#17 - Greg Schier - How I Built and Sold Insomnia
Greg talks about his journey building (and eventually selling) Insomnia, one of the world's best REST and GraphQL clients. He takes us through how he came up with the idea for Insomnia, how he started gaining a userbase for it, and ultimately how he was able to sell it. Greg also offers some advice to product creators based on things he wishes he would have done differently while building his product.
#16 - Daniel Vassallo - Why I Left a $500k/year Job at AWS to Work For Myself
Daniel talks about what went into his decision to quit his very well-paid position as an engineer at AWS to be independent. He walks us through his journey getting one promotion after another at Amazon, only to realize that the high salary wasn't worth it. Daniel is currently building a product called Userbase (formerly called Encrypted.dev), a tool for creating secure and GDPR-compliant web apps. He talks about how he landed on Userbase as a product idea and what it has been like thus far building it out.