HACKER Q&A
📣 RyanRosztoczy

What do you want to learn from current technical founders?


I recently started a podcast on Spotify and Apple called the Technical Founder (https://www.the-tf.com/), where I chat with other engineering founders and explore the technical challenges inside growing startups. Together we unpack the tactics and strategies being used to build modern solutions.

I am looking for feedback from founders and potential founders on how to get the most value from these chats. Specifically I would love to know:

- What issues are top of mind for you as a technical founder? Fundraising? Stack selection? CI/CD tooling? Hiring? - If you listen to an episode, do you listen to the full thing? If not, where did you drop off? - If you enjoyed an episode, what stood out to you? What would you want more of?

I’m always looking for potential candidates for the podcast, so if you have a great founder in mind (including yourself) please let me know!

Thanks so much,

Ryan

  👤 RyanRosztoczy Accepted Answer ✓
For anyone interested, I just released the first episode of the year! https://www.the-tf.com/podcast/mike-carter-yc-winter-2023/
👤 ccvannorman
"How can we balance the need to produce code right now and publish something, vs investment in the road map/broader vision?"

We don't want to focus too much on the current product / code;

We don't want to not focus enough on the current product / code;

So, what's the least difficult MVP (or next technical milestone) that will advance our company, and what's a reasonable scope / expectations for this?

I tend to favor the smaller over the larger; spending years on a monolith has bitten me in the butt before, in terms of feature creep, code debt, and a poor balance between sales and engineering.

👤 frob
This sounds like something worth giving a shot. I'd love to see how other companies grew through the same technical challenges I'm seeing now.

That said, I didn't see a way to easily subscribe to it without first signing up for an account. I looked for an rss button or feed, but no luck. Searching for it in Podcast Addict does not return it. Is it available outside of Spotify?

👤 coscon
"Do you really think your product or service is going to change the world, or are you just bullshitting us?"
👤 JimmyRuska
Down the line, how do you see this integrating the latest advances: blockchain, chatGPT, and dwarf fortress.
👤 actually_a_dog
I'd want to hear about hiring and handling organizational issues as the team grows. I couldn't care less about stack selection, CI/CD and pure technical issues if I'm talking to a technical cofounder, TBH.
👤 superdeeda
How to come up with product ideas and how to test their viability quickly.