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

Tactics of a prolific builder with Mubs

Oct 18th, 2019 23m 38s

Episode NotesMubashar 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/muba

Julien of EatTheBlocks

Oct 12th, 2019 19m 24s

Episode NotesI 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

Using Heatmaps and Surveys

Jul 23rd, 2019 9m 49s

Episode NotesIn 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.LinksCompanion screencast: Using heatmaps and surveys t

Rise to the level of confusion

Jun 8th, 2019 4m 41s

Episode NotesIn 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.LinksFrom Nand to TetrisAlso see the previous epis

Scalability Arrogance

Feb 15th, 2019 17m 13s

Episode NotesIn 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.LinksFirebase Costs Increased by 7,000%!T

Automation

Jan 16th, 2019 10m 11s

Episode NotesIn 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

Frugality

Jan 5th, 2019 12m 41s

Episode NotesIn 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 inexpens

An experiment

Dec 31st, 2018 5m 30s

Episode NotesAlchemist.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.

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