Christian and I talk about old tech, new tech, his long road from building a popular open source project to reduce his own AWS spend, to working for AWS (!) to providing a white-glove service for startups reducing their hosting costs. We find a few ways to improve his offering and expand his business beyond a one-man show.

An rare pleasure which is both a deep tech dive and a deep business dive.

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Kris and I talk about living with autism, about the app he built to help his autistic daughter, and about the challenges engineers have when they approach marketing and selling. We find a super narrow and potentially effective niche to market his app in and we laugh a whole lot.

A beautiful chat with a beautiful human being doing beautiful work.

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Ryuichi and I talk about why it's so hard to find a good idea for an indie business, why invalidation is much more important than validation and why we should focus on validating problems, not solutions.

We also talk about some crazy family and relationship topics and laugh a whole lot. I usually trim the small talk out, but this time it was especially awesome.

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