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The Art of Product

The Art of Product

Ben and Derrick chat weekly about building software companies.

Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer

220 episodesEN-US

Show overview

The Art of Product has been publishing since 2017, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 220 episodes. That works out to roughly 140 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 30 min and 42 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.

The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 3.4 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer.

Episodes
220
Running
2017–2022 · 5y
Median length
35 min
Cadence
Fortnightly

From the publisher

The Art of Product is a podcast chronicling the journeys of two entrepreneurs building software companies. Hosted by Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer.

Latest Episodes

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220: Ben and Adam Wrap The Year

The Code Quality Challenge (https://tuple.app/code-quality-challenge) Tuple's open CTO position (https://tuple.app/jobs/cto) Kevin Shen's Dream Studio Course (https://dreamstudiocourse.com/)

Dec 23, 20221h 13m

219: Ben's Friend Ben

Ben Kuhn drops by the pod. Check out his great blog! https://www.benkuhn.net/

Nov 3, 202241 min

218: Building a $1M/Year Dev Ed Business (with Adam Wathan)

Oct 26, 20221h 18m

217: Half a Job You Love

Aaron Francis (Tuple's Marketing Engineer) drops by for advice on his non-Tuple project, a query builder for Rails and Laravel called <a href="https://hammerstone.dev/" title="" target="">Refine</a>.

Jul 27, 202251 min

216: Penelopers, Penelopers, Penelopers

Penelope Phippen drops by and encourages Ben to set, like, even a single goal.

Jul 20, 202252 min

215: Mental Health with Dr. Sherry Walling

Talking with Dr. Sherry Walling about dealing with mental health personally and how to help people around you who may be struggling.

Jul 11, 202235 min

214: Another week, another Wathan

Jul 6, 202255 min

213: Powered by Debt

Tuple launched a <a href="https://tuple.app/sends-you-on-vacation" title="" target="">new marketing experiment this week</a>. Derrick is continuing work on migrating SavvyCal to new hosting infrastructure.<br>

Jun 29, 202237 min

212: Tuple Goes Hollywood

The Tuple team had their first filming session for the meta-documentary about their marketing experiments. Derrick is awaiting results from the latest SavvyCal funnel experiments.

Jun 22, 202238 min

211: This Is Not A Bad Reality

Ben and Derrick catch up on all things Tuple (https://tuple.app/) and SavvyCal (https://savvycal.com). Ben recently raised prices for Tuple. Derrick is experimenting with major funnel changes for SavvyCal.

Jun 15, 202224 min

210: Talk To Your Customers

Derrick is launching a bunch of SavvyCal features this month, including a <a href="https://savvycal.com/close" title="" target="">Close integration</a> and <a href="https://savvycal.com/meeting-polls" title="" target="">meeting polls</a>. Ben has had good experiences lately talking to customers. <br>

May 25, 202240 min

209: Penelope Again-ope

Stripe's Technical Advisor to the CTO, Penelope Phippen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/penelope-phippen-4103142b/) stops by and Ben tries to get her to divulge company secrets.

May 11, 202250 min

208: Prime Foot-Shooting Material

Ben and Derrick chat through a cool new feature Tuple (https://tuple.app/) is shaping up. They also discuss Tuple's ambitious marketing bets.

May 4, 202239 min

207: Musings on Advice

Ben and the Tuple team have hit a good shipping stride lately. Derrick and team are nearing completion on a few large SavvyCal initiatives. The guys reflect on MicroConf and the nature of dispensing advice.

Apr 20, 202238 min

206: IRL at MicroConf

Derrick and Ben share updates from the Castos recording booth at MicroConf Growth.

Apr 6, 202227 min

205: Wathan Stops By

Our favorite Canadian drops by to talk mobility, fancy A/V setups, what's next for Tailwind UI, and how we'll never find peace of mind.

Mar 30, 202255 min

204: Miscellanea

Ben and Derrick riff on a variety of topics, including coffee brewing, retreats, MicroConf, design, finding business ideas, and interesting subreddits. Links: Sweet Maria's (https://www.sweetmarias.com/) MicroConf (https://microconf.com/) Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea (https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/05/28/finding-my-next-bootstrapped-business-idea.html) The Stair Step Approach to Bootstrapping (https://robwalling.com/2015/03/26/the-stairstep-approach-to-bootstrapping/) fatFIRE (https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/) OneBag - The Art of Minimalist Travel (https://www.reddit.com/r/onebag/)

Mar 23, 202238 min

203: The Hiring Spree

The Tuple team has recently grown by three team members! Ben is looking forward to getting the Linux client out the door in the next month. Derrick is staying busy moving SavvyCal forward and bringing his new developer into the app.

Mar 16, 202240 min

202: The Art and Pain of Design

Ben talks to Brian Lovin, a designer, podcaster, writer, and software tinkerer.

Mar 9, 202258 min

201: Getting Things Done with Stephen Dolan

Ben and Derrick chat with Tuple's Chief of Staff and GTD expert, Stephen Dolan. They discuss Stephen's path from programming to sales to his current role and nerd out over methods for staying productive.

Mar 2, 20221h 9m
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