Hackers Incorporated
Ben Orenstein and Adam Wathan
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Ben Spent $600 on Amp credits
The boys are back and Ben has been coding!Amp vs Claude Code vs Codex. Clawdbot. The Agentification Era. Sorry about Ben's audio. We think it was Riverside's fault, sadly.
2024 year in review and plans for 2025
In this episode, Adam and Ben sit down to reflect on how things went in 2024 in their business and personal lives and talk about their plans for 2025.
Catching up
Adam and Ben are back on the mics after nine months to give an update on their lives.Timestamps(00:00) - Catching up (00:18) - Fitness update (18:13) - House updates (24:53) - Ben update (35:11)…
Hiring for tiny teams with Justin Jackson
Adam just wrapped up a big hiring project at Tailwind Labs, adding both a new engineer and a new designer to the team. In this episode he talks through the process with Justin Jackson, founder of…
Ben steps away from Tuple
After almost six years, Ben has stepped away from day-to-day work on Tuple and moved to its board. Friend of the pod Aaron Francis interviews Ben about the whole beautiful, complicated, enriching…
Building the HEY Calendar with Jason Fried
37signals have talked a lot about how they build new features for existing products using Shape Up, where they carefully hammer the scope to avoid letting anything ever drag on for more than six…
Ben and Adam review 2023
In this episode, Adam and Ben sit down to evaluate how things went in 2023 in their business and personal lives. The dudes share kind of a lot in this one! More personal flavor than usual. Lots about…
Revisiting the Tailwind Labs business model
In this episode, Adam and Ben talk through the Tailwind Labs business model. Is Tailwind UI the best way for the company to make money? Or is there a different model where incentives are better…
Launching features like products
In this episode, Adam and Ben catch up on recent events at Tailwind Labs and Tuple. Adam spoke at Rails World and the impromptu Tailwind CSS meetup in Amsterdam. Ben shares his learnings from some…
Building the right team with Jason Fried
Adam wants to start the process of growing the team at Tailwind Labs, but knowing exactly who, when, and how to hire people (and have them actually work out) is a lot harder than expected. In this…
Q&A: Starting over, the ideal employee, success and happiness, and selling the company
In this episode, Adam and Ben share some personal updates on lake houses, gym equipment, and luxury electric vehicles, and answer listener questions on topics like things they'd change when starting…
Predictable mistakes of the developer-turned-founder
So many developers (your podcast hosts included) make the same mistakes when trying to turn an idea into a business for the first time. In this episode, Ben and Adam talk through a bunch of these…
Losing 70 lbs, getting in shape, and 15-minute workouts
Last year, Adam got very serious about losing weight and getting in shape and lost 70 pounds, getting to about 12% body fat and maintaining enough strength to still bench 315. In this episode, Adam…
Hiring is hard
When you're running a small company, hiring is simultaneously your highest leverage opportunity and the scariest thing ever. In this episode, Adam and Ben share some lessons learned, how they think…
Enterprise sales for reluctant founders
Enterprise sales gets a bad rap amongst indie founders, but at Tuple it's become an important part of their business model. In this episode, Ben shares all his tips and tricks on how to sell to…
How to not suck at project management
Most people are way too comfortable letting a project run for 12 weeks before ever getting it into a shippable state. In this episode, Adam and Ben share the strategies they use to make sure the…
Minimalist management with David Heinemeier Hansson
After over 20 years in business and despite being responsible for a larger-than-ever team, David still finds plenty of time to get his hands in the code and build new products himself. We run…
Lifetime pricing is underrated
Last summer, Tailwind UI moved from selling individual content packages and upsells to a one-time purchase, lifetime access pricing model. Since then, the business has doubled. Having seen this in…
Revisiting "The Ideal Bootstrapped Business" with Jason Cohen
Jason Cohen’s talk “Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business” from 2013 is a classic in the bootstrapper canon. In this episode, Jason joins Adam and Ben to see how the talk holds up a decade after…
Running your business like a band
“How come Dave Grohl is still playing guitar and writing songs and singing but I'm filling out DMCA takedown notices, answering customer support emails and responding to GitHub issues?”…
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Hackers Incorporated has published 21 episodes since March 2023, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.
Hackers Incorporated is currently active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 1h 4m.
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