• 138: Back In The Game
    Jul 1 2026

    Ian and Aaron discuss Ian's misadventures with poker, a huge update for Solo (Windows!), why Aaron thinks languages don't matter but frameworks & ecosystems do, and so much more.

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    • (00:00) - Mostly Poker
    • (10:55) - Poker Town?
    • (13:34) - Outro Update
    • (20:46) - Solo for Windows (!)
    • (30:50) - Pricing Advice
    • (33:52) - Laravel Live UK
    • (42:58) - Languages Don't Matter
    • (56:09) - LaraProm Update
    • (01:04:46) - World Cup

    Links:
    • World Series of Poker
    • Resorts World Las Vegas
    • Outro
    • Solo
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • 137: You Do Have To Care w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne
    Jun 23 2026

    Aaron is joined by John & Daniel of Thunk to talk about why you should think like a PM, what they want to see from Solo, trash cans in New York, "footy", and a whole lot more.

    Sponsored by Laracon AU, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and DropInBlog.

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    • (00:00) - Introduction to the Thunk Boys
    • (04:13) - Working on Laravel Forge
    • (09:22) - What does Daniel do?
    • (14:30) - Big week for New York
    • (22:34) - World Cup Social Media
    • (29:13) - Laravel Live
    • (36:33) - AI Code Responsibilities
    • (41:52) - Think Like A PM
    • (51:08) - Do Old Best Practices Still Apply?
    • (58:12) - Daniel's Solo Gripes & Asks
    • (01:20:34) - Tidy
    • (01:24:02) - Where Is Ian?

    Links:
    • Thunk
    • Talking Businessly
    • Tighten
    • Laravel Forge
    • Laravel Live UK
    • Laravel Live Japan
    • Laravel Live Denmark
    • Solo
    • Tidy
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • 136: Big, Audacious Goals
    Jun 16 2026

    Ian and Aaron discuss why HelpSpot raised prices, what Aaron's building for teams with Solo, the short-lived reign of Fable 5, pros & cons of DJ's, and so much more.

    Sponsored by Laracon AU, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and DropInBlog.

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    • (00:00) - The Great DJ Debate
    • (07:58) - Aaron's Going To Laravel Live UK
    • (14:22) - Ian Raised Prices
    • (27:26) - Teams & New Solo Pricing
    • (42:45) - New Frontiers
    • (56:51) - RIP Fable 5
    • (01:09:43) - Outro's Sponsorship System

    Links:
    • "Forever Young"
    • Laravel Live UK
    • HelpSpot Pricing
    • RIP Fable 5
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • 135: Ian's Over AI Coding?!
    Jun 9 2026

    Ian and Aaron discuss hiring new employees, Ian claiming he's over AI coding, huge updates to Outro, going big or going home on Token Town, and more.

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    • (00:00) - Down to the River
    • (05:33) - Ian's Over AI Coding?!
    • (13:45) - Aaron's Employee's First Week
    • (21:42) - Marketing & Content
    • (27:27) - Ian's Been Busy With Outro
    • (37:41) - Slash Brag Update
    • (41:06) - Ian Finally Hired Somebody!
    • (47:00) - Token Town Update
    • (55:28) - Horse Business
    • (01:04:14) - Aaron Went Fishing
    • (01:13:16) - Kids Sports

    Links:
    • Texas Hill Country
    • Token Town w/ Josh Pigford
    • Kristen Foxen
    • SEP IRA
    • Corey Haines Marketing Skills on GitHub
    • BlockNote
    • Ian's tweet about AI & coding faster
    • Joe Masilotti's post about deleting WebSockets
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • 134: The Edge of Safety
    Jun 2 2026

    Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron's new employee, the latest on Outro, a surprise trip to Portland, and more.

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    • (00:00) - Where Was Ian?
    • (02:26) - Outro Update
    • (12:32) - Kelsey Is Gone
    • (22:11) - Is Cloudflare Up?
    • (24:53) - Aaron's New Employee
    • (40:10) - LaraProm Update
    • (42:14) - A Little Technical
    • (54:35) - Aaron Went To Portland
    • (01:06:35) - Slash Brag

    Links:
    • Brett Adcock
    • Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud
    • Outro.fm
    • TinySeed
    • Jason Lengstorf
    • Web Dev Challenge
    • Kelsey Hightower
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 133: Do The Hardest Thing with Jesse Hanley
    May 26 2026

    Aaron is joined this week by Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, to talk about building a seven figure business, why he feels less stress now than he did when he started, migrating from Heroku to Planetscale, and more.

    Sponsored by InterNACHI, Honeybadger, Bento, Vask, and NativePHP Ultra

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    • (00:00) - 5 TB of Data
    • (11:12) - Laravel Live Japan
    • (15:46) - Seven Figure Business
    • (24:32) - Advice for Indie Hackers
    • (28:57) - Pick Better Problems
    • (32:50) - Friends of Bento
    • (42:33) - Heroku to Planetscale
    • (01:15:02) - What's Next

    Links:
    • Jesse Hanley
    • Speedshop
    • Jesse's Database School episode
    • Tatami
    • Dragonfly
    • RedisShake
    • Laravel Live Japan
    • Daniel Coulbourne
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • 132: Ian Shipped Outro!
    May 19 2026

    Ian and Aaron discuss finally recording Token Town, Ian finally shipping Outro, the benefits of working in public, what's coming next to Solo, and more.

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    • (00:00) - We Finally Recorded Token Town
    • (07:43) - Outro Is Live!
    • (21:43) - Working In Public Is Required
    • (27:54) - What's Next For Outro
    • (30:22) - What's New With Solo
    • (43:59) - Free vs. Paid
    • (55:20) - First Actual Resume
    • (01:04:41) - Starting A Movement
    • (01:12:36) - Everybody Loves Discord

    Links:
    • Token Town
    • Outro
    • Syntax
    • Solo
    • Faster
    • Aaron's page for Tuple
    • Derek Sivers's "Now" page
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Token Town 001: What is Anthropic Doing?!
    May 15 2026

    In the first-ever episode of Token Town Aaron & Ian break down pricing changes for Claude -p and the Agent SDK, a temporary 50% increase to Claude's limits, leaps in hacking ability, and more.

    Sponsored by Bento.

    Links:

    • Claude pricing changes
    • 'Anthropic beats OpenAI on business adoption'
    • Claude Code weekly limits are 50% higher
    • Solo
    • Amp
    • Superpowers
    • Mythos & cybersecurity
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    39 mins