This week Jon and Justin discussed:

• Basecamp
  
  
  • Note: we recorded this before Casey Newton's second article on Basecamp came out.
  
  
  • Also: this article is a really thoughtful take on the whole situation.
  
  
  • Ruby/Rails open source world.
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      https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/effect-of-the-last-week-on-ruby-on-rails/77702 
    
    
  
  
  
  


• SO EXCITED: HELEN IS ON THE TEAM! 🎉
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    https://transistor.fm/helen/ 
  
  


• Cost/benefit analysis
  
  
  • It’s really difficult to make that calculation: should we commit to this? How do we know that the cost will be worth the benefit?
  
  
  • For example, we could invest $100k + 6 months of time into building a mobile app for private podcasts, under the assumption that it will increase the number of private podcast customers we get. But what you don’t see is:
    
    
    • How much time + energy does it really take to build it?
    
    
    • Does it attract the wrong customers?
    
    
    • How much time + energy does it take to support it?
    
    
    • How does it affect the fun + calm of running the app?
    
    
    • Is all that effort really worth it?
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• Apple’s latest release is bad
  
  
  • So many bugs from Apple: https://transistor.fm/apple-podcasts-problem/ 
  
  
  • One bug in Spotify: https://transistor.fm/spotify-bug/ 
  
  
  
  

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