Episode 126
Basecamp | Hiring | How to have a calm company
What happened at Basecamp? We announce our first full-time team member. And: cost/benefit analysis.
May 4, 202148m 11sExplicit
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Show Notes
This week Jon and Justin discussed:
- Basecamp
- Note: we recorded this before Casey Newton's second article on Basecamp came out.
- Also: this article is a really thoughtful take on the whole situation.
- Ruby/Rails open source world.
- SO EXCITED: HELEN IS ON THE TEAM! 🎉
- Cost/benefit analysis
- It’s really difficult to make that calculation: should we commit to this? How do we know that the cost will be worth the benefit?
- For example, we could invest $100k + 6 months of time into building a mobile app for private podcasts, under the assumption that it will increase the number of private podcast customers we get. But what you don’t see is:
- How much time + energy does it really take to build it?
- Does it attract the wrong customers?
- How much time + energy does it take to support it?
- How does it affect the fun + calm of running the app?
- Is all that effort really worth it?
- Apple’s latest release is bad
- So many bugs from Apple: https://transistor.fm/apple-podcasts-problem/
- One bug in Spotify: https://transistor.fm/spotify-bug/
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