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@BrendanHufford I really hope. I really really hope so!! 🙏🙏🙏

@BrendanHufford @dohertyjf YES! 🙏

Oh. That page is up now, but this one is still down. 😞

https://transistor.fm/security

@brhea love the new avatar!

@nbashaw @doggface208 So good!

@jonfriesen @venikunche Congrats! This is awesome.

@dgkeyes @BankMercury Nope, we don’t deposit checks.

@christophrumpel 👋

@harriskenny @Frazleytastic @TransistorFM 👍 I approve.

@thatbberg 👋 I’m also a fan. But I just watch them to cheer me up when I’m feeling glum (not for working out). Love that guy!

@jayacunzo YES.

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1212930860225163266

@mikeherreraTD @holli_herrera 🙋‍♂️ midnight cereal eater here too

@CorissaNunn Thanks for sharing it! 🙌

@lorindaapps 🤦‍♂️ When are they going to realize that I’m terrible with tools and renos?

@jayclouse weird. That really bugs me! 😜

@earthlingworks 🤦‍♂️

@bobbybouwmann Awww yeaaaah! 💃🕺🏼🎉

@AnnDiab Yes. And the fact that he campaigned as a “successful businessman and operator” but is (actually) a terrible business person and operator.

@jonfitzsimon True. ❤️

@DanielleNocon Not sure how they’re doing that!

@SloanCam Dude, I’ve been listening to the F’N Rad snowboard podcast, and it’s eye opening.

So many of the pros I looked up to in the 90s (and who I thought were rich and set for life) are now broke and broken.

@PyImageSearch @GoogleColab Just popping in this thread to say: I'm continually impressed with what you put out Adrian! ❤️

@NathanTankus Ah. Good clarification.

It’s still a pretty compelling paradigm shift for me (as someone who’s previously looked at UBI as a possible solution for some of our socio-economic ills).

The idea of giving businesses grants, but clawing them back if they fire people, seems 👍

@jbrooksuk @themsaid @driesvints @enunomaduro https://codepen.io/mijustin/pen/wvGNQNE

@TheElsieEscobar Not owned by Spotify or Amazon. 😉

(this is a joke)

@adamwathan @malfaitrobin worth it

@ianlandsman @earthlingworks Lol

@fannin_seth @noahwbragg 😧 yikes!

@jongold Hahahahaha. That’s so perfect!

@sambreed Related: https://twitter.com/blirwin/status/1308986387488702466?s=20

@mcdickenson Yes!!

(Quote is from this NYT piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/books/penguin-random-house-madeline-mcintosh.html?referringSource=articleShare)

@WebDevLaw @frontendben But... I do have Chinese users.

This is an honest question: why does one nation get to dictate how the citizens of another nation treat data?

It's weird that I'd have to follow any business rules from another country unless I have nexus there.

@valsopi 💯

@bmoesta Purchased! Excited to read it.

@daverodenbaugh I've seen this book and Joel's article recommended a few times now. 👍

@maxmacaro @IndieHackers @coreyhainesco There are folks doing interesting stuff with that data.

A few examples:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/

https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/who-offers-the-fastest-podcast-hosting-tap335/

@theJagmeetSingh Did you read the article?

Here’s the article’s definition:

“Globally, the richest 1% are people earning more than about $100,000.”

This isn’t about the “ultra-rich.” It’s about all of us.

@brandonhilkert “Jumping off a cliff and building a plane on the way down” is an existing metaphor that startup culture uses to describe itself.

@sm Yes!!!!!! Me too! 🙌

@pekpongpaet Totally.

@thepatwalls This is great. 👍

@jonfitzsimon For me: number of daily meaningful connections.

@_rchase_ Yup, it definitely helped that many of the "maker, entrepreneur, bootstrapper, dev" folks in my audience *also* were interested in starting podcasts.

But they make up a small % of our customers now.

(the % was higher while in beta - probably 75%+ of users came from my audience)

@takeitev Easier to invade.

@levidxyz A few things:

- Opportunity: lots of new people starting podcasts (burgeoning wave)

- Gap: old crusty solutions with a lot of cruft.

- Advantages: Jon has built a podcast hosting app before, network of folks in the industry, I had an audience, product/dev/marketing skills.

@jesseleite85 Lots of demand there. You're the right founder for the job.

Go forth, and be profitable!

@RickLindquist Be patient. 😉 I'm writing a whole thread. Keep reading.

@alanklement I like this.

@natalienagele Love it! 🙌

@ow 😫 We need climate action right now.

Current readings on @ThePurpleAir: #11/50.2953/-119.241" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/mAQI/a10/cC0&select=41117#11/50.2953/-119.241

@brendanmcadams @janelleallen Thanks! 🥰

@oprylamb Aww. Thanks.

We gotta convince @kylefox to come do a reboot!

@theleviallen @gilesvangruisen Haha me too!

@greggblanchard Loved that one too.

@tillkruss @shl @ObjectCachePro Nice worK! 🙌

@pekpongpaet @seanwes This is it here:
https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1304473755326885888

My total audio setup is the “pro setup” here:
#packages" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/#packages

@dzohrob @ChartableDotCom @Initialized @anthonyha @TechCrunch 🕺 Nice! 💃

@alexd @seanwes @theleviallen More than 30 minutes? Yup.

@alexd @seanwes I bought @theleviallen's Pansonic Lumix G7 a few years ago.

These days I just have it plugged into power all the time (no battery) and then plugged into my iMac with the Camlink 4K.

Now, I can just turn it on and start recording. 👍

@_rchase_ Onboarding is something I need to improve on Transistor. Lots of opportunities to make it better and reduce our support load.

@tylertringas Show me a place where I said “literally just build a copycat.” 😜

(Otherwise, you’re projecting)

@tylertringas I’ve never said that. Where did I say that?

@rodreegez Nice! 🙌

@pgpreston @nathanbarry @techzing Nope. That’s the one part of Nathan’s essay I have a quibble with (the last section).

Audience is a tool, it’s not the main driver of a business.

The #1 skill for entrepreneurs is learning to recognize good markets.

@mkhundmiri Totally agree with that.

@grantbaldwin 💯 Yes!

https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1168618809126555648

@law4 YESSSS

@darianrosebrook 💯

@MalcolmXon I think it's more of a "nice to have" (or a "strength") than a necessity.

@gilesvangruisen @mattwensing @fulligin @IndieHackers The market is the wave. All waves have different shapes, sizes, and timing. Competition is the number of surfers gunning for the same wave.

Your ability to get to the wave and ride it better than your competitors depends on a lot of factors (your speed, your skill, experience)

@GamacP @TransistorFM Thanks Phil!

Let me know if I can help get you started. I've written a guide here:

https://transistor.fm/how-to-start-a-podcast/?via=justin

@korda @TransistorFM Yes, we have. 😄

@zuzana_kunckova @abigailotwell @dsheetz @JacobBennett @TightenCo @stauffermatt Hacky sack!

👍 https://twitter.com/farez/status/1302330690529193984

@farez @justinvincent Nice! Have your read the post yet?

http://justinjackson.ca/surfing

@ianlandsman online poker platform

@arturoriosme Observe, and take notes on, what customers do.

What shortcuts do they take?
What purchases do they make?
Where do they consistently get stuck?

@thatbberg I'm with you that movements of people can gradually transform the culture.

But, it's too risky to take the entire onus of that on as a single business.

ie. Ben & Jerry's can (and should!) contribute to the social discourse, but they're just one nudge, in a series of nudges.

@michiels Yup. I was super into JTBD for a while, but that community has so much drama and has splintered into so many factions I just can't follow it anymore.

@jamesclift Yup. A lot of the problem is the founder hubris that we instinctively know what people want.

@JamesAddison If it's not driven by customer demand, it's going to be incredibly difficult.

@jesseleite85 hahahaha. I mean, that's the other general rule: anything you start, I'll invest in.

@Wickerpedia Demand can be quantified by “how much customers bought (or are buying at the current moment).”

Ie. “The demand for Tesla stock right now is skyrocketing.”

@mattwensing @adii Hurray! 🎉

Hahaha. Glad to have folks pushback though. 😉

I'm just a jackass trying to explore ideas.

@mattwensing @adii Again, market demand gets shaped over time and is influenced by innovation, government policy, investment, R&D, the ubiquity of related technologies (VOD, cable), evolution in the category...

Demand grows "gradually and then suddenly."

@mattwensing @adii Netflix rode a wave that had been building for years: video on demand, HBO, YouTube. There's been a demand for streaming video since the advent of the internet.

The same is true for Jobs (smartphone, portable audio). He didn't even create the categories!

@drewdil 💯

@adii Factors that influence demand:

- Changes in price or supply for related goods
- Government policy, investment, R&D
- The ubiquity of related technologies
- Evolving societal trends and tastes
- Rising (or falling) incomes
- Evolution in a category
- Economic cycles

@adii The internet was not a business! 😜

The internet was a government-funded research project for the military (and then later, an academic research project).

A lot of innovation gets created by governments + academia, which later creates market-effects.

@adii But who *created* that demand? Was it a single company?

Or... was it a variety of societal factors (demographics, culture, etc) coming together to form the wave of demand?

@manuel_frigerio "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

They don't call it "market economics" for nothing. 😉

Our entire capitalist system is based on the principle of supply + demand in a market.

@Charlesvinette Passion is fine for artists, but a customer generally doesn't care if the maker is "passionate" (unless that passion generates something they want).

There has to be some level of desire from customers to make business work.

@AlexMartinFR @JeremyCee I wrote a bit about this here:
https://justinjackson.ca/want

@metzgereduard I don't like that approach, because 1 person isn't a good indicator of market momentum.

@podcastharry @manuel_frigerio Thanks. 😊

That's @jackmcdade's handiwork!

@JosiahRendon @TransistorFM Thanks so much for choosing Transistor! 🙌

We're a small business, so your support means a lot to us. 🥰

@logicmason @justinvincent @ReactorPod 🙌 nice!