Episodes
The Code Quality Challenge
Tuple's open CTO position
Kevin Shen's Dream Studio Course
Published 12/23/22
Aaron Francis (Tuple's Marketing Engineer) drops by for advice on his non-Tuple project, a query builder for Rails and Laravel called Refine.
Published 07/27/22
Penelope Phippen drops by and encourages Ben to set, like, even a single goal.
Published 07/20/22
Talking with Dr. Sherry Walling about dealing with mental health personally and how to help people around you who may be struggling.
Published 07/11/22
Tuple launched a new marketing experiment this week. Derrick is continuing work on migrating SavvyCal to new hosting infrastructure.
Published 06/29/22
The Tuple team had their first filming session for the meta-documentary about their marketing experiments. Derrick is awaiting results from the latest SavvyCal funnel experiments.
Published 06/22/22
Ben and Derrick catch up on all things Tuple and SavvyCal. Ben recently raised prices for Tuple. Derrick is experimenting with major funnel changes for SavvyCal.
Published 06/15/22
Derrick is launching a bunch of SavvyCal features this month, including a Close integration and meeting polls.
Ben has had good experiences lately talking to customers.
Published 05/25/22
Stripe's Technical Advisor to the CTO, Penelope Phippen stops by and Ben tries to get her to divulge company secrets.
Published 05/11/22
Ben and Derrick chat through a cool new feature Tuple is shaping up. They also discuss Tuple's ambitious marketing bets.
Published 05/04/22
Ben and the Tuple team have hit a good shipping stride lately. Derrick and team are nearing completion on a few large SavvyCal initiatives. The guys reflect on MicroConf and the nature of dispensing advice.
Published 04/20/22
Derrick and Ben share updates from the Castos recording booth at MicroConf Growth.
Published 04/06/22
Our favorite Canadian drops by to talk mobility, fancy A/V setups, what's next for Tailwind UI, and how we'll never find peace of mind.
Published 03/30/22
Ben and Derrick riff on a variety of topics, including coffee brewing, retreats, MicroConf, design, finding business ideas, and interesting subreddits.
Links:
Sweet Maria's
MicroConf
Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea
The Stair Step Approach to Bootstrapping
fatFIRE
OneBag - The Art of Minimalist Travel
Published 03/23/22
The Tuple team has recently grown by three team members! Ben is looking forward to getting the Linux client out the door in the next month. Derrick is staying busy moving SavvyCal forward and bringing his new developer into the app.
Published 03/16/22
Ben talks to Brian Lovin, a designer, podcaster, writer, and software tinkerer.
Published 03/09/22
Ben and Derrick chat with Tuple's Chief of Staff and GTD expert, Stephen Dolan. They discuss Stephen's path from programming to sales to his current role and nerd out over methods for staying productive.
Published 03/02/22
Ben recently had a Tuple team retreat. He is still in hiring mode. The Tuple product team is progressing on their Linux integration.
Derrick ran a product-market fit survey for SavvyCal, and the results are...
tune in to find out. He's pondering how to approach a freemium play.
Published 02/23/22
Ben & Derrick chat with Courtland Allen from Indie Hackers. They discuss the challenges of building a community and finding fulfillment in work, among a variety of other topics.
Resources:
Indie Hackers
SavvyCal
Tuple
Published 02/09/22
Derrick and Ben catch-up about what's going on at Tuple and SavvyCal. Derrick had a fun customer experience on Twitter last week. Ben is still in hiring mode.
Published 01/26/22
Derrick & Ben catch up after a few weeks away for the holidays. Ben is still in hiring mode. He's considering ways to do more teaching (something he used to do a lot when he was a programmer by trade). Derrick is planning to be more intentional in fostering a growth mindset this year in business and life.
Published 01/12/22