the DEVpreneur: Recent Episodes
Charlie Reese and Tom Zaragoza
The DEVpreneur is a podcast for developers, tech enthusiasts, and aspiring entrepreneurs. It is hosted by Charlie Reese (founder of Clientelify) and Tom Zaragoza (founder of Vocalmatic). They discuss creating, developing, and selling tech products and applications.
In this episode, Tom Zaragoza and Charlie Reese discuss how they find time to work on their side projects. They also discuss how they choose what projects to work on (or not work on), and why going full-time on side projects isn't the answer for everyone.
In this episode, Tom Zaragoza and Charlie Reese discuss how they find time to work on their side projects. They also discuss how they choose what projects to work on (or not work on), and why going full-time on side projects isn't the answer for everyone.
In this episode, Tom and Charlie talk about when it makes sense to use lower level, customized code (i.e. yes code), no code tools (i.e. no code), or low code (i.e. high-level libraries).
Meet David Kong - a friend, ex hedge fund analyst, and founder of Somm.ai and Glasvin!
Learn who he is, why he pursued his own startups, and what he thinks people get wrong.
Charlie and Tom chat about customer refunds: when you should give them, when you shouldn't, and why
Listen to Roger, the Co-Founder of Convictional, talk about his background, his startup, his Y Combinator experience (winter 2019 cohort), and more!
Show notes:
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Tom and Charlie don't feel motivated right now. They chat about it, and how sometimes the easiest thing to do is the hardest thing you're interested in.
DEVpreneurs Tom and Charlie discuss whether you should build an audience for your online (SaaS) business.
DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom discuss whether you should build vs buy an online (SaaS) business.
DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom discuss how they stay in shape in between writing all the codes.
A yearly standup episode with DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom. They talk about their greatest hits (i.e. projects) of 2020, and their plans for 2021.
In this episode, ex-Facebook employee Khalid Hamadeh shares his experience working at Facebook (in Toronto, then San Francisco), managing ad campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. He also shares tips and tricks for using Facebook Ads to grow your business. Finally, he shares a new project he's building in the digital marketing (specifically Facebook Ads) ecosystem. Learn more about Khalid at khalidhamadeh.com
DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom discuss why you should consider developing applications for third-party marketplaces, like Shopify and Heroku, for fun and profit.
Another weekly standup episode for DEVpreneurs Charlie and Tom. Charlie talks about tracking time as a creator to achieve long-term goals (without burning out). Tom talks about the new fast food app he's developing.
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Charlie talks about tracking his exercise with Strava. Tom talks about growing an email newsletter, and consuming / sharing content.
Charlie and Tom talk about Tiny Capital: a micro-cap, tech private equity firm that starts, buys, and invests in wonderful internet businesses.
Charlie and Tom talk about the first step to building a startup, and how it often isn't the step most people start with.
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Tom talks about his new job at HomeX. Charlie talks about his viral blog post on Hacker News, and landing_boi, an in-development rails engine for creating SaaS landing pages.
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Charlie talks about terra_boi: a rails gem for deploying your rails application to AWS using 'rake deploy'
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Tom talks about Shopify apps he has built and his writing pursuits. Charlie talks about a programming language flame war he may start with his new blog post.
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. In this episode, Tom talks about new Vocalmatic growth hacks, and Charlie talks about releasing Clientelify bulk CSV text message creation.
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs.
Charlie and Tom talk about what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as a DEVpreneur.Tom also tells us about his new SEO course for founders bootstrapping their products!
Ben Weiler tells us about Coachable, his web app for coaching and athlete development. Tune in to hear Ben's journey!
Daniel "Dan-the-man" Miller talks to Charlie and Tom about what software, products, ideas, and interests he spent time on this week as a DEVpreneur. Tune in to hear about his e-sports project E-Spotlight.
Charlie and Tom discuss what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Topics this week include Charlie's first users for Clientelify and Tom's new product (under development) Vocalmatic Teams.
Charlie and Tom discuss what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs. Topics this week include Tom's online course pursuits, Charlie finishing v1 of Clientelify, and using Twitter from our terminals.
Charlie and Tom discuss what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as DEVpreneurs
Charlie and Tom discuss what software, products, ideas, and interests they spent time on this week as devpreneurs
Charlie and Tom discuss the benefit of creating and sharing long form content for personal branding.
Charlie, Tom, and Itai discuss how Itai Marongwe started Grey Waters Information Security, an information security consulting business
Charlie and Tom discuss how you can rank on the first page of Google results by creating YouTube videos matching certain search queries.
Charlie and Tom discuss plans to launch MicroSaasFounder and Clientelify. Charlie also talks about two open source software projects he recently released, blog_boi and terra_boi.
Charlie and Tom discuss how Tom grew Vocalmatic, an automatic transcription SaaS business, to 10k organic visitors per month.
Charlie and Tom discuss why being a DEVpreneur (i.e. software developer and entrepreneur) is appealing to them.
Charlie and Tom discuss why you should look for a business problem instead of a business idea.
Charlie and Tom discuss what you should consider when choosing software framework(s) and language(s) for your next SaaS product.
Charlie and Tom come up with a business idea on the spot for you to consider / steal. The idea (in the forestry industry) is tree planting as a service.
Charlie and Tom discuss how (famous) entrepreneurs typically take a long time to become successful.
Charlie and Tom discuss how to quickly validate your startup idea before talking to potential customers.
Charlie and Tom discuss why you should talk to your customers before you start building your product.
Charlie and Tom discuss why you should build a product for businesses (vs consumers) as a default.
Charlie and Tom discuss DEVpreneurs they look up to, like David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) and Patrick McKenzie (patio11).
Charlie and Tom discuss how they estimate the timeline of software development projects they work on.
Charlie Reese and Tom Zaragoza introduce themselves. They then talk about the three biggest misconceptions they have encountered in tech pertaining to software development / product management / entrepreneurship.