Techzing

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Justin and Jason chat with Jeff Haynie about his startup Appcelerator and Titanium – an application that gives you the ability to create native Windows, OSX and Linux apps using Javascript, Python, Ruby, and or PHP, and iPhone and Android apps using Javascript.  Oh, and it’s free and open source too!

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Justin and Jason discuss the launching (or lack thereof) of Jason’s secret project, the science behind the midday nap, Jason’s improved Internet connectivity, the TweetMiner fiasco, Justin’s contracting of a PR person, the unfortunate importance of marketing, how Justin donated $222.22 to the No Agenda podcast, the TV show Lost, Titanium and developing iPhone and Android apps using Javascript, Amy Hoy’s Pimpin’ Software Projects Ain’t Easy, the new show segments – La Critique and Get to Know a Listener, the possibility of doing x-factor episodes, Justin’s interest in 9-11 conspiracies, the weirdness of advanced physics, time travel and yes, even UFOs.

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Justin and Jason speak with Central Desktop founders Isaac Garcia and Arnulf Hsu about how they built a successful SaaS business and the lessons they learned along the way. Some of their advice includes: speak with your customers early and often, get to know their pain points and solve them, launch early and iterate, ignore the competition, work hard, stay focused and remember that it’s all about execution.

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Justin and Jason discuss crowdsourcing via blog comments, MashAPI vs TweetMiner, how CentralDesktop succeeded without any special advantages, Peter Christensen and GeekStack, DotNetRock’s shockingly large audience, how microwaves interfere with wireless networks (hint: don’t use channel 6), making progress by doing a little work every
day, critiquing MySkillsMap, the TechZing ThinkTank, the challenge and frustration of design work, how TweetMiner is now blocked by TrendMicro, tithing 10% of TweetMiner’s revenue to the No Agenda podcast, emailing Dvorak, Justin’s fruit fly conspiracy, how to be lucky, the Random Traveler’s Group and why Jason talks so much.

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Justin and Jason discuss how many subscribers Techzing has vs StackOverflow, the awesomeness of PrintFriendly.com, TweetMiner’s growth potential based on HootSuite’s 400K user base, whether Justin should work on his secret project or TweetMiner, Techzing as a public masterminding session, how Jason’s brother saved a soldier’s life in Afghanistan, HipHop (HPHP) and the trend towards compiling scripting languages, migrating to a VPS (virtual private server), why ChatRoulette has been such a big deal on Hacker News, building towards financial independence, the advantages of juggling multiple consulting projects, how the fun is in the doing, Jason Cohen’s article on sunk costs and Justin’s love of food.

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Justin and Jason discuss their lost episode and the future direction of the show, making 100 users happy, tracking active and paying users on TweetMiner, how word of mouth isn’t viral, whether Justin should try to bootstrap his secret project (you know -  the one that isn’t TweetMiner), Jason’s upcoming iPhone app project, metrics of programmer productivity, how quality is fractal, how “scratch your own itch” and minimal viable product are fundamentally incompatible approaches to product development and how the quality of a product is limited by the taste of whomever is running the company.

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Justin and Jason discuss Tweetminer’s frenemy adding feature, the utility of Twitter for non-famous people, functional programming (what the hell is it anyway), the clustering of tech preferences, project Natal and the path to holodeck style entertainment, the story of how Justin lied his way into the tech industry, the value of being a contrarian, and why Justin is taking voice over lessons.

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Justin and Jason discuss whether TweetMiner is stagnating, attributes of single founders, the importance of consistency, the energy feedback loop between startups and users, building a custom text search engine, the theory of the planimal (it turns out that it’s real after all), sleep hacks, when to fix bugs and when to add features, the pain of fixing cross-browser CSS bugs, technical superstitions, talent versus persistence and determination, annoying marketing speak (user journey, passion and reaching out), ten rules for web startups and Justin’s new startup idea.

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Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s addiction to the TweetMiner story, celebrating small wins, Justin’s love of Pivotal Tracker, keeping the development process light, the Indinero controversy, why you should work on an interesting problem, UserTesting.com, finding product/market fit with Survey.io, Justin’s desire to build a better feature ranking tool, the CodeIgniter PHP framework, when to use lightweight and heavyweight frameworks, why not to write a business plan, the book The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, the importance of abandoning crap and the future of the podcast, TweetMiner and Jason’s secret project.