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In episode 2, we discuss a programming conference we attended last week, struggles dividing work amongst ourselves, our reasoning behind choosing to bootstrap Uproar, and sticking with a product that works and promoting it.

Show notes and links, roughly in the order we mentioned them:

On our podcasting setup

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PodcastEquipment.html
• http://boagworld.com/podcast/show-66-beyond-html
• http://blog.stackoverflow.com/

On attending Strange Loop Conference 2009

• http://thestrangeloop.com/
• Alex Payne’s keynote presentation
• Matthew Taylor’s jQuery presentation
• http://torquebox.org/

On splitting work in an effort to make us more efficient

• http://www.moo.com/
• http://clearleft.com/

On our reasoning for bootstrapping a startup

• http://thestrangeloop.com/sessions/panel-programmers-turned-entrepreneurs
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

On choosing a project and sticking with what works, dropping what doesn’t

• Pocket God
• Booyah and their $5 million VC deal
• Obvious stopping Odeo and focusing on Twitter

On promoting your company & products

• Jeremy Olson of Tapity and his upcoming app
• tap tap tap and their blog

The music for this podcast, used by permission, is by Pretty Lights (intro) and Avi Ghosh (outro).  The transition music is from Nine Inch Nail’s Ghosts I-IV album, a Creative Commons 3 licensed work.

Download this episode

Subscribe and listen to this podcast in iTunes

In episode 1, we introduce Uproar and the podcast. With introductions out of the way, Rick and Kevin discuss business models for bootstrappers and for iPhone developers.

The music for this podcast is used by permission by Pretty Lights (intro) and Avi Ghosh (outro).

Links to stuff we mentioned, roughly in the order we mentioned them:

http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/

http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/

http://www.bobsgame.com/

http://rampchamp.com/

http://iconfactory.com/

http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific

http://www.firemint.com/flightcontrol/

http://pocketgod.blogspot.com/

http://tweetblast.taptaptap.com/

http://taptaptap.com/#convert

http://www.taptaptap.com/blog/convert-second-month-sales/

http://gedblog.com/2009/09/28/losing-ireligion/

http://culturedcode.com/things/

http://www.evernote.com/

http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/

http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hansson-at-startup-school-08