Subscribe to TechZIng
TweetMiner Archive
Techzing 40 – AppIgnite Revealed
Justin and Jason discuss the re-branding of Tweetminer as Pluggio, how Justin learns from the show's guests, the effectiveness of communicating with your users via email, whether or not Justin should raise funding for Pluggio, Jason's secret project - AppIgnite, the mother of all demos, how Hacker News almost blew a gasket...
Listen » Techzing 37 – The Batcave
Justin and Jason discuss incorporating an an S-corporation to reduce tax liability, whether Justin is a Whig or a Tory, how any system of rules can be gamed, the status of the TweetMiner PR campaign, how MashAPI is invading Justin's brain, scatching your own itch vs searching for product/market fit,...
Listen » Techzing 35 – Off the Rails
Justin and Jason discuss the launching (or lack thereof) of Jason's secret project, the science behind the midday nap, Jason's improved Internet connectivity, the TweetMiner fiasco, Justin's contracting of a PR person, the unfortunate importance of marketing, how Justin donated $222.22 to the No Agenda podcast, the TV show Lost,...
Listen » Techzing 33 – The Passion Fractal
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,...
Listen » Techzing 32 – Think Like an Entrepreneur
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...
Listen » Techzing 31 – Marco Polo
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...
Listen » Techzing 30 – Long Live the Heretic
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...
Listen » Techzing 29 – But, I Digress…
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...
Listen » Techzing 28 – Exploration vs. Exploitation
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...
Listen » techZING! 27 – We Need To Talk About Our Relationship
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,...
Listen » 
