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@oliverbusk Nice. 👌

@JFaid @korymath niiiice

Happy Friday! 👋

What are you working on right now?

Really dig @jonasdowney's philosophy here:

"Collaborative software work is egalitarian. It doesn’t matter who did what, as long as the team is collectively accomplishing something greater than any one person could have done alone."

https://m.signalvnoise.com/nobody-really-owns-product-work/

@MoreWillie I was hoping to hear Beastie Boys’ Sabotage in the background.

@jeff_archibald @paper_leaf Congrats! 🎉

@CartunaRadio hey! I think your website is down right now.

@jonasdowney YES. GET WEIRD.

@jonasdowney 💪 I still have a personal website!

@dzohrob @ChartableDotCom Good luck! You’ll do great. 👍

@andrewculver Haha. Awesome.

@gaijinity Fixed it. Thanks.

@gaijinity Thanks! Done. 👌

whelp. I spent 2.5 hours trying to optimize images and improve my PageSpeed Insights score...

Only to find that it was the Kayako widget that was bringing us down to a 76 🤦‍♂️

Once I removed it, we shot up to a 98. 🙄

https://youtu.be/RcYyA9jiJIU

@gaijinity @nystudio107 I'm down! 🙌

@nystudio107 Awesome! Thank you so much.

Is your personal account @gaijinity?

Live web dev: going to try to use Glide PHP to dynamically generate WebP images (with fallbacks) in @statamic https://www.pscp.tv/w/cCW9IDM4NTU1MXwxeW9KTUVvbURQREpRLdeB4Jmvh9AA_Gljn3xQgr9IxJYgbtqcIDjSpW1Azuk=

Can’t wait to watch this one and see what Steve came up with! 🙌 https://twitter.com/steveschoger/status/1162048820957630465

@JackEllis @Shpigford Agreed.

@reedrehg Thanks. 👍

This project from @corey_gwin is a hoot!

https://xn--0ci4130n.fm/mijustin

@mubashariqbal @podhuntapp @louisnicholls_ Ooh. I like this idea. 👌

@missbikesalot @LaurenGifford 👋 happy to answer your questions!

I wrote a quick starter’s guide here:
https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/

RT @joshuaanderton: SaaS life can be so hard. This podcast has been massively motivational for me through some hard times!

Thanks @mijust…

@AlbanBrooke I’m not! I wish i was!

@TransistorFM @podcasterstbx Awesome! 🙌

@cjkoepke @robwalling Looks great! 🙌

Excited to use this: @studiofellow's been building a tool for designers and devs who like to edit web pages in devtools. 👌

RT @DuyNguyenHa: Every time I feel down, I read his story over and over again
@mijustin https://justinjackson.ca/programming

@caseyfulgenzi @TransistorFM We can handle it! 💪

$3 million for Tumblr seems like an incredible deal.

(As a comparison, WordPress bought a small bootstrapped startup [WooCommerce] in 2015 for $30 million)

Tumblr was doing $25 million in revenue in 2013 when Yahoo bought them.

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/335783024098672641?s=21

RT @robjama: Solid thread here from @mijustin - market hunt before you @ProductHunt! https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1160572542601482240

@ninjaparade I should have. I love Tumblr.

Update: sounds like they only paid $3 million!?!?

https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/1161038705295089664?s=21

@robrob @TransistorFM 😉 This is from our admin dashboard. It’ll still be quite a bit of work for us to do this on the network level.

RT @TransistorFM: Almost at 15 million podcast downloads! 😮

And this video from 2013 with me and Calacanis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY62KuoxWJ0

Probably worth revisiting my blog post from 2016:

https://justinjackson.ca/is-the-money-still-bored/

Looks like WordPress paid “well below $20 million.”

Tumblr sold to Yahoo for $1 billion.

That’s a $980 million dollar depreciation folks.

Whoa! WordPress acquires Tumblr. 😮 https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1161025678013341697

@alantocheri What we saw with Transistor was:
- an existing strong market with good channels
- growing demand for podcast hosting

It was only after we saw the demand that we started thinking about differentiation.

@thek3vinkim @robjama @ProductHunt Yup. I wrote about founder fit here:
https://justinjackson.ca/want

Many product ideas are attractive because they seem like an improvement on the status quo.

But they’re missing a crucial ingredient: there’s no demand for them.

Just because there’s a “better way” doesn’t mean people will want it.

Want to win a year of free podcast hosting? @ContestKit is doing a @TransistorFM giveaway! 🙌

https://twitter.com/ContestKit/status/1157328589827653635

@joshuaanderton 26 minutes is the length of the average commute, which makes it a good starting point. 👌

However, it can really depend on the audience.

I’ve been reading @ScottHYoung’s book (Ultralearning) as well, and I’ve had tons of new insights about how I can change the way I do self-learning.

I had a really good chat with my friend ⁦@ScottHYoung⁩ about how to teach yourself programming. 👍 https://overcast.fm/+MP5-H7Www

RT @camnuckols: It took me far too long to figure this out. https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1160572542601482240

@cheriehu42 YES!

Compare the LTV of an Iron Maiden fan to any other band. $$$$$$

@GraemeMac Upstairs at @ratiovernon is nice and quiet. 👌

@olivierparfait🤣 https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/1158910781964083201

@derrickreimer Agreed. It's tricky!

However, some of those "boring markets where demand seems to be adequately solved" still have plenty of opportunities. 👌

@derrickreimer Yes, further in the thread I said this. The key component is observing that there's some sort of hunger from the market.

This could be existing competitors, folks trying to solve the problem in a different way, an untapped demand.

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1160575692163076096

@derrickreimer The context of these tweets is my inbox. 😉

I get 2-3 messages a day from folks that say: "I have an idea for a product."

But it's not connected to any sort of market. Often, they're not aware of the dynamics of the market they're trying to serve.

Instead of blindly pursuing "an idea for a business," we should be following @robfitz's advice:

- Ask your target market how they're currently solving the problem. (You'll discover if they have the problem at all!)
- Ask if they've ever looked for an alternative.

Often, folks who are pursuing "a bad idea" haven't had any meaningful interaction with their target market.

https://twitter.com/realsamzer/status/1160577307804782592

@derrickreimer "Hey, I have this idea for a new startup."

☝️ I'm talking about the ideas that just "came to mind," but aren't grounded in market demand.

Often they take the form of:
- "Technically, this can be improved!"
- "Look at how inefficient this is."
- "I could design this better."

If you listen to founder stories, you'll see a common thread: they encountered a market that was hungry for a solution.

They discover this a variety of ways:
- they had the problem themselves
- they were serving clients that had the problem
- they had peers that had the problem

We get a "good idea for a product" in a fit of inspiration. (For me, it often happens at night)

The problem is (most of the time) these ideas are disconnected from any sort of market demand.

It's just something you made up.

RT @KateBour: @mijustin Agreed. So many people "want to do a startup" so they rack their brain for a viable idea (I was one of them once).…

Product people: you're not looking for "good ideas."

You're looking for a market that's hungry for a solution.

@mubashariqbal @podhuntapp That’s a great idea. 👍

@corey_gwin What’s this!

@KateBour @ManuelaBarcenas @TheCoolestCool @ericosiu @neilpatel @thebent @ErinBlaskie @lovevalgeisler @HCWeiss @JamesClear Thanks Katelyn! I know I missed this Saturday, but I’ve got one in the works for next weekend that challenges a popular product marketing norm.

I think you’ll dig it 👌

@smallworldspod Apple will refresh your feed every 1-2 hours (generally).

But most folks just scheduled it for 1am, because podcast players will download the episode and have it ready for folks when they wake up.

@leetengum @owenconti @TransistorFM We’re using @caddyserver + @letsencrypt for this. 👌

@jesseleite85 @adamwathan 😂

@jmcharnes @dhh @excid3 @remote_ruby Great interview! 🙌

The product-market fit survey asks customers to guess about their future feelings.

But... humans are generally bad at forecasting their future behavior.

They might say “I’d be disappointed if this went away,” only to find (in the future!) it doesn’t bug them that much!

There are many products that folks will continue to use (for a long time!) but wouldn’t be “very disappointed” if it went away.

“How disappointed would you be if you could no longer use this product?”

Startup folks use this question to determine if their product (or a competitor!) has product-market fit.

If 40% or more reply that they’d be “very disappointed,” you’re thought to have product-market fit.

First, there are some products, like Slack, that generally make people weary.

Many would likely be “relieved” if they could no longer use Slack.

BUT, regardless, they will continue to use Slack because it’s entrenched in their company culture and processes.

This can be a useful gauge, but it does have a few problems. 👉

@jesseleite85 This means we’re best friends forever ❤️

RT @ProductHuntPod: Listen to our latest episode with @mijustin Founder of @TransistorFM

In this brutally honest interview he shares insi…

@abadir_ @buildyoursaas 👍

@radermacher_io Yup! This is big news. 👌

@misener loved this 👌

@sibix3 Technically, I don’t think it’s possible to stack them.

I think @ChartableDotCom is the only one you need. 👌

@SethChaffee Yup! http://join.megamaker.co

🤔 thinking about this now: @PairWithTuple was the lowest friction way for @steveschoger and I to hop on a call:

“Should we Zoom? Skype?”

“What if we just hop on Tuple?”

It’s already in my menu bar, Steve’s name is right there, I just push one button and we’re connected.

Status update: in an episode important meeting.

@sibix3 On Transistor?

WEB IMAGES. How do I deliver an appropriate image to every user depending on screen size in @statamic using @tailwindcss? https://www.pscp.tv/w/cBxK0DM4NTU1MXwxak1KZ3ZtRWdRWUdMza9EMDv67V-xESJYS1Z49K0A3NhPQzrx7lqs0q2L2-U=

Beyond excited to have @benediktdeicke and @brhea launch their new podcast (@SlowSteadyPod) on @TransistorFM! 🎉

https://www.slowandsteadypodcast.com/episodes/who-are-we-and-why-are-we-here

@reinink @inertiajs Yes. I think what I need is a good workflow for doing this in @statamic, using @tailwindcss’s breakpoints.

Does Glide have something built in for image fallbacks?

@dzohrob @ZackRW @ashleyrcarman Yes! I talked about this back in May: https://youtu.be/3WwH3l_guCw

@reinink Does it store the generated images anywhere?

Is there additional load time overhead when using Glide?

@shaisc @jonbuda @jasonfried 🙌

@andy_pa What about for background images?

@jordonbrill @cloudinary Yeah, I signed up for that. How does it work? 😜

Feels like I should be able to do all this stuff locally and just push it up to the server:

- Dynamically generate WebP images for all my JPGs and PNGs.
- Easily introduce WebP into my code (with JPG/PNG fallbacks)

@reinink: does Glide encode WebP files on the fly? I don't exactly get how it works.

If I use <img src="kayaks.jpg?w=600&fm=webp">, what happens?

@adamwathan: I can see that @tailwindcss applies responsive breakpoints, but it won't progressively make the files themselves smaller. Right?

Are people somehow incorporating @modernizr into their Tailwind stack?

Ok. Banging my head against the wall here trying to figure out how to progressively optimize images.

Got questions about WebP, fallbacks, and more.

A thread...

@joshuap @stauffermatt @adamwathan I came here to say: WAFFLES

@Treggats Lol 😂

Live now: working on the new @transistorfm website. https://www.pscp.tv/w/cBsnDTM4NTU1MXwxcm1HUGVNYnJqWEpOmvH6g7QeX4AAoduA9YmJGYQW9i9AxC4ltLnAsGprCzk=

@calebporzio @DCoulbourne @calebporzio also, love these call-outs from future you on your iPhone mic. 👌

@calebporzio @dcoulbourne LOL.

"He called me D-Coul 45 times... which led to everyone calling me D-Coul." 🤣

"If you push the nickname, it doesn't stick. But if you don't push the nickname, it does stick."

https://overcast.fm/+Q-Rdisg7U