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#46 - Josh Comeau - How to Have an Amazing Course Launch

Josh talks about his experience building CSS for JavaScript Developers, a comprehensive course that helps JavaScript devs become confident with CSS that sold almost $6...

#45 - Gonto - Billion Dollar Marketing Practices

Gonto talks about his journey leading marketing at Auth0 up until its acquisition to Okta for $6.5b. He's now the co-founder of a sweat-equity advisory, Hypergrowth Pa...

#44 - Monica Lent - How to Build a Blog with Great SEO

Monica talks about her journey building Affilimate, a SaaS product that provides a unified dashboard and content analytics for affiliates. She also talks about her oth...

#43 - Arvid Kahl - How to Build and Sell a SaaS Company

Arvid talks about his experience building and selling FeedbackPanda, a SaaS product that helps English teachers save time and earn more money. He goes into detail abou...

#42 - Michael Lynch - How to Hit the Front Page of Hacker News

Michael talks about his experience consistently getting on the front page of Hacker News. One example of where he's done so is his product TinyPilot, a remote server a...

#41 - Hassan El Mghari - Building/Selling a Game Publishing Company and How to Stay Productive

Hassan talks about his experience building and selling UltraShock Gaming, a game marketing startup. He goes into detail about how he built it while being in school and...

#40 - Kyle Mathews - How To Know If You Should Start a Startup

Kyle Mathews talks about his experience building Gatsby as an open source project and starting a venture-backed company around it. He goes into detail about the ups an...

#39 - Shawn Wang (swyx) - How to Launch Your Product and Sustain Revenue

Shawn Wang (aka swyx) chats about his experience writing and publishing his book, The Coding Career Handbook. He goes into detail about the challenges he encountered, ...

#38 - Peter Piekarczyk - Going From Solopreneur to Startup Co-Founder

Peter talks about his entrepreneurial journey leading up to now being the co-founder and CTO of Draftbit, a platform that helps teams build React Native and Expo apps ...

#37 - Greg Thomas - The Benefits of Writing for a Specific Audience

Greg talks about his journey writing and publishing his book, Code Your Way Up: Rise to the Challenge of Software Leadership. He talks about his purpose behind writing...

#36 - Joe Eames - Building and Running a Conference Business

Joe talks about his experience starting and running multiple conferences including ng-conf, the world's largest conference centered around Angular. He goes into the up...

#35 - Noah Labhart - Leaving Corporate America to Build a Startup

Noah talks about his journey leaving corporate America to now building and running Veryable, a quickly-growing on-demand labor platform. He goes over how he started wi...

#34 - Helen Ryles - Building and Selling Side-Projects

Helen Ryles talks about her experience building side-projects and selling them. Over the last few years, Helen has built and sold multiple businesses that were solely ...

#33 - Scott Mathson - Bootstrapping a Profitable Side Project

Scott Mathson talks about his journey bootstrapping Plink, a SaaS product that creates smart podcast links. He goes into detail about how he came up with the product i...

#32 - Randall Kanna - How To Rapidly Build a Twitter Audience

Randall chats about her experience rapidly building a Twitter audience and how it has helped her with new opportunities including job offers, book deals, and overall c...

#31 - Zeno Rocha - Monetizing an Open Source Project

Zeno talks about his journey building and selling Dracula Pro, a color scheme and UI theme tailored for programming. He goes into detail about his launch, overcoming d...

#30 - Philip Kiely - Nailing a Book Launch With Only 13 Twitter Followers

Philip takes us through his journey writing and launching his new book, Writing for Software Developers, and how he nailed the launch with a very small audience. He ta...

#29 - Christopher Gimmer - Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to $1,000,000 ARR

Christopher takes us through his journey building his SaaS app, Snappa, which just recently hit $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. He goes into detail about why i...

#28 - Saron Yitbarek - The Business of Running a Tech Conference

Saron talks about her journey founding, building, and recently selling CodeNewbie, the most supportive community around for people learning to code. She also talks abo...

#27 - Dan Wahlin - How to Establish Yourself as an Entrepreneurial Coder

Dan talks about his experience being a self-employed programmer since the 1990s. He reflects on what has changed, what has remained the same, and how you should think ...

#26 - Marc-André Giroux - The Road to a $70,000 E-Book Launch

Marc talks about the recent launch of his first e-book, Production Ready GraphQL, and how it netted him over $70k during the launch. He talks about the fears he had go...

#25 - Jamon Holmgren - Scaling Up and Sustaining an Agency

Jamon talks about his experience as a developer and business owner and his journey co-founding and building his React and React Native agency, Infinite Red. He talks a...

#24 - Dominic Monn - How to Test Ideas and Ship Products Quickly

Dominic talks about his experience testing, building, and shipping many different digital products, including MentorCruise and Intravert. He gives advice on how to tes...

#23 - Eve Porcello & Alex Banks - How to Build a Business as a Workshop Instructor

Eve and Alex talk about their experience building a business around teaching workshops. They go into detail about how they got started offering workshops, how they thi...

#22 - Kelly Vaughn - How To Build a Successful Agency

Kelly talks about her experience going from being a solo freelancer to now running The Taproom Agency, a marketing agency specializing in building excellent Shopify st...

#21 - Preethi Kasireddy - The Tradeoffs Between Entrepreneurship and Employment

Preethi talks about her journey going from working for top companies like Goldman Sachs and Andreessen Horowitz to founding her own startup called TruStory. She goes i...

#20 - Michaela Greiler - How to Pick Which Business Idea to Focus On

Dr. Michaela talks about her journey leaving her dream job at Microsoft to focus on being her own boss. She takes us through how she developed and launched a successfu...

#19 - Kent C. Dodds - How To Replace Your Salary by Creating Content

Kent shares his experience building a business in developer education content which replaced his salary and allowed him to leave his full-time job. He talks about how ...

#18 - Shirley Wu - How To Be A Successful Niche Freelancer

Shirley talks about how she went from doing data visualization work for prominent tech companies to going out on her own as a full-time data visualization freelancer. ...

#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 ...

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