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Makers.dev

Chris Achard and Christian Genco•makers.dev
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Chris and Christian build some software businesses.
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10 WebRTC, CamHead.app, and pandemic advantages

00:00 10 episodes! 00:34 Listener shoutouts 02:59 Pumping your voice into someone else's ears 05:38 Converting internet numbers to real numbers 06:40 "Slack is down, use async!" 08:04 Meeting Place, Async.dev, and WebRTC update 09:59 How does WebRTC work? 14:59 Twilio's TURN at $0.40/GB vs. $0.01/GB 16:09 Business WebRTC bandwidth costs 18:49 STUN servers 20:09 Anyone could build AT&T from their bedroom! 20:43 Integrating audio chatting in Async.dev/Meeting Place 22:47 Chris's pandemic advan...

Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 10

09 big news from Chris, CamHead.app and Clips.Marketing, and a Christmas Igloo

Alternate title: doing everything right and seeing what happens 00:00 Intro 00:34 CHRISTIAN'S CHRISTMAS IGLOO 04:02 Chris's soundproofed office 05:14 Chris's co-founder breakup 08:53 Why not swing for the fences instead of bootstrapping? 09:55 Optimizing for flexibility 11:06 How do kids change business priorities? 12:46 Consulting vs. full-time for Riverside 15:44 Chris's upcoming consulting info-product 17:59 Manifesting consulting with The Secret 19:56 Chris's Christmas thinkin' about the fut...

Dec 29, 2020•53 min•Ep. 9

08 What do you want to win by doing?

00:00 Hello! 00:31 How do you take vacations as a bootstrapper? 03:58 Brain dumping 04:51 How is work is more fun than skiing or ziplining? 07:44 Morning Pages from The Artist's Way 08:08 How do you balance vacations and family with work? 10:13 Needing meaningful work 10:50 YouTube to Transistor script for makers.dev 13:57 Dogfooding async.dev for makers.dev 15:53 Websocks in Rails 18:33 Doing art for art's sake vs. making art for a market 24:19 What do you want to win by doing? 27:52 Christian'...

Dec 21, 2020•44 min•Ep. 8

07 Optimize for learning - just do a lot

0:00 Drywall is like business 1:24 Just doing the work is more important than tips and hacks 6:00 Christian's robot video editor 11:34 The dream podcasting workflow 17:40 Automatic YouTube to Transistor.fm flow 19:20 Makers.dev vs. BusinessMan.Business work 22:58 MeetingPlace update 24:13 Dogfooding Async.dev instead of Slack 27:20 How do you decide what to work on next? 36:45 Setting immutable biweekly or monthly goals 38:50 Enjoying the work vs. growing the business 41:48 Fileinbox Sign Printe...

Dec 13, 2020•59 min•Ep. 7

06 Special Acoustic Caulk and outsourcing to humans vs. computers

0:00 Special Acoustic Caulk and manual laber 3:22 The Jigsaw Puzzle Theory of Business 6:10 Async.dev Slackbot update 9:00 Can you charge for an unfinished project? 10:44 Niching a Time Tracker Coaching Service 22:28 What's next for Async.dev and Meeting Place? 24:54 Talking to Sign Printers update 30:25 Clipping Microconf Recap 35:17 Effective Time Design 38:07 Automated video editing 45:44 Delegating to machines vs. humans 48:51 AI is coming to take all our jobs unless you're a coach 49:38 Whe...

Dec 04, 2020•54 min•Ep. 6

05 doing everything wrong and seeing where it goes

0:00 Intro 3:51 Spending money to make more money 5:47 Imposter syndrome in charging more 8:05 Micropreneurs vs. YouTubers 13:00 Marketing without feeling slimy 14:45 Doing everything wrong and seeing where it goes 17:00 Chris's MeetingPlace and Async.dev update 21:50 Tick Tock Development 24:56 Chris's Goals for next week 27:03 Christian's Fileinbox update and goals 33:16 How do you know which features to build? 34:37 Customer workflows show you adjacent problems 36:00 Tick tock audience resear...

Nov 29, 2020•45 min•Ep. 5

03 Overcoming Procrastination

While talking about weekly goals, Chris and Christian talk about the feeling of procrastination and how to overcome it.

Nov 13, 2020•36 min•Ep. 3

01 Let's start a podcast

Chris and Christian introduce themselves and figure out what this podcast is going to be about.

Oct 29, 2020•37 min•Ep. 1
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