Growing Software

Darby looks for marketing help and Ethan shuffles code around

It's book club time again! This week Ethan and Darby talk about Marketing Made Simple. Special guest appearance by a toddler in search of a bowl of cereal.

https://storybrand.com/marketing-made-simple-book/

Darby gets an unexpected traffic boost and Ethan `git init`'s a new Glean.

A note from Ethan: This episode was originally recorded in February, but due to some editing issues is just now being published on March 21st. …

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The application Ethan used to model the accounts and framework outlined in the book is Summit.
A screenshot for the Summit canvas that Ethan made can be found here.

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Lets end the year with a retrospective on Growing Software, and laying some plans for next year. Also, Ethan talks about opportunity cost without saying the phrase opportunity cost.

Ethan drinks tea and Darby puts up a job listing!

https://angel.co/company/lead-honestly/jobs/1743870-head-of-marketing

Darby sees some usage on the new Lead Honestly feature and Ethan has a crisis of confidence.

After a short break Darby and Ethan are back to discussing traction channels and Lead Honestlys product launch.

Darby and Ethan talk through being on call as an indie developer, using slack to store time series metrics, and the upcoming launch of Lead Honestly for Google Workspace.

On this exciting episode of Growing Software -- The pros and cons of managed database providers, side project objectives, the story of gathers.us, and Darby figures out his Google API permission scopes.

Darby and Ethan go over the results of the previous episodes mini experiments.

Darby and Ethan talk through some idea validation and customer interview plans, dogfooding products, and how difficult it must be to build medical …

Darby has some successful onboardings after pivoting and Ethan gets stung by a bee.

Darby changes directions on the new version of Lead Honestly, and then tries to convince Ethan to do the same.

Darby talks about the experience of on-boarding a new power user, where to find a community for your product, building communities, and a dive into some potential features of Glean.

This week on Growing Software -- Vacation brain, wildfires, traveling, and an impromptu conversation on personal productivity. Also, talking about software.

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Datadog
Prometheus
Zipkin
Metabase
Honeycomb

The Mom Test
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This week Darby and Ethan talk about JavaScript testing, getting feedback from users, and the legality of fireworks.

Does Lead Honestly pass the Google security review? Does Ethan finally ship transactions? All of these questions and more are answered in this weeks episode.

José Valim's blog post on a authentication solution for Elixir's Phoenix https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-phoenix

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Ethan gives some details on his debugging complaints from last week and Darby gives an update on the lead honestly code retreat and upcoming MVP launch.

Darby laments their progress on launching the new version of Lead Honestly, but has a plan. Ethan shifts his workflow again.

Ethan gives an update on his day dedicated to working on Glean

This week Darby gives us an update on how his week of focus on Lead Honestly went, Ethan contemplates taking a day off, and they talk about the value of live data in database seeds.

Darby gives an update on the new version of Lead Honestly and Ethan talks about his work on the Glean marketing page and how it can drive the product roadmap

Lead Honestly
Glean

Transcript
Ethan: [00:00:00] Good afternoon.
Darby: [00:00:00] Hello? Good afternoon. Happy Thursday. 
Ethan: [00:00:02] Did you get your, your, did it your shot on Friday or on Monday?
Darby: [00:00:06] I …

Ethan: [00:00:00] Good afternoon. Okay.
Darby: [00:00:02] Happy Friday. Don't normally do this on Friday, but it's kinda nice.
Ethan: [00:00:06] It is a little nice. 
Darby: [00:00:07] Are you done with the day job for the …