I love this episode and product, you will to! Greg and I talk about how right place, right time, right product can really help your app get early exposure. He got a shoutout from Suhail 's (founder of Mixpanel and Mighty) "Shipping Friday" tweets (earlier this summer, Suhail would feature a Maker who recently shipped product). From that point on, Punkt was off to the races. Punkt has also been featured in the AppStore. Product Description Punkt is a private and secure one-sentence journaling app...
Sep 30, 2020•32 min
We talk about how to handle employee engagement in a remote world. Topics include: Employee feedback & engagement platform for remote teams Tools used: Slack app is Python, Serverless - AWS Lambda, Webflow for marketing site Technologies: Hyper terminal + VS Code deeply integration for code. Love notion for documentation. iA writer for writing blog posts. Slack for communication. Figma for design.
Sep 09, 2020•22 min
Remote work is here to stay. Justin and his team are pioneers in the space building tools to help teams do their best remote work.
Aug 19, 2020•42 min
Authpack is a turnkey user login and payment system for web projects. Jack and I have a great chat about developer enablement and why keeping it simple is a feature :) Stack Frontend = React, TypeScript, Emotion. Backend = TypeScript, GraphQL, Custom build. Client side is open source: https://github.com/jackrobertscott/authpack-client Apps and tools he uses religiously: Notion, VS Code, Adobe XD, Webflow, Sentry. Pretty excited to see how Webflow pushes the no-code movement forward! Social Twitt...
Jul 01, 2020•36 min
TruePublic allows users to anonymously share opinionsand see what others think based on their gender, age, race, location, and political leaning. Tools: Mixpanel, Shift, Any.do, Calm App, Slack, Streak CRM, Discord Chat, Google Hangouts, Trello. Social twitter.com/TruePublicApp https://www.facebook.com/TruePublicApp Tech Stack React JS for Web PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis ElasticSearch RabbitMQ Kafka Spring Boot, Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate, Jersey Dev Ops and Infrastructure Jenkins Nexus Gradle Doc...
Jun 18, 2020•42 min
A super techy jam with Aparna Dhinakaran, Founder of Monitor ML. We talk about everything machine learning, artificial intelligence and bias that machines inherit from their makers, humans! Monitor ML tracks the performance of models throughout their lifecycle and connects them to business metrics. They support model tracking, metric logging/analysis/alerting and production event logging. You choose the framework, they monitor the machine learning model.
Feb 13, 2020•36 min
CALA is the world's first fashion house technology that makes it easy to design, produce, and deliver fully-custom apparel. Ryan brings a ton of premium design expertise as the first principal designer at one of Silicon Valley's most adored startups, Superhuman . CALA offers design assistance, material sourcing, and sampling. With powerful features like in-app notifications, task management, and real-time commenting — so you can maximize productivity in the studio or on the go. Whether you're lo...
Jan 26, 2020•46 min
Sam had basically excepted that he would be a starving documentary filmmaker. While in his tent in Tanzania on a shoot, he starting tinkering with programming to solve a problem his friend was having. They needed a way to manage time tracking for hourly workers easily. This side project turned into SINC , a rapidly growing startup that helps thousands of companies understand and manage the variable wage costs associated with having large populations of highly-skilled hourly employees. Technologi...
Dec 09, 2019•27 min
In this episode, I sit down with Darren Chait, Founder/COO of Hugo , at their San Francisco headquarters. Hugo is a connected meeting notes platform that integrates with all your favorite tools. Darren started Hugo to solve the problem of creating a more open and collaborative team culture. We discuss product analytics, pricing strategies, the importance of storytelling and much more! A few highlights and callouts from the episode 📢: The team at Hugo recently released a book on building a 10x C...
Oct 28, 2019•35 min
In this episode I sit down with one of Phoenix’s fastest growing comedians and producer of the city’s hottest comedy shows, Michael Turner. We talk about how he got This Week Sucks Tonight off the ground and scaled into one of the best comedy rooms in Phoenix, and has since taken the show on tour. We also discuss: How speaking at his best friend’s funeral was a fundamental moment in identifying his purpose in life, comedy 🙏 The importance of social media for the modern comic How they stumbled o...
Oct 09, 2019•36 min•Ep. 11
In this episode I sit down with Dr. Zack Abbott, founder of ZBiotics , the world’s first ever genetically engineered probiotic (first user case: curing hangovers). They're a Y-Combinator company and have raised capital from from some of the best investors in Silicon Valley to support their cutting edge science and mission. This episode was recorded a few months ago at their SF headquarters before their product was in market. They have since launched and are really making a splash. I tried the pr...
Sep 26, 2019•30 min
Welcome to episode NINE! On this episode I spend some quality time with the ultimate goofball, Dennis Roady ! We talk about his journey to creating multiple content streams that reach MILLIONS of fans. To name a few checkout: How to Prank it Up Prank Your Friends Dennis Roady Games PrankKits.com In this episode we geek out on: - 🎬content iteration - 📆content scheduling - 💸Shopify selling - ⏳funnel optimization - and much much more 🦋 Dennis even tells us the 🔑 to his creativity 🤫 Extra Extr...
Jun 10, 2019•35 min
Welcome to episode 🎱‼️ This week I sit down with Zuby to discuss the release of his latest album, Perseverance . Unlike many rappers, Zuby maintains a positive message. He’s become a social media sensation with a very controversial Twitter presence but often talks about topical and relevant conversations that are happening in society today. I know you’ll really enjoy this episode, Zuby is a true creative entrepreneur with a great story. In this episode Zuby riffs on: - 🙏the value in being auth...
May 11, 2019•36 min
In this episode, we speak with Jonathan Parisot (calling in from Paris🗼) to talk about the all-powerful Actiondesk . Jonathan and his team have set out to give non-coders the ability to create turnkey automation and workflows between different data sources (CRM, Customer Support, Chat, etc.) We take action on several topics including: ⌨️ using Slack to service early customers before you have an interface 🛫 initial customer development and the importance of onboarding 💰 pricing pricing pricing...
May 02, 2019•29 min
In this episode, we speak with Justin Mitchell, founder of SoFriendly who recently launched his new award-winning product, YAC (yelling across cubicles) . YAC won Product Hunt's Maker Festival in 2018 as a weekend side project, he then received overwhelming amounts of demand for YAC and needed to act fast! Justin reveals tons of useful insights including: 🗣his perspective on how real-time audio communications will help reduce meetings 📊how they use product analytics to inform their roadmap 💸w...
Apr 24, 2019•28 min•Ep. 6
In this episode, we jam with Laura Simpson to discuss her newly launched product, Side Door . Laura and her co-founder, Dan Mangan (Juno award-winning, world-touring singer-songwriter from Vancouver) launched Side Door to empower and build local communities around live performances. We cover a medley of topics including: 👯♀️ the power of communities and fanatic networks 🤾♂️ knowing where to focus your customer acquisition efforts (supply vs. demand) 🏰 building teams at HQ or remote 💑 the i...
Apr 17, 2019•24 min
In this episode, I sat down with Cody Candee at the beautiful HERE Collective (that's us in the pic above with his co-founder). We have a detailed conversation about how he tested and launched Bounce , the next generation of bag and luggage storage. Cody have us the scoop on the following: rapid prototyping testing demand for your product assumption testing working through operational challenges and much more Extra Extra Rapid Prototyping - this is a method of testing interfaces and customer exp...
Apr 12, 2019•24 min
In this episode we hang with Philip Thomas , he shares an inspiring story about how his first failed startup gave him the learnings needed to launch Moonlight , which is bootstrapped and rapidly growing. We discuss many interesting topics with Philip including: when to quit working on an idea, and move on the importance of getting to know your early users how to validate your idea with data before building anything ways to start a software business and get revenue, before writing code the import...
Apr 02, 2019•28 min•Ep. 3
In this episode, we kick it with Owen Williams, most recognized for his previous work as an editor at The Next Web and maker of the well-regarded technology newsletter re:Charged . From his broad experience as a journalist and software engineer, we’re going to discuss his latest product launch, Write Together. We cover a broad range of topics including: the evolution of content creation why it's important to write every day PHP frameworks his super nifty Slack hack and much more Lean more about ...
Mar 27, 2019•25 min•Ep. 2
Dan shares the "why" of Makers Weekly and what to expect in future episodes. To learn more about what we're about --> https://makersweekly.io/
Mar 13, 2019•5 min•Ep. 1
