers around the world. When not building beautiful products, Greg can be found cooking tasty dishes, going for a run, or eating a burrito.

Greg's Links

Insomnia
Kong
Greg's Twitter

]]> Greg is a developer, product creator, and entrepreneur from Montreal, Canada. He built Insomnia, a cross-platform and open source tool for debugging REST and GraphQL APIs that is loved by developers around the world. When not building beautiful products, Greg can be found cooking tasty dishes, going for a run, or eating a burrito.

Greg's Links

Insomnia
Kong
Greg's Twitter

]]> Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:45:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2882 Greg talks about his journey building (and eventually selling) Insomnia, one of the world's best REST and GraphQL clients. He takes us through how he came up with the idea for Insomnia, how he started gaining a userbase for it, and ultimately how he was able to sell it. Greg also offers some advice to product creators based on things he wishes he would have done differently while building his product. Greg talks about his journey building (and eventually selling) Insomnia, one of the world's best REST and GraphQL clients. He takes us through how he came up with the idea for Insomnia, how he started gaining a userbase for it, and ultimately how he was a web development, product, entrepreneurship, programming No #16 - Daniel Vassallo - Why I Left a $500k/year Job at AWS to Work For Myself 16 16 #16 - Daniel Vassallo - Why I Left a $500k/year Job at AWS to Work For Myself full 3b3c1f9a-8326-4fa1-addf-acf46cfc210a https://share.transistor.fm/s/4ebf94e9 Daniel is a software engineer and entrepreneur who recently took the plunge to go independent. Before that, he was with Amazon for 8 years where he worked on building tools for developers and was handsomely rewarded, getting up to a half million dollar per year salary prior to leaving.

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

Daniel's Links

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

Userbase.dev (Encrypted.dev)
Userbase on GitHub

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

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

Daniel's Links

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

Userbase.dev (Encrypted.dev)
Userbase on GitHub

]]> Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:30:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3344 Daniel talks about what went into his decision to quit his very well-paid position as an engineer at AWS to be independent. He walks us through his journey getting one promotion after another at Amazon, only to realize that the high salary wasn't worth it. Daniel is currently building a product called Userbase (formerly called Encrypted.dev), a tool for creating secure and GDPR-compliant web apps. He talks about how he landed on Userbase as a product idea and what it has been like thus far building it out. Daniel talks about what went into his decision to quit his very well-paid position as an engineer at AWS to be independent. He walks us through his journey getting one promotion after another at Amazon, only to realize that the high salary wasn't worth it business, programming, entrepreneurship No #15 - Joel Hooks - The Benefits of Building a Calm Company 15 15 #15 - Joel Hooks - The Benefits of Building a Calm Company full 3293a346-c642-413b-9f50-a3c450f4e44a https://share.transistor.fm/s/01b276f5 Joel is a software developer living outside Portland, OR who is passionate about home educating his 5 kids. Joel helps run egghead.io, the internet’s best resource for teaching developers modern programming. When not running egghead or hanging out with his family, Joel likes to read, cook, and spend time with his local community of friends.

Joel's Links

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

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

Joel's Links

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

]]> Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2257 Joel takes us through his experience building egghead.io, one the world's best-known resources for high-quality programming tutorials. Egghead has a unique approach to business and Joel talks about why they generally don't pay attention to the competition, why they don't have deadlines, and why it's important that egghead stays a tight-knit family business. Joel gives a ton of recommendations for books, courses, and other learning resources that have been crucial for his success. Joel takes us through his experience building egghead.io, one the world's best-known resources for high-quality programming tutorials. Egghead has a unique approach to business and Joel talks about why they generally don't pay attention to the competition business, programming, entrepreneurship No #14 - Kitze - Github Stars Won't Pay Your Rent 14 14 #14 - Kitze - Github Stars Won't Pay Your Rent full e9e56970-99cf-4194-98f8-4212caffc576 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b34b6736 Kitze is a JavaScript developer and founder of React Academy where he teaches React and GraphQL around the world. He's the maker of Sizzy - the browser for designers and developers and he's documenting his journey building Sizzy on YouTube. He’s made products like JSUI, Twizzy, Lucky Retweet, OK Google, and more.

Kitze's Links

GitHub stars won't pay your rent
Sizzy
Twizzy

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

Kitze's Links

GitHub stars won't pay your rent
Sizzy
Twizzy

]]> Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3211 Kitze has a ton of experience building successful products for the web. He has also built awesome open source software and has seen, first-hand, how it can be unsustainable as an author. In this episode, Kitze takes us through his journey building his latest app, Sizzy––the browser for designers and developers. He covers topics including how he came up with the idea for Sizzy, how he took the product to market, and the challenges he has encountered along the way. This episode is full of great advice for those wanting to build apps and generate income from them. Kitze has a ton of experience building successful products for the web. He has also built awesome open source software and has seen, first-hand, how it can be unsustainable as an author. In this episode, Kitze takes us through his journey building his web, javascript, github, products, apps No #13 - Sean Grove - What It's Like to Go Through Y Combinator, Twice 13 13 #13 - Sean Grove - What It's Like to Go Through Y Combinator, Twice full 37d687b8-8e11-4c78-bcd5-0c848d23b968 https://share.transistor.fm/s/58c17abe Sean is a software engineer turned startup founder who has gone through Y-Combinator twice - first in the summer of 2011 with a company called Bushido, and more recently in Summer of 2018 with a company called OneGraph.

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


Sean's Links

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

Sean's Twitter
@sgrove

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

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


Sean's Links

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

Sean's Twitter
@sgrove

]]> Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3365 Sean talks about his experience going through Y Combinator, one of the best known early-stage startup accelerators in the world. He gives us the inside scoop about all aspects of the program, including the application process, how to gain leverage from beginning to end, and the high-pressure "demo day" which culminates the program. Sean shares what went right and what went wrong when he went through with his first company, Bushido, and also what he changed going through it a second time with his current company, OneGraph. Sean talks about his experience going through Y Combinator, one of the best known early-stage startup accelerators in the world. He gives us the inside scoop about all aspects of the program, including the application process, how to gain leverage from be No #12 - Jason Resnick - How to Network and Stand Out by Serving 12 12 #12 - Jason Resnick - How to Network and Stand Out by Serving full ca2a04cd-2a14-46d8-b299-9188d86ebccc https://share.transistor.fm/s/3a0028be Jason's Bio

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

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

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


Jason's Links

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

]]> Jason's Bio

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

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

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


Jason's Links

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

]]> Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3236 Jason talks about his approach to networking and why it's crucial to serve without expecting anything in return. He goes into detail about how he was able to build authority in his niche on social media by being the guy with answers and offering them up, right when people would ask. Jason provides a bunch of tips on how developers can build and scale their own businesses, regardless of whether they are service-based, product-based, or a mix of both. Jason talks about his approach to networking and why it's crucial to serve without expecting anything in return. He goes into detail about how he was able to build authority in his niche on social media by being the guy with answers and offering them up, No #11 - Chris Ferdinandi - Building an Audience by Being Consistent 11 11 #11 - Chris Ferdinandi - Building an Audience by Being Consistent full 799ef8a7-122e-4714-a031-1e479f405584 https://share.transistor.fm/s/2d10b271 Chris's Bio

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

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

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

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


Chris's Links

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

]]> Chris's Bio

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

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

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

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


Chris's Links

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

]]> Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3746 Chris goes into detail on how he teaches people to be better JavaScript developers by focusing on vanilla JS and core concepts. He talks about his approach to building an audience and how showing up consistently has played a key role in his success. Chris covers his strategies for writing every day, building up an email list, and launching a product. Chris goes into detail on how he teaches people to be better JavaScript developers by focusing on vanilla JS and core concepts. He talks about his approach to building an audience and how showing up consistently has played a key role in his success. Chris No #10 - Nader Dabit - How to Be a Prosperous Software Consultant 10 10 #10 - Nader Dabit - How to Be a Prosperous Software Consultant full e7408298-1356-45e1-badf-d23a4cf60356 https://share.transistor.fm/s/2c4ab3f9 Nader Dabit is a web and mobile developer currently working as a Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. He's also the founder of React Native Training, the author of React Native In Action, & the creator of React Native Elements and an aspiring futurist. When he's not programming he's probably traveling, spending time with his family, or reading.

Nader's Links

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

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

Nader's Links

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

]]> Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:30:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3272 Nader talks about his journey as an independent software consultant and how he was able to attract some of the biggest names in the tech industry as clients. He goes into detail about how open source and writing can make a huge difference when trying to establish yourself in the industry. Nader also talks about the process he went through for writing his book, React Native in Action, and also covers his approach to delivering paid workshops. Nader talks about his journey as an independent software consultant and how he was able to attract some of the biggest names in the tech industry as clients. He goes into detail about how open source and writing can make a huge difference when trying to e consulting, software, entrepreneurship, workshops, writing, author No #9 - Jeff Cross - Leaving Google and The Secrets of Enterprise Sales 9 9 #9 - Jeff Cross - Leaving Google and The Secrets of Enterprise Sales full f4729575-83a1-4e24-8ef7-a13e22584587 https://share.transistor.fm/s/eaa2feec Jeff Cross is the CEO of Nrwl (Narwhal), where he works with the world's best companies to develop highly-collaborative software engineering organizations. Prior to Narwhal, Jeff was one of the early members of the Angular team at Google and tech lead of the Angular Mobile team.

Jeff's Links

Nrwl

]]> Jeff Cross is the CEO of Nrwl (Narwhal), where he works with the world's best companies to develop highly-collaborative software engineering organizations. Prior to Narwhal, Jeff was one of the early members of the Angular team at Google and tech lead of the Angular Mobile team.

Jeff's Links

Nrwl

]]> Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:10:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2594 Jeff talks about how and why he went from working for one of the most prestigious tech companies in the world to starting his own consultancy, Nrwl (Narwhal). He goes into detail about why he and his co-founder decided to focus specifically on Angular and how it has helped the business. Jeff also talks about the secrets of enterprise sales and offers some advice on how to approach selling to large organizations. Jeff talks about how and why he went from working for one of the most prestigious tech companies in the world to starting his own consultancy, Nrwl (Narwhal). He goes into detail about why he and his co-founder decided to focus specifically on Angular and No #8 - Chris Sevilleja - How to Build Traffic and Generate Revenue for Your Blog 8 8 #8 - Chris Sevilleja - How to Build Traffic and Generate Revenue for Your Blog full a857ecd9-b6c3-41a1-8f99-c25b4e2e8926 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9a6a2736 Chris is a full stack developer from Las Vegas, NV and is the founder of the popular web development tutorial site Scotch.io. He is a Google Developer Expert in web technologies and is a frequent live-coder on Twitch. When not coding he can be found rolling up the Vegas strip in his Model 3 or squatting, bench-pressing, or deadlifting major weight.

Chris's Links

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

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

Chris's Links

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

]]> Wed, 05 Jun 2019 13:40:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3558 Chris talks about his journey building Scotch.io, one of the most popular developer content sites on the internet. He goes into detail about how to generate traffic, how to optimize SEO, and what the upsides and downsides of working with a very large pool of guest authors. He also discusses some of his strategies for generating revenue from Scotch.io and offers some advice for those looking to do the same with their own blog. If you are interested in how to create content for developers that they will love and (how to monetize it), this episode will provide a ton of value to you. Chris talks about his journey building Scotch.io, one of the most popular developer content sites on the internet. He goes into detail about how to generate traffic, how to optimize SEO, and what the upsides and downsides of working with a very large pool seo, javascript, programming, entrepreneurship, business No #7 - Justin Jackson - The Ups and Downs of Building a SaaS 7 7 #7 - Justin Jackson - The Ups and Downs of Building a SaaS full 6256abbe-7c8b-40c4-8410-5f80d10008a3 https://share.transistor.fm/s/ae3eca09 Justin the co-founder of Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting and analytics platform. He's worked with SaaS companies since 2008, mostly as a Product Manager. Justin also runs a community for bootstrappers called MegaMaker.

Justin's Links

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

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

Justin's Links

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

]]> Mon, 06 May 2019 08:30:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3054 Justin talks about his journey creating Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting and analytics platform (and the platform used by this podcast). He goes into detail on some of the more challenging and stressful aspects of building a SaaS company, including cashflow, handling outages, customer retention, and more. Justin also talks about what it's all about to be a maker and why it's a rewarding pursuit for anyone. Justin talks about his journey creating Transistor.fm, a podcast hosting and analytics platform (and the platform used by this podcast). He goes into detail on some of the more challenging and stressful aspects of building a SaaS company, including cashfl No #6 - Eric Elliott - Effective and Impactful Content Marketing 6 6 #6 - Eric Elliott - Effective and Impactful Content Marketing full 41be9e8a-de7a-4395-9d6c-5fc6c33014bb https://share.transistor.fm/s/de9872bc Eric Elliott is a distributed systems expert, and author of the books "Programming JavaScript Applications" and "Composing Software". He builds and advises development teams for crypto projects, and has contributed to software experiences for Adobe Systems, Zumba Fitness, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, BBC, and top recording artists including Usher, Frank Ocean, Metallica, and many more.


He spends most of his time in the San Francisco Bay Area with the most beautiful woman in the world.


Eric's Links

Eric Elliott JS
DevAnywhere
Eric Elliott on Medium
Are Programmer Brains Different?

Eric's Books

Programming JavaScript Applications
Composing Software

]]> Eric Elliott is a distributed systems expert, and author of the books "Programming JavaScript Applications" and "Composing Software". He builds and advises development teams for crypto projects, and has contributed to software experiences for Adobe Systems, Zumba Fitness, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, BBC, and top recording artists including Usher, Frank Ocean, Metallica, and many more.


He spends most of his time in the San Francisco Bay Area with the most beautiful woman in the world.


Eric's Links

Eric Elliott JS
DevAnywhere
Eric Elliott on Medium
Are Programmer Brains Different?

Eric's Books

Programming JavaScript Applications
Composing Software

]]> Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3805 Eric talks about his career as a software developer and how he transitioned away from full-time work to working for himself. He discusses his approach to content marketing and why one of the best ways to market yourself as a developer is to teach. Eric gives his thoughts on why Medium is a powerful and effective way to distribute content and why it might be a good choice for developers who want to reach a broader audience. Eric talks about his career as a software developer and how he transitioned away from full-time work to working for himself. He discusses his approach to content marketing and why one of the best ways to market yourself as a developer is to teach. Eric gi javascript, marketing, content marketing, medium, business, programming No #5 - Jesse Sanders - Building and Scaling a Consultancy 5 5 #5 - Jesse Sanders - Building and Scaling a Consultancy full e693c9a8-caf8-44e4-a0f3-b90a8609d857 https://share.transistor.fm/s/f9fecbac Jesse is the founder and CEO of BrieBug Software and an Angular Google Developer Expert (GDE). He regularly speaks around the world on Angular and related web technologies to inform and inspire developers on how to build the next generation of web applications. He regularly teaches workshops on Angular fundamentals, NgRx, and advanced Angular topics. He specializes in architecting systems using Angular for enterprise clients to help them achieve their goals. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his children, biking, skiing/snowboarding, hiking, and training for triathlons.

Jesse's Links

BrieBug
Scaling Up Book
ng-conf

]]> Jesse is the founder and CEO of BrieBug Software and an Angular Google Developer Expert (GDE). He regularly speaks around the world on Angular and related web technologies to inform and inspire developers on how to build the next generation of web applications. He regularly teaches workshops on Angular fundamentals, NgRx, and advanced Angular topics. He specializes in architecting systems using Angular for enterprise clients to help them achieve their goals. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his children, biking, skiing/snowboarding, hiking, and training for triathlons.

Jesse's Links

BrieBug
Scaling Up Book
ng-conf

]]> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3007 Jesse talks about his journey starting and scaling his consultancy, BrieBug Software. He covers why it's valuable to focus on specific technologies and goes into detail about his approach for attracting and retaining enterprise clients. Jesse also shares insights on what it's like to be the CEO of a large consulting firm, including lessons he has learned along the way. Jesse talks about his journey starting and scaling his consultancy, BrieBug Software. He covers why it's valuable to focus on specific technologies and goes into detail about his approach for attracting and retaining enterprise clients. Jesse also shares No #4 - Jeff Whelpley - How to Experiment with Startups 4 4 #4 - Jeff Whelpley - How to Experiment with Startups full cdd0ca6d-8e39-4477-bdab-f051c6a1fa60 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b567fe0d Jeff Whelpley is the CTO and co-founder of GetHuman, one of the most popular websites in the world for customer service information and tools. He is also a Google Developer Expert and a leader in the tech community, organizing a number of local meetups in Boston and speaking at many different tech conferences around the globe.

Jeff's Sites

GetHuman
Swish
User Interviews
VendorSmith
hipmatic
ngclub

]]> Jeff Whelpley is the CTO and co-founder of GetHuman, one of the most popular websites in the world for customer service information and tools. He is also a Google Developer Expert and a leader in the tech community, organizing a number of local meetups in Boston and speaking at many different tech conferences around the globe.

Jeff's Sites

GetHuman
Swish
User Interviews
VendorSmith
hipmatic
ngclub

]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:00:00 -0400 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 4091 Jeff talks about his approach to experimenting with new startups within his existing company, GetHuman. Jeff's experimentation method means he and his team can move quickly to validate new ideas without betting the farm. In this episode, Jeff describes the framework that his team uses to determine whether a new idea is worthy of pursuit and how they go about testing their assumptions for new products. Jeff talks about his approach to experimenting with new startups within his existing company, GetHuman. Jeff's experimentation method means he and his team can move quickly to validate new ideas without betting the farm. In this episode, Jeff describes th startups, programming, entrepreneurship No #3 - Tracy Lee - From Startup Exit to Building a Top-Tier Consultancy 3 3 #3 - Tracy Lee - From Startup Exit to Building a Top-Tier Consultancy full e31b26a0-e80d-4aef-9479-359662e4be76 https://share.transistor.fm/s/c32a1270 Tracy is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a consultancy helping teams build front end applications and is focused on hiring women. She is also a Google Developer Expert, RxJS Core Team member, a Women Techmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. She heads up Community Relations at Node Foundation, is the host of the Modern Web podcast, organizer of This.JavaScript, Contributor Days, Google Developer Group Silicon Valley and Triangle, and RxWorkshop. You can find her on Twitter @ladyleet
 or at thisdot.co/labs.

Tracy's Sites

This Dot Labs
Contributor Days

]]> Tracy is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a consultancy helping teams build front end applications and is focused on hiring women. She is also a Google Developer Expert, RxJS Core Team member, a Women Techmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. She heads up Community Relations at Node Foundation, is the host of the Modern Web podcast, organizer of This.JavaScript, Contributor Days, Google Developer Group Silicon Valley and Triangle, and RxWorkshop. You can find her on Twitter @ladyleet
 or at thisdot.co/labs.

Tracy's Sites

This Dot Labs
Contributor Days

]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:00:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 2973 Tracy Lee talks about her entrepreneurial pursuits in the tech industry starting with Dishcrawl, a startup she founded and later sold. Her newest venture is a top-tier consultancy called This Dot Labs which specializes in building front end applications for businesses. In this episode, Tracy also talks about how This Dot is focused on hiring women and how she is working to get more women into the tech industry. Tracy Lee talks about her entrepreneurial pursuits in the tech industry starting with Dishcrawl, a startup she founded and later sold. Her newest venture is a top-tier consultancy called This Dot Labs which specializes in building front end applications f javascript, startups, programming, women in tech No #2 - Brad Hussey - How to Get Freelancing Freedom 2 2 #2 - Brad Hussey - How to Get Freelancing Freedom full b67aeaff-972f-4d11-bd6d-0f974c701c9d https://share.transistor.fm/s/3b210b58 A web developer by trade, Brad is an entrepreneur and educator who lives in Southern Alberta with his wife and two children. He teaches people how to get their start in the world of web design, and has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn how to design and code beautiful websites.


Brad's mission is to teach aspiring entrepreneurs how to start a business they are passionate about; one that achieves freedom and abundance for themselves and their families, and he does this through his training programs at FreelancingFreedom.com.


A multi-talented and unusual man, when not building businesses, you’ll find him playing with his kids, getting dirty in the woodshop, writing music with his wife, or even tap dancing.

Brad's Sites

Blog
Freelancing Freedom

Software Brad Uses

ConvertKit (Email Marketing)
Teachable (Course Creation Platform)
Thinkific (Course Creation Platform)

]]> A web developer by trade, Brad is an entrepreneur and educator who lives in Southern Alberta with his wife and two children. He teaches people how to get their start in the world of web design, and has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn how to design and code beautiful websites.


Brad's mission is to teach aspiring entrepreneurs how to start a business they are passionate about; one that achieves freedom and abundance for themselves and their families, and he does this through his training programs at FreelancingFreedom.com.


A multi-talented and unusual man, when not building businesses, you’ll find him playing with his kids, getting dirty in the woodshop, writing music with his wife, or even tap dancing.

Brad's Sites

Blog
Freelancing Freedom

Software Brad Uses

ConvertKit (Email Marketing)
Teachable (Course Creation Platform)
Thinkific (Course Creation Platform)

]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:30:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 4876 Brad Hussey talks about his journey going from dead-end job to getting freedom over his income and time by getting into web development. He talks about how he creates and sells courses for developers and also how he has found freedom in freelancing as a coder. Brad Hussey talks about his journey going from dead-end job to getting freedom over his income and time by getting into web development. He talks about how he creates and sells courses for developers and also how he has found freedom in freelancing as a c freelancing, coding, programming, web design, design No #1 - Adam Wathan - Creating and Launching Courses for Developers 1 1 #1 - Adam Wathan - Creating and Launching Courses for Developers full d89765d4-9b81-4d9a-835a-3d67d9582944 https://share.transistor.fm/s/e637c630 Adam is a full-stack developer and entrepreneur from Canada. He's an active contributor in the Laravel and Vue communities, the host of the Full Stack Radio podcast, and the creator of Tailwind CSS. He runs his own business creating books and courses for other developers full-time.

Links

Blog Posts
The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job


Adam's Books
Refactoring UI
Test-Driven Laravel
Refactoring to Collections

Software Adam Uses
ConvertKit (Email Marketing)

]]> Adam is a full-stack developer and entrepreneur from Canada. He's an active contributor in the Laravel and Vue communities, the host of the Full Stack Radio podcast, and the creator of Tailwind CSS. He runs his own business creating books and courses for other developers full-time.

Links

Blog Posts
The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job


Adam's Books
Refactoring UI
Test-Driven Laravel
Refactoring to Collections

Software Adam Uses
ConvertKit (Email Marketing)

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:00:00 -0500 Ryan Chenkie Ryan Chenkie 3777 Adam Wathan talks about his journey as a self-published course author. He goes into detail about the process he follows for creating new courses, including how to pick a topic and make consistent progress towards the finish line. He also shares the numbers from some of his latest products, including Refactoring UI. Adam Wathan talks about his journey as a self-published course author. He goes into detail about the process he follows for creating new courses, including how to pick a topic and make consistent progress towards the finish line. He also shares the number business, marketing, programming, technology, self-publishing, video courses, ebooks No