About this episode
Ian and Andrey are joined by special guest, Patrick McKenzie (patio11), to discuss the “early” days of the Business of Software forums, Patrick’s journey and daily routine, Helpdesk systems and support, Appointment Reminder, systemizing and automating daily tasks, SaaS, B2C vs. B2B, pricing of software, consulting, learning from Blackhats, Hacker News, marketing, Uberdeck, making money from open source, dual-licensing, running a conference, hacker meetups, Patrick’s biggest mistake in business, Patrick’s next product, and Facebook games.
- Special guest Patrick McKenzie (patio11) of Kalzumeus.
- Business of Software Forums – Joel on Software.
- Bingo Card Creator – Patrick’s first product.
- Appointment Reminder – Patrick’s second product.
- Helpspot – Ian’s first product.
- Snappy – Ian’s latest product.
- Antair Spam Filter – One of Andrey’s first products.
- Uberdeck – Andrey’s latest product
- Andy Brice, and his Perfect Table Plan product.
- Jon B and his ViEmu, vi emulator for Visual Studio.
- Gavin Bowman
- Michael Pryor
- Kalzumeus Podcast
- Teach for America
- Hacker News
- Ruben Gamez, founder of Bidsketch
- 30×500, by Amy Hoy
- Micropreneur Academy
- Marco Arment
- Laravel
- Laravel: From Apprentice to Artisan, by Taylor Otwell
- Paint.net
- Binpress
- Rails Long Term Support
- Gail Goodman talk from Business of Software 2012
- Patrick’s Email List
- Peldi, Balsamiq Mockups
- Visual Website Optimizer
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