This week Jon and Justin discussed:
Basecamp
Note: we recorded this before Casey Newton's second article on Basecamp came out.
Also: this article is a really thoughtful take on the whole situation.
Ruby/Rails open source world.
https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/effect-of-the-last-week-on-ruby-on-rails/77702 



SO EXCITED: HELEN IS ON THE TEAM! ?
https://transistor.fm/helen/ 

Cost/benefit analysis
It’s really difficult to make that calculation: should we commit to this? How do we know that the cost will be worth the benefit?
For example, we could invest $100k + 6 months of time into building a mobile app for private podcasts, under the assumption that it will increase the number of private podcast customers we get. But what you don’t see is:
How much time + energy does it really take to build it?
Does it attract the wrong customers?
How much time + energy does it take to support it?
How does it affect the fun + calm of running the app?
Is all that effort really worth it?




Apple’s latest release is bad
So many bugs from Apple: https://transistor.fm/apple-podcasts-problem/ 
One bug in Spotify: https://transistor.fm/spotify-bug/ 


What should we talk about next?
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