Makers Weekly Dan Parsons

I love this episode and product, you will to! Greg and I talk about how right place, right time, right product can really help your app get early exposure. He got a shoutout from Suhail's (founder of Mixpanel and Mighty) "Shipping Friday" tweets (earlier this summer, Suhail would feature a Maker who recently shipped product). From that point on, Punkt was off to the races. Punkt has also been featured in the AppStore.

Product Description
Punkt is a private and secure one-sentence journaling app for iOS. One sentence a day helps you to learn more about yourself. The app makes it easy to reflect on emotions, weaknesses and driving factors in your life. It’s the perfect app to form a journaling habit and become a tiny bit happier in your life. The app is based on a simple but joyful design and focuses on your privacy. No login, no ads, no tracking frameworks or whatsoever are included in the app. It’s all about you and your stories.

Tech stack
Designs were made in Sketch. Development done in Xcode. Data is stored on the device and in private iCloud container. 

Tools
RevenueCat has to be mentioned here. It makes it super easy to integrate subscriptions or IAP in your app. Other than that no tracking tools, crash reporting frameworks or whatsoever. No one but the user should have access to the data / content of the app.

Social media handles
Personal: @iPGregor (Twitter), gregor.pichler (Instagram)
App: @punktapp

With terabytes of ❤️
- Dan

We talk about how to handle employee engagement in a remote world.

Topics include: Employee feedback & engagement platform for remote teams
Tools used: Slack app is Python, Serverless - AWS Lambda, Webflow for marketing site
Technologies: Hyper terminal + VS Code deeply integration for code. Love notion for documentation. iA writer for writing blog posts. Slack for communication. Figma for design. 

Remote work is here to stay. Justin and his team are pioneers in the space building tools to help teams do their best remote work.

Authpack is a turnkey user login and payment system for web projects. Jack and I have a great chat about developer enablement and why keeping it simple is a feature :) 
 
Stack
Frontend = React, TypeScript, Emotion.
Backend = TypeScript, GraphQL, Custom build.
Client side is open source: https://github.com/jackrobertscott/authpack-client
Apps and tools he uses religiously:
Notion, VS Code, Adobe XD, Webflow, Sentry. Pretty excited to see how Webflow pushes the no-code movement forward!
Social
Twitter: @jacrobsco & @authpack

TruePublic allows users to anonymously share opinionsand see what others think based on their gender, age, race, location, and political leaning. Tools: Mixpanel, Shift, Any.do, Calm App, Slack, Streak CRM, Discord Chat, Google Hangouts, Trello.
 
Social
twitter.com/TruePublicApphttps://www.facebook.com/TruePublicApp  Tech Stack
React JS for WebPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticSearchRabbitMQKafkaSpring Boot, Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate, JerseyDev Ops and Infrastructure
JenkinsNexusGradleDocker, Docker SwarmNewRelicELK StackAWS

A super techy jam with Aparna Dhinakaran, Founder of Monitor ML. We talk about everything machine learning, artificial intelligence and bias that machines inherit from their makers, humans!

Monitor ML tracks the performance of models throughout their lifecycle and connects them to business metrics. They support model tracking, metric logging/analysis/alerting and production event logging. You choose the framework, they monitor the machine learning model.