It's week 7 of 16: Jacob Anderson (@itwasjacob) and Colin Gray (@colinmcgray), his day job boss, are talking about long-term vision planning and choosing a name. Ryan has broken ground on building the first mini product under the brand, names are being chosen, things are getting real. ------------------------------ In this episode: Jacob's progress on Brand naming and Manifesto.Ryan's progress on building an auth system and laying the foundations to work with an LLM. UI can be built generatively. Excitement for a future with AI. Using a vector store for a hybrid memory model.How Colin chose the names for The Podcast Host and Alitu. Functional names are usually best (so watch us NOT do that!) The power of storytelling. The importance of sound symbolism. ------------------------------ This podcast is made with Alitu: Alitu was made to give indie creators a leg up. Podcasting is too time-consuming for most people, but Alitu let's you sit down to record, make some simple edits if you really want to, and just hit publish. It'll clean up your audio and make you sound loud and clear, add the right metadata, deal with filetypes and export settings. You literally just press publish. So if you're like me and feel like you've barely got enough time to work on your startup as it is, but really want to add podcasting to your content mix, then give it a shot. It only costs $38 per month for your whole stack of podcasting tools, but if you use discount code "buildinpublic" when you upgrade and you'll get 15% off for 3 months.   Just visit https://alitu.com and start a free trial to get started.

It's week 5 of 16: Jacob Anderson (@itwasjacob) and Colin Gray (@colinmcgray), his day job boss, are talking about long-term vision planning and choosing a name. Ryan has broken ground on building the first mini product under the brand, names are being chosen, things are getting real. ------------------------------ In this episode: Jacob's progress on Brand naming and Manifesto.Ryan's progress on building an auth system and laying the foundations to work with an LLM. UI can be built generatively. Excitement for a future with AI. Using a vector store for a hybrid memory model.How Colin chose the names for The Podcast Host and Alitu. Functional names are usually best (so watch us NOT do that!) The power of storytelling. The importance of sound symbolism. ------------------------------ This podcast is made with Alitu: Alitu was made to give indie creators a leg up. Podcasting is too time-consuming for most people, but Alitu let's you sit down to record, make some simple edits if you really want to, and just hit publish. It'll clean up your audio and make you sound loud and clear, add the right metadata, deal with filetypes and export settings. You literally just press publish. So if you're like me and feel like you've barely got enough time to work on your startup as it is, but really want to add podcasting to your content mix, then give it a shot. It only costs $38 per month for your whole stack of podcasting tools, but if you use discount code "buildinpublic" when you upgrade and you'll get 15% off for 3 months. Just visit https://alitu.com and start a free trial to get started.

It's week 4 of 16: Jacob Anderson (@itwasjacob) and Colin Gray (@colinmcgray), his day job boss, sit down to discuss the exciting news that Jacob recently found a co-founder. The podcast delves into why Colin wishes he had one at the start, the hows and why's of doing a partnership alignment workshop, and the market research findings that will shape their endeavors.We also discuss our ideas for an easier-to-deliver MVP, which still solves similar problems, but lets us get to revenue faster. ------------------------------ In this episode: Finding a cofounder vs going solo Onboarding a co-founder for your startup Why partnership alignment is important Early customer research findings Building a customer research app for novices AND professionals Why interviews work better than surveys for customer research Deciding to build an MVP using the same tech, solving a related problem, but far quicker to revenue ------------------------------ This podcast is made with Alitu: Alitu was made to give indie creators a leg up. Podcasting is too time-consuming for most people, but Alitu let's you sit down to record, make some simple edits if you really want to, and just hit publish. It'll clean up your audio and make you sound loud and clear, add the right metadata, deal with filetypes and export settings. You literally just press publish. So if you're like me and feel like you've barely got enough time to work on your startup as it is, but really want to add podcasting to your content mix, then give it a shot. It only costs $38 per month for your whole stack of podcasting tools, but if you use discount code "buildinpublic" when you upgrade and you'll get 15% off for 3 months.Just visit https://alitu.com and start a free trial to get started.

Jacob Anderson and his co-founder Ryan have joined forces to start an AI startup. This episode is a recording of their first meeting on Zoom, and digs into how they're going to work together.

In this first episode, Jacob Anderson begins his 16-week journey to build an AI startup, with the guidance of his boss, mentor and accountability partner, Colin Gray. They discuss the potential of AI, the idea behind Jacob's startup, and their commitment to seeking customer feedback. Join them as they document the progress, lessons, and experiences in this exciting AI-guided adventure.