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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.
Categories: Podcast Tags: consistency, cross-browser, CSS bugs, fix bugs, planimal, single founders, sleep hacks, startups, technical superstitions, TweetMiner, web startups
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Justin and Jason discuss why Jason hasn’t released his secret project, how coding is a marathon and not a sprint, the pros and cons of the minimum viable product, Tweetminer’s progress and revenue projections, startup advice in exactly three words, MongoDB, the value of market research, whether blogging is really worth the effort, learning from side projects, the status of Justin’s secret project and the productivity hacks of Hemmingway and Seinfeld.
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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.
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Justin and Jason interview Jessica Mah, the 19-year old co-founder of Indinero, an online business accounting startup, about how she got started and how she plans to grow her new venture.
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Justin and Jason discuss the cost of a poor customer service experience, TweetMiner on Hacker News, using PayPal’s reference transaction ID for repeat transactions, Jason’s cross platform messaging library, making code open source, test driven development and exploratory programming, weekend productivity, learning calculus in 2 1/2 hours, minimalism in life and in code, teaming up with developers and designers on BuildItWith.me, and why you should make it work and make it pretty before making it fast.
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Justin and Jason discuss working with the Twitter API, high-throughput messaging, setting up wildcard sub-domains, hiring for startups, the advantage of virtual teams, whether you learn more from failure or success, the problems of focusing on competitors, how to prioritize feature development and making progress through a series of small steps.
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Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner’s stats, the pros and cons of compensation transparency, how generating revenue eases the capital raising process, the costs and potential benefits of being cloned, dividing time between product development and marketing, losing revenue due to poor feature segmentation, the importance of actually doing something, one hit wonders and how to maintain product development momentum.
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Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner’s growth and conversion ratio, the status of Jason’s stealth project, achieving financial independence by creating recurring revenue, the satisfaction derived from doing a startup, preventing negative feedback from derailing your efforts, the fundamental tenants of startup success, writing SQL adaptors for key-value databases, creating your own DSL, combining JavaScript files for faster downloads and Google’s new Closure Javascript library.
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Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner’s revenue growth, raising money using customer development, how to keep from burning out, tweaks for improving productivity, building a startup based on solving your own problem, when to use the MyISAM and InnoDB database engines, storing schema-less data using JSON, the Cambrian explosion of distributed databases and the statistical significance of user behavior data.
