Ben Curtis & Josh Wood - Kids These Days
In this episode of IndieRails, co-founders Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood share the origin story of Honeybadger, an application monitoring tool for Ruby on Rails applications (and many others).
They discuss their motivations for starting the company, the challenges they faced in the early days. The conversation also covers their approach to product development, marketing, pricing strategies, expanding into new markets and the lessons learned from their journey.
Honeybadger
Ben Curtis
Mastodon
Bluesky
LinkedIn
Josh Wood
Mastodon
Bluesky
LinkedIn
They discuss their motivations for starting the company, the challenges they faced in the early days. The conversation also covers their approach to product development, marketing, pricing strategies, expanding into new markets and the lessons learned from their journey.
Honeybadger
Ben Curtis
Mastodon
Bluesky
Josh Wood
Mastodon
Bluesky
Creators and Guests

Host
Jeremy Smith
Designer & Rails dev • Co-organizing: https://t.co/q8XwVUrgxU • Studio: https://t.co/ZrmGeEnhcI • Side project: https://t.co/X0kD85uiQf • Newsletter: https://t.co/IaoJVazkkr

Host
Jess Brown
Indie rails dev since 08, currently building CSePub & TRACT. Co-host https://t.co/TpDORNDqZV. Family of 4, also interested in faith, crossfit, cycling, RV'ing, finance

Guest
Ben Curtis
Christian, husband, dad, co-founder of Honeybadger.io, fan of Ruby, EV nut (1, 2, and 4-wheel), LSU football fan, and cycling enthusiast in the PNW.
