The Art of Product

220: Ben and Adam Wrap The Year

The Code Quality Challenge Tuple's open CTO position Kevin Shen's Dream Studio Course

219: Ben's Friend Ben

Ben Kuhn drops by the pod. Check out his great blog! https://www.benkuhn.net/

218: Building a $1M/Year Dev Ed Business (with Adam Wathan)

217: Half a Job You Love

Aaron Francis (Tuple's Marketing Engineer) drops by for advice on his non-Tuple project, a query builder for Rails and Laravel called Refine .

216: Penelopers, Penelopers, Penelopers

Penelope Phippen drops by and encourages Ben to set, like, even a single goal.

215: Mental Health with Dr. Sherry Walling

Talking with Dr. Sherry Walling about dealing with mental health personally and how to help people around you who may be struggling.

214: Another week, another Wathan

213: Powered by Debt

Tuple launched a new marketing experiment this week . Derrick is continuing work on migrating SavvyCal to new hosting infrastructure.

212: Tuple Goes Hollywood

The Tuple team had their first filming session for the meta-documentary about their marketing experiments. Derrick is awaiting results from the latest SavvyCal funnel experiments.

211: This Is Not A Bad Reality

Ben and Derrick catch up on all things Tuple and SavvyCal . Ben recently raised prices for Tuple. Derrick is experimenting with major funnel changes for SavvyCal.

210: Talk To Your Customers

Derrick is launching a bunch of SavvyCal features this month, including a Close integration and meeting polls . Ben has had good experiences lately talking to customers.

209: Penelope Again-ope

Stripe's Technical Advisor to the CTO, Penelope Phippen stops by and Ben tries to get her to divulge company secrets.

208: Prime Foot-Shooting Material

Ben and Derrick chat through a cool new feature Tuple is shaping up. They also discuss Tuple's ambitious marketing bets.

207: Musings on Advice

Ben and the Tuple team have hit a good shipping stride lately. Derrick and team are nearing completion on a few large SavvyCal initiatives. The guys reflect on MicroConf and the nature of dispensing advice.

206: IRL at MicroConf

Derrick and Ben share updates from the Castos recording booth at MicroConf Growth.

205: Wathan Stops By

Our favorite Canadian drops by to talk mobility, fancy A/V setups, what's next for Tailwind UI, and how we'll never find peace of mind.

204: Miscellanea

Ben and Derrick riff on a variety of topics, including coffee brewing, retreats, MicroConf, design, finding business ideas, and interesting subreddits. Links: Sweet Maria's MicroConf Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea The Stair Step Approach to Bootstrapping fatFIRE OneBag - The Art of Minimalist Travel...

203: The Hiring Spree

The Tuple team has recently grown by three team members! Ben is looking forward to getting the Linux client out the door in the next month. Derrick is staying busy moving SavvyCal forward and bringing his new developer into the app.

202: The Art and Pain of Design

Ben talks to Brian Lovin, a designer, podcaster, writer, and software tinkerer.

201: Getting Things Done with Stephen Dolan

Ben and Derrick chat with Tuple's Chief of Staff and GTD expert, Stephen Dolan. They discuss Stephen's path from programming to sales to his current role and nerd out over methods for staying productive.

200: The 200th Episode!

Ben recently had a Tuple team retreat. He is still in hiring mode. The Tuple product team is progressing on their Linux integration. Derrick ran a product-market fit survey for SavvyCal, and the results are... tune in to find out. He's pondering how to approach a freemium play.

199: Keeping Up With Courtland

Ben & Derrick chat with Courtland Allen from Indie Hackers. They discuss the challenges of building a community and finding fulfillment in work, among a variety of other topics. Resources: Indie Hackers SavvyCal Tuple

198: Leaving Room To React

Derrick and Ben catch-up about what's going on at Tuple and SavvyCal. Derrick had a fun customer experience on Twitter last week. Ben is still in hiring mode.

197: Growth Mindset

Derrick & Ben catch up after a few weeks away for the holidays. Ben is still in hiring mode. He's considering ways to do more teaching (something he used to do a lot when he was a programmer by trade). Derrick is planning to be more intentional in fostering a growth mindset this year in business and life.

196: The Hedonic Treadmill

Ben & Derrick chat about doing what you love versus doing what the business needs.

195: Metric Obsession

Ben and Derrick catch up after a holiday break. Ben chats about his recent design hire and Stephen's promotion to Chief of Staff at Tuple. Derrick ran a successful Black Friday promo for SavvyCal and is hard at work on the Stripe integration.

194: The Future of AoP

Ben and Derrick plan for the future of the podcast.

193: Feeling Ambitious

Ben and Derrick chat about their ambitions for building their companies and planning for the new year.

192: This Is Not A Fire Drill

Ben tells the story about a recent Tuple incident in production. The guys discuss how they're putting planning into action after last week's chat with Adam about Shape Up. Derrick gives an update about growth efforts for SavvyCal.

191: Shaping Up with Adam Wathan

Ben and Derrick talk to Adam about how to effectively plan and organize work.