"I can't believe you're using that in production"

Episode description

More honest updates from Jon and Justin on what it's like to be building Transistor.fm:

• People can't believe that we're using this in production.
• Why SaaS feels better than other businesses we've been involved with.
• "Kubernetes sounds like a Russian swat squad."
• There's a temptation to over-engineer things; but there's only two of us working on Transistor!
• The enterprise sales process seems like it's too much for our small bootstrapped company.
• Looking back, we were wrong about who are customers were going to be.
• You won't believe what Justin's been sending to customers. 😳

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Show notes:

• Tweet from Caddy's engineer
• Podcast: Protect the Hustle
• Podcast: Not Overthinking
• Ruben's new app: Docsketch

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