Interview with Courtland Allen - What would you like to know?
Today, I have the pleasure to interview Courtland for the Software Engineering Unlocked podcast.
I'll ask him about the early days of building this community, and his podcast. I'll also dip deep about the technical side of running his business (e.g., building and maintaining the indie hacker web site).
What else would you like to know?
Cheers,
Michaela
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Thanks for the questions. I'll ask him ;-)
When did he become fearless about building experimental features on a live site and breaking things messing with the prod DB? Having been on IH fairly early I've seen this a few times.
It really stands out against what a median professional dev-turned-indiehacker does. I found it took me a lot of effort after leaving my last day job to increase my risk tolerance on the devops side. For me it was seeing a good friend run a way more successful business than any I've build and with far less engineering rigor. He had no tests, no source control and editing PHP/CSS/JS files on the server through a windows FTP client, but earned half my yearly salary each month.
This are awesome questions. Unfortunately too late for the interview, but, I most likely will invite Courtland again, and then, I'll ask him this for sure.
Thanks!
Is he/was he tempted to build native apps for a better experience? Does he think being web only has had an impact on growth?
If he wasn't involved with IH for Stripe, what idea(s) would he be working on today?