Builders Gonna Build
Episodes
Moment: Ditching unlimited pricing for a B2B SaaS (ep. 9)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Co-founder of Honeybadger Ben Curtis talks about unlimited pricing, its deficiencies for a bootstrapped startup, and how they ditched unlimited all-yo...
Moment: It took us two years before we switched to our business full-time with Honeybadger co-founder Ben Curtis (ep. 9)
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Co-founder of Honeybadger Ben Curtis discusses freelancing before switching to work on the product full-time.Full episode: 9. Bootstrapping a SaaS for...
Moment: How we got first customers for our SaaS with Honeybadger co-founders (ep. 9)
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood discuss getting the very first customers and making first sales for their app and error monitoring SaaS Honeybadger.Full ep...
9. Bootstrapping a SaaS for 13 years | Honeybadger co-founders Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Honeybadger co-founders Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood discuss the origins and growth of their app monitoring product, challenges of bootstrapping, calm w...
8. Growing your LinkedIn and newsletter audience | John Crickett
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Crickett is the creator of Coding Challenges, a newsletter for engineers that has over 54k subscribers. John’s LinkedIn profile grew from 3k to...
7. Jason Fried on building products, calm companies and the Jeff Bezos investment
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Fried is a co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the company behind Basecamp and HEY. Together with his business partner David Hannemeier Hanson, Jas...
6. Creating a niche of your own | Corey Quinn, The Duckbill Group
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group and a big celebrity at the AWS circles well known for his sense of humor and unrelentin...
5. Don't do agile, be agile | Co-author of Agile Manifesto and Pragmatic Programmer | Dave Thomas
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer and Agile Manifesto, on the true spirit of being agile (vs. "doing agile"), mistakes engineering te...
4. Henry T. Kirk, entrepreneur, ex-engineer at Google & Amazon
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For 10 years, Henry built mobile apps at Google and Amazon. Now he is a partner at a software development agency studio.init(). Henry shares his thoug...
3. Dennis E. Taylor, author of best-selling sci-fi series Bobiverse
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis E. Taylor built software for 35 years before trying himself as a sci-fi author. His first novel Outland earned him some “Starbucks money” o...
2. Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp and Reaper
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Justin shares how he created Winamp and sold it to AOL at age 20 and tells us about his current project, digital audio workstation (DAW) Reaper. Segme...
1. Christian Selig, creator of Apollo Reddit app and Pixel Pals
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christian tells a story of how Apollo got started, grew and eventually had to shut down following Reddit's API pricing decision.Segments[00:46] Introd...