John O'Nolan is the Founder and CEO of Ghost.org. Ghost is an open source blog & newsletter platform. We use them for the Scaling DevTools' blog.

Note: this episode was recorded on 17th October 2024.

We talk about:

• How to communicate the benefits of Open Source to non-developers
• How Ghost manages to align open source and money making
• John's thoughts on the Automattic/Wordpress drama
• Advantages and disadvantages of VC funding and open source
• What would John do with VC dollars

Resources:

• Ghost https://ghost.org/
• John's website https://john.onolan.org/
• The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-drama-explained/
• Indie Hackers podcast https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/139-john-onolan-of-ghost
• Cursor cursor.com
• Ben Thompson's blog https://stratechery.com/

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Gonto (Martin Gontovnikas) was the 6th employee at Auth0 and helped them grow fast and sell for $6.5billion to Okta.

Now he is the founder of Hypergrowth Partners and helps DevTools grow fast.

We discuss:

• What Auth0 did to become so valuable so fast
• What the best founders do (Guillermo Rauch)
• Different is better than better
• People follow people not brands
• Why bleeding edge matters

Resources

• Why Technical SDRs are the Future of DevTools
  https://playbooks.hypergrowthpartners.com/p/product-advocates-technical-sdrs
• Gonto's website https://gon.to/
• Gonto's Twitter https://twitter.com/mgonto
• Hypergrowth Partners https://www.hypergrowthpartners.com/
• Code to Market https://codetomarket.fm/
• Guillermo Rauch https://x.com/rauchg

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Mike McQuaid and John Britton are cofounders of Workbrew - a tool that gives you the missing features for enterprises running homebrew.

John has previously worked at GitHub and Twilio and is a contributor to Homebrew. Mike has also worked at GitHub as well as being the project lead and longest running maintainer at Homebrew.

We dig into:

• How Homebrew can trace its origins to a pub in London
• How Apple actually work with Homebrew
• How Homebrew managed to grow and scale up
• How Workbrew are avoiding misaligned incentives so common in open source

Links for Mike, John and Workbrew

• Mike McQuaid https://mikemcquaid.com/
• John Britton https://johndbritton.com/
• Workbrew https://workbrew.com/

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