Ed Grosvenor and Peter van Dijck are back, with Ed's October 31 Scalpels launch deadline looming. This week's big idea is keeping the wheels on the bus. One of Ed's clients has non-developers shipping vibe-coded changes straight to production, and Ed's paid hours used to go on putting things back together. Now their work runs through Solo, with an implementer and several rounds of code-quality and security review happening out of sight, so the wheels stay on and Ed's time goes to the work he's actually paid for. It's the pitch behind Scalpels too: wrap your whole fleet in tools like Hone and Wake, and let agents keep it healthy. Ed also finally cracks clay stop-motion explainer videos with Claude, by locking the keyframes and a reusable set of SVG assets before rendering anything. Peter replaced Plausible with his own clone overnight, not to save money, but because its MCP didn't work: "you're getting in my way." That leads into the first Scalpels marketplace app, SimpleStats, open-sourced one day and running on Laravel Cloud the next, with its maintainer's blessing and Ed's PRs flowing back upstream. Peter makes the case for one curated catalog, whoever built the app: Ed is Apple now. Along the way: Clank Overflow (with Jev screening every report) versus Peter's agent discussion board, building "boring" products by asking clients what they'd vibe code tomorrow, a Rust ingest endpoint for Hone, Postgres surviving forty apps, self-healing fleets, whether marketing can be automated, opposition research on Sputnik Intelligence, cold email with lemlist, and Ed's very short return to Reddit. Chapters00:00 Launch deadline looming01:35 Clay stop-motion videos with Claude06:41 Picking a voice with OpenRouter and ElevenLabs08:36 Clank Overflow and Peter's agent board15:37 Possible: a Plausible clone in one night17:30 SimpleStats, the first marketplace app21:01 Forks, upstream, and who maintains what24:06 One catalog: Ed is Apple now28:59 MCPs for marketplace apps30:51 Should the marketplace stay free?32:05 What is Scalpels measuring?33:39 Boring products: one place for every app's logs36:23 A Rust ingest for Hone, and Postgres holding up38:47 Self-healing fleets40:57 Solo, vibe coders, and keeping the wheels on the bus47:02 Can marketing be automated?52:05 Sputnik Intelligence and opposition research53:25 Cold email with lemlist56:24 Ed's very short return to Reddit58:37 A street team for Scalpels LinksArtisan Beer: https://artisan.beerScalpels: https://scalpels.appWake, central logs for every Laravel app: https://scalpels.app/products/wakeEvery Laravel app's logs on a bucket (Scalpels lab): https://scalpels.app/lab/experiments/a-central-log-sink-for-many-laravel-appsHone: https://scalpels.app/products/honeClank Overflow: https://clankoverflow.comSputnik Intelligence: https://sputnikintelligence.comEd / Artisan Build: https://artisan.buildPeter: https://petervandijck.com MentionedSolo by Aaron Francis: https://soloterm.comSimpleStats: https://simplestats.ioSimpleStats on GitHub: https://github.com/simplestats-io/appJev by TypeSafe AI: https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jevLaravel Cloud: https://laravel.com/cloudLaravel Nightwatch: https://nightwatch.laravel.comOpenRouter: https://openrouter.aiElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.ioPlausible: https://plausible.ioFathom: https://usefathom.comQuickwit: https://quickwit.ioDuckDB: https://duckdb.orgClickHouse: https://clickhouse.comlemlist: https://www.lemlist.com If you enjoyed it, like and subscribe. Peter still insists. #Laravel #LaravelCloud #AI #MCP #OpenSource #Podcast
