Marie Poulin drops by to talk about notionmastery.com - a topic whose demand dragged her along to create a business around teaching Notion at a premium level! Marie and her husband are killing it - listen to hear how! Marie Poulin(Twitter) Notion Master Chris Fidao (Twitter) Chipper CI - Chris's thing…

Chris is leaving UserScape after 8 years, and working as a "Laravel Specialist" at Fly (fly.io). Aaron offered to interview me to talk about it! Aaron Francis (Twitter) Refine - Aaron's thing HelpSpot (UserScape) Fly.io Chris Fidao (Twitter) Chipper CI - Chris's thing CloudCasts - Chris's one-thing-too-many (that may pivot to being specific to Lara…

This week I talked to Adam Elmore about his career - from funded startups, to high-paying freelance gigs for startups using AWS. Adam has EVERY certification AWS offers and has done a ton of freelancing in the AWS (serverless) space. He knows stuff about things! Links! Adam Elmore (Twitter) Public.dev AWS IQ Chris Fidao (Twitter) Chipper CI - Chris…

Unofficial co-host Aaron Francis comes by again! We take turns talking about our stuff. I talk about Chipper & the final pricing decision I made (sorry Dan!), and Aaron talks about changes made in Hammerstone, and how they're pushing forward to start selling the things! Aaron Francis (Twitter) Colleen Schnettler (Twitter) Refine - Hammerstone's mai…

Alex DeBrie stops by and we talk about his business - consulting, writing books, teaching, and so much more! We also talk a bit about Chipper CI, running a SaaS, and of course, personal finance! Alex DeBrie (twitter) DynamoDB Book (I highly recommend this!) DynamoDB Guide Chipper CI Chris Fidao (Twitter) CloudCasts…

Brian Casel comes by and we talk about his latest product zipmessage.com - how it's grown, what he's doing for marketing, becoming a backend developer himself, podcasting, and more! Links! CasJam (Twitter) ZipMessage Open Threads (Brian's new podcast) Chipper CI Chris Fidao (Twitter)By Chris Fidao

Jason McCreary joins the show to talk about how Laravel Shift works, and how Jason thinks about his business. Shift started as a side project to help developers update their Laravel applications, and has grown to provide his full time income. In particular, the pricing model and features available (Shifts, Bench, etc) are very interesting! At the e…

We start talking about Mat's company Summit. Matt (and Summit) was part of the first batch of the TinySeed accelerator. Chris knows about Matt (and Peter, from the last episode) through the Out of Beta podcast (which you should check out)! Summit can help you model a process, giving you the abilities to simulate your business (or...anything) over t…

Peter talks about pricing plans and freemium for reform.app. The main idea is that people using the product for free are actually paying by spreading brand awareness of Reform (the forms are branded)! Chris talks about expanding Chipper CI usage by supporting open source, including giving unlimited builds to open source projects. We also discuss if…

Chris talks about owning all of Chipper CI, and how he's moving forward with plans to grow that business. Aaron talks about Hammerstone, and the company's main product (Refine), along with his work in the Laravel community. This includes the popular projects Torchlight and Sidecar. Links! Aaron Francis (Twitter) Refine - Aaron's main thing Torchlig…

I'll be interviewing founders and interesting people who run (or help run) businesses to see what their daily life is like, what their struggles are, and, hopefully, gain some ideas and insights on my own businesses (primarily the saas that I run). My businesses: Chipper CI - Continuous Integration for Laravel CloudCasts - Courses on AWS for busy d…

Chris and Daniel discuss seeing Hamilton, the end of Game of Thrones, and side project updates. Chris shares more details about Chipper CI and the process of building a continuous integration app focused on Laravel. Daniel shares about updating Shop Plugins to a new ecommerce WordPress theme and doing SEO content updates. Find us on Twitter at at: …

Chris and Daniel return after a few month hiatus with updates and more opinions! Chris talks about shutting down back ops and a new project in the works Chipper CI. Daniel gives some updates on his projects. Find us on Twitter at at: @growdev - Daniel @fideloper - ChrisBy Chris Fidao and Daniel Espinoza

In the last episode of 2018 Chris and Daniel talk about how 2018 went and some goals for 2019. Daniel mentions his book podcast: The Book Alliance. In 2019 Chris wants to get back to putting out free content. He also wants to work more on https://backops.app/ Daniel wants to "default to action", keep going on buildszn.com, and ship more. Email ques…

Chris and Daniel talk about how Black Friday sales went and give updates on their side projects. Chris gave an update on mysqlbackups.tv and previews backops.app Daniel gave an update on #BUILDSZN and how sales went for shopplugins.com. Daniel also talks about a marketing audit report he got from Get Ellipsis. Email questions and comments to hosts@…

Today Chris and Daniel talk about what it's like around the holidays when you're a developer. How do you have a good holiday as a developer? Deploy code the day before a holiday? No! Code freeze a week before a holiday? Yes! Chris gave an update on mysqlbackups.tv Daniel gave an update on #BUILDSZN Email questions and comments to hosts@hasopinions.…

Today Chris and Daniel talk about the process of choosing which product idea to work on next. When choosing an idea to work on for a side hustle what is the best way to choose an idea? Daniel saw this tweet by Justin Sainton and responded with his answer: Go with whichever sounds more fun and that you can get fast traction on. Get something in fron…

Today Chris and Daniel talk about more home stuff. Chris is getting some remodeling done and Daniel is building a house. Chris shares a humorous story about his time living in an apartment. After discussing all of these home expenses we ask "How do we pay for this stuff?" Is the answer "build an app"? Or maybe start a business outside of digital li…

Today Chris and Daniel talk about tech conferences and our opinions about them. Daniel was a presenter at a free online conference before recording the podcast. So both Daniel and Chris share about the first conference they went to, traveling to conferences, and going to conferences with and without family members. Chris made progress on mysqlbacku…

Today Chris and Daniel chat with Andrey Butov from bootstrapped.fm! Andrey is the owner and developer at Antair. We talk about shipping apps, side projects, weightlifting, life with kids, and ignoring the iPhone 😱. Email questions and comments to [email protected] Find us on Twitter at at: @growdev - Daniel @fideloper - Chris Our side projects:…

Today Chris and Daniel give updates on the week and talk about the hardware we use to do our remote jobs. Daily Drive Desktop Computer Apple iMac 27 inch Sit Stand Desk: IKEA Bekant, Jarvis Bamboo Second Monitor Mistel Barocco Mobile Setup Apple MacBook Pro Apple iPhone X Audio Gear Heil PR40 Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Email questions and comments to h…

Today Chris and Daniel talk about building a closet recording studio, a do nothing weekend, and an example of a Computer Science Degree vs a coding bootcamp. This week the struggle is real for Chris trying to build a studio in a closet to have a quiet place to record. Mics, tables, and legs, oh my! Daniel spent the past weekend summoning the gig ec…

Today Chris and Daniel talk about kid free trips with our spouses and the book Deep Work. Both of us had kid-free trips this past weekend. It's hard to do, but so very needed. We spent most of the episode discussing the book Deep Work by Cal Newport. If you ascribe to "Deep Work" how do you choose what work to work deeply on if you're a founder? Ex…

Today Chris and Daniel have opinions on health care in the USA as a self-employed person. We are each heading out of town this weekend with our spouse on trips without kids! We describe the health care Marketplace which is where people in the United States can purchase health insurance when they do not get access to it through their employer. Danie…

Today Chris and Daniel give updates on their side businesses and share their opinions about what a terrible financial decision cars can be. Chris shares updates about mysqlbackups.tv and talks about updating an RDS server in production 😱. Daniel shares about doing that content dance for growdevelopment.com. Chris shares about his new project of rem…

Today Chris and Daniel give updates on their side businesses and share their opinions about what a terrible financial decision cars can be. Chris shares updates about mysqlbackups.tv. Daniel shares some back story along with updates on shopplugins.com. Cars are a necessity while living in a suburb like both hosts do. Cars can be a tool, or they can…

Today Chris and Daniel talk about Laracon 2018, our side projects, #dadops, and how social media sucks. It's summertime so we have both been traveling. Chris flew to Chicago to attend Laracon 2018 and was rewarded with a case of plague. (He's all healed up!) We talked about our side projects. Chris shared a new course he's working on https://mysqlb…

Today Chris and Daniel talk about Time, Money, and Freedom. We both got fired up about Tropical MBA episode 448 "The Cult of Early Retirement" so we wanted to share a bit about how we feel would answer the question of "What should you do after you get out of debt and get a handle on your income?" We then talk about the different types of income str…

Our first episode of the Has Opinions podcast where we discuss starting to play World of Warcraft after a many year hiatus. We're just figuring out our audio setup in this episode.By Chris Fidao and Daniel Espinoza