Hammerstone - Bootstrapping a Software Company

Aaron got a new job! We're trying to figure out how to balance client work and product work. Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto Tuple: https://tuple.app

We talk about the future of Rails and how it differs from Laravel. Aaron has been experimenting with Cloudflare, Edge Workers, and Fly.io. Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sf...

Laracon is over, Colleen is speaking at a conference in March. We got paid! Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto

In a long bonus episode, Matt Swanson (https://twitter.com/_swanson) joins Aaron to talk about Twitter. Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Matt: https://twitter.com/_swanson Boring Rails: https://boringrails.com/ ShowCode: https://showcode.app

Aaron is practicing for Laracon, a lot. Laracon: https://laracon.net/ Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto

Our first Nova user has it installed and is trying it out. Aaron is prepping for Laracon and running out of steam. Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto

We're wrangling multiple frontends all at once, trying to onboard Nova users, and Aaron did some fun MySQL stuff.

It's starting to work, but Sean always knew it was going to.

The team is back from Christmas break, with a lot to talk about.

Matt Wensing (https://twitter.com/mattwensing) joins Aaron to talk about sacrificing time early on in hopes of having more freedom later.

Talking through a few Vue changes, making a call on a Livewire frontend.

Aaron and Colleen talk about the trough of despair and also numeric range optimizations, of course.

Back from Thanksgiving, we talk about finding an amazing React contractor, integrating the Vue and Laravel libraries, and more. 

It's finally here.

We talk about our coffee habits, new computers, renderless components, databases, and confidence.

Lots of exciting updates from Founder's Summit, and Aaron reports back on the first Laravel client.

After a short break, we're back!

Sean went pheasant "hunting", Aaron gave a live coding presentation, Colleen is building out nested filters

Colleen listened to Aaron's solo episodes and it... raised some questions

Aaron comin atcha from the kitchen table. A solo show.

Sean is feeling the weight of his many jobs, Aaron tries to say "stabilizers" as much as possible in one episode, and we talk about new Torchlight clients.

We're kind of all over the place today! Sleep, foreign keys, CommandBar, Calvin & Hobbes somehow, Vue, and so on. Command Bar - "CommandBar gives your users onboarding nudges, quick actions [...] in one personalized [...] widget."

Greg Skerman ( https://twitter.com/GregSkerman ) is the OG Sidecar user, and he stops by to teach Aaron a thing or two. Greg's Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregSkerman Greg's company: https://www.iseekplant.com.au That one LinkedIn article Greg wrote: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/always-deploying-greg-skerman/ Laravel Brisbane: https://www.meetup.com/bne-laravel-meetup/ Sidecar: https://github.c...

Colleen is a week into working with the client. Sean can't sleep, Aaron is having surgery. We talk about Refine + Laravel launch date, and Hammerstone acquiring a product!

Aaron can barely move, Colleen is working with billions of records. Sean is on vacation! Lucky Sean.