Ian and Aaron discuss Solo finally being ready & why its MCP capabilities are so intriguing, LaraProm (?!) at Laracon US (!), Ian's conundrum corner, and more.

Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud.

Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.

• (00:00) - Vacation Is Awesome
• (11:40) - Thunk Boys Follow Up
• (14:12) - Ian's Conundrum Corner
• (22:43) - Prom?!
• (36:14) - Solo Is Ready
• (52:58) - Solo's MCP Server
• (01:16:02) - Token Town Debuts This Week

• Southwest Airlines Assigned Seating
• Episode 127
• LaraProm at Laracon US
• Solo
• Outro
• Cloudflare Mesh
• Token Town
• Ian's hiring!

Ian is joined by John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne of Thunk to talk about their new app Tidy, what constitutes a moat in the age of AI, why phone spam is the absolute worst, and so much more.

Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud.

Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.

• (00:00) - Bottomless Pits
• (03:05) - Tidyup.agency
• (15:30) - Zero Risk Agency
• (23:23) - The Schtick Is The Moat
• (37:52) - You Might Need To Pay Some Professionals
• (44:53) - Everyone's Playing Their Hands
• (52:39) - Business Dad Thoughts
• (01:22:03) - The Hard Pitch

• Thunk
• Daniel Coulbourne
• John Drexler
• Tidy
• Talking Businessly Ep 89 w/ Justin Jackson
• Laravel Road Show: New York City
• Silicon Valley clip 'Why would you go after revenue?'
• Laravel Partners
• Arango

Ian and Aaron talk about why neither of them shipped this past week, how to surface features in an application, tweets going viral....oh, and they're starting a new podcast. Welcome to Token Town.

Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, & Laravel Private Cloud.

Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more.

• (00:00) - Ian Didn't Ship
• (06:33) - Aaron Didn't Ship
• (11:48) - Solo & MCP
• (21:16) - Surfacing Features
• (32:45) - Is AI Hype Dying Down?
• (37:42) - Viral Tweets
• (50:29) - Filter Out vs. Filter In
• (01:01:07) - Claude vs. OpenClaw
• (01:15:29) - Durable Objects & Databases
• (01:27:04) - Welcome to Token Town

• Aaron's tweet about getting to 120fps
• Aaron's viral tweet about the astronaut
• Nate Silver vs. Nikita Bier on Twitter
• Ian's viral tweet about Claude & OpenClaw
• OpenAI acquires TBPN
• Aaron's course on durable objects
• Laravel Cloud MySQL
• Token Town