About this episode

Ian and Aaron discuss various topics including AI for internal apps, youth sports, and compare Faster.dev with Solo.

Ian and Aaron talk about choosing between Faster.dev & Solo (which one is more likely to pay off?), the pros and cons of using AI to build bespoke internal apps, youth sports, Project Hail Mary, and so much more. Sponsored by SavvyCal Appointments , Bento , Laravel Private Cloud , IttyBit , and Ray by Spatie . Interested in sponsoring Mostly Technical? Head to https://mostlytechnical.com/sponsor to learn more. (00:00) - Kids Sports (05:19) - Building Internal Tools (17:23) - Empire of Scripts (24:41) - Everybody Wants CLI & MCP (29:46) - Solo Will Never Be Done (45:46) - Faster.dev vs. Solo (59:36) - Vibe Coding An App To $10k (01:06:11) - Project Hail Mary Links: Aaron on the baseball field Project Hail Mary Jason Fried on Twitter Laravel AI SDK Laravel MCP Solo Will King Aaron's video on YouTube Eric Barnes' new venture

People in this episode

Hosts: Ian Landsman, Aaron Francis

Topics covered

• AI in app development
• youth sports
• internal tools
• Faster.dev vs Solo
• Project Hail Mary
• entrepreneurship

Sponsors

SavvyCal Appointments, Bento, Laravel Private Cloud, IttyBit, Ray by Spatie

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Faster.dev, Solo

Books & works: Project Hail Mary

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