Arvid and his partner Danielle just sold their company, Feedback Panda, after scaling it to a $55k MRR in just under two years. The product is aimed at online English teachers serving the Chinese market, but they were working from Germany. We talked...
Episode Notes Mubashar Iqbal is a multi-time Product Hunt maker of the year. At the time of this recording, he's released 67 products and most have 100+ upvotes! I asked him about he ships so quickly. Mubs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mubashariq...
Episode Notes I sat down for a chat with my friend, Julien and asked him about his story of moving from the finance industry into tech, why he did it and how he goes about jumping into a new tech stack. Recorded for the Code and Bootstrapping podca...
Episode Notes In this episode Mark talks about how heatmaps and surveys were useful in the very early days of Alchemist Camp, how he used them and a common pitfall when taking surveys. Links Companion screencast: Using heatmaps and surveys to driv...
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about feeling confused as a developer, why the feeling continues despite gaining technical skills and why a lack of confusion could be a bad sign. Links From Nand to Tetris Also see the previous episode on...
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about common scalability concerns and why they're not generally a good thing for an early stage boot-strapper or even most funded startups to worry about. Links Firebase Costs Increased by 7,000%! Twitter...
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about automation, where Unix luminaries saw its rise and where it's still undervalued, decades later. See: The Practice of Programming
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about the single largest reason Alchemist Camp has worked—frugality. Leaving the San Francisco / Silicon Valley area to be a digital nomad and drastically cut rent, using open source and very inexpensive eq...
Episode Notes Alchemist.Camp has been running for a year and it's time for a new experiment. In this episode, Mark gives a brief introduction and shares his motivations and plans for this podcast.