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94: How to get paid
May 12, 2026
33m 38s
93: Be a good guy
Apr 28, 2026
36m 03s
92: The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead
Apr 21, 2026
41m 08s
91: The agency's agency
Apr 16, 2026
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90: You have to pre-launch before you launch
Apr 2, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/12/26 | 94: How to get paid | We got $40k that was owed to use months ago. | 33m 38s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | 93: Be a good guy | We talk about BJJ, but I promise it's actually interesting. We plead with a former client to be a good guy. | 36m 03s | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | 92: The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead | We're learning a lot from early Tidy users. We're sending a cease and desist. | 41m 08s | ||||||
| 4/16/26 | 91: The agency's agency | We have an idea to do Thunk marketing and Tidy marketing at the same time. And it feels like a breakthrough. | 39m 08s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 | 90: You have to pre-launch before you launch | Tidy marketing is in full swing. Please join our mailing list to support the launch! tidyup.agnecy | 40m 46s | ||||||
| 3/19/26 | 89: The zero risk agency (empaneling Justin Jackson) | After hemming and hawing for 20 minutes, we are joined by the inimitable Justin Jackson. He gives us an absolute treasure trove of good advice for launching and marketing Tidy. | 1h 23m 23s | ||||||
| 3/14/26 | 88: Setting pass/fail criteria on our projects | Laracon.EU was a blast. We continue to develop the sales funnel. We need to know whether our growth plans are actually working. So we set some simple goals for the next 6 weeks. | 49m 31s | ||||||
| 2/24/26 | 87: tidyup.agency | We have quietly launched our client management app. It has invoices, agreements, schedules, time sheets, reports, and more. We'll be doing a full marketing blitz soon. Daniel has been cooking up an extremely cool AI feature. | 34m 34s | ||||||
| 2/18/26 | 86: Holacracy, if you can keep it | John went on a Claude frenzy, and Kapow is nearly here. We reach out to bankers and learn a little bit about how their world works. John believes in benevolent dictatorships more than "flat organizations." | 36m 52s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | 85: Our billion dollar theory of the future | It feels like there's a dark cloud over web development right now. So where does Thunk fit into the future, and how do we win? We lay it all out here. | 51m 37s | ||||||
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| 1/27/26 | 84: You are here | We had a very bad week. In related news, we are looking for a new client. | 43m 16s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | 83: Do a good job ™ | Our goal for 2026 is to do a good job. John wants to start doing some serious, long term business development. | 39m 15s | ||||||
| 12/16/25 | 82: AI fatigue | We gave ourselves raises. John is weary of AI. Daniel is using Claude skills. | 43m 22s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | 81: We set up pay bands | We hired someone. We set up standardized pay bands. We discuss how we use AI, and what makes a bad AI-driven pull request. We like Three Body Problem. John sang in choir. | 42m 03s | ||||||
| 11/20/25 | 80: Late fees are unenforceable | Marketing works. Late fees don't. John is speaking at Laracon EU! We review our OKRs and cash situation. John has more mic issues. | 45m 24s | ||||||
| 11/11/25 | 79: The wire:live retro (empaneling Caleb Porzio) | Our dear friend Caleb Porzio drops by for some laughs, and a retrospective on Wire:live. We discuss what went well, what could improve, and what we'll do differently next time. | 1h 15m 08s | ||||||
| 11/6/25 | 78: Empaneling Matt Stauffer | Matt runs Tighten, and is a kind of big brother to us. We ask him about running agencies, building teams, hiring senior developers, and a lot more. Watch his new Laracast series "How to Build a Dev Team" now. | 53m 34s | ||||||
| 10/20/25 | 77: Silly season takes no prisoners | Our biggest client had a problem. We tried to get out in front of it, with mixed success. Here's what we learned. Join the new social game here. Listen to John's clickbait episode about it here. | 42m 13s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | 76: Pitching our next conference talks | We are busy as heck, with more work coming in. Forge launches this week. Wire:live is filling up fast. Listen to John's new game podcast. We brainstorm the next conference talks we want to give. | 1h 01m 18s | ||||||
| 9/16/25 | 75: The good kind of scary | We're at an exciting but scary inflection point as a company. Wire:live is filling up fast! John is sad about the internet, but excited about real life. Daniel likes Billy Joel. | 38m 57s | ||||||
| 9/9/25 | 74: Radical truth telling | We landed a big client, and things are heating up. We learned once again that telling the truth and being candid is the best path. | 41m 24s | ||||||
| 9/2/25 | 73: Be a sustainable business | We finally talk about our OKRs for the remainder of the year. | 53m 02s | ||||||
| 8/28/25 | 72: wire:live | Wire:live in Buffalo October 28. Get your tickets today! We had some technical difficulties, and weren't even sure if it was recording, so this one is all over the place. Spicy takes, jack booted thugs, A24, Weapons, video games, and restaurants. | 1h 04m 31s | ||||||
| 8/19/25 | 71: No dogs, no ponies | We are streamers now. Kapow now has a client portal. John has a new podcast. We had another accounting / tax crisis that has driven us to the edge of sanity. | 1h 03m 01s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 | 70: A deeply unserious Laracon recap | If you're looking for that incisive, smart business insight, go ahead and skip this one. We talk dogs, Laracon, John's talk, Laravel Forge, the upcoming Livewire conference, game design, The Social Game, a video John's obsessed with, and Rust (the video game). | 47m 54s | ||||||
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