TechZing

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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.