<p>This week Jon and Justin discussed:</p><ul><li>Basecamp<ul><li>Note: we recorded this before Casey Newton's <a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up">second article on Basecamp</a> came out.</li><li>Also: <a href="https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/you-are-what-you-do/">this article</a> is a really thoughtful take on the whole situation.</li><li>Ruby/Rails open source world.<ul><li><a href="https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/effect-of-the-last-week-on-ruby-on-rails/77702">https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/effect-of-the-last-week-on-ruby-on-rails/77702</a> </li></ul></li></ul></li><li>SO EXCITED: HELEN IS ON THE TEAM! 🎉<ul><li><a href="https://transistor.fm/helen/">https://transistor.fm/helen/</a> </li></ul></li><li>Cost/benefit analysis<ul><li>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?</li><li>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:<ul><li>How much time + energy does it really take to build it?</li><li>Does it attract the wrong customers?</li><li>How much time + energy does it take to support it?</li><li>How does it affect the fun + calm of running the app?</li><li>Is all that effort really worth it?</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Apple’s latest release is bad<ul><li>So many bugs from Apple: <a href="https://transistor.fm/apple-podcasts-problem/">https://transistor.fm/apple-podcasts-problem/</a> </li><li>One bug in Spotify: <a href="https://transistor.fm/spotify-bug/">https://transistor.fm/spotify-bug/</a> </li></ul></li></ul><p><b>What should we talk about next?</b></p><ul><li>Twitter:<strong> </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/buildyoursaas">@buildyoursaas</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mijustin">@mijustin</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbuda">@jonbuda</a></li><li><a href="https://podhunt.app/">Leave a comment on PodHunt</a>; it's like Reddit, but for podcasts.</li><li>Email us:
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