Ian and Aaron discuss Ian's misadventures with poker, a huge update for Solo (Windows!), why Aaron thinks languages don't matter but frameworks & ecosystems do, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Mostly Poker
• (10:55) - Poker Town?
• (13:34) - Outro Update
• (20:46) - Solo for Windows (!)
• (30:50) - Pricing Advice
• (33:52) - Laravel Live UK
• (42:58) - Languages Don't Matter
• (56:09) - LaraProm Update
• (01:04:46) - World Cup

• World Series of Poker
• Resorts World Las Vegas
• Outro
• Solo

Aaron is joined by John & Daniel of Thunk to talk about why you should think like a PM, what they want to see from Solo, trash cans in New York, "footy", and a whole lot more.

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• (00:00) - Introduction to the Thunk Boys
• (04:13) - Working on Laravel Forge
• (09:22) - What does Daniel do?
• (14:30) - Big week for New York
• (22:34) - World Cup Social Media
• (29:13) - Laravel Live
• (36:33) - AI Code Responsibilities
• (41:52) - Think Like A PM
• (51:08) - Do Old Best Practices Still Apply?
• (58:12) - Daniel's Solo Gripes & Asks
• (01:20:34) - Tidy
• (01:24:02) - Where Is Ian?

• Thunk
• Talking Businessly
• Tighten
• Laravel Forge
• Laravel Live UK
• Laravel Live Japan
• Laravel Live Denmark
• Solo
• Tidy

Ian and Aaron discuss why HelpSpot raised prices, what Aaron's building for teams with Solo, the short-lived reign of Fable 5, pros & cons of DJ's, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - The Great DJ Debate
• (07:58) - Aaron's Going To Laravel Live UK
• (14:22) - Ian Raised Prices
• (27:26) - Teams & New Solo Pricing
• (42:45) - New Frontiers
• (56:51) - RIP Fable 5
• (01:09:43) - Outro's Sponsorship System

• "Forever Young"
• Laravel Live UK
• HelpSpot Pricing
• RIP Fable 5

Ian and Aaron discuss hiring new employees, Ian claiming he's over AI coding, huge updates to Outro, going big or going home on Token Town, and more.

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• (00:00) - Down to the River
• (05:33) - Ian's Over AI Coding?!
• (13:45) - Aaron's Employee's First Week
• (21:42) - Marketing & Content
• (27:27) - Ian's Been Busy With Outro
• (37:41) - Slash Brag Update
• (41:06) - Ian Finally Hired Somebody!
• (47:00) - Token Town Update
• (55:28) - Horse Business
• (01:04:14) - Aaron Went Fishing
• (01:13:16) - Kids Sports

• Texas Hill Country
• Token Town w/ Josh Pigford
• Kristen Foxen
• SEP IRA
• Corey Haines Marketing Skills on GitHub
• BlockNote
• Ian's tweet about AI & coding faster
• Joe Masilotti's post about deleting WebSockets

Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new employee, the latest on Outro, a surprise trip to Portland, and more.

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• (00:00) - Where Was Ian?
• (02:26) - Outro Update
• (12:32) - Kelsey Is Gone
• (22:11) - Is Cloudflare Up?
• (24:53) - Aaron's New Employee
• (40:10) - LaraProm Update
• (42:14) - A Little Technical
• (54:35) - Aaron Went To Portland
• (01:06:35) - Slash Brag

• Brett Adcock
• Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud
• Outro.fm
• TinySeed
• Jason Lengstorf
• Web Dev Challenge
• Kelsey Hightower

Aaron is joined this week by Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, to talk about building a seven figure business, why he feels less stress now than he did when he started, migrating from Heroku to Planetscale, and more.

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• (00:00) - 5 TB of Data
• (11:12) - Laravel Live Japan
• (15:46) - Seven Figure Business
• (24:32) - Advice for Indie Hackers
• (28:57) - Pick Better Problems
• (32:50) - Friends of Bento
• (42:33) - Heroku to Planetscale
• (01:15:02) - What's Next

• Jesse Hanley
• Speedshop
• Jesse's Database School episode
• Tatami
• Dragonfly
• RedisShake
• Laravel Live Japan
• Daniel Coulbourne

Ian and Aaron discuss finally recording Token Town, Ian finally shipping Outro, the benefits of working in public, what's coming next to Solo, and more.

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• (00:00) - We Finally Recorded Token Town
• (07:43) - Outro Is Live!
• (21:43) - Working In Public Is Required
• (27:54) - What's Next For Outro
• (30:22) - What's New With Solo
• (43:59) - Free vs. Paid
• (55:20) - First Actual Resume
• (01:04:41) - Starting A Movement
• (01:12:36) - Everybody Loves Discord

• Token Town
• Outro
• Syntax
• Solo
• Faster
• Aaron's page for Tuple
• Derek Sivers's "Now" page