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
Appears in 59 Episodes
Matt Swanson - The Product Engineer
In this episode, Jess and Jeremy chat with Matt Swanson, CTO of Arrows, author of Boring Rails, and host of the YAGNI podcast. In addition to his blog, Matt shares a l...
Rhiannon Payne & Justin Bowen - Agents of Change
Rhiannon Payne and Justin Bowen are one of the very few couples working together in the Ruby and Rails ecosystem. Justin is a long-time Rails developer, consultant, an...
Zeke Gabrielse - Build for Your Users Without Obeying Them
In this episode we talk to Zeke Gabrielse, solo founder and owner of Keygen, a licensing and distribution API. We get deep in the weeds of running a solo business (muc...
Regional Ruby Conferences - A Crossover Episode
In this special crossover episode, we make a slight departure from our typical format to chat with Adrian and Yaro from the Friendly Show and Jason from the Code with ...
JD Graffam - See If They Hug You Back
A few episodes ago, Garrett Dimon shared the story of how he sold his SaaS product Sifter. In this episode, we complete the story arc by catching up with JD Graffam, t...
Radan Skorić - Mastering Hotwire
In this episode, Jess and Jeremy chat with Radan Skorić, a long-time Ruby and Rails developer and team lead, co-organizer Ruby Zagreb, and author of the forthcoming bo...
Time, Energy, Capital...LOL
This week, Jess and Jeremy get into the nitty-gritty of resource allocation for indie makers: how to make the most of your limited time, energy, and capital. As solo a...
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 applicati...
Garrett Dimon - A Long Winding Journey
Our guest for this episode is Garrett Dimon. Garrett is a developer, author, conference speaker and multi time business owner. With some partners, he’s recently formed...
Joe Masilotti - Return of the Hotwire Native Guy
Our first-ever IndieRails guest returns to the podcast just shy of two years later. Joe Masilotti shares about niching down on Hotwire Native, changes in the related o...
Jim Remsik - Genuinely Desiring Success In Those Around Him
In this episode, Jeremy & I are excited to share a mic with Jim Remsik. Jim is the Founder and CEO of a digital agency called Flagrant. He is also a conference organiz...
New Year Sentiment
Jess and Jeremy kick off the first recording of 2025 with a recap of 2024, and a look at their plans and goals for the new year. We chat about the importance of celebr...
Paul Campbell - Look at What You've Done
Paul Campbell is a Rails developer (since v0.13), conference organizer, and the CEO and co-founder of Team Tito. Paul joins us to talk about his career building softwa...
Good Enough and the Cosmic Maelstrom
In this episode, we are joined by Barry Hess, James Adam, and Matthew Lettini from the Good Enough team to discuss their journey in creating a self-sustaining business...
Always Something, Never Nothing - Becky Searls
In this episode, we're excited to introduce our guest, Becky Searls. We recently met Becky at Rails World and learned about her business, Better with Becky—a fitness t...
"Just a bunch of guys"
In this episode, Jess and Jeremy chat about leveling up professionally, the importance of community and personal growth, and the challenges of starting new things. Jes...
One Person Framework with Justin Searls
In this episode, Justin Searls (open source author, speaker, and co-founder of Test Double) joins us in-person at Rails World to talk about his career, speaking, consu...
Rails World 2024 Crossover
On Day 2 of Rails World, Jess and Jeremy join with Drew Bragg of Code and the Coding Coders Who Code It and Adrian Marin and Yaro Shmarov of the Friendly Show to chat...
Hanging with Remote Ruby
In this crossover episode, Jeremy and Jess join up with Chris & Jason from Remote Ruby podcast to discuss Ruby programming, indie development, and the challenges of bu...
Justin Duke - Building the Product You Want
Justin Duke is the founder of Buttondown, an email platform with first-class Markdown support. Justin is also a partner at Third South Capital, where he and his partne...
