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  1. 156: Batten Down The Hatches

    3 november 2026 · 1 uur 24 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss a short-lived Laravel New, Aaron's first onsite with the marketing team, a successful trip to Philly, the seemingly inevitable security apocalypse, and more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Ian's Laravel New didn't last

    (24:13) - Laravel Offsite

    (35:06) - Everybody's Orbin'

    (42:13) - Got The Cash

    (50:07) - Follow Up - Are People Actually Replacing SaaS?

    (58:18) - Are Companies Rational Economic Actors?

    (01:06:26) - Operation Batten Down The Hatches

    (01:18:07) - Outro! Dot FM!

    Links:

    Obsidian

    Claude Duet

    Firecrawl

    Terry Black’s Barbecue

    Joe T. Garcia’s

    Mafia (party game)

    Catan

    Ghostty

    Amp Orbs

    Solo

    PHP×Philly

    Mary Perry

    Eff

    1-900-Ice-Cream

    Less Annoying CRM

    Startup to Last

    North Korea linked to $6.3B Binance hack

    Outro

  2. 155: The PHPocalypse

    27 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 44 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about Aaron's talk at Resend Forward, Ian's trip to the World Series, the PHPocalypse, Ian's dream job, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Hello Brewers Man

    (09:56) - Aaron's Trip to SF

    (28:18) - Ian's Dream Job

    (40:21) - Inside Baseball

    (43:16) - The PHPocolypse

    (01:00:17) - Indie Hacker Brainworm

    (01:03:21) - Found Money

    (01:14:22) - An Update on Aaron's Book

    (01:34:39) - Marketing Offsite

    Links:

    Brewers go up 2-0 in the World Series

    Sal Frelick

    Laravel Founders Panel at Accel

    Resend Forward

    Aaron’s talk at Resend Forward

    Laravel Cloud

    Accel

    The Atlantic: “If Anything Happens to This Guy … Everyone Is Screwed”

    stealmybitcoin.com

    Brotli CVE-2026-111497

    Ruby’s level 10 CVE

    Aaron’s bound book

    Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin

  3. 154: Ian Laravel New'd Again!

    20 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 34 min

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    Ian and Aaron talk about Laravel New'ing....again....and what that means for Outro, plus huge updates coming to Solo, Aaron's generative universe, and more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Ian's Still Sick

    (03:59) - Laravel New?

    (19:49) - Pricing for Outro 2.0

    (30:38) - More on Outro 2.0

    (37:38) - Solo on Linux

    (42:54) - Headless Solo

    (50:15) - GUI Chats?

    (58:57) - Aaron's Generative Universe

    (01:23:20) - OpenCode Was Hacked

    Links:

    Ian’s tweet about laravel new

    Token Town

    Outro

    Solo

    OpenCode getting hacked

    Daybreak Blue

    YubiKey

  4. 153: 13 Billion Tokens

    13 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 18 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss Ian's trip to NYC to see the Amp crew, Aaron's weekend getaway, fighting online with Jesse Bentley, and craziest of all - should Ian 'Laravel New' Outro? Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Rocks In The Stream

    (16:15) - Orbin In Person

    (24:54) - Aaron's First Internet Business

    (40:42) - Giant Buttons

    (43:49) - Jesse & Ian Are Fighting

    (52:54) - Operation Double

    (01:05:23) - 'Laravel New' Outro?

    (01:11:18) - Resets

    Links:

    Broken Bow, Oklahoma

    Amp & Orbs

    Ian’s Orbin shirt

    Daybreak

    Thesis: 2027 (Every)

    acct229.com

    acct2031.com

    Laravel Cloud CLI

    Jesse’s tweet on pricing

    Jason Cohen’s video on raising prices

    Antoine’s tweet on Fernand cancellations

    HelpSpot

  5. 152: Feel The AGI

    6 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 17 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss OpenAI's Dots, Aaron's trip to Denver, working with tests in the AI era, big things coming to Laravel, and a whole lot more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - America, Coke Zero

    (07:14) - Aaron Went To Denver

    (09:58) - Big Things Coming To Laravel

    (18:46) - The Milwaukee Brewers

    (26:41) - A Reverse Epiphany

    (37:15) - Mini Motorways

    (46:45) - Dot & AI Agents

    (01:03:14) - Can AI Companies Make Money?

    (01:09:49) - Tests

    Links:

    America Coke Zero video

    Laravel New video

    All-In Podcast

    Rogue Amoeba

    Laravel News

    Name.com

    Milwaukee Brewers

    Mini Motorways

    Dot by OpenAI

    Pest Browser Testing

  6. 151: Tokenmogged

    29 september 2026 · 1 uur 1 min

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    Ian and Aaron discuss Opus 5.5, Aaron's HomeOS, Ian's token usage, what's new with Aaron's office, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Ian Loves Developers!

    (05:16) - I Have Become Aaron, Destroyer of Worlds

    (12:11) - Update on Aaron's Office

    (22:18) - Orbin & Mogging

    (26:36) - Update on Jev

    (31:19) - HomeOS

    (48:23) - Opus 5.5

    (55:48) - The Best Time Ever To Raise Prices

    Links:

    Jesse Hanley

    Claude Design

    Opus 5.5

    RMFG

    Shapeoko

    Ian's tweet on his token usage

    Jev

    Aaron's tweet about Home OS

    Tiller

    Plaid

    Yodlee

    Cloudflare Durable Objects

    Jason Lemkin

  7. 150: Everybody Loves Jev

    22 september 2026 · 1 uur 17 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss the arrival of Jev, whether or not people should take microeconomics classes, Aaron's new office, raising prices, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Solo Parenting

    (09:00) - Ian's Very Mad About People on Twitter

    (17:12) - People Should Take Microeconomics (?)

    (31:04) - Aaron Is Leasing An Office!

    (45:22) - Jev!

    (01:04:56) - Should you charge more or less?

    Links:

    Torchy's Tacos

    Papa John's

    Jon Yongfook's tweet on SaaS moats (retweeted by Aaron)

    Mintlify

    Cursor's migration off Sanity (Lee Robinson)

    Bannerbear

    X-Carve

    Shapeoko

    Jev

    Codex

    Jesse Hanley's tweet on raising prices

  8. 149: I Am The Harness

    16 september 2026 · 1 uur 16 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about their trip to Vegas, what's cooking with Outro & Solo, Ian's travel woes, something called a Zoox, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - A Weak Vocal Constitution

    (13:55) - CabanaConf Takeaways

    (21:36) - Build Bento on Bento?

    (28:18) - Burning Tokens for Solo

    (35:46) - Fixes for Outro

    (39:59) - Training a Model

    (48:30) - What if Solo had a universal agent?

    (01:00:46) - Ian's Travel Woes

    (01:07:38) - Aaron Took a Zoox

    Links:

    Tailscale

    Outro

    Solo

    19th

    Laravel AI SDK

    Rivian self-driving

    Aaron's data structures and algorithms prompt

    Ian's tweet on moving from medium to high on Astra

    Zoox

  9. 148: AI Psychosis Day

    8 september 2026 · 1 uur 14 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss the release of GPT-6 "Astra", building Solo for Linux, Ian's camera setup, why Outro isn't out yet, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Happy Labor Day

    (03:02) - Rippin Astra Tokens

    (17:04) - Solo On Linux?

    (26:09) - 4000 Photos of Horses

    (41:04) - What's New With Outro?

    (49:27) - Aaron's Training a Model

    (01:00:32) - No More Astra Left

    (01:09:06) - Vegas, Baby. Vegas.

    Links:

    GPT-6 Astra

    Blender

    ElevenLabs

    Aaron's tweet on the fantasy world he's building

    Aaron's tweet on writing in-depth plans/specs

    Omarchy

    Aaron's tweet on Tailscale

    Ian's tweet with horse photos

    Amp Orbs

    Lightroom

    Eric Barnes' football photos

    Ian's tweet on the Sony 50-150mm f/2

    Viltrox AF 85mm f/2 EVO (Sony E)

    Sony FE 40mm f/2.5 G

    Jason Cohen (A Smart Bear)

    Solo

  10. 147: It's Orbin' Time

    1 september 2026 · 1 uur 27 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss the release of Solo v0.10, Aaron's trip to Boise, Ian's trip to the fair, why Ian's all in on Orbs, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Producer Steve Got Married!

    (07:53) - Aaron's Unifying Theory on Wedding Toasts

    (17:02) - Ian Went To The Fair

    (27:30) - Notion? (and Linear)

    (35:28) - Moats

    (40:40) - Solo's Huge New Release

    (55:41) - It's Orbin' Time

    (01:10:30) - Aaron's Credit Card Strategy

    (01:24:28) - Book Update

    Links:

    Aaron's wedding photo (Steve Tenuto's wedding)

    Steve Tenuto on X

    Ian's tweet on moats

    Solo

    Aaron's Solo release thread

    Amp Orbs

    Matt Stenson on X

    Amex Gold Card

    Amex Platinum Card

    AwardWallet

    Great Illustrated Classics

  11. 146: Do Things & Tell People

    25 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 33 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's trip to Copenhagen for Laravel Live DK, meeting DHH, having "the hell trip home", using AI to beat Air Canada's bureaucracy, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Back In the Land of the Free

    (01:52) - Happy Anniversary!

    (04:22) - Aaron's First Intl Biz Class Flight

    (12:04) - Laravel Live DK

    (22:05) - Aaron's Talk & Meeting DHH

    (32:58) - DHH & Taylor's Fireside Chat

    (42:27) - The Spoon Is An Airplane

    (56:22) - The Hell Trip Home

    (01:17:41) - Scheming With Codex

    (01:27:34) - A Quick Controversy

    Links:

    Abigail Otwell's airport photo (Aaron in line behind Taylor & Abigail)

    Laravel Live DK

    DHH on Twitter/X

    Omacom Foundation launches with $8 million (Omarchy blog)

    Geocodio

    Tom Crary on Twitter/X

    Taylor's video of Aaron trying caviar

    Flighty (iOS app)

    Ian's tweet of the chairs Aaron slept on

  12. Sweet Hang #5: My Psychosis Moment w/ Jesse Hanley

    19 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 50 min

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    Ian is joined by Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, to discuss everything from Grok Bot to finding your ideal customer to the future of knowledge work and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Settle All Family Business

    (02:04) - Grok's Bot

    (12:43) - AI & Knowledge Work

    (35:17) - How much can one person automate?

    (46:42) - Will normies use bots?

    (59:29) - Jesse's videos

    (01:12:17) - Growing Revenue

    (01:20:11) - Finding your ideal customer

    (01:33:56) - Cameras

    (01:41:51) - Life in Japan

    Links:

    Jesse Hanley / @jessethanley — founder-in-the-park videos live here

    Grok "bot" agent app (xAI)

    OpenClaw

    Hermes Agent (Nous Research)

    Less Annoying CRM

    Ben Orenstein

    Laravel Live Japan

    Tatami

    Max MRR article

    Hidden Multipliers (book/audiobook)

    Find Your Carol workshop

    A Smart Bear blog

    Jason Cohen

    Sony FX30

    Sony a6000 (body)

    Tamron 17-70mm f/2.8 (Sony E)

    Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 GM II

    Sony 300mm f/2.8 GM OSS (Ian's)

    Kase Filters

    Patrick McKenzie

  13. 145: Marketing As Engineering

    18 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 11 min

    Afspelen
    Ian & Aaron discuss what's coming to Solo, how Aaron's running marketing at Laravel, why Ian swears by a cabana, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Cabana Life

    (12:44) - Using Linear for Marketing

    (22:57) - Who's agent should you use?

    (33:02) - Marketing = Engineering?

    (45:37) - Aaron's hit tweet

    (56:42) - Solo Updates

    (01:04:27) - Laravel Live Denmark

    Links:

    Sandpearl Resort, Clearwater Beach

    Martha's Vineyard

    Surf Style

    Jason Cohen has the DropInBlog founder on the show

    Jason Cohen's new book, Hidden Multipliers

    Laracon US photos

    Sam Sappenfield's tweet

    "We built laracon.us/photos. We're not developers."

    Aaron's codebase-audit tweet

    Soloterm

    Laravel Live Denmark

    Aaron's DSA audit prompt gist

  14. 144: First Week as VP

    11 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 23 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's first week as VP of Marketing & Community at Laravel, why he's writing manifestos in Notion, Ian's huge week with AI coding, and an update on Nachogate. Lees meer

    Plus Ian's live from a cabana, ending Token Town (RIP to a real one), and so much more.

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    (00:00) - Live from a cabana

    (03:26) - The End of Token Town

    (10:39) - Aaron's First Week

    (28:03) - A few manifestos

    (44:24) - 1:1's

    (53:40) - Ian's Mega AI Coding Week

    (01:10:21) - Nachogate Update

    (01:12:43) - Aaron's Studio Update

    (01:18:25) - The next Illustrated Classics

    Links:

    Aaron's Notion setup

    Taylor's tweet about Trello

    Rands In Repose: The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster

    John O'Nolan's tweet indicating some discrepancies with the nacho story

    Great Illustrated Classics

  15. 143: Rice On Your Nachos

    5 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 7 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron are back for a second episode this week to talk about more LaraProm & Laracon follow up, why Ian will never ship Outro (kidding), and.....adding rice to your nachos? Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Aaron's First Real Day

    (04:38) - LaraProm -> Laracon

    (23:05) - Never Ship

    (37:33) - Nachos With Rice

    (47:06) - First Class Is Better

    (53:29) - Aaron's Sewing Machine

    (01:02:47) - Shower Wine Follow Up

    Links:

    Laracon US Day 1 Stream

    Laracon US Day 2 Stream

    Hannah Gzehoviak on Twitter

    House of Blanks

  16. 142: Aaron's a VP at Laravel?!

    4 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 23 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron are back after Laracon US to talk about....Aaron's new job as VP of Marketing & Community at Laravel?! Lees meer

    Plus a recap of LaraProm, something called "shower wine", and more.

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    (00:00) - We're back, baby

    (01:26) - VP of Marketing & Community

    (14:15) - What prepared Aaron for this position?

    (27:31) - Grand Unifying Theory of Laravel Marketing

    (50:21) - What's next for Try Hard?

    (55:28) - Shower wine (?)

    (01:04:06) - The future of MT

    (01:16:11) - LaraProm

    Links:

    Laracon US

    Laravel Live UK

    Aaron's tweet announcing his new job

    Chris Fidao on Twitter

    Solo

    Ian's LaraProm Photos

  17. 141: The Era of Sol

    21 juli 2026 · 1 uur 17 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss letting Sol Ultra rip for over 2 days straight, Aaron's new side project, problems with macOS, trying to price AI usage in apps, and more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Tim Cook's Office

    (06:00) - Introducing cfmpeg

    (12:27) - Ian & ElevenLabs

    (15:04) - Subscriptions In Outro

    (18:45) - World Cup

    (24:06) - Sol Ultra

    (28:07) - An Update on HelpSpot AI Pricing

    (52:04) - Aaron’s Custom Model

    (01:07:40) - Next Week: Laracon US!

    (01:10:23) - Great Illustrated Classics

    Links:

    cfmpeg

    ElevenLabs

    GPT-5.6 Sol

    Ian on Notes on Work

    HelpSpot AI

    Token Town Episode 008

    BigSkyDevConf

    Laracon US

    Great Illustrated Classics

  18. 140: Eating The Burst

    14 juli 2026 · 1 uur 10 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about pricing AI usage in apps, what's coming next for HelpSpot, a Jay-Z concert in NYC, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Aaron got a ticket

    (06:45) - Jay-Z Concert

    (11:47) - World Cup Update

    (22:36) - Blogging & SEO

    (29:19) - Pricing AI Usage In Apps

    (43:43) - HelpSpot & AI

    (59:54) - GPT Sol & Fable

    Links:

    Jay-Z at Yankee Stadium

    Clock Radio Speakers Patreon

    19th.com

    GPT Sol 5.6

    Token Town Episode 007

  19. 139: High On Fable

    7 juli 2026 · 1 uur 3 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about saving a kid's life (!), Solo's big update, and an emerging controversy - do you still need to read the code? Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Aaron Saved A Life

    (05:18) - No Good Comes From A Bounce House

    (11:40) - 4th of July Parades

    (15:20) - Workspaces In Solo

    (24:33) - Should You Still Read The Code?

    (40:05) - Aaron's Breakout Tweet

    (51:05) - Outro Update

    Links:

    Big Tex is Destroyed By Fire

    Solo

    Aaron's tweet about Louis CK

    Nate Bargatze

    Jim Gaffigan

    Filament

  20. 138: Back In The Game

    1 juli 2026 · 1 uur 14 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Sponsored by Laracon AU, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and DropInBlog.

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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

    Links:

    World Series of Poker

    Resorts World Las Vegas

    Outro

    Solo

  21. 137: You Do Have To Care w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne

    23 juni 2026 · 1 uur 28 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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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?

    Links:

    Thunk

    Talking Businessly

    Tighten

    Laravel Forge

    Laravel Live UK

    Laravel Live Japan

    Laravel Live Denmark

    Solo

    Tidy

  22. 136: Big, Audacious Goals

    16 juni 2026 · 1 uur 16 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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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

    Links:

    "Forever Young"

    Laravel Live UK

    HelpSpot Pricing

    RIP Fable 5

  23. 135: Ian's Over AI Coding?!

    9 juni 2026 · 1 uur 16 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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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

    Links:

    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

  24. 134: The Edge of Safety

    2 juni 2026 · 1 uur 10 min

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

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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

    Links:

    Brett Adcock

    Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud

    Outro.fm

    TinySeed

    Jason Lengstorf

    Web Dev Challenge

    Kelsey Hightower

  25. 133: Do The Hardest Thing with Jesse Hanley

    26 mei 2026 · 1 uur 21 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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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

    Links:

    Jesse Hanley

    Speedshop

    Jesse's Database School episode

    Tatami

    Dragonfly

    RedisShake

    Laravel Live Japan

    Daniel Coulbourne

  26. 132: Ian Shipped Outro!

    19 mei 2026 · 1 uur 19 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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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

    Links:

    Token Town

    Outro

    Syntax

    Solo

    Faster

    Aaron's page for Tuple

    Derek Sivers's "Now" page

  27. Token Town 001: What is Anthropic Doing?!

    15 mei 2026 · 39 min

    Afspelen
    In the first-ever episode of Token Town Aaron & Ian break down pricing changes for Claude -p and the Agent SDK, a temporary 50% increase to Claude's limits, leaps in hacking ability, and more. Lees meer

    Sponsored by Bento.

    Links:

    Claude pricing changes

    'Anthropic beats OpenAI on business adoption'

    Claude Code weekly limits are 50% higher

    Solo

    Amp

    Superpowers

    Mythos & cybersecurity

  28. 131: Crush My Competitors

    12 mei 2026 · 1 uur 7 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about what's cooking with Solo, why Aaron's hiring his first full-time employee, Ian's frustrations with moving the team to Codex, and a feel good AI story. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Follow Up

    (04:20) - Solo Update

    (11:52) - Business Dad Pushback

    (19:15) - Raising Money

    (24:39) - Aaron's First Full-Time Employee

    (31:30) - Ian's Hiring Troubles

    (39:26) - A Laravel New 👀

    (43:27) - Moving to Codex

    (48:57) - Where's Outro?

    (59:34) - A Feel Good AI Story

    Links:

    Solo

    TinySeed

    HelpSpot

    Codex

    Outro

    Token Town

    Mia's Horse Name Generator

  29. 130: Two Grandmas Roll Up

    5 mei 2026 · 1 uur 2 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss the most harrowing experience of Aaron's life (complete with the funniest ad transition in Mostly Technical history), talk about Ian's trip to the Laravel Roadshow in NYC, and dive into what's cooking with Solo. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - The Birthday Party Incident

    (10:45) - He Starts Doing The Slip & Slide

    (21:01) - The Stuff of Legends

    (26:57) - More Kids = More Productive?

    (32:58) - Solo Is A Meta Harness

    (48:13) - It's Video Week!

    (55:06) - Laravel Roadshow

    Links:

    Native PHP: The Vibes

    Solo

    Soak Testing

    Faster

    Vehikl

    Laravel Roadshow: Dallas

  30. 129: The Bounds of My Pettiness

    28 april 2026 · 57 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss how Aaron wants to destroy (?) Solo's competitors (!), using AI to find security holes in your app, delaying Token Town until May, and more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - The AI Apocalypse

    (11:18) - Delayed (Again)

    (15:04) - Let's Talk About Solo

    (29:24) - Number Go Up

    (42:13) - Sell More Solo

    (48:17) - Wrap It Up

    Links:

    Nicholas Carlini - Black Hat LLMs

    Codex Security

    Token Town

    Laravel Roadshow: New York City

    Warp

    Conductor

    Solo's Discord

    Death of a Salesman on Broadway

  31. 128: LaraProm

    21 april 2026 · 1 uur 24 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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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

    Links:

    Southwest Airlines Assigned Seating

    Episode 127

    LaraProm at Laracon US

    Solo

    Outro

    Cloudflare Mesh

    Token Town

    Ian's hiring!

  32. 127: Charge It To The Game w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne

    14 april 2026 · 1 uur 25 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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

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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

    Links:

    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

  33. 126: Scope Explosion

    7 april 2026 · 1 uur 36 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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

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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

    Links:

    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

  34. 125: No Turning Back

    31 maart 2026 · 1 uur 13 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, and Ray by Spatie.

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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

    Links:

    Modal

    Slingshot

    Superpowers

    UConn vs. Duke - Final two minutes

    Producer Dave

    Cloudflare Durable Objects

    Void

  35. 124: Old Man Yells At Cloud

    24 maart 2026 · 1 uur 15 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, and Ray by Spatie.

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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

    Links:

    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

  36. 123: Isolate The Claude

    18 maart 2026 · 1 uur 11 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, Laravel Live DK, IttyBit, and Ray by Spatie.

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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

    Links:

    Daniel Coulbourne

    Chris Morrell

    Modal

    Mux

    HTTP Live Streaming

    Superpowers

    Jason Beggs

    Fast User Switching

    Worktrees

  37. 122: I Just YOLO'd It

    10 maart 2026 · 1 uur 38 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, and Ray by Spatie.

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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

    Links:

    Sinners

    JetBlue Mint

    Encore Boston Harbor

    Daniel Coulbourne

    Pete Heslop

    Solo

    Xterm

    Typora

    Faster

    Outro

  38. 121: Let Ian Cook

    24 februari 2026 · 1 uur 22 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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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

    Links:

    OpenCode

    Xterm.js

    Will King

    Jason Beggs

    HelpSpot

    Outro

    Solo

    Counselors

  39. 120: The Counselors

    17 februari 2026 · 1 uur 15 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new AI tool Counselors, something called "Hell Week", what's new with Solo and Outro, and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Achieving The Impossible

    (11:26) - Making Things Easy For Humans

    (19:53) - Ian's Hyperkey Setup

    (28:59) - Aaron's Hell Week

    (44:42) - The Future

    (51:38) - Outro Is Cooking

    (58:36) - Valentine's Day & Other Updates

    (01:09:26) - OpenClaw

    Links:

    Counselors

    Hyperkey

    Raycast

    Space Cadet Keyboard

    Solo

    Faster.dev

    Outro.fm

    Aaron's cardboard box saw

  40. 119: Anti Slop Vibe

    10 februari 2026 · 1 uur 26 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about the launch of Solo, Aaron's new terminal app for the desktop (!) plus Ian's return to Twitter and so much more. Lees meer

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    (00:00) - Back On Twitter

    (08:20) - Mute The Super Spreaders

    (23:51) - HVAC Guys

    (28:40) - AI.com Ad

    (32:23) - The Launch of Solo

    (45:39) - Questions About Solo

    (56:53) - An Ode To Laravel's Queues

    (01:00:18) - Even More About Solo

    (01:06:35) - Behind The Scenes

    Links:

    Ian on Twitter

    Ian on Bluesky

    Peter Steinberger on Twitter

    AI.com's Super Bowl Ad

    Onions.com

    Solo

    Mary Perry on Twitter

    Tauri

    NativePHP

    Behind the scenes of Aaron's video

    Memento Mori

  41. 118: We’re Going To Europe

    3 februari 2026 · 1 uur 12 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about the Mostly Technical Pre-Party at Laracon EU (!), Aaron's new desktop app (!!), sleeping on planes, and so much more. Lees meer

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    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, Ray by Spatie, and Redberry.

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    (00:00) - Burn The Candle at Three Ends

    (06:12) - We Got Some Feedback

    (12:31) - Laracon India & AI SDK

    (17:49) - Tell The Machine To Do It

    (25:10) - Boost & Skills

    (29:55) - The Big Announcement

    (38:25) - Business Class Stage of the Castle

    (43:25) - Sleeping On Planes

    (49:33) - Unofficial Claude Code Meetup

    (01:00:09) - Aaron's Desktop App

    Links:

    Afrin

    NyQuil

    Neti Pot

    Casey Neistat's video on NYC trash

    Laracon India

    Laravel Live Japan

    Zoolander - Magnum

    Laracon EU

    Unofficial Claude Code Meetup

    Visakan Veerasamy

    Sara Dietschy

    Aaron's Desktop App

    Tauri

  42. 117: The AI Is Out There

    29 januari 2026 · 1 uur

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about being stuck at home due to the weather, major updates to Outro.fm and Faster.dev, an important update to the Laravel New experience, and more. Lees meer

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

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    (00:00) - No True Texas?

    (05:42) - Plow Problems

    (13:57) - Outro & HelpSpot Update

    (23:44) - Promotions

    (26:38) - Laravel AI SDK

    (31:27) - Faster.dev Update

    (44:49) - Ian's Got Problems With Amp

    (58:30) - Laravel New Gradient

    Links:

    Yarbo Snowblower

    Outro

    Laracon India

    Laracon EU

    Laravel AI SDK tweet

    Matt Stenson

    Faster.dev

    Laravel Boost v2

    Claude Skills

    Amp

    Amp's Oracle

  43. 116: Inside The Token Factory

    20 januari 2026 · 1 uur 6 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron recap their trip to San Francisco to see the first demo of the Laravel AI SDK before going in-depth on the Faster.dev announcement! Lees meer

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

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    (00:00) - Aaron Watched A Movie!

    (02:28) - Last Week In San Francisco

    (17:20) - Laravel AI SDK Announcement

    (26:23) - Who Listens To Podcasts?

    (31:17) - Announcing Faster.dev

    (49:49) - Logo Design

    (57:08) - Aaron's Stripe Video

    Links:

    The Accountant 2

    Ben Affleck & Matt Damon on the limits of AI

    Browserbase

    Amp

    Tartine

    Aaron & Leah YouTube Short

    Faster.dev launch video

  44. Sweet Hang #4: Laravel AI SDK w/ Taylor Otwell

    16 januari 2026 · 52 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron are joined by Taylor Otwell for their first ever in-person episode of Mostly Technical to talk about everything from the Laravel AI SDK to Private Cloud to vibe coding MUD's and so much more. Lees meer

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Mastering Laravel, and Laravel Private Cloud.

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    (00:00) - Imaginary Tech Stuff Is Real

    (04:01) - Taylor's Journey With AI

    (12:18) - Laravel AI SDK

    (24:48) - Coding In The AI Era

    (32:51) - Laravel Private Cloud

    (37:06) - Cloud CLI

    (38:48) - First Year of Cloud

    (43:05) - Sprites.dev

    (46:30) - What's Next

    (50:02) - Post Credit Scene

    Links:

    Multi-user Dungeon

    Laravel Simplifier

    Elevenlabs

    Prism

    Welcome to Gas Town

    Sprites.dev

  45. 115: Do You Wanna Win?

    13 januari 2026 · 57 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about opinionated frameworks in the era of AI, Aaron's new pivot (!), Ian being right, and so much more. Lees meer

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments & Bento.

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    (00:00) - Ricotta? Regatta?

    (02:46) - Ian Was Right

    (10:09) - Laravel vs. Rails

    (21:32) - AI Education!

    (48:15) - Do You Wanna Win?

    Links:

    Laravel's AI Docs

    Taylor's tweet thread about Laravel's opinions being good for AI

    A Software Library With No Code

    Ralph Wiggum, explained

    DHH - Promoting AI agents

    Tanstack

    NativePHP

    Producer Dave's blog post about Billboard

  46. 114: Fight Fire With Fire

    7 januari 2026 · 1 uur 5 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron are dealing with the liminal space of the holiday season, talking about their upcoming trip to San Francisco to see the Laravel AI SDK demo, and making even more predictions for 2026. Lees meer

    Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments & Bento.

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    Links:

    Texas de Brazil

    Delucca Pizza

    Demolition Man

    Ricotta Cheese

    'Notes from the sick ward'

    SF Meetup: First Look at Laravel AI SDK

    jetBlue Mint

  47. 113: 2026 Predictions

    30 december 2025 · 1 uur 23 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron are answering your questions about what's coming in 2026, covering everything from AI shrinking dev teams to Elon becoming a trillionaire and so much more. Lees meer

    Sponsored by Bento, Flare, Ittybit, tldraw, OG Kit, Tighten, and Nusii

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    (00:00) - No Rest For The Weary

    (03:39) - Manager of Agents

    (14:44) - Predictions!

    (30:57) - Ian's Personal Productivity System

    (40:17) - More Predictions!

    (58:02) - Vibe Code vs. Buying

    (01:03:17) - Even More Predictions!

    (01:17:15) - Christmas Presents

    Links:

    Aaron Levie's Tweet

    Parkinson's Law

    Groq's deal with Nvidia

    Claude's 2x Holiday Promotion

    Obsidian

    Philip K Dick

    Cursor migrated from Sanity

    Air Span 2

    Stan Smith's

  48. 112: Token Machine

    23 december 2025 · 57 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron talk about Santa (obviously), do you still need an MBA (maybe not so obvious), why Ian isn't burning as many tokens as possible to get Outro out the door, what people are building with the Telegram API, and more. Lees meer

    Sponsored by Bento, Flare, Ittybit, tldraw, OG Kit, Tighten, and Nusii

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    (00:00) - Magically Better

    (08:59) - Pre-Holiday Adventures

    (17:17) - Burning The Midnight Tokens

    (25:35) - Outlasted By AI Agents

    (38:06) - Thinking Businessy

    (44:34) - Advent of SQL Update

    (50:39) - Telegram Bots

    Links:

    F150 Lightning

    Rivian Digital Key

    VW Atlas

    1995 4 Runner

    Los Tacos No. 1

    Bass Pro Shop's Santa's Wonderland

    Codex 5.2

    PHPStan

    Advent of SQL

    Jeffrey Way's post on building a Telegram Bot

    Nutgram

  49. 111: Hearts & Minds

    16 december 2025 · 1 uur 6 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss how Aaron's orchestrating fly.io boxes for Database School, why sometimes you need to use AI to help AI, and why Costco is truly a great place. Plus an all-time Ian resume rant and so much more. Lees meer

    Sponsored by Bento, Flare, Ittybit, tldraw, OG Kit, Tighten, and Nusii

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    (00:00) - Classic Little Kid Disease

    (04:14) - Weekend Update

    (18:29) - Ian's Resume Rant

    (33:57) - Advent of SQL

    (46:50) - Using AI to Help AI

    Links:

    Google Classroom

    NorthPark Center

    Danbury Railway Museum

    Melissa & Doug

    Thomas & Friends

    Advent of SQL on Database School

    CodeRabbit

    Stratechery

  50. 110: The Big Boy Plan

    9 december 2025 · 1 uur 19 min

    Afspelen
    Ian and Aaron discuss all things AI this week - from Claude Max to pairing Gemini with Claude to why people want to code but they don't want to sell and so much more. Plus Aaron's secret soccer past and why the game (of getting a job) isn't fair. Lees meer

    Sponsored by Bento, Flare, Ittybit, tldraw, OG Kit, Tighten, and Nusii

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    (00:00) - OD on AI

    (09:40) - Product vs Distribution

    (15:29) - Alcove

    (21:21) - What's Ian Building With AI?

    (27:18) - Using Claude With Gemini?

    (37:38) - Google or ChatGPT?

    (46:51) - Old Puritan Aaron

    (58:21) - The Game Is Unfair

    (01:03:20) - What's New With Database School?

    (01:07:13) - Sportsball!

    Links:

    Claude Max

    Aaron's tweet about a design tool he built

    Alcove

    Laravel Wrapped 2025

    Radix Colors

    Amp

    CodeRabbit

    Primeagen - 1 year, no job

    Hassan Nazari