If you're back to a regular commute or workout and need to catch up on podcasts, we put out 2 episodes bookending the holidays… An interview with Jared Brown, CEO of Hubstaff. www.indierails.com/70 And an unedited 1-on-1 chat to kick off the new year. www.indierails.com/71

Episode 69 just came out of the lab! 👨‍🔬 Ernesto Tagwerker (@etagwerker.bsky.social), founder of OmbuLabs and FastRuby.io, returns to chat about the changing industry landscape and running an agency in the age of AI. Thanks for catching up with us, Ernesto! 🙏☺️ www.indierails.com/69

Episode 68 was just handed off to a subagent! 👨‍💻 We chat with Brian Casel (@briancasel.com) about building software products, managing a portfolio of projects, working with AI, growing a YouTube channel, and his latest venture: Builder Methods. Thanks again, Brian! 🙏 www.indierails.com/68

Episode 67 has a bit of a temperature! 🌡️ In this one, we sit down with @wale-olaleye.bsky.social, founder of Rails Fever, to chat about building a software consulting business, marketing and sales outreach, refining your messaging, and the value of being local and in-person. www.indierails.com/67

Episode 65 is now registered! ✍️ We chat with @anthonyeden.bsky.social about building @dnsimple.bsky.social, the DNS/domain industry, the importance of the Ruby community, remote teams, and life/work on hard mode. Anthony, thanks again for the enlightening discussion! 🙏 www.indierails.com/65

Episode 64 has been seated. 🪑 In this roundtable discussion, we chat with @jesper.dev, @olly.world, and @whysthatso.bsky.social about our wishlist items as Rails devs toward the one-person end of the spectrum. www.indierails.com/64

Episode 63 has entered the realm of legend. 🧙‍♂️🤴 We chat with Mariusz Kozieł, CEO of Visuality, about his progression from developer to CEO, and his work fostering community with Ruby Europe and the Ruby Community Conference. www.indierails.com/63

InidieRails (Jess & Jeremy) will be in ATL next Saturday at @xoruby.com We'd love to connect and reconnect.

HI everyone, did you miss us? We're back after a short summer break. We'll be publishing new episodes every other week the remainder of the year!

Episode 62 is live and ready to query! 🔍 We chat with Jason Bosco (@jasonbosco.bsky.social), co-founder of Typesense, about going from Dollar Shave Club to democratizing search, building indie/bootstrapped + customer-funded, and showing up every day until it works. www.indierails.com/62

Hey friends! 👋 Jeremy & Jess are taking a podcast break for the rest of July and August. But we'll be back with new episodes in September! In the meantime, you should check out these podcasts, new in 2025: www.railsbusiness.com onrails.buzzsprout.com www.buzzsprout.com/2509083

Episode 61 has been unloosed! 🏹 We chat with Matt Swanson, CTO of Arrows, author of Boring Rails, and host of the YAGNI podcast, about software dev at Arrows, the product engineer, working with generative AI, and publishing technical content. www.indierails.com/61

Episode 60 has made the drop! 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️ We chat with Rhiannon Payne (@rhiannon.io) and Justin Bowen (@tonsoffun.bsky.social) about their work (individual and collaborative) in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, and their latest project: Active Agents, an AI framework for Rails. www.indierails.com/60

We're excited to be recording at Rails World in Amsterdam in September! Got some ideas cooking for conversations we'd like to have!🥘 Thank you to Buzzsprout for making it possible. 🙏❤️

Episode 59 has been generated! 🧪 We chat with Zeke Gabrielse about launching and running Keygen, earning customer trust, the worst 2 days of his career, building without obeying, and optimizing your business for you. Thanks again, Zeke! 🙏

Episode 58 is coming together! 👥👤👥 In this crossover, we chat with @adrianthedev.com and @yarotheslav.bsky.social from the Friendly Show and @jasonswett.bsky.social of the Code with Jason podcast about a topic near and dear to our hearts: organizing regional Ruby conferences. 😊 www.indierails.com/58

Episode 57 is freshly squeezed! 🫂 JD Graffam joins us to talk about the buyer side of SaaS business acquisition. We dig into his approach to making deals and finding the right people to work with. Thanks for coming on, JD! ☺️ www.indierails.com/57

Episode 56 crossed the finish line! 🏃‍♂️ Jess & Jeremy chat with Radan Skorić about discovering Rails, technical blogging, and writing his forthcoming book, Master Hotwire. Thanks again for the great conversation, Radan! 🙏 www.indierails.com/56

Episode 55 just wandered in... 🐈 Jess & Jeremy chat about a handful of topics, including making the most of limited time/energy/capital, ongoing learning, and personal information management. www.indierails.com/55

Episode 54 don't care, it's just running around eating cobras! 🦡 Ben Curtis (@bencurtis.com) and Josh Wood (@@joshuawood.honeybadger.io) join us to tell the story of starting and growing @honeybadger.io. Thanks again for the great conversation, Ben and Josh! 😊 www.indierails.com/54

Episode 53 was nothing but net! 🏀 Garrett Dimon (@garrettdimon.com) shares the journey of his career, from early web standards, to building, running, and selling Sifter, to now partnering up on Very Good. Garrett, thanks again for the stories and insights! 🙌 www.indierails.com/53

Episode 52 has cut loose! ✂️ Joe Masilotti (@joemasilotti.com), our first-ever guest, returns just shy of two years later to talk about niching down on Hotwire Native, and writing his forthcoming book. Joe, thanks again for catching up with us! 😊 www.indierails.com/52

Episode 51 just came out of the oven! 🥧 Jim Remsik (@jremsikjr.bsky.social), founder and CEO of Flagrant, joins us to talk about consulting, building agencies, design and branding, and his personal mission. Jim, thanks for the great discussion! 😊 www.indierails.com/51

Episode 50 has advanced to the next round! 🏆 Jess and Jeremy kick off their first recording of the year with a recap of 2024 and a look at goals and plans for 2025. Hope you enjoy! www.indierails.com/50

Episode 49 has checked in! 🎟️ Paul Campbell (@paulca.com), co-founder and CEO of Team Tito, joins us to talk about his career building software, companies, and events. Paul, thanks again for the great conversation! 🙏 www.indierails.com/49

Happy new year from Jess and Jeremy! 👋 We're over here now. 😊