TweetMiner – techzing tech podcast

Techzing 40 – AppIgnite Revealed

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:16:53 +0000

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 over the iPhone SDK 4.0 TOS, Strategy Letter V – commoditizing your complements, Justin’s new game – Swarm, and Jason’s idea for a massively multi-player, browser-based AI strategy game.

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Techzing 37 – The Batcave

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:08:25 +0000

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, dealing with Internet negativity, getting to know Bopinder Abu Morpalinder Singh, Jason’s refusal to write porn-ware and whether Justin should go to an upcoming Twitter developer’s conference.

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Techzing 35 – Off the Rails

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:33:21 +0000

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, Titanium and developing iPhone and Android apps using Javascript, Amy Hoy’s Pimpin’ Software Projects Ain’t Easy, the new show segments – La Critique and Get to Know a Listener, the possibility of doing x-factor episodes, Justin’s interest in 9-11 conspiracies, the weirdness of advanced physics, time travel and yes, even UFOs.

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Techzing 33 – The Passion Fractal

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:15:17 +0000

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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Techzing 32 – Think Like an Entrepreneur

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:19:38 +0000

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 with bookmakers, 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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Techzing 31 – Marco Polo

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:53:05 +0000

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.

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Techzing 30 – Long Live the Heretic

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:22:49 +0000

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 value of being a contrarian, and why Justin is taking voice over lessons.

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Techzing 29 – But, I Digress…

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:58:39 +0000

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 when to add features, the pain of fixing cross-browser CSS bugs, technical superstitions, talent versus persistence and determination, annoying marketing speak (user journey, passion and reaching out), ten rules for web startups and Justin’s new startup idea.

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Techzing 28 – Exploration vs. Exploitation

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:47:42 +0000

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 effort, learning from side projects, the status of Justin’s secret project and the productivity hacks of Hemmingway and Seinfeld. ]]>

techZING! 27 – We Need To Talk About Our Relationship

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:09:34 +0000

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, the CodeIgniter PHP framework, when to use lightweight and heavyweight frameworks, why not to write a business plan, the book The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, the importance of abandoning crap and the future of the podcast, TweetMiner and Jason’s secret project.

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techZING! 25 – Minimalism

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:57:15 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss the cost of a poor customer service experience, TweetMiner on Hacker News, using PayPal’s reference transaction ID for repeat transactions, Jason’s cross platform messaging library, making code open source, test driven development and exploratory programming, weekend productivity, learning calculus in 2 1/2 hours, minimalism in life and in code, teaming up with developers and designers on BuildItWith.me, and why you should make it work and make it pretty before making it fast.

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techZING! 24 – In the Face of Uncertainty

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:28:38 +0000

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.

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techZING! 23 – The Puppet Master

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:57:44 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner’s stats, the pros and cons of compensation transparency, how generating revenue eases the capital raising process, the costs and potential benefits of being cloned, dividing time between product development and marketing, losing revenue due to poor feature segmentation, the importance of actually doing something, one hit wonders and how to maintain product development momentum.

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techZING! 22 – Nagging Your Way to Riches

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:06:20 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner’s growth and conversion ratio, the status of Jason’s stealth project, achieving financial independence by creating recurring revenue involving a bitcoin casino guide, the satisfaction derived from doing a startup, preventing negative feedback from derailing your efforts, the fundamental tenants of startup success, writing SQL adaptors for key-value databases, creating your own DSL, combining JavaScript files for faster downloads and Google’s new Closure Javascript library.

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techZING! 21 – The Accidental Cron Job

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:08:29 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner’s revenue growth, raising money using customer development, how to keep from burning out, tweaks for improving productivity, building a startup based on solving your own problem, when to use the MyISAM and InnoDB database engines, storing schema-less data using JSON, the Cambrian explosion of distributed databases and the statistical significance of user behavior data.

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techZING! 20 – How You Like Me Now?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:57:20 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss TweetMiner’s pricing model and revenue
projections, having users vote on new features and UI changes, the
increased productivity provided by larger monitors and smaller teams,
the downsides of radical transparency and the possibility of
eventually growing out of it, Justin’s email doppelganger, hooking
into the PayPal API and when to roll your own code.

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techZING! 19 – Radical Transparency

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:07:59 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s progress with TweetMiner, the pros
and cons of radical transparency, Jason’s still secret side project,
bootstrapping vs raising funds, how the seed round is the new series
A, doing a startup with a partner versus going solo, Justin’s medical
mystery and why Jason believes that ground breaking innovation often
require breaking the Not-Invented-Here directive.

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techZING! 17 – Charge Early, Release Often

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:47:38 +0000

Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s TweetMiner project and
Jason’s experience building the local bacon website. They also talk
about Jason’s experience participating in this year’s TechCrunch 50
competition.

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