FounderQuest

Show Notes: Links: Dithering Stratechery Promised Land Shape Up National Treasure Full Transcript: Ben: I was looking through our accounts this morning and just doing some database checking and looking at some accounts that had been in our database for like seven years. Like, "Oh yeah. I remember them." And they're like old friends basically. It's like, "Oh, the memories." Josh: Memories. Starr: Y...

Show Notes: Links: How Cheap a Product Can You Have And Still Have Salespeople? Profitwell Retain   New Relic Full Transcript: Starr: Okay, so you are listening to FounderQuest. We're a bunch of founders, we're on a quest. Thank you for listening, we are back after a rather long absence. Basically, people were gone different days during the holidays, and it was just a weird scheduling situation, s...

Show notes: Links: Rollerblade Chair Wheels Kung Fu Panda The Emperor’s New Groove Justin Jackson "The Fear" - Build Your SaaS podcast Write For Honeybadger FounderQuest Twitter Full transcript: Ben: So, I just moved back into my office after being away for six months, because COVID. Starr: I see that. Ben: And in the meantime, though, I had all my stuff at home. So I had my podcast setup, I had m...

Show notes: Links: Cameo Sarah Cooper StiumulusReflex Video Jumpstart Whirly Board Full Transcript: Ben: So we had a bit of an interesting COVID related thing in our household, so we have this grocery store that we love near us, it's called Haggen, it's a Northwest brand. So a lot of our listeners won't be familiar with it, but we love this place, it's a great little grocery store. My wife, who ty...

Show notes: Links: The B-52's - Roam The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham Roam Research TiddlyWiki Art of The Product Podcast - Networking Thoughts Scrivener Josh's Blog Write for Honeybadger Full transcript: Ben: So I had the first session of a conference that's happening online next week. It's the Business of Software conference. Josh: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Mm-hmm (affirmative). Ben: And i...

Show notes: Links: San Francisco Looking Like Blade Runner The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791 The Radicalism of the American Revolution A People's History of the United States Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris The Dispossessed I, Robot The Murderbot Diaries Foundation The Unicorn Project Open Yale Courses - T...

Show Notes: Links: Horrorstör Tiny MBA Great Nuts AntiRSI MotivAider Pomodoro Technique Full Transcript: Starr: So, I've got to say, this is kind of a brag. It's completely off topic but I've got to tell somebody. I'm very proud of myself. You know how in any... I don't know. Whenever you watch movies or TV about prison, or weird situations, there's always somebody who's a genius at making booze,...

Show Notes: Links: Notion Basecamp Amanuensis Neuralink Full Transcript: Starr: Well, what's up in y'alls worlds? Ben: Went out kayaking yesterday, that was nice. Starr: Oh, nice. Josh: Cool. Starr: Did you get that foldable one you were talking about? Ben: I did order, but it is back-ordered, so I have not yet received it. Starr: Damn. Josh: It's like this was a bad time for everyone to wait to p...

Show Notes: Links: Snow Crash Microsoft Flight Simulator glitch Google deprecation article by Steve Yegge Swiss Army Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra Heroku Full Transcript: Josh: This is just why I know. I know that whatever happens in November, it's just going to get... It's going to get crazier. No matter what. Starr: I do feel like... More and more I feel like I'm inside of a cyber...

Show Notes Links: _why Ruby's Exceptional Creatures Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method Audience Ops Peter Cooper Docsketch ProofHub Scribendi DeltaWalker Notion Honeybadger Developer Blog Full Transcript: Starr: I wonder if any of our listeners are too young to know what SOAP is, like SOAP? Josh: I'm guessing so. Ben: Yeah. Starr: SOAP is what we have before REST APIs and JSON. It was inte...

Show Notes: Links: Whirly Board OWASP Top Ten Detectify Kolide WWIV Trade Wars Security Researcher Hall of Fame Full Transcript: Josh: Yeah. It's called a Whirly Board and it's a local... Well, not local. It's a US small business apparently that makes them. I forget where they're located. Not in Washington. It's like a skateboard. There's I've seen other balance boards that are made for standing d...

Show notes: Links: Kathy Sierra Seinfield – Vandalay Industries Minnesota Fats Lemonade Stand Phrack Honeybadger Developer Blog Full Transcript: Starr: We are on uncharted ground. We usually record on Fridays, but I was out on Friday, so we're recording on a Monday now. We just had our all hands meeting. I had a meeting before that, which means this is my third Zoom call of the day. I've got anoth...

Show Notes: Links: TechCrunch Schrems II Full Transcript: Ben: Speaking of town meetings though, we had a streamed event from our local school district last night in which they revealed that our school district will not be having school in person for the first semester of the year. They're going to do a wait and see approach and see if they can have school opening and the next semester, in I guess...

Show Notes: Links: Ghost Octopress Squarespace Tailwind Tyler Tringas   Full Transcript: Josh: You're looking chipper, Ben. Ben: I'm feeling chipper, Josh. Josh: I'm glad. Starr: Yeah, there's kind of like ... you have kind of like a glow. Is this the new product glow? Ben: I think it is the new product glow, yes, yes. Starr: Okay. Ben: I pushed out a new feature this morning. Josh: Congratulation...

Show Notes: Links: Mighty Cal Hook Relay Profitwell Retain Floor Is Lava Ben Curtis Twitter Full Transcript: Starr: So what were you all talking about before I jumped on the call? Ben: We were talking about Derrick's new startup Mighty Cal. Starr: Mighty Cal. Ben: Looking pretty nice. I was telling Josh how I like the virality of it. If you're using Mighty Cal and you share those links with someon...

Show Notes: Links: Stripe Hey Bye Full Transcript: Josh: I'm the co-pilot today, right? Ben: Co-pilot. Yeah, yeah. So today we're flying without Star. Star is not feeling well, so today is just the two of us. Josh: And I have been on vacation. Well, I am on vacation. Ben: Yeah. Josh: Sticking my head up. Ben: We are so into FounderQuest that we even come in on vacation to record an episode. Josh:...

Show Notes: Links: Hey Worldwide Developers Conference David Heinemeier Hansson Jason Fried Heroku Andrey Butov Configuring Fastmail to act like Hey Full Transcript: Starr: Okay. Now we can talk about how terrible the world is. No. Ben: So speaking of Apple. Yeah, it's been interesting. So I've been watching all the hubbub over the past few days about Hey and Apple. Starr: So what is Hey? Ben: So...

Show Notes: Links: Justin Jackson Twitter 12 Monkeys Kingkiller Chronicles Full Transcript: Ben: As I was getting this morning and reading Twitter and just... Twitter. Something that's come up lately, and Justin Jackson has talked about this, and there's a couple other people who have talked about this. On Twitter this morning, it was being talked about. But that's the idea of staying in your lane...

Show notes: Links: Build Your SaaS by Justin Jackson Basecamp Hill Charts Scrooge McDuck Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Darkpatterns.org Honeybadger.io Full Transcription: Starr: So, how have you all been doing this week? I've been on vacation. Ben: This week has been an interesting week in the Curtis household, we discovered a water leak in our house, in the bathro...

Show Notes: Links: Mike Perham Full United Flight Sidekiq Faktory Heya Patrick McKenzie Techstars TinySeed Roy/SAC Honeybadger Full Transcript: Starr: What's on your wall behind you? You've got like a autographed jersey like a hockey jersey. Mike: Yeah, I'm I'm a soccer fan. Starr: Oh, a soccer jersey. I'm sorry. Mike: It's the Portland Timbers. Yes. Josh: The timbers, yeah. Mike: And it's not loo...

Show Notes: Links: Amethyst PopClip Alfred shortcuts Hacker New Ubuntu 20.04 Thread Ansible Josh's dotfiles Mathias Shell Scripts UltraFine Bartender Transcript: Starr: I'm the type of tiling Window manager user that never changes any of their layout, basically. I'm the type of tiling Window manager that like has all applications open full screen except for like my terminals, which I have a vertic...

Show Notes: Links: Stripe Spam Nation by Brian Krebs Bad To The Bone by George Thorogood Grammarly Egghead.io Udemy Chris Oliver Jumpstart Heya Lamby StimulusReflex Andrew Mason Remote Ruby podcast Honeybadger Full Transcript: Josh: So I'm sitting in my chair with this laptop and the thing literally crashes in my lap. And when I turn it back on, it gives me that blinking folder. The blinking folde...

Show Notes: Links: Voltron Transformers Gobots Thundercats Animal Crossing Stardw Valley Factorio Dependabot Gumroad Shopify Stripe Pinky and the Brain Full Transcript: Starr: Did you prefer Voltron over Transformers? Which team were you on? Ben: I guess I did, because I don't remember watching much in the way of Transformers, but I did watch a lot of Voltron, so. Starr: Oh really? That's a shame....

This week Ben, Starr, and Josh break down Heya, their freshly shipped open source email campaign mailer for Rails developers. Learn how Heya works, how it can help with GDPR and Soc 2 compliance, and how it saves Honeybadger $$$ in Intercom and Segment costs. Plus, don't miss the hot thermometer takes! Show Notes: Links: Heya Ruby Weekly Action Mailer Intercom Customer.io Segment GDPR Mixpanel Soc...

Show Notes: Links: Tuple Google Hangouts Jitsi WebRTC Notion Epictetus Sphere   Andromeda Strain Stillness is the Key Chopin Honeybadger Full Transcript: Josh: I see we've got doom and gloom on the agenda today. Starr: Oh yeah. I put doom and gloom on the agenda. Ben: It's a good thing you had that reminder that there is doom and gloom, because otherwise we'd forget. Starr: I mean, we do tend to b...