Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
About the show
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
Episodes
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243: Mostly Local (Mike McKenna)
June 27th, 2017 | Season 7 | 36 mins 45 secs
Chad is joined by Mike McKenna, CEO of Shotgunflat, to discuss cultivating a business in the town in which one grew up, working with family, the effect of adding a sales team to a consultancy, and the legislation of craft-brewing.
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242: Too Dressed Up For The Internet (Kim Goulbourne)
June 19th, 2017 | Season 7 | 24 mins 22 secs
Chad is joined by thoughtbot designer Kim Goulbourne to discuss inspiration, side projects, and winning a Webby Award!
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241: I Don’t Like Talking to Computers (Nick Charlton)
June 7th, 2017 | Season 7 | 1 hr 2 mins
Chad is joined by Nick Charlton, thoughtbot developer and co-host of the Build Phase podcast, to give their impressions on all the news out of the WWDC17 Keynote & Platforms State of the Union.
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240: Handing Over the Reins
June 5th, 2017 | Season 6 | 55 mins 38 secs
Ben outlines his next steps, reflects on his time at thoughtbot, and hands the proverbial podcast reins over to Chad.
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239: Change is in the Air
May 29th, 2017 | Season 6 | 35 mins 51 secs
Ben bids adieu to thoughtbot, and outlines his plans, hopes, and fears for the future.
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238: The Graph is Beautiful
May 22nd, 2017 | Season 6 | 19 mins 51 secs
Derrick gets technical about Drip's performance optimization, and reflects on pre-conceived opinions in regards to tactical & strategic planning after receiving some constructive criticism.
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237: Steve Jobs Used Slides
April 28th, 2017 | Season 6 | 34 mins 13 secs
Ben and Derrick recount their experiences and lessons learned speaking at MicroConf.
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236: Care For Customer Support (Spencer Fry)
April 21st, 2017 | Season 6 | 37 mins 38 secs
Ben is joined this week by Spencer Fry, founder of TypeFrag, Carbonmade, Uncover, and Coach, to discuss carryover lessons of successful startups.
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235: Meta Talk Process
April 12th, 2017 | Season 6 | 31 mins 1 sec
As we prepare for MicroConf, Ben takes a new tact on his talk after giving an early demo, and Derrick recounts a positive pair-programming experience.
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234: Secret Features
April 5th, 2017 | Season 6 | 29 mins 46 secs
On FormKeep, Ben implements custom redirects on form submissions and starts a test to remove up-front credit card collection, as well as discusses evaluation of feature requests. On Drip, Derrick walks through the app with new devs, considers on-boarding automation, and continues his refactoring project.
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233: Insert Mode is the Worst Mode
March 27th, 2017 | Season 6 | 27 mins 34 secs
Derrick welcomes new Javascript and Rails developers to Drip. Ben prepares a content deal and interviews a Content Manager for Upcase, discusses the benefits and methodology to Vim proficiency, works on an integration with Wistia, and ponders growing / selling apps.
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232: Don't Be Boring
March 22nd, 2017 | Season 6 | 27 mins 24 secs
As Ben and Derrick prepare their talks for MicroConf, Ben shares his tips and habits for talk preparation and public speaking.
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231: Who Likes Using Ugly Software?
March 14th, 2017 | Season 6 | 33 mins 1 sec
Ben & Derrick reflect on the S3 outage and how it affected their services, and muse on managing user perceptions. Derrick submits a talk to MicroConf on what it means to be "customer driven", and begins a refactoring effort to rework Drip's integration system. On Upcase, Ben integrates a referral widget, and enables subscription pausing, while on FormKeep he fixes a trial plan selection bug.
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230: Sales Through Education (Anna Jacobsen)
March 6th, 2017 | Season 6 | 32 mins 55 secs
Ben & Derrick welcome Anna Jacobsen, Education Director at Drip, to discuss customer demos / onboarding, sales and retention strategies, customer success, and best practices within Drip.
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229: We Need More Counters
February 27th, 2017 | Season 6 | 33 mins 33 secs
On FormKeep, Ben runs an A/B test on trial length and adds a short onboarding survey, meanwhile wrapping up team signups and working on a content licensing deal for Upcase. Derrick reports back from his machine learning class, and discusses an issue in quality assurance testing.
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228: Start in Beginner Mode
February 20th, 2017 | Season 6 | 24 mins 59 secs
Derrick travels to Portland to visit fellow bootstrapper friends, Ben recounts his recent conference travel, and a discussion of their most pivotal hires as well as account rescue techniques.