Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Ben talks to Nick Gauthier, founder of MeetSpace, about the importance of validating ideas, reading through API documentation, and pricing surveys. Podcast Patreon Survey Upcase FormKeep MeetSpace- use code GIANTROBOTS30 for 30% off your first month HMAC Random Postgres Docs App Van Westendorp Price Sensitivity Meter How Our Users Picked Our Pricing Go Newsletter SaaSFest Nick on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Derrick finds some new areas to improve after walking new hires through Drip's architecture, and discusses his custom billing engine. On Hound, Ben delegates the new-pricing project, and validates a new product idea. Podcast Patreon Survey Upcase FormKeep Drip Briefs FullStory Hound techzing podcast The War of Art Content Marketing ROI Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Derrick brings a few more new hires onto the team, and ships a change to make clients' Javascript snippets more performant. On Hound, Ben does some direct outreach sales, considers bringing on someone to help with marketing, and muses on the balancing act between product manager, developer, and marketing. Podcast Patreon Survey Upcase FormKeep Drip Bootstrapped Web Podcast Greg Pollack Founder's Talk Hound Third-Party JavaScript ZenFounder Podcast Grand Trunk Hammocks Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

On Hound, Ben sends out announcements for pricing changes, questions when a decision is the "right" decision when it comes to customer feedback, and toys with per-seat pricing model feasibility. Derrick has a successful first week on-boarding the new dev-ops hire, offers Ben some advice on balancing features with price, and discusses some customer acquisition campaigns. Podcast Patreon Survey Upcase FormKeep Drip Schlep Blindness- Paul Graham (Ben meant 'Schlep' rather than 'Slog') Conversion Cast Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Ben plans a camping trip, acquires a new Twitter account, releases his notes on giving great conference talks, and begins to tell users of Hound's new pricing. Derrick reacts to the announcement of Github Projects and what that means for Codetree, ships the new form design on Drip, and muses on the ramifications to Google's announced penalizing of intrusive mobile pop-ups. Upcase FormKeep Drip Ultralight Backpackin' Tips We're on Twitter Projects on GitHub- from GitHub Universe 2016 Codetree Om Next- David Nolen, Euroclojure 2015 'Dear Github' How to Scale a Development Team Speaking for Hackers Google Pop-up Guidelines Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

On Drip, Derrick deals with a high-bandwidth customer and hires a new devops team member. Meanwhile, Ben brainstorms new pricing structures for Hound. Upcase FormKeep Drip Lessons From the Saas Metrics of 1500 Companies- Patrick Campbell MicroConf Session Overview (video not currently available) Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Derrick switches domains from getdrip.com to drip.co, begins to update the design of the Drip widget, and tries to find balance in his varying roles as CTO. Ben hands off the reigns of Upcase, switches to a low-tech project management solution, and mixes work and personal todos. Upcase FormKeep Drip Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture- Derek Prior Seeking Wisdom Podcast 16Personalities Momentum Chrome Extension Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Ben welcomes guest co-host Derrick Reimer, co-founder of Drip, getting to know his background and products for our first outside-thoughtbot view on SaaS strategy (as well as Ben's arm-twisty methods for getting him on the podcast in the first place)! Upcase FormKeep Drip MicroConf Sidekiq Codetree Drip Workflows Derrick on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

thoughtbot CEO Chad Pytel joins Ben to discuss our recent office closings and reasons necessitating this decision, what this means for the product team, and the future of thoughtbot. Also, a teaser of what to expect next from Giant Robots Podcast. Upcase FormKeep Hound Chad on Giant Robots from last year Chad on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Fresh back from vacation, Ben shifts his attention to a Hound project, adding in tiered plans and pricing. Chris begins to build out a drip sequence for content recommendations, prepares to roll off to return to client work, and leaves us with some final reflections, takeaways, and lessons learned while on Upcase. Upcase FormKeep Hound ./bin/setup Warren Buffett's 2-List System Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots