Displaying episodes 1 - 29 of 29 in total
29: Brandon in Europe, Team is Growing
We talk about Brandon’s travels, our new hire, and our company retreat in Italy next week. We also discuss our slow velocity and how we plan to increase shipping momen...
28: RenderATL & Technical Interviews
We chat about how RenderATL is such a stellar conference, give an update on hiring and the technical interview process we designed.
27: Our Awe-Inspiring Job Description
We talk about the incredible response to our new job posting and the process that went into. Also we go behind the scenes of our hiring process and how we are evaluati...
26: Productivity & Learning How To Hire
We talk about managing schedules and productivity tools. Then we talk about what we're learning about making a really great hiring process.
25: CEO Stops Coding, Culture, Superhuman
Brandon officially stops coding, now that Blake has taken over all his coding responsibilities. We talk about our completely broken hiring process and how we are fixin...
Title: 24: Conference Sponsorship ROI & Code vs Nocode Marketing Site
We discuss our sponsorship of React Miami, the outcomes from that, and how we are evaluating ROI. After some other product and company updates, we talk about switching...
23: Fires and Focus
Being a founder is an extreme exercise in focus, prioritization, and discipline. This week we're feeling this more than ever, with so many things to do. We give update...
22: We Finished Y Combinator!!
This is the final week of this YC batch, so we reflect on the past three the months, our fast paced fundraising process in the last two weeks, and where we go from here.
21: Thriving Cofounder Relationships in the Heat of YC
Week 10 of YC and life is off the charts! We talk about being human, being fully yourself in important meetings, and how we are cultivating a super healthy cofounder r...
20: Inside Y Combinator’s Final Month
Brandon and Mina give an update from week 9 of 12 of this Y Combinator batch. The phase were it starts to feel like the wheels are coming off the bus 🤪 And also discus...
19: Bootstrapping into Y Combinator and Raising $1 million
This is a secret episode recorded on November 5, 2021 where Brandon and Mina share the exciting and brutal backstory on how they tried and failed to raise VC money, ev...
18: Startup Work-Life Balance and Mental Health
This week we dig into how we are managing our work-life balance and mental health while building an ambitious startup. We share our mental framework for processing it ...
17: How To Initially Price Your Startup
We discuss Flightcontrol progress update, how personal perceptions can vary widely between video calls and in person, and then dig into pricing. We talk through our en...
16: Week 3 — We Have Paying Customers!
It's week 3 after launch, and we now have paying customers! We talk about our current rention numbers and how we're working toward a public launch soon. (Also sorry fo...
15: The Great Hosting Migration of 2022 Has Begun
It's been an awesome second week since onboarding our first customer. We manually onboarded 20 more and then opened up self signup. We discuss how we're managing it al...
14: Onboarded First 12 Users!!!! Our Learnings on the MVP and Initial Pricing
We have liftoff!!! This was a wild and awesome week onboarding our first users and getting our first taste of product market fit signals. We recall our week day by day...
13: Analytics, New Development Cycle, and Choosing KPIs
After our weekly Flightcontrol progress update, we dig into our new weekly development cycle process and choosing our KPIs and short term goal.
12: We Finally Shipped! And Q4 Debrief
We finally shipped Flightcontrol to production! And we dissect the last 3 months to figure out why it took so much longer to build than we anticipated. And talk about ...
11: Blitz.js Pivot to Framework Agnostic Toolkit
We discuss the new RFC to pivot Blitz.js to a framework agnostic toolkit. And we talk about how that plays into Flightcontrol.
10: Another Week Without Shipping V1 😬
We're continuing to make good progress, but that last 10% just gets you every time!
9: 15 Hour Days With No Progress & PlanetScale Learning Curve
One week later and v1 still isn't shipped. This has been stressing Mina out and Brandon tries to keep Mina from burning out. We also talk about how PlanetScale pulls t...
8: Crunch Week Before Onboarding First Users
It's crunch week as we are scrambling to finish the last 10% needed to start onboarding some users! We talk through our mental and technical progress.
7: Our First Time Meeting in Person & Technical Update on Flightcontrol
Brandon and Mina meet in person for the first time! They talk about what that experience was like. Then they go into a lot of technical discussion about the design and...
6: MVP Progress, One-on-Ones, and Getting an Executive Coach
Brandon and Mina discuss the progress toward the MVP launch by end of November, learning how to have one-on-ones, and Brandon getting an executive coach.
5: Blitz Passes 10k Github Stars and Progress on Flightcontrol Early Access
Brandon and Mina talk about Blitz passing 10k Github stars, Vercel hiring Rich Harris, Connect.tech conference, and latest progress on Flightcontrol.
4: Building a Company Legacy and When To Hire
Mina and Brandon give progress updates and then talk about how they are thinking about company building, what their goals and values are etc. And then they discuss whe...
3: Founder Summit and the Next.js 12 Release
Brandon talks about what it was like to attend Founder Summit in Mexico City. And we talk about all the hot new Next.js 12 features and how they will affect and integr...
2: Forking Next.js and Using Temporal to Wrangle Async Workflows
We talk about how Blitz forked Next.js earlier this year and Brandon's current status on finishing that migration and progress towards Blitz 1.0. And then we talk abou...
1: Who is Brandon & Mina and Why Are They Building Flightcontrol?
Brandon and Mina introduce themselves and talk about why they are building Flightcontrol and where they are in the process.