Ship Rats

Interview with David Kelly, GM of AppSumo Originals. David has grown 9x apps to over 1 million users. He pulls back the curtain (and boots up his IDE) to show us how he uses AI to do product development. Plus, he explains how he would launch a new product with only $100. Topics: 0:00 – Devon & David backstory 3:02 – Wtf does David do? 6:12 – Funny Noah Kagan story 9:34 – How does vibe coding c...

In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Devon shares his experience making a video game with Lovable and Replit. He also shows off a stupidly simple CRM, and Chris, our resident data dominatrix, weighs in on the future of Salesforce. Lastly, we cover a Business Insider story about a vibe coder who’s making $20k/mo. selling PDFs or something like that. We don’t really know, but there’s a lesson about au...

Is using AI to talk to dead relatives a bad idea or good business? We follow up on Devon’s avatar experiments and discuss how subscriptions to “dead grandpa” are probably not how we want to make our millions. Then we get into Chris’ legit long-time business plan, which, after 6 years of talking about it, might finally be going somewhere. Topics: 0:00 – Opening banter & BS 3:41 – AI avatars: co...

Devon and Chris welcome their zero listeners to a new weekly show. After explaining their goals for the pod, they share a few apps they’ve been working on and get grossed out by AI avatars. The first app is Farmfolio, a farming expense tracker Devon made with his dad for kicks and giggles. The second app is Writhm, a writing app a la Grammarly or Hemingway designed to improve the flow and finesse...