17: Empanelling Allison Lacker

Allison is a former colleague of John's, and we're thrilled to have her on the panel of mentors. She has been a developer, product manager, and executive. She has a lo...

16: Brainstorming our first SaaS product

Also: is programming art or science? John finds reading painful. Daniel finds small to-dos painful. Why are we paying so many Quickbooks fees? The 2024 budget.

15: What kind of clients we do (and don't) want

We reflect on a problem with a client. Then we discuss the importance of learning new patterns, adopting new tools, and sticking to conventions.

14: Monday morning baseball

After a scheduling snafu, we needed to use our recording slot to have our weekly check-in with Jacob. This is our regular roundup of clients, plus some pleasantries an...

13: Launching Verbs at Laracon AU

Daniel is jetlagged after returning from Sydney, where he launched Verbs at Laracon AU.We talk about the launch, talk about John's Kickstarter for Colossi, and do a qu...

12: Colossi + Verbs (it's shill day)

You can buy John's game on Kickstarter right now! Daniel's new event sourcing package Verbs is nearly complete, and John loves it. Join us as we spend 40 minutes gassi...

11: Trust issues

We do some bits. We talk about good practices while pair programming. Then we wonder if product development processes primarily exist to compensate for trust issues. H...

10: Daniel is Going to Laracon AU!

John is tanking a lot of bureaucracyDaniel is writing a LOT of codeDaniel is going to Laracon AustraliaWe discuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgV6M1LyfNY

9: The Dawn of The Pricing Saga

According to ChatGPT we discussed:Mentoring and meetingsAge discussionProduct managementSplitting time between two companiesHome inspector conference in Atlantic CityB...

8: Progress!

We catch up as usual, and check in on the state of all our goals.

7: Our Great Shame

On this episode we dig deep and do a post-mortem on a messy wrap-up to a client engagement.Our key takeaways:OvercommunicateOvercommunicate some more

6: How Thunk Will Die

This episode is late because of an interesting process breakdown.Verbs VacationA New "vision-mission-value"The Pre-Mortem

5: Empanelling Aaron Francis

Aaron Francis (@aarondfrancis) officially joins Thunk's panel of mentors! Aaron gives John feedback on his blogs, and provides LOADS of good ideas for how to improve i...

4: Who Are Your Guys?

Who are our guys?We run through a list of potential panelists for our panel of mentors and discuss what it would event look like to empanel them.

3: The Sales Funnel is Working

John's game Colossi is almost readyThe sales funnel is workingMax is having a hard oneWe've made progress on our goalsThis is not the episode about hiring a mentor

2: Vision, Mission, Values

We have glowing feedback for each otherDaniel's blog feedback made the blog a lot betterGetting creative with business development tacticsWe discuss the company's Visi...

1: The FG Scale

Daniel has feedback on John's blog posts. Why do feedback? Why is it so painful? The "FG Scale" Does Jacob feel empowered to give us feedback? Should we keep our docs ...