66 | Agency Life and a NFT Side Project with Ken Jones

This episode features Ken Jones, his side project Birdables that's he's turned into an NFT and printed actual trading cards. Ken also runs a small web agency and builds websites in various technologies.

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Show Notes

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:36 Introducing Ken Jones
• 1:57 Birdables
• 3:14 Process of Creating the Cards
  • Print of Figma
  • Tiny Image Compressor
• 5:48 Getting the Cards Printed
• 9:12 NFTs and Minting the Cards
  • Open Sea
• 13:09 Working with SvelteKit
  • pnpm
• 17:29 Sponsor: Hashnode
• 18:15 No Code / Low Code Tools
  • Webflow
  • Netlify
  • Bubble
• 27:29 Sponsor: Daily.dev
• 28:29 Determining which tech stack is best for a specific project
• 30:42 Niche Marketing and Tracking Users
  • Brennan Dunn
  • Drip
  • Mastering ConvertKit
  • Right Message
• 35:45 Client Process
• 38:48 Wrapping Up
  • Svelte Sirens
  • Everything Svelte