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Explore "tech community" with insightful episodes like "3 Niche Business Ideas: AI Psychics, Creator-Owned VPNs & Guns with Soylent co-Founder John Coogan", "Serverless / Cloud Functions - Part 1" and "Potluck - Career Switch at 33 × Cover Letters × Kids × Learning Quickly × More!" from podcasts like ""My First Million", "Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats" and "Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats"" and more!

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3 Niche Business Ideas: AI Psychics, Creator-Owned VPNs & Guns with Soylent co-Founder John Coogan

Episode 496: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with John Coogan (https://twitter.com/johncoogan), co-Founder of Soylent & Lucy and EIR at Founders Fund. John shares the most underrated creator-business no ones talking about, what Peter Theil and Keith Rabois are like, why he thinks lifestyle businesses are worthless and much more. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Other Cool Stuff: • MFM Clips Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ClipMFM • MFM Merch - https://store.mfmpod.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:15) Soylent origin story (14:50) Lucy background (17:00) Business Idea 1: Creator-owned VPN (23:20) Business Idea 2: Ammunition Rollup (28:45) How often does Sam think of the Roman Empire? (32:20) Thoughts on Keith Rabois (34:40) Best Twitter follows (36:15) Debate: Lifestyle businesses vs. VC-backed (48:15) Who John’s voting for (51:00) Why AI wrappers are great businesses (53:30) Business Idea 3: Lensa for ChatGPT (57:40) Scam artist telemarketing (1:04:05) Closing thoughts — Links: • John Coogan Twitter - https://twitter.com/johncoogan • John Coogan Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/johncooganplus • Soylent - https://soylent.com/ • Lucy Gum - https://lucy.co/ • Sam's Soylent article - https://tinyurl.com/mu8yhbyv • Linus Tech Tips - https://www.youtube.com/user/linustechtips • Anduril - https://www.anduril.com/ • Founders Fund - https://foundersfund.com/ • Keith Rabois - https://twitter.com/rabois • Sean Parker - https://twitter.com/sparker • Ligma Johnson - https://tinyurl.com/yx598zcc • Peter Thiel - https://twitter.com/peterthiel • Will Hurd - https://twitter.com/WillHurd • Lensa - https://prisma-ai.com/lensa • Power Law with John Coogan - https://tinyurl.com/3fdz6axs • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

enSeptember 19, 2023

Serverless / Cloud Functions - Part 1

In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about serverless and cloud providers - the benefits, limitations, providers and more!

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Show Notes

4:05 - What is Serverless?

URL driven
Startup/shut down (Heroku works this way)
Digital Ocean droplet works differently

8:15 - What are the benefits?

Scale up specific functions rather than everything - aka potentially cheaper
Security - your singular server instance being hacked is not a possibility
Less knowledge overhead required
- You don’t need to manage your own server
- Empowers front-end devs to do more
Faster deploys
- Only re-deploy the code that changed

17:05 - What can you host on Serverless?

Static Files - SPA (React)
Single functions
It can be in JS, Python, GO, PHP

18:07 - What can’t you host on Serverless?

Entire applications
Large apps have slow coldstarts
500mb limit

23:40 - Raw Providers

Google Cloud
Azure
AWS Lambda
SAP
Red Hat
IBM Cloud Functions
Cloudflare Workers
Kind of cool because they work like service workers where you can intercept any HTTP request

27:33 - Easy Providers + Frameworks

Begin + Arc.codes
Zeit Now + Next.js
Anything + Serverless
Netlify
AWS Amplify
Apex Up - TJ Holowaychuk
Open Faas + Digital Ocean

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enFebruary 19, 2020

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Potluck - Career Switch at 33 × Cover Letters × Kids × Learning Quickly × More!

It’s another potluck! In this episode, Scott and Wes answer your questions about career changes, preprocessors, moving, “the gap”, hip hop and more!

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Show Notes

1:54 - Q: I am 33 with a wife and two young daughters, and am trying to change careers. My job pays $80,000 a year, but I hate it. My wife is ok with me doing university, but she wants me to stay at the job I don’t like. Should I stand my ground? Any tips on achieving my goals to make me happy, but also keep my family happy?

10:10 - Q: What is your advice to very junior/junior devs in writing cover letters for jobs? I wonder what to say without sounding canned and fake.

14:35 - Q: Scott, what was the stack you were using at Ford?

17:09 - Q: Other than reading the docs, how do you guys go about learning/trying out new technologies? Do you rebuild similar applications or pick out individual features you think are “sIcK”?

22:32 - Q: Is it always necessary to use setState in react when storing data (for example, a form input) even if you don’t intend on re-rendering the page, or can you get away without using state?

25:04 - Q: Development has a stereotype for being a young person’s game. As someone who started their career out of university, I often wonder how long I can sling divs for? Do you think you could make it to retirement age or do you think the game will change out from under you?

30:34 - Q: Scott, you’ve mentioned you love hip hop. Would you be willing to share any playlists of your all-time favorite hip hop artists?

32:08 - Q: What are your thoughts on HTML pre-processors? If you use one, which one(s) do you prefer and why?

36:04 - Q: What advice would you have for someone considering to “level up” their career by moving from a city with few tech jobs to a city with more opportunity for tech jobs? What are some of the biggest things to consider when moving possibly cross-country to further a career?

42:11 - Q: What are your recommendations in terms of resources for first time dads (and moms) like books, podcasts, etc. and generally good co-parenting advice for working professionals?

46:45 - Q: Loved the show with Travis. Had a question about “the gap”. Similar to design ambitions/taste surpassing current skill, when did you feel like your code had “grown up” and that you could actually DO what you envisioned with Javascript?