The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Actual(ly) opening up (Interview)

Jul 1, 2022

01:35:26

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Ori'm Not Happy With It

01:35

Is There a Mismatch Of Expectations In Your Money?

01:17

What Makes It Not Hit That Hocky Stake Growth?

01:53

How Did You Get the 800 People?

01:22

Introduction

2min

The Magic of Open Source

4min

I've Always Wanted to Launch a Product

3min

Elecmatic

6min

Is It Dead or Not?

5min

Is There a Niche in the Ap?

5min

How Long Did It Take You to Get More People in the Team?

2min

You Don't Want to Be a Developer?

5min

You Were Alone Too Long in a Very Useful Application

4min

10.

Developers on the Square Platform

2min

11.

Open Source

4min

12.

Open Source

2min

13.

How Many Uses Are You Talking About?

3min

14.

What Was the Hard Path to the 800 People?

2min

15.

Are You Close to Users at All?

2min

16.

Is Open Source Really the Right Movein?

3min

17.

We're Not Calling You Out or Saying You Did Not.

3min

18.

Open Source

4min

19.

You Don't Want O Gril Because You Can't Support It Personally

3min

20.

I've a Lot of Gripes With the Mobile Apse

2min

21.

Honeycomb - Find Your Most Perplexing Application Issues

5min

22.

The Absurdity of Absurde Sequal

2min

23.

FireFox vs Webb's Sequel

4min

24.

Using Web Session Data Base

3min

25.

Test Weet? Is It a Test Sweet?

2min

26.

Reacnative

6min

27.

The Sinking Stuff and Absurd Sequal?

3min

28.

Are You Taking a Break for a Bit?

2min

29.

You're the Daddy to Be for Your Girls, Right?

3min

Adam and Jerod are joined once again by James Long. He was on the podcast five years ago discussing the surprise success of Prettier, an opinionated code formatter that’s still in use to this day. This time around we’re going deep on Actual, his personal finance system James built as a business for over 4 years before recently opening it up and making it 100% free.

Has James given up on the business? Or will this move Actual(ly) breathe new life into a piece of software that’s used and beloved by many? Tune in to find out.

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