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Justin and Jason speak with the co-founders of PubNub about how they’ve built a real-time data service that works across all major browsers and mobile devices and is capable of scaling to 300K connections per server with latencies measured in mere milliseconds.
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Justin and Jason discuss multitenant databases, the possibility of using MongoDB as the underlying data store for AppIgnite applications, options for exporting and installing AppIgnite applications, the fundraising strategy for the iPhone app Jason’s been working on, the process of raising money from VCs, whether raising money forces a death date on a project, how nine copies of Swarm were sold on it’s first day of release, how Justin has accepted a full-time position as VP of IT for MyVBO and will have exactly one guy reporting to him (sweet!), how Taylor Norrish is good at both design and UX, PubNub and Comet, the importance of having a collaborator on a project, an idea for a hackathon website, a new show segment called Letters from Guyon, how iPhone and iPad owners have been conditioned to pay for software, building a version of Swarm for the iPhone, how it takes approximately two weeks (or maybe thirty days) to establish a habit (we actually don’t know), automatically processing incoming emails via PHP, Jason’s idea for building an email application wizard and Justin’s idea for generalizing the concept for an email support system, targeting designers with AppIgnite, why it’s important to try to build real applications with AppIgnite, what Justin needs to do to increase the growth rate of Pluggio and what could be done to increase the growth rate of the podcast.
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Justin and Jason discuss how the TechLunch crew watched the US/England World Cup game at Justin’s house, the inner workings of AppIgnite, how Jason came up with the idea for AppIgnite and why he doesn’t want to raise money for it, building one large revenue stream vs a number of smaller revenue streams, the investor in Jason’s previous company, Apple’s convoluted App Store certificate process, potential pricing models for Swarm, the trade-offs of relying on third-party platforms, the productivity boost provided by Titanium, debugging in Titanium using trace statements, whether Twitter’s API limitations are due to malice or incompetence, the Google nuclear winter, why Justin likes to pay for products, how to keep your creative voice from being infected by external influences, why Jason talks to strangers, why he took his son to a Parkor gym and how he tried the stand-up desk thing and failed.
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Justin and Jason discuss the current status and growth of Pluggio, the failure of the human brain to comprehend the exponential function, word of mouth growth and super spreaders, Jason’s experience using Subversion, TortoiseSVN and Assembla, Justin’s warning about Subversion, performing a full-text seach on a subversion repository using SVNQuery, accidental excellence and it’s relationship to evolutionary theory, Jason’s serendipitous discovery of Titanium, the Mexican designer who was discovered on Hacker News, how Taylor is now doing the design work for Jason’s iPhone project, the possibility of inviting either John C. Dvorak or Richard Dolan to be a guest on the upcoming 50th show, Jason’s dream about how he interrogated some aliens that landed in his back yard, Justin’s theory about how our universe might be able to suck the energy from a parallel universe, Nick Cook – the editor for Jane’s Defense Weekly and his book The Hunt for Zero Point, Craig Venter’s creation of synthetic life, the feasibillity of developing an unbeatable AI algorithm for Swarm, Clark’s three laws, crowdsourcing the development of an AI for Swarm, how Netflix crowd-sourced their recommedation engine, financial vs social incentives in the book Freakonomics, Your World of Text, Cells – a massively multi-agent agorithm game and Jason’s previous description of a similar concept, the authoritarian SimCity experiment, Scott Adams’ blog post about how ideas are worthless and execution is everything, the HTML5 Showcase and the current status of HTML5 support, how Jason’s brother was recommended for the Distiguished Flying Cross, the movie Kickass, Jason’s ideas for some new show segments, Stanton’s law about how the future is not an extrapolation of the past, ways of capturing and tracking ideas, Justin’s use of iNotes, FreeMind and iThoughts HD, mind mapping and how Justin uses it, breadth-first vs depth-first development and how to keep from getting stuck in the weeds on a project.
