Trying to find a product-market fit
CTO Think Podcast28 Touko 2019

Trying to find a product-market fit

Don and Randy discuss the latest installment of the Chasms app saga. Don heads out to Denver for a sales conference loaded with potential customers of the Chasms text-to-chat system, but finds no takers. Further research finds a well-funded competitor, named after a dubious fruit. Is the Chasms project dead on arrival?

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When Everything's Going Wrong

When Everything's Going Wrong

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Moms Can: Code with Bekah Hawrot Weigel

Moms Can: Code with Bekah Hawrot Weigel

After giving birth to her fourth child, and suffering a serious medical issue in the process, Bekah Hawrot Weigel coped by finding a new path in life as a software developer. We talk about how she joi...

26 Kesä 201852min

Stakeholder Types and Working With Them

Stakeholder Types and Working With Them

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Callbacks! and Promises! and Awaits! Oh My!

Callbacks! and Promises! and Awaits! Oh My!

We discuss the asynchronous nature of JavaScript, the old-person method of callbacks, the evolution to Promises, and then the shiny new car of Async/Await. We whine about the learning curve of all thr...

19 Kesä 201828min

Episode 25 - Thinking About Dependencies

Episode 25 - Thinking About Dependencies

What are the considerations do you need to make regarding third-party services and software? We talk about relying on Github after the Microsoft purchase, using AWS or Firebase, and the world of JavaS...

12 Kesä 20181h 2min

This Old App 12: Relational vs Document DBs

This Old App 12: Relational vs Document DBs

We yell at document datastores to get off our lawns! We talk about the joys of SQL and 50-year-old relational databases we grew up with, trying to make sense of why MongoDB, Firestore, and Dynamo are ...

12 Kesä 201851min

Thinking About Dependencies

Thinking About Dependencies

What are the considerations do you need to make regarding third-party services and software? We talk about relying on Github after the Microsoft purchase, using AWS or Firebase, and the world of JavaS...

12 Kesä 20181h 2min

Relational vs Document DBs

Relational vs Document DBs

We yell at document datastores to get off our lawns! We talk about the joys of SQL and 50-year-old relational databases we grew up with, trying to make sense of why MongoDB, Firestore, and Dynamo are ...

12 Kesä 201851min