IndieRails

Jess Brown & Jeremy Smith
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Jeremy and Jess interview indie developers who have a passion for the Rails framework and bring their hustle and creativity to building a business. They strive to understand the challenges these developers face and how they are overcoming them to create successful businesses.

  1. Wale Olaleye - Helping Founders with Tech

    6 DAYS AGO

    Wale Olaleye - Helping Founders with Tech

    Wale Olaleye of Rails Fever joins IndieRails to talk about what it really takes to build a consulting business. The conversation spans everything from refining your message and brand, “I help founders with tech so they can focus on operations", to embracing marketing, sales, and networking as essential skills, not dirty words. Wale, Jess, and Jeremy swap stories about outreach experiments, co-working spaces, local events, and the power of being visible in your own community. They explore how generosity, trust, and consistency can replace aggressive sales tactics, and why treating your freelance work like a business, not just a job, is the path to longevity. It’s an honest and encouraging look at how independent Rails developers can build meaningful, profitable work by combining technical excellence with human connection. Rails FeverLinkedInBluesky

    1h 2m
  2. The Obligatory AI Episode

    28 OCT

    The Obligatory AI Episode

    In this episode, Jess and Jeremy catch up on life and work, and have a chat about the everyone's favorite topic these days.

    1h 6m
  3. Anthony Eden - Making Business Look Simple

    14 OCT

    Anthony Eden - Making Business Look Simple

    In this episode we’re excited to be talking with Anthony Eden, founder & CEO of DNSimple. For those who haven’t come across it yet, DNSimple is a service that makes managing domains and DNS simple and developer-friendly. Like DNS, DNSimple has been around many years. I first met Anthony years back at Less Conference in Atlanta, around the time DNSimple was just getting off the ground.  Jeremy and I also got to connect with Anthony recently at XO Ruby in Atlanta, where DNSimple was one of the sponsors. There’s a lot of fun topics we covered, so hit play and get it started! Links:dnsimple.comanthonyeden.comXRuby Social

    1h 8m
  4. One Person Wishlist - Rails World Roundtable

    30 SEPT

    One Person Wishlist - Rails World Roundtable

    This special episode was recorded from the Buzzsprout podcast booth on Day 2 of Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam. Our guests (and fellow Rails World attendees) are Jesper Christiansen, Olly Headey, and Andreas Wagner. Together we have a roundtable discussion about our wishlist items as independent Rails devs toward the one-person end of the spectrum. Thank you to Buzzsprout for sponsoring the Rails World Podcast program, and for providing us the opportunity to attend and record! 🙏 Jesper ChristiansenTwitterBlueskyWebsiteFormBackendmany.link Olly HeadeyBlueskyBlogPagecordFeedgrab Andreas WagnerTwitterBlueskyWebsiteBlog

    46 min
  5. Mariusz Kozieł - Wizards and Kings

    16 SEPT

    Mariusz Kozieł - Wizards and Kings

    This special episode was recorded from the Buzzsprout podcast booth on Day 1 of Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam. Our guest, Mariusz Kozieł, is the CEO of Visuality, a Ruby on Rails agency based in Poland. We chat about Mariusz' career progression from developer, to engineering manager, to CTO, and now CEO. We also talk about his and Visuality's efforts to foster technical community with the Ruby Community Conference and Ruby Europe. Thank you to Buzzsprout for sponsoring the Rails World Podcast program, and for providing us the opportunity to attend and record! 🙏 Related Links Mariusz on TwitterMariusz on LinkedIn Visuality websiteVisuality on TwitterVisuality on LinkedIn Ruby Europe websiteRuby Europe on Twitter Ruby Community Conference

    52 min
  6. Jason Bosco of Typesense - From Shaving Faces to Shaving Milliseconds

    5 SEPT

    Jason Bosco of Typesense - From Shaving Faces to Shaving Milliseconds

    docs.search("indie, founder, rails, successful") => Jason Bosco / Typesense In this episode, Jeremy and Jess sit down with Jason Bosco, co-founder of Typesense, an open source, typo-tolerant search engine. Jason shares how he and his co-founder committed to simply showing up every day, putting in consistent effort, no matter how small, and how that patience eventually compounded into success. We dive into Jason’s journey from VP of Engineering at Dollar Shave Club to building his own company, why Typesense has chosen to stay customer-funded instead of VC-funded, and how open source has been central to their mission of democratizing search. Along the way, Jason offers insights on perseverance, product focus, and the long game of building an indie software company and how it can all good and difficult can take a toll on health.  Jason Bosco CEO & Co-Founder at Typesense Previously VP of Engineering at Dollar Shave Club Previously VP of Technology at Verishop https://x.com/jasonboscohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbosco/https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-boscohttps://github.com/jasonboscoA good way to describe Typesense is that it's an open source alternative to Algolia and an easier-to-use alternative to ElasticSearch. https://github.com/jasonboscoFeatured Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cdH1F6zbIghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER8FDiCMPCYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QymF4NUmALMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNLA8RCrYwkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Z3BYwizzwFeatured Links https://typesense.org/abouthttps://typesense.org/blog/To Raise VC, or Not. Choosing The Road Less Travelled.The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everydayWe bought HUNDREDS of billboards in San Francisco, for our open source producthttps://gorelay.co/t/pursuing-an-open-source-bootstrapped-long-run-path-towards-serving-the-fortune-1-million-with-typesense-s-co-founder-jason-bosco/915https://livecycle.io/blogs/dev-x-project-jason-bosco/

    1h 36m
  7. Matt Swanson - The Product Engineer

    8 JUL

    Matt Swanson - The Product Engineer

    In this episode, Jess and Jeremy chat with Matt Swanson, CTO of Arrows, author of Boring Rails, and host of the YAGNI podcast. In addition to his blog, Matt shares a lot of his knowledge about product development on Twitter. We talk with Matt about how Arrows builds software, what it means to be a product engineer, the easiest way for devs to get to $10K MRR, working with generative AI tools, and how and why he publishes technical content online. Related LinksMatt's TwitterBoring RailsYAGNI podcastArrows

    1h 11m
  8. Rhiannon Payne & Justin Bowen - Agents of Change

    24 JUN

    Rhiannon Payne & Justin Bowen - Agents of Change

    Rhiannon Payne and Justin Bowen are one of the very few couples working together in the Ruby and Rails ecosystem. Justin is a long-time Rails developer, consultant, and AI and computer vision specialist. Rhiannon runs Sea Foam Media and is the Marketing Director for Ruby Central. Together they are building Active Agents, an AI framework for Rails. We chat about their professional backgrounds (Justin's in software development, Rhiannon's in marketing), how they collaborate as a couple, the birth of Active Agents, and AI in the Ruby/Rails landscape. Oh, and we may have a cameo from a few cats! RhiannonTwitterBlueskyThe Remote Work Era Book JustinTwitterBluesky Active AgentsWebsiteactiveagent gem on GitHub (latest release: v0.4.0)Documentation (new)Discord Invite Sea Foam MediaWebsiteTwitter

    1h 45m
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Jeremy and Jess interview indie developers who have a passion for the Rails framework and bring their hustle and creativity to building a business. They strive to understand the challenges these developers face and how they are overcoming them to create successful businesses.

Information

  • Creator
    Jess Brown & Jeremy Smith
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Jess Brown & Jeremy Smith
  • Show Website
    IndieRails

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