Hammerstone - Bootstrapping a Software Company

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Back from Laracon EU, and it went well.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Kind of a pivot, but not really.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

We're off to a good start for 2023.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Colleen and Aaron recap 2022 and look forward to 2023.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Colleen and Aaron are back from a hiatus.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Colleen and Aaron talk through use cases for Refine that may actually get people excited.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/mainTorchlight: https://torchlight.devAaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Aaron and Colleen are both back from vacation with a lot of updates to share.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/mainTorchlight: https://torchlight.devAaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Aaron got stranded in Dallas thanks to two cancelled AA flights. We're sending outreach emails and doing a bunch of ancillary product work.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/mainTorchlight: https://torchlight.devAaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

We're starting to have calls with customers!Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/mainTorchlight: https://torchlight.devAaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Things are starting to look up!Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/mainTorchlight: https://torchlight.devAaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

We sent the Nova email! And it didn't go quite as planned.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/mainRefine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-novaTorchlight: https://torchlight.devAaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Tech time is over, it's time to business.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/mainRefine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-novaTorchlight: https://torchlight.devAaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

The Nova landing page (with a buy now button!) is live.Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/mainRefine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-novaTorchlight: https://torchlight.devAaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancisColleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Some big changes happening at Hammerstone. Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger

Aaron got a new job! We're trying to figure out how to balance client work and product work. Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto Tuple: https://tuple.app

We talk about the future of Rails and how it differs from Laravel. Aaron has been experimenting with Cloudflare, Edge Workers, and Fly.io. Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto

Laracon is over, Colleen is speaking at a conference in March. We got paid! Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto

In a long bonus episode, Matt Swanson (https://twitter.com/_swanson) joins Aaron to talk about Twitter. Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Matt: https://twitter.com/_swanson Boring Rails: https://boringrails.com/ ShowCode: https://showcode.app

Aaron is practicing for Laracon, a lot. Laracon: https://laracon.net/ Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto

Our first Nova user has it installed and is trying it out. Aaron is prepping for Laracon and running out of steam. Refine: https://hammerstone.dev/refine/laravel/docs/main Refine Nova: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/refine-nova Torchlight: https://torchlight.dev Aaron: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Colleen: https://twitter.com/leenyburger Sean: https://twitter.com/sfioritto

We're wrangling multiple frontends all at once, trying to onboard Nova users, and Aaron did some fun MySQL stuff.

It's starting to work, but Sean always knew it was going to.

The team is back from Christmas break, with a lot to talk about.

Matt Wensing (https://twitter.com/mattwensing) joins Aaron to talk about sacrificing time early on in hopes of having more freedom later.

Talking through a few Vue changes, making a call on a Livewire frontend.

Aaron and Colleen talk about the trough of despair and also numeric range optimizations, of course.

Back from Thanksgiving, we talk about finding an amazing React contractor, integrating the Vue and Laravel libraries, and more. 

It's finally here.

We talk about our coffee habits, new computers, renderless components, databases, and confidence.

Lots of exciting updates from Founder's Summit, and Aaron reports back on the first Laravel client.

After a short break, we're back!

Sean went pheasant "hunting", Aaron gave a live coding presentation, Colleen is building out nested filters

Colleen listened to Aaron's solo episodes and it... raised some questions

Aaron comin atcha from the kitchen table. A solo show.

Sean is feeling the weight of his many jobs, Aaron tries to say "stabilizers" as much as possible in one episode, and we talk about new Torchlight clients.

We're kind of all over the place today! Sleep, foreign keys, CommandBar, Calvin & Hobbes somehow, Vue, and so on.Command Bar - "CommandBar gives your users onboarding nudges, quick actions [...] in one personalized [...] widget."

Greg Skerman (https://twitter.com/GregSkerman) is the OG Sidecar user, and he stops by to teach Aaron a thing or two. Greg's Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregSkerman Greg's company: https://www.iseekplant.com.au That one LinkedIn article Greg wrote: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/always-deploying-greg-skerman/ Laravel Brisbane: https://www.meetup.com/bne-laravel-meetup/ Sidecar: https://github.com/hammerstonedev/sidecar InertiaJS

Colleen is a week into working with the client. Sean can't sleep, Aaron is having surgery. We talk about Refine + Laravel launch date, and Hammerstone acquiring a product!

Aaron can barely move, Colleen is working with billions of records. Sean is on vacation! Lucky Sean.

Hammerstone adds a new partner.