Show notes: Links: Snohomish Centennial trail Indie Hackers AMA Intro CRM Full transcript: Starr: All right. Welcome back. Welcome back, everybody. So we took a little break. We're going to have her hot vax summer, but that- Josh: Hot vax summer. Starr: It turns out that was the mirage. It turns out that was a mirage. Josh: Well, it did reach 112 degrees in Portland. So it was hot. Starr: There you go. Yeah. The summer never existed. It was just an illusion caused by our overwhelming thirst for ...
Aug 27, 2021•19 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Seriously, this is just an announcement to let ya'll know we are taking a summer break. We'll be back, pinky swear!
Jun 11, 2021•31 sec•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Write for us Maybe Josh Pigford Flu data Full transcript: Ben: And today we don't have Starr, because Starr is on vacation this week, fireside chat. Josh: I will be on vacation next week, and the week after. Ben: Nice. Josh: I don't know if you saw, I extended my vacation. Ben: I didn't see this. Josh: Yeah. So, surprise! Ben: Two weeks back to back. That's a record. Josh: Yeah. I decided I'm feeling it and I don't think a week is going to be enough. So just thought I'd go for...
Jun 04, 2021•37 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Twist Hook Relay Ben Orenstein Tuple Write for Honeybadger Full transcript: Starr: So Ben is joining us today from his car. It's bringing back fun memories. I recorded, I think the voiceover for our very first demo video in my car. Ben: Oh yeah? Nice. So as you may recall, I have a two story building that I lease one of the rooms, and the downstairs is a wine tasting room. Well with the pandemic, the company that had the wine tasting room, they closed shop. They stopped leasin...
May 28, 2021•39 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Mike Mondragon CRDT Ship of Theseus Exceptional Creatures Shiba Inu Full Transcript: Ben: I'm just gonna dive on in there. I'm so eager. I'm so excited. It's actually weird because Starr is the one that typically starts us off. Josh: Yeah. I thought we were just going to start with our just general banter, and then not introduce the guest until 30 minutes later. Ben: By the way. Josh: It is also our tradition. Ben: Yeah. Well we're getting better at this thing. Josh: Where we ...
May 21, 2021•51 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Threads.com Bluey Vogmask Twist It’s a Southern Thing If I had a front porch Full transcript: Josh: How y'all doing? Ben: I'm doing. Starr: Yeah, about the same. Ben: I've been riding my scooter to work all week. Starr: Oh, how's that? Ben: It's a lot of fun. Got a little electric kick scooter and top speed about 25 miles per hour. I was concerned about it being able to get up the hill that I have to go back up on my way home. It does drag a bit on that hill. I only got a sing...
May 14, 2021•38 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Write for Honeybadger Fluffy Arnold Schwarzenegger impression Changes at Basecamp Coinbase is a mission focused company Faker Full transcript: I've been like texting with Zoomer person. And their emoji game is so deep and subtle that I just don't even know how to respond to these. I'm just like a thumbs up and they're just like emoji of falling leaves. How do I interpret that? Josh: Is that the difference between us and them? Is that they actually use all the emojis? Starr: I ...
May 07, 2021•59 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Lego space shuttle Challenger disaster Challenger: The Final Flight Roam xkcd Footage of Josh two weeks after final Pfizer shot The Final Countdown The Beach Boys Full transcript: Starr: All right. So now you're going to joke about how, since I've been vaccinated... Josh: Are you saying you are vacc'ed? Starr: In vacc'ed. I'm chipped. I like to say I'm chipped. Josh: Got your injection. Starr: People always act like being chipped is a bad thing, but now if I wander off, people...
Apr 23, 2021•34 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Tailscale Ubiquity hack Front Write for Honeybadger Full transcript: Ben: The struggle is real when it comes to WiFi here. Because until two weeks ago you could've said, "Yeah, use Ubiquiti, it's all great." Now, there's this big disruption that they're having this attack that they didn't want to admit to. Josh: Yeah. I didn't hear about this. Ben: Yeah. So the thing that was terrible was that they said, "Oh, there was a leak at our third-party vendor." Well, the third party v...
Apr 16, 2021•36 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Exceptional Creatures TradingView Duke Cannon - Thick Beer Ruben Gamez MicroConf AppSumo Community Marketplace Full transcript: Ben: You know, today is April second, as we record this. And I am so excited because I survived April Fools' Day without falling for anything online. All the dumb stuff that happens on April Fools' Day. Josh: I'm a little worried, because I didn't notice any April Fools' lies. Now, granted, I kind of checked out yesterday and I went for a super long w...
Apr 09, 2021•38 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes Links: Gather Roblox Vs. Second Life Docsketch Ruben Gamez AppSumo Intro CRM Full Transcript: Ben: Yeah, the party doesn't start until you show up, Josh. Josh: I'm a party animal. Starr: Yeah, that's true. How's everybody doing? Josh: Good. Ben: I had a good last week. How are you, Starr? Starr: I'm doing pretty good. I got to dive a little bit into our sort of usage data for free users, and that's always fun when I get to do that. I got to use JupyterLab a little bit, brushing up on ...
Apr 02, 2021•39 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Intro CRM Ahoy Andrew Kane Full transcript: Ben: So I am feeling great this morning. Starr: Oh Good. Why are you feeling great? Ben: So over the past couple weeks, I've been working on cleaning up the low level noise, errors that are happening, that aren't really severe and that get corrected because of retries and things like that. So stuff, that's not broken, broken, it's just annoying. And so I just, yesterday I think, finished off the last of those things. So, we had a few...
Mar 26, 2021•29 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Sidekiq-cron TextExpander Alfred Sondors Metacycle Full transcript: Ben: So, you may not be surprised to hear this, but I've been doing a lot of shopping for electric vehicles this past week. Starr: Oh yeah? Josh: Oh. Ben: And there are some new electric motorcycles and scooters coming out that are very, very tempting. There's one in particular, the Sondors model, which is going to be first released near the end of the year and it's only $5000 and it had a top of speed of 80 m...
Mar 12, 2021•36 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Loom Telestream Recut Lovesac Comfy Sacks Flipper Full transcript: Ben: You know how we had that recent episode with John Nunemaker about Flipper and feature flags and that sort of thing. Starr: Oh, a podcast episode. Ben: Yeah. Yeah. Starr: I thought you meant a dramatic episode. Josh: It's just another episode with John. Starr: Oh my God. That guy. Josh: That was awesome. Yeah. That was a good conversation. Ben: We talked in that conversation about using Flipper at Honeybadg...
Mar 05, 2021•36 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Printfection Swag.com Full transcript: Josh: How's it going? Ben: I'm working on this Printfection migration and I've been thinking about what to do here. So we got this outreach from Printfection about our pricing going up, in our case, dramatically. We decided we just don't want to pay that much for what we're getting. So I'm going through all of our inventory looking at our Printfection items that we have, shirts and stickers and so on, and thinking, where... So I've got to...
Mar 03, 2021•36 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: John Nunemaker Website John Nunemaker Twitter Flipper Cloud Speaker Deck Scientist Full Transcript: Ben: So today we have a special episode of FounderQuest. We have John Nunemaker with us, instead of Starr. Starr was taking a break today. And Josh and I are going to be chatting with John, and talking about the fun things that John's doing. John, I got to start off by saying that I'm a huge fan. I've been following your work since the Harmony days, back at Ordered List, I guess...
Feb 26, 2021•55 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: The Boys in The Boat Founding Sales All your base are belong to us Write for us Full Transcript: Starr: I loved Beavis and Butthead so much in the 90s. Ben: Yeah, it was awesome. Starr: I was prepared not to like it because all I heard was everybody talking about how stupid it was. And then I watched it. I was like, this is amazing. This is just my brand. I was the target demographic. I was, I don't know, 16 17. Josh: Yep. Ben: Yep. That's a great show. Starr: Yeah, so. Ben: T...
Feb 19, 2021•36 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: Heya Ben Curtis’ Mad Money DreamHost Affiliate Link Write for us Full Transcript: Ben: Thanks to Starr, we are now linked on the Honeybadger site. Josh: Nice. Starr: Oh, yeah. It only took two years to do that. Josh: I saw that on the "about" page. Ben: What made me think about it, I'm just, I don't know, surfing the site for something. I'm like, "You know what? We should probably link to the podcast from our site." Starr: Yeah, thanks for opening that issue. Josh: I thought w...
Feb 12, 2021•44 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: Amy Hoy - Wall Street Bets Bloomberg - How Will the GameStop Game Stop Clayton Christensen - Theory of Disruptive Innovation Art of The Product Podcast - Does Tuple Ever Crash? Jobs@honeybadger.io Write for Honeybadger Full Transcript: Ben: Did y'all buy any GameStop this week? Josh: I thought about it yesterday while Robinhood was not allowing buy orders or whatever, because my brokerage, I mean, doesn't shut you out. And I mean, it probably would have been a pretty safe bet ...
Feb 05, 2021•28 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: Cobol On Cogs Square Hole TikTok Video Hook Relay Universal Honeybadger.js FounderQuest Accounts Episode Write for Honeybadger's Blog Full Transcript: Ben: Did you see that tweet I posted in the channel, the TikTok video about the shape sorter? Josh: It was so good. Starr: So good. Josh: Laughed really hard. Ben: So good. I just loved the voice of the person doing the shapes. Josh: Yeah. Ben: "And where do you think this one goes?" Starr: So it's a shape sorting thing. And the...
Jan 29, 2021•43 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: Dithering Stratechery Promised Land Shape Up National Treasure Full Transcript: Ben: I was looking through our accounts this morning and just doing some database checking and looking at some accounts that had been in our database for like seven years. Like, "Oh yeah. I remember them." And they're like old friends basically. It's like, "Oh, the memories." Josh: Memories. Starr: Yeah. That's funny. Last week I remember, it just hit me in the middle of the week, I was making joke...
Jan 22, 2021•35 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: How Cheap a Product Can You Have And Still Have Salespeople? Profitwell Retain New Relic Full Transcript: Starr: Okay, so you are listening to FounderQuest. We're a bunch of founders, we're on a quest. Thank you for listening, we are back after a rather long absence. Basically, people were gone different days during the holidays, and it was just a weird scheduling situation, so we just decided to take, I guess, two months off? A month and a half? Ben: Something like that. Star...
Jan 15, 2021•41 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Rollerblade Chair Wheels Kung Fu Panda The Emperor’s New Groove Justin Jackson "The Fear" - Build Your SaaS podcast Write For Honeybadger FounderQuest Twitter Full transcript: Ben: So, I just moved back into my office after being away for six months, because COVID. Starr: I see that. Ben: And in the meantime, though, I had all my stuff at home. So I had my podcast setup, I had my monitor, my chair, everything. And while I was at home, I bought these new roller wheels for my ch...
Oct 16, 2020•40 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: Cameo Sarah Cooper StiumulusReflex Video Jumpstart Whirly Board Full Transcript: Ben: So we had a bit of an interesting COVID related thing in our household, so we have this grocery store that we love near us, it's called Haggen, it's a Northwest brand. So a lot of our listeners won't be familiar with it, but we love this place, it's a great little grocery store. My wife, who typically does the grocery shopping, hasn't been there in forever, because like, "I can just get stuff...
Oct 02, 2020•39 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: The B-52's - Roam The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham Roam Research TiddlyWiki Art of The Product Podcast - Networking Thoughts Scrivener Josh's Blog Write for Honeybadger Full transcript: Ben: So I had the first session of a conference that's happening online next week. It's the Business of Software conference. Josh: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Mm-hmm (affirmative). Ben: And it's happening Monday through Wednesday. But on Wednesday this week, they had the replacement for the...
Sep 25, 2020•45 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Show notes: Links: San Francisco Looking Like Blade Runner The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791 The Radicalism of the American Revolution A People's History of the United States Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris The Dispossessed I, Robot The Murderbot Diaries Foundation The Unicorn Project Open Yale Courses - The American Revolution My Brilliant Friend Bona Fide Masks Full transcription: Starr: I got to tell ...
Sep 18, 2020•43 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: Horrorstör Tiny MBA Great Nuts AntiRSI MotivAider Pomodoro Technique Full Transcript: Starr: So, I've got to say, this is kind of a brag. It's completely off topic but I've got to tell somebody. I'm very proud of myself. You know how in any... I don't know. Whenever you watch movies or TV about prison, or weird situations, there's always somebody who's a genius at making booze, right? Josh: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Oh, yeah. Like the trash bag or whatever? Starr: Yeah. You take w...
Sep 11, 2020•40 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: Notion Basecamp Amanuensis Neuralink Full Transcript: Starr: Well, what's up in y'alls worlds? Ben: Went out kayaking yesterday, that was nice. Starr: Oh, nice. Josh: Cool. Starr: Did you get that foldable one you were talking about? Ben: I did order, but it is back-ordered, so I have not yet received it. Starr: Damn. Josh: It's like this was a bad time for everyone to wait to purchase these things they were putting off for their recreation time. Ben: Exactly. Josh: Till they ...
Sep 04, 2020•37 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes: Links: Snow Crash Microsoft Flight Simulator glitch Google deprecation article by Steve Yegge Swiss Army Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra Heroku Full Transcript: Josh: This is just why I know. I know that whatever happens in November, it's just going to get... It's going to get crazier. No matter what. Starr: I do feel like... More and more I feel like I'm inside of a cyber punk novel. Not really a William Gibson, Chiba City, going to get your bioware implanted or whateve...
Aug 28, 2020•43 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Show Notes Links: _why Ruby's Exceptional Creatures Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method Audience Ops Peter Cooper Docsketch ProofHub Scribendi DeltaWalker Notion Honeybadger Developer Blog Full Transcript: Starr: I wonder if any of our listeners are too young to know what SOAP is, like SOAP? Josh: I'm guessing so. Ben: Yeah. Starr: SOAP is what we have before REST APIs and JSON. It was interesting. Ben: It was hell. Starr: Yeah. I dipped my toes in that water a little bit and just gave up...
Aug 21, 2020•44 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast 
