How to Build a SaaS Business

Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet.

Nonsense

• ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers
  • If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet
• Glastonbury 2023
  • Guns N’ Roses
    • UK: the full set on iPlayer
    • Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl)
    • Appetite for Destruction
  • Rick Astley
    • UK: the full set on iPlayer
    • Rest of the world (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll)

Interview links

• Basecamp
• HEY!
• Daily Rush
  • Quake III Arena
• PHP and Ruby
• 37signals and Jason Fried
• Martin Fowler and Dave Thomas
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Ruby on Rails
  • “Groovy on Grails”
• 1000 true fans
• DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts”
• Backpack and Campfire
• Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals
• Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire
  • A podcast explaining it
• “The Building of Basecamp” (and review)
• David’s books:
  • Getting Real
  • Rework
  • Remote
  • It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
• The programming books that meant the most to David
• Fast inverse square root
  • David’s best tweet
  • AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway
• The Celeron 4
• David’s writing on leaving the cloud:
  • “Why we’re leaving the cloud”
  • "The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives"
  • “Five values guiding our cloud exit”
  • “We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit”
  • "Cloud exit pays off in performance too”
  • “We have left the cloud”
• HEY vs the App Store
• Deft and Dell
• MRSK
  • Capistrano
  • GitHub contributor community
  • Maersk
• Harmony remotes discontinued
• The continuing demise of Reddit
  • Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars?
• 24 Hours of Le Mans
  • 2023 writeup: “The Le Mans Centenary“
  • Result table

David Heinemeier Hansson

• https://dhh.dk/
• @dhh on Twitter
• LinkedIn
• David’s blog on HEY

Guest hosts

• Craig Box
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Special Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).