FounderQuest Podcast
1) Technical Debt - Our Approach to Building Cool Tech Profitably
This week Josh, Ben and Starr talk technical debt and how to cope with it. They also discuss "suits" vs "hackers" is a trope as old as tech itself. Suits want to make money and cut costs. Hackers want...Show More
2) Are developers going to be replaced by AI assistants?
Ben and Josh discuss the benefits and perils of using AI assistants for programming.CursorCodeium WindsurfGitHub Copilot announcement
3) 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 home.https://wiki.c2...Show More
4) 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 ...Show More
5) Selling Metrics Watch with JP Boily
Josh and Ben reconnect with their friend, JP Boily, to discuss the recent sale of his company Metrics Watch, along with conferences they may or may not want to go to, and company retreats they may or ...Show More
6) Acquiring Fireside with John Nunemaker
Josh and Ben talk with John about his recent acquisition of Fireside, covering the finances, pitfalls avoided, and more acquisition tips.https://www.johnnunemaker.com/acquiring-fireside/https://www.jo...Show More
7) 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 Flipper.https://cottonbureau.com/p/9EMACZ/sh...Show More
8) 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 reliably. https://www.wking.dev/logs/shipping-in-layershttps://longform.asm...Show More
9) 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 h...Show More
10) 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 ...Show More