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S5E21 Will AI replace developers?
Ben and Josh discuss the benefits and perils of using AI assistants for programming.CursorCodeium WindsurfGitHub Copilot announcementPerplexity
S5E20 How to Sponsor a Conference
Ben, Josh, and John Nunemaker are back from RubyConf and take the opportunity to discuss how to sponsor a conference as a small software company. Protip: bring your furniture from…
S5E19 Why does Bluesky love Alf so much?
Ben and Josh go off-script for a fun and hopefully-not-too-long chat about their favorite Twitter-like social network, Bluesky.https://faineg.substack.com/p/how-i-accidentally-ruined-blueskyThe hosts…
S5E18 Selling Metrics Watch with JP Boily
Josh and Ben reconnect with their friend JP Boily to discuss building his startup Metrics Watch for just over 9 years before finding a new owner on Acquire.com.Bluesky startups & bootstrappers…
S5E17 Acquiring Fireside with John Nunemaker
Josh and Ben catch up with John Nunemaker after Rails World and dig into John's recent acquisition of Fireside.fm, the podcasting platform created by Dan Benjamin. What's next for John? In short,…
S5E16 Pricing
Ben, Josh, and John discuss pricing, including how to approach pricing, what they do and don't like about pricing, and how pricing works at Honeybadger and…
S5E15 Shipping in Layers with Will and John
While Josh is on vacation, Ben chats with guests Will King and John Nunemaker about the process and perils of trying to ship…
S5E14 Dogfooding, Developers, and Discord!
Ben and Josh catch up after a few weeks of heads-down product work, and they have lots to talk about—including a new Discord server for FounderQuest listeners! Plus, hear Josh’s thesis on why it’s a…
S5E13 Scaling Judoscale with Adam McCrea
Longtime friend of the pod Adam McCrea joins Josh and Ben to catch up and chat about his journey building Judoscale—an autoscaling service for Heroku, Render, and AWS!Blue Ridge RubyJosh’s Blue Ridge…
S5E12 Writing and Content Marketing for Developers
John Nunemaker returns to FounderQuest to discuss his writing process—after the guys debate code linters and formatters, of course. It's important to start with the essentials.Links:StandardrbJosh’s…
S5E11 RailsConf recap with John Nunemaker
Josh and Ben are joined by John Nunemaker to discuss their recent trip to Detroit for RailsConf, as well as the announcement from RubyCentral that 2025 will mark the final RailsConf (though not the…
S5E10 Insights Into Our Marketing Playbook
This week, Josh and Ben dive deep into the marketing strategy for their new product, Insights, in response to a listener question. They talk about what groups they are targeting first, some of the…
S5E9 Holy Ship! Insights is Live!
This week Josh and Ben discuss shipping Insights, what's next for the product, and their strategies to get people to actually use it. Plus Ben shares the results from his latest performance science…
S5E8 An Exceptional Week At Honeybadger
This week Josh and Ben discuss shipping a Clickhouse migration and Honeybadger's new look. They also talk about Exceptional Creatures hitting number one on Hacker News and being featured at the top…
S5E7 Making UI Changes While Avoiding Pitchforks
Today Josh and Ben are talking about UI changes in order to lay the foundation to launch and integrate Insights into Honeybadger as well as steps they are taking to avoid some rollout mistakes…
S5E6 Our Big Hairy Audacious Goal
GOOAAALLL!!! This week Ben and Josh discuss how to get Honeybadger's growth back on track by setting a company-wide goal. They also talk about how to promote new features in your product without…
S5E5 Cutting (Almost) to the Bone
This week Josh and Ben discuss Honeybadger's recent revenue struggles, how they got to this point, and the steps they're taking to weather the storm. They also explain why 2024 could be the company's…
S5E4 ’Tis The Season For Tangents!
Kevin joins Josh and Ben again this week as the trio discusses Honeybadger's hack week, processes for making bold UI/UX changes, what to do/not do if your customers hate said UI/UX changes, plus the…
S5E3 Moar badgers! Kevin Webster has entered the chat.
It's a trifecta of badgers this week as Honeybadger's own Kevin Webster takes us on a deep dive into the genesis of his baby/our new product, Insights. There is also a discussion around the…
S5E2 Insights Into Insights and Viva Las Vegas!
This week Josh and Ben give further insights into Insights and discuss challenges around shoehorning a new product into an existing one. They also talk about marketing strategies, a Las Vegas trip,…
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