Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

05:24 What hooked him on code

09:13 The idea behind tiun

10:22 Funding the early days

11:30 Beyond media payments

13:42 Building a great checkout

15:39 The pivot

18:58 How to choose investors

21:46 Angel round or VC first

24:15 What "Tiun" means

24:42 From two founders to three

27:06 The Product Hunt launch

29:23 Handling launch-day traffic

33:12 Building with AI agents

34:55 Codex vs Claude Code

37:57 Three best moments

39:36 Handling the tough days

42:57 Building from Switzerland

45:23 Choosing where to build

49:29 Advice for young founders

51:10 Books and learning resources

54:02 Open mic

54:58 Conclusion

Show Notes:

tiun: https://tiun.io

Deep Work by Cal Newport: https://calnewport.com

Stripe Press: https://press.stripe.com

YC Startup School: https://www.startupschool.org

ETH Zurich: https://ethz.ch

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com

Chris's LinkedIn: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/christian-heiduschke

If your kid or your closest friend came to you tomorrow and said, "I want to switch into software engineering as a career", what would you actually tell them? Our guests answer that question.

Show Links:

https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-job-market-2026

https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-500k-engineers-250k-ai-tokens-nvidia-compute-2026-3

https://x.com/steipete/status/2055346265869721905/photo/1

https://youtu.be/FQpZdCKgc6w

Follow our guests:

- https://x.com/boredabdel

- https://x.com/soub4i

- https://x.com/el_ateifSara

- https://x.com/saidbouig

In this episode, we talk honestly about what it takes to build a global product from outside Silicon Valley, why he changed his mind about solo founders, the mistake almost every technical founder makes when they bring in a "business" co-founder, and how AI tools have flattened the geography of software.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:50 Starting on an MSX, fixing CRT monitors, and studying math before CS

05:18 Binary Interactive Studio

07:50 Jobland: video-CV app

10:35 POS Rocket

12:45 Raising from local VCs vs. the US

14:18 The secret sauce of POS Rocket

15:55 Switching from builder to investor

22:38 Why he co-founded Xpand Conference

27:30 Leaving Propeller to start Maza VC

31:30 Why pre-seed is both more impactful

33:30 The advantage of building from your home country

38:48 Did he miss coding?

42:00 Solo founders: red flag → green flag

46:25 The countries producing the best founders right now

48:18 The #1 mistake technical founders make

51:35 Mountain biking

55:50 New Section: Paul Graham, vibe code, mountain biking

56:50 Closing

Show Links:

- LinkedIn: https://jo.linkedin.com/in/tambijalouqa

- Maza VC: https://maza.vc

- Maza VC Handbook: https://handbook.maza.vc/about/introduction

- Propeller VC: https://propellervc.com

- Xpand Conference: https://www.xpandconf.com

- Claude Code: https://claude.com/claude-code

- Y Combinator: https://ycombinator.com

- Paul Graham essays: https://paulgraham.co

In this episode, Amin Benjellon shares his inspiring journey from growing up in Morocco, navigating the challenges of startups as a foreign student in France, to successfully joining Y Combinator. He discusses the importance of mindset, jumping on waves of opportunity, and the impact of YC on his entrepreneurial trajectory.

Links

- Amine on X: @BenGeekly

- Rolling Dice Club: https://rollindiceclub.com

- MailWarm: https://mailwarm.com

If you're a developer, indie hacker, or SaaS builder, this is a must-watch.

You'll learn:

- The strategy he used to niche down and find his first clients

- Why he started a t-shirt business to learn Shopify

- The moment he discovered a Kardashian was using his theme

- His raw, unfiltered advice for anyone wanting to build their own software product

Show Notes:

- Bricks Space Lab:https://brickspacelab.com

- Follow Thomas's journey on Twitter: https://x.com/kimurathomas

We're joined by Sean Rosenthal, the co-founder of Native PHP. He shares his incredible journey from a career in sales to co-creating a framework that allows developers to build native desktop and mobile apps using the PHP and Laravel skills they already have.

Sean provides a candid look at the entrepreneurial grind, the technical challenges he and his partner Simon Hamp overcame, and what the future holds for PHP outside of the web.

Show Notes:

What You'll Learn:

• How personal drive and a problem-solving mindset are crucial for success in tech.
• The real story behind what inspired Native PHP and how the project got started.
• A deep dive into the technical solutions used to compile PHP for iOS and Android.
• Sean's experiences working on complex projects for major organizations like Pfizer.
• The importance of building a support infrastructure, not just a product.

Links Mentioned:

• Native PHP Official Website
• Sean Rosenthal on X (Twitter)
• Sean's YouTube Channel - Laravel Online
• The New Boston (YouTube Channel)

In this episode, I interviewed with Simon Hamp, a seasoned software engineer with 25 years of experience in PHP.

Simon shares his incredible journey from being a self-taught programmer in the days before YouTube and Stack Overflow to becoming the owner and maintainer of Native PHP and the founder of Laravel Dev.

Show Notes:

Links

• Simon Hamp's Website: simonhamp.me

• Simon Hamp on X: @SimonHamp

• NativePHP: nativephp.com

• Laravel Dev: laradevs.com

In this episode, we're joined by Ayman Ben Amor, a software developer and the visionary founder behind the BeJS (Belgian JavaScript) community. Ayman shares his incredible journey from a movie-loving kid who wanted to be a hacker to organizing some of Europe's and Africa's most prominent developer events, including React Brussels, React Paris, and the inaugural React Africa.

He pulls back the curtain on the immense effort required to run a successful tech conference, detailing the 9-12 month planning cycle, the stress of sales and marketing, and the complex logistics of securing venues and speakers.

Show Notes:

BeJS Community: https://bejs.io

React Brussels Conference: https://react.brussels

React Paris Conference: https://react.paris/

React Africa Conference: https://react-africa.com

Ayman on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Aymen_Ben_Amor

Book Recommendation: "Personality Isn't Permanent" by Benjamin Hardy