The Robot Factory

We launched our hiring app, HappyHire, to help companies hire without bias. While celebrating, Caleb was sending some sick lines on his bike and bit it.  Though battered, bruised, and one-armed, we persevered to launch HappyHire on schedule. Caleb is slowly mending and the rest of us remain unscathed...for the moment! Chat with us if you need help hiring well or just want to commiserate about the perils of stunt biking.(00:00) - 026 - Breaking Arms and Launching Hiring Apps (01:48) - Intro (03:41) - We Went on Retreat (08:04) - We Named The Hiring App (10:07) - Caleb's Reaction To HappyHire.team (13:52) - Chatting With a Potential HappyHire Customer (18:37) - Outro The Products: HappyHire.team, Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Between cleaning peanut butter out of his mouth with club soda and building an AI, Caleb’s been busy. Speaking of busy, we've built our hiring app and are just about ready for testing/launch.(00:00) - 025 (01:04) - Intro (03:42) - Recap of Values Based Hiring (05:47) - How Would a New User Use Our Hiring App? (06:52) - Caleb Wants The Company Card (08:35) - The Features We Built Into The Hiring App (15:10) - Caleb Built an AI BRAIN (25:07) - Outro The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

We heard from a listener, two actually. We discuss how our hiring app idea might resonate with fellow values oriented companies and what our next steps are for validating the idea.(00:00) - 024 - Getting Feedback On Our Hiring App (02:45) - Intro (03:21) - Emails From Listeners (04:39) - Feedback on our Hiring App Idea (10:38) - Building a Community Around Values First Principles (13:26) - Improving Diversity of Job Applicants (15:29) - Validating With Some HR Professionals (18:15) - Outro The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Caleb, Daila, and Jonathan discuss building a community backyard sharing marketplace and how to gather an audience of folks who would want to build similar marketplaces.(00:00) - 023 - We Plan Validation (00:41) - Intro (01:58) - Thinking About A Local Marketplace (15:50) - How Will We Actually Build a Course? (19:01) - Outro The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

We hired someone who listens to the podcast. We also hint at a new app we're building for festival badges.(00:00) - Podcast (01:26) - Introduction (02:19) - Expanding Our Audience One Farm Dog At A Time (04:19) - Expanding Our Team One Listener At A Time (08:10) - Close to Launching an Event Badge App (12:39) - Updates On The Hiring App (14:36) - Outro The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Caleb, Daila, and Jonathan chat about how we built a hiring app that we hope to productize. We're also going to eat our own dog food and use it for some hiring that we anticipate having to do.(00:00) - 021 - We Built a Hiring App (00:35) - Introduction (02:13) - Taxes (03:22) - Daila Does Her Homework (04:39) - Daila Built the Hiring App (11:25) - Scratching Our Own Dog Food (18:05) - Outro The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

We discuss meeting a fan of the podcast and how we're going to try to productize our hiring process.(00:00) - 020 - We Productize Hiring (00:50) - Introduction (01:05) - Daila met a fan (03:03) - Daila's homework (03:49) - Aiming for a new Little Robot website (09:01) - Can we productize our hiring process (15:10) - Can we build a marketplace course (20:20) - Outro The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

We launch a new educational game for Alberta schools teaching how to use cattle grazing as a tool for sustainable grassland management.We also talk a bit about AI and maybe our next game.Play the game: gotggame.caNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Jonathan, Daila, and Caleb talk about a recent trip to Texas to start a new company helping with the issue of challenged books in Texas public school.(00:00) - We Went To Texas (01:22) - Introduction (02:04) - Caleb is nearly a fully formed human (03:39) - Jonathan went to Texas (09:11) - Applying lessons to other projects (15:54) - Outro Creators & Guests Caleb Sharp - Host Jonathan Bowers (he/him) - Host Daila Duford - Host

Jonathan and Caleb discuss how walking can help you think and code, how we make client gifts, and some random ideas for new businesses.(00:00) - 017 - Happy Holidays (02:21) - Intro (03:17) - Changing Newsletter Providers (05:13) - How to subscribe to the po dcast (06:26) - Holiday Gifts for Clients (08:58) - AI Art Biz Idea (12:50) - No-code tool to share Figma designs (21:44) - Outro The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Kristina Lorson taught herself Bubble and turned her clunky spreadsheet into a functioning app successfully transporting bands for 4 music festivals. In this first interview with Kristina we discuss the background pain that Kristina experienced and how she overcame some challenges to build the whole app herself. Traverse is well positioned to take on even more growth in 2023 and we'll be here for a front row seat.(00:00) - 016-kristina (00:34) - Kristina Lorson (03:03) - Traverse, Transportation Management (10:56) - Festival Transportation is Massively Overlooked (13:19) - When Transportation Doesn't Go Right (14:56) - Traverse So Far (17:16) - Finding Potential Investors in Your Users (18:08) - How Has This Not Been Solved Before? (22:00) - How Big Is This Opportunity? (23:18) - How Can We Also We Get Volunteers to Want to Invest? (25:55) - When a Founder Feels The Pain Their Product Solves (29:25) - Deciding to Try Building It Myself (31:21) - Goals For The Upcoming Festival Season (34:45) - Can Traverse Be Acquired (39:41) - Solving Your Own Problems The Products: Raisonne.gallery, OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharpCreators & Guests Jonathan Bowers (he/him) - Host Kristina Lorson Little - Guest

Jonathan, Caleb, and Daila discuss our newest project, raisonne.gallery. What started as a client project has turned into one of our first real products. It aims to solve the needs of art galleries who want to share their collection online and with other galleries.[01:53] New Product for Art Galleries[03:28] Building a Custom Database for Kamloops Art Gallery[08:02] Launching a Landing Page for Raisonné[09:34] Checking Our Spelling[12:01] Caleb Groans While He Works[13:53] Raisonne.galleryCreators & Guests Jonathan Bowers (he/him) - Host Caleb Sharp - Host Daila Duford - Host The Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

We lucked into getting our first revenue generating Coda pack more-or-less paid for. Listen as guest Courtney Milligan shares how we build packs for Coda that export data to Excel and Google Workspace.[00:43] What is Coda[01:51] Tracking a saw mill in Coda[05:57] Courtney's background[08:32] Coda Packs[16:31] Paid packs[20:48] Working with CodaFind our Coda Packs in the Pack gallery:Export Tables (free): https://coda.io/packs/export-tables-10648Export Tables Pro: https://coda.io/packs/export-tables-pro-10652Export to Google Workspace: https://coda.io/packs/export-to-google-workspace-11813The Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Jonathan, Caleb, and Daila discuss how turning satellite imagery into animated gifs is like building property management software, in that it's just a bunch of random coincidence and that we can increase our likelihood of luck.[00:39] Building a dynamic image generator Bubble plugin[02:57] Can we take screenshots of Google Maps? (No)[08:51] Accounting and property management[14:17] Accidentally creating thingsThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Daila couldn't make it on this episode, so Caleb and Jonathan explore some of the details of the free tier of OpenHouse.social, how easy it is to build forms with Tally.so, and if we might re-use the tech for OpenHouse.social to power a Bubble Plugin.Form builder: Tally.soThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

For the first time, we now have three co-hosts. We discuss what "free" even means and what features we might want to change for OpenHouse.social to make a free tier and we discuss some light upcoming plans for the property management app.[03:01] What does free mean?[05:47] Should we make OpenHouse.social free (as in beer)?[08:53] We still want Caleb as a co-host[10:48] Back to property management stuffThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Caleb was unable to make it after feeling a bit under the weather. So we introduce Daila Duford as another host of the show. Caleb is still going to be a host, he hasn't been replaced.We talk about how Daila and the Little Robot team was able to build one of the features for the new property management software in just an afternoon. We also discuss what no-code is and why we are excited about if for new products.[01:24] Feedback from a listener, we don't have an audience.[02:39] Building some initial property management features[05:00] What is Figma and Bubble[07:02] What is Little Robot[10:23] Failing faster[14:58] Back to property managementThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Fresh off a trip to Disneyland, Caleb discovers he might be replaced as co-host of the podcast. Jonathan and Caleb decide it's probably best to just add more hosts and pivot to property management. We also talk about road signs.[00:27] Welcome back from Disneyland, Caleb[01:54] Caleb thinks he's getting replaced[03:48] We learn about the gap in property management software[09:31] On road construction signs[12:56] Tweaking the music for the podcast[15:33] More ideas about automationThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Jonathan and Caleb sit down with Brendan Shaw to chat about OpenHouse.social and instead think about a pivot into a different product entirely.[00:39] Welcome Brendan[01:51] How does an 18 year old become a real estate agent?[07:51] On not trading hours for dollars[09:15] Give us your feedback Brendan Shaw[19:19] What part of Brendan's business could be automated[30:00] Does Brendan just want to become a tech entrepreneur?[36:57] How to get ahold of BrendanFind Brendan Shaw:Web: bsre.caEmail: brendan@bsre.caTwitter: @brendanshawbcInstagram: @brendanshawThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp

Jonathan and Caleb discuss how AI might be helpful for content writing and how agencies might use OpenHouse.social. Also, this episode shouts out to the moms that are listening. Hi Moms!Also, checkout our Instagram page, @therobotfactorypod for a collection of AI generated alternatives to our podcast cover art. If your interested in AI generated art, we mentioned DALL-E but we also recommend checking out Midjourney[00:30] We can accept payments now[06:02] What do real estate marketing agencies do[16:36] What's left to doThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodThe Product: OpenHouse.socialNewsletter: factory.twostoryrobot.comTwitter: @twostoryrobotInstagram: @therobotfactorypodFollow Jonathan: @thejonotronFollow Caleb: @calebissharp