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.

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• (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.

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• (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.

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• (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

Ian and Aaron talk about setting a release date (!) for Outro, huge updates to Solo, a new Cloudflare course, exciting news on the real estate front, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - It's Shill Season
• (04:02) - Ian's Gotta Ship Outro
• (15:00) - Superpowers Are So Good
• (20:15) - Cloudflare Durable Objects Course
• (31:32) - Cloud Pricing
• (36:41) - MCP Servers
• (47:23) - Solo Updates
• (01:00:18) - Aaron Francis Empire Update

• Modal
• Slingshot
• Superpowers
• UConn vs. Duke - Final two minutes
• Producer Dave
• Cloudflare Durable Objects
• Void

Ian and Aaron talk about choosing between Faster.dev & Solo (which one is more likely to pay off?), the pros and cons of using AI to build bespoke internal apps, youth sports, Project Hail Mary, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Kids Sports
• (05:19) - Building Internal Tools
• (17:23) - Empire of Scripts
• (24:41) - Everybody Wants CLI & MCP
• (29:46) - Solo Will Never Be Done
• (45:46) - Faster.dev vs. Solo
• (59:36) - Vibe Coding An App To $10k
• (01:06:11) - Project Hail Mary

• Aaron on the baseball field
• Project Hail Mary
• Jason Fried on Twitter
• Laravel AI SDK
• Laravel MCP
• Solo
• Will King
• Aaron's video on YouTube
• Eric Barnes' new venture

Ian and Aaron talk about more poker adventures, transcoding videos at scale, escaping the permanent underclass, worktrees vs. copy on write, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Ian Keeps Winning
• (10:00) - Transcoding Videos
• (25:33) - Superpowers
• (39:40) - A Parade In Boston
• (47:36) - Run Dangerously
• (55:20) - Ire of the Worktree Maxi's
• (01:02:56) - Escape the Permanent Underclass

• Daniel Coulbourne
• Chris Morrell
• Modal
• Mux
• HTTP Live Streaming
• Superpowers
• Jason Beggs
• Fast User Switching
• Worktrees

Ian and Aaron discuss their trip to Laracon EU, the all-new Solo, using the AI SDK for Outro, "poker propaganda", Gen-Z Abby's 2004 camera, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Europe Can't Contain Us
• (07:04) - Poker Propaganda
• (12:34) - Laracon EU Recap
• (17:42) - Good Feedback
• (23:07) - Big Solo Update
• (42:03) - What's Next for Solo
• (01:01:20) - The Worktrees Question
• (01:10:57) - The Finalized Skill
• (01:17:28) - Outro & Gopher
• (01:26:43) - New Deadlines Are Coming
• (01:31:25) - 2004 Camera

• Sinners
• JetBlue Mint
• Encore Boston Harbor
• Daniel Coulbourne
• Pete Heslop
• Solo
• Xterm
• Typora
• Faster
• Outro

Ian and Aaron discuss Ian shipping (!) the HelpSpot website and cooking on Outro, Aaron's complete overhaul of Solo, why it's nice to have a wife, and so much more.

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• (00:00) - Hell Week 3
• (12:01) - The Haters Were Right
• (22:09) - Ian Shipped!
• (27:09) - Does Aaron Know Who Snoop Is?
• (32:29) - Cooking On Outro
• (46:17) - Counselors Update
• (01:05:28) - The Learning Skill
• (01:16:47) - It's Nice To Have A Wife
• (01:19:23) - Gamification of Software

• OpenCode
• Xterm.js
• Will King
• Jason Beggs
• HelpSpot
• Outro
• Solo
• Counselors