21: Our new pricing model (empaneling Joel Clermont)

Joel Clermont joins us for a discussion about our pricing model. Like us, he has tried a lot of models, and walked away from most of them. He gives us feedback on our ...

20: The FULL Stack Developer

Papercuts progress.  Daniel spent some time with the dutch.  Getting busy and landing business.  John give talks, Daniel gives talks.  Retro-driven company. 

19: We're building a SaaS app

Thunk is building a SaaS app. We talk about the plan, where the idea came from, and how it'll work. We also brainstorm ideas for the future. 

18: Setting fewer, better goals for 2024

We review our 2023 goals, and set better goals for 2024. 

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 q...

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 gass...

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 bureaucracy Daniel is writing a LOT of code Daniel is going to Laracon Australia We discuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgV6M1LyfNY

9: The Dawn of The Pricing Saga

According to ChatGPT we discussed: Mentoring and meetings Age discussion Product management Splitting time between two companies Home inspector conference in Atlantic ...

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: Overcommunicate Overcommunicate some more

6: How Thunk Will Die

This episode is late because of an interesting process breakdown. Verbs Vacation A 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 ready The sales funnel is working Max is having a hard one We've made progress on our goals This is not the episode about hiring a mentor

2: Vision, Mission, Values

We have glowing feedback for each other Daniel's blog feedback made the blog a lot better Getting creative with business development tactics We discuss the company's V...