55: The Entrepreneurial Rollercoaster - a podcast by Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer

Derrick is in Washington for ElixirConf. Like Elixir, he is becoming more comfortable with stability, as opposed to constant churn and new stuff all the time. He knows you have to show restraint to try and not solve every problem. While at the conference, Derrick wants to make connections with people and hopes Level will one day be a good use case example for the Elixir community.
Ben is discovering that startups are not easy. There are a lot of ups and downs. While other people were enjoying Labor Day, Ben was actually being a boss and getting work done. He may not have worked on the highest priority, but on a task that was satisfying to work on.Today’s Topics Include:
Derrick has been keeping up his dev journal for Level by chronicling stories about the day-to-day building process; keeps him focusedFor his journal, Derrick is using Svbtle, which offers a beta option to enable SSL for secure custom domains
Derrick is experimenting with newer Web platform functionality and built a custom element for Level to inject custom HTML and send push notificationsBen was planning to pair using the Tuple app, but a bunch of stuff broke
Highs and lows with Tuple have been crazy; the lows make Ben wonder if it is ever going to workDerrick tried using Level with someone else and everything seemed confusing; feel good about small wins, but rough spots can be difficult
Still a lot to do with Tuple, but Ben is making forward progress; keyboard support and other features have been merged - becoming a working appBen has some performance and latency leads for Tuple that are promising
Tuple continues to be tested inside and outside of Ben’s team to address variablesLinks and resources:
Derrick Reimer Website (http://www.derrickreimer.com/)Derrick Reimer on Twitter (https://twitter.com/derrickreimer)
Ben Orenstein Website (http://www.benorenstein.com/)Ben Orenstein on Twitter (https://twitter.com/r00k)
Level (https://level.app/)The Level Journal (https://leveljournal.com/)
Tuple (https://tuple.app/)ElixirConf (https://elixirconf.com/)
RubyConf (https://rubyconf.org/)Heroku (https://www.heroku.com/)
Richard Feldman (https://github.com/rtfeldman/)Svbtle (https://svbtle.com/)

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