FounderQuest

The Honeybadger Crew

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TECHNOLOGY

Developers building a software business on our own terms.

03/01/2025

Will AI replace developers?

Ben and Josh discuss the benefits and perils of using AI assistants for programming. CursorCodeium WindsurfGitHub Copilot announcementPerplexity

49 min
06/12/2024

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.com/?ResultObjectPattern=https://www.chairigami.comhttps://twenty.comhttps://rubycentral.org/news/make-railsconf-happen/Adam’s Judo Scale infomercialhttps://boxoutsports.com/graphics/multi-format/multi-format-gameday-90-s-serieshttps://boxoutsports.com/graphics/tags/saved-by-the-bell

49 min
22/11/2024

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 of WSUA9 call it skeeting on airAOC endorses “team skeets”Jake Tapper says “skeeted” live on CNNProtocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech by Mike MasnickComposable moderationHow to set your domain as your handleBluesky reaches 20M usershttps://go.bsky.app/HD2Ty2ohttps://go.bsky.app/EGczjGAhttps://bsky.app/profile/bencurtis.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/joshuawood.honeybadger.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/founder.questhttps://bsky.app/profile/honeybadger.iohttps://deck.blue/https://brid.gy/

43 min
25/10/2024

Selling Metrics Watch with JP Boily

Josh and Ben reconnect with their friend JP Boily to discuss building his startup Metrics Watch for just over 9 years before finding a new owner on Acquire.com. Bluesky startups & bootstrappers starter packJoin the Honeybadger/FounderQuest Discord server!https://metricswatch.com/https://github.com/topfunky/gruffhttps://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homerhttps://jumpstartrails.comhttps://microconf.comhttps://businessofsoftware.orghttps://rubyconferences.org

48 min
11/10/2024

Acquiring Fireside with John Nunemaker

Josh and Ben catch up with John Nunemaker after Rails World and dig into John's recent acquisition of Fireside.fm, the podcasting platform created by Dan Benjamin. What's next for John? In short, he's curating some Very Good Software™. https://www.johnnunemaker.com/acquiring-fireside/https://www.johnnunemaker.com/how-to-find-a-business-partner/https://danbenjamin.com/http://sifterapp.com/https://www.indierails.com/

55 min
30/08/2024

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/shirt/the-process#/17943854/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-mhttps://blog.flippercloud.io/per-seat-pricing-sucks/https://garrettdimon.com/journal/posts/data-modeling-saas-entitlements-and-pricinghttps://basecamp.com/pricinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversionhttps://statamic.com/

49 min
19/07/2024

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.asmartbear.com/slc/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_producthttps://archive.ph/20130719182750/http://www.businessballs.com/treeswing.htmhttps://www.amazon.com/How-Fight-Hydra-Ambitions-Destined-ebook/dp/B07J57YF47

36 min
21/06/2024

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 huge problem if you’re not using your product to the max. Shape UpSeth GodinBlue Ridge RubyMonitoramaJoin the Honeybadger Discord! https://discord.gg/aQaDVBedRf

37 min

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Developers building a software business on our own terms.

Creator

The Honeybadger Crew
Years Active

2019 - 2025
Episodes

120
Rating

Clean
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