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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.
Another great episode!
I know what gets me down sometimes is thinking too far ahead in a project. I start out with a simple idea, but when I start thinking about adding more advanced functionality, I get overwhelmed.
In regards to how the development of features should be prioritized, I think a “first suggested, first developed” approach would be interesting. If you commit yourself to it, you would push yourself to finish a task that you would otherwise put on hold to start development a simpler feature. You may not necessarily be churning out the best code on that feature you didn’t enjoy working on, but it would be out there and you’d be receiving feedback on it, and you may grow to enjoy working on that particular feature.
32 days, Jason…
@Tim Cooper
Man, 32 days sure doesn’t sound like much time! Nevertheless, I appreciate the reminder. Note to self: begin shredding features tomorrow. 😉
I am really enjoying your podcasts. Just the right mix of tech talk and general tech business thoughts. I like the way you talk between yourselves about your theories and don’t always agree on each others conclusions. I can also relate with the way you feel torn between business decisions and agonise over the best way to get around problems or tackle issues without professing to know “the best” way to do this or that.
Keep up the great work guys, you are certainly an inspiration to the average developer like me.
Sorry to re-comment.
How about transparency on you podcast listener-ship?
It would be interesting to see if or how your downloads have progressed.
I don’t think Jason will mind if I share the figures. When we have interviewed guests we have larger number of downloads. For example “techZING! 10 – AI War” had 2,596 downloads and “techZING! 8 – Dude, Where’s My Database?!” had 1,276. When we do our personal shows it runs at about 325 downloads per show (and slowly climbs week by week). We don’t mind about numbers so much, we’re in it for the long haul and we love to do it!
Good discussion about remote pair programming. I wrote about the ease of remote programming here http://scheevel.blogspot.com/2009/10/pair-programming-in-office-cubical.html
Hey guys, another great show!
I would be interested to know what analytics tools if any you guys have used on your different projects and if you spend much of the day looking over that type of statistical stuff?
I use Google Analytics on most of my sites, but it is no way set up as well as it should and I would like to know if you think it is worth investing some time into really fine tuning that tool to help me better understand my traffic, or if I should pretty much ignore traffic and concentrate on building something awesome.
Thanks Justin,
Very interesting.
That is a huge variation in downloads between shows.
I defiantly feel you are putting valuable content on the web and i for one enjoy your podcast.