Jess Brown (@bjessbrown) and Jeremy Smith (@jeremysmithco) interview guests and discuss the intersection of independent business and Rails.
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Episode 77 just got sliced! 🍕 Kelsey & Zack Gilbert-Kreiling (@zackgilbert) join us to talk about building and launching Eventually (@eventuallytckts), their event ticketing and commerce platform, as a husband-wife team.
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And just like that, on a random Tuesday they were back. 👋😉
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👋 Hey friends! We're taking a break for the month of April and plan to start recording again in May. See you soon!
Episode 75 just struck up the band. 🎺 John Nunemaker returns to chat with us about how AI has transformed his development workflow and the unique opportunity that this moment in tech represents.
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Episode 74 has been carefully set in place. 🥽 Rémi Mercier (@mercier_remi) joins us to share his journey from stained-glass master to Ruby on Rails developer, and to reflect on his recent return to freelancing. Thanks for the great conversation, Rémi! 😊
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Episode 73 is now in stock! 📦 Jared Norman (@jardonamron), founder of Super Good Software and Solidus Core team member, joins us to talk about building and running a consultancy in the Rails e-commerce space. Thanks again, Jared! ☺️
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Episode 72 just sprouted! 🌱 John Athayde (@JohnAthayde) joins us to chat about how a student of architecture ends up in software, guiding design in software development, consulting in user experience, and his work on the Rails Guides refresh project.
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If you're back to a regular commute or workout and need to catch up on podcasts, we put out 2 episodes bookending the holidays…
An interview with @jaredbrown (Jared Brown), CEO of Hubstaff.
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A 1-on-1 chat to kick off the new year.
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Episode 69 just came out of the lab! 👨🔬 Ernesto Tagwerker (@etagwerker), founder of OmbuLabs and FastRuby.io, returns to chat about the changing industry landscape and running an agency in the age of AI. Thanks for catching up, Ernesto! 🙏☺️
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Episode 68 was just handed off to a subagent! 👨💻 We chat with Brian Casel (@CasJam) about building software products, managing a portfolio of projects, working with AI, growing a YouTube channel, and his latest venture: Builder Methods. Thanks Brian! 🙏
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Episode 67 has a bit of a temperature! 🌡️ We sit down with Wale Olaleye, founder of Rails Fever, to chat about building a software consulting business, marketing and sales outreach, refining your messaging, and the value of being local and in-person.
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Episode 65 is now registered! ✍️ We chat with @aeden about building @dnsimple, the DNS/domain industry, the importance of the Ruby community, remote teams, and life/work on hard mode. Anthony, thanks again for the enlightening discussion! 🙏
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Episode 64 has been seated. 🪑 In this roundtable discussion, we chat with @jespr, Olly Headey, and @whysthatso about our wishlist items as Rails devs toward the one-person end of the spectrum.
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Big thanks to @buzzsprout for sponsoring the Rails World Podcast program, and allowing us to record this special episode from their podcast booth on Day 2 of Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam! ❤️
Episode 63 has entered the realm of legend. 🧙♂️🤴 We chat with Mariusz Kozieł (@koziemariusz) CEO of @visualitypl about his progression from developer to CEO, and his work fostering community with Ruby Europe and the Ruby Community Conference.
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Big thanks to @buzzsprout for sponsoring the Rails World Podcast program, and allowing us to record this special episode from their podcast booth on Day 1 of Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam! ❤️
Hey Everyone! We're back from a short summer break and should be publishing every other week the rest of the year!
Episode 62 is live and ready to query! 🔍 We chat with Jason Bosco (@jasonbosco), co-founder of Typesense, about going from Dollar Shave Club to democratizing search, building indie/bootstrapped + customer-funded, and showing up every day until it works.
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Episode 62 is live and ready to query! 🔍 We chat with Jason Bosco (@jasonbosco), co-founder of Typesense, about going from Dollar Shave Club to democratizing search, building indie/bootstrapped + customer-funded, and showing up every day until it works.
indierails.com/62
Hey friends! 👋 Jeremy & Jess are taking a podcast break for the rest of July and August. But we'll be back with new episodes in September!
In the meantime, you should check out these podcasts, new in 2025:
railsbusiness.com/
onrails.buzzsprout.com/
buzzsprout.com/2509083
Episode 61 has been unloosed! 🏹 We chat with Matt Swanson (@_swanson), CTO of Arrows, author of Boring Rails, and host of the YAGNI podcast, about software dev at Arrows, the product engineer, working with generative AI, and publishing technical content.
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