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Justin and Jason discuss Peldi’s success with Balsamiq, the site Indie Hackers, the book Crossing the Chasm, Justin’s launch strategy for his secret project, how Justin got help with his “maths”, the advantage of growing slowly and focusing on developing a product that your users love, the summer Math Academy course that Jason is teaching on proofs and group theory, Justin’s desire to encourage entrepreneurship in any company he starts, and tradeoffs in database design.
Looking forward to listening to the latest episode, glad you’re still pushing out the episodes!
Still digging myself out of a mountain of avoided work due to an every two year trade show we were preparing for, so I’ll be looking for some good content to fertilize my mind since it’s been scavenged for nutrients these past few weeks.
Another good show guys !
Please include your old time listeners in Justin’s free trial tier batch zero 🙂
How would you know if we really listened all the shows ?
Just ask us about all the different business ideas, diets and exercise regimes Justing tried. Answers should be something like: “Lift heavy, slow for only couple seconds three times a week.”, “I’m gonna swim every day”, Deliver food on bikes etc 😉
ps. Was also surprised Jason didn’t know about indie hackers… Bunch of interesting stories about startups in there.
Thank you for constant inspiration and good fun !
Vladimir
You and me both, Vladimir!
I also found the late-adopter part very interesting! I’d kind of assumed the opposite for someone who pushed for Node ten years ago. Then again, he’s still using JS for the backend instead of something shinier like Elixir or even TypeScript, which would have a lot of his old friendly OO patterns from C#.
@Justin, FWIW, I started Alchemist Camp when I was super broke and only had about 90 minutes a day to devote to it and it’s freemium. You haven’t revealed much about the nature of your app, but unless it requires a TON computing/human resources compared to most apps, 1000 free users shouldn’t hurt a bit. Also, being “an Altavista” would be a solid win!
@Mark – Yeah, I suppose I try to stay aware of what’s happening with the latest technologies (I mean how can you not with HN), but I don’t invest time in them unless I have a compelling reason. For instance, I saw Ryan Dahl’s original demo of Node.js on HN, then when we interviewed Amir Salihefendic we learned how well Node.js scaled for the real-time social network he worked on called Plurk, and so when Travis presented me with the Ubercab dispatching problem, I had it in my mind and decided to give it a shot.
But generally, I probably err too far on the side of using what works as opposed to trying new things. I’m primarily motivated by getting stuff up and working, and if the tools I already know and use will adequately do the job, then I’ll stick with them. Clearly, this probably isn’t the right strategy a technologist in the job market looking to optimize their resume, but that’s never been my focus.