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609: Blake Watson on Home Cooked Apps

609: Blake Watson on Home Cooked Apps

2024-04-01
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Show DescriptionWhat is a home cooked app? Blake Watson is on this episode to talk all about the kinds of apps that make a good home cooked app, tips and advice he has for making them, resisting the urge to monetize or growth hack...
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What is a home cooked app? Blake Watson is on this episode to talk all about the kinds of apps that make a good home cooked app, tips and advice he has for making them, resisting the urge to monetize or growth hack them, and a few CodePen v2 thoughts sprinkled in at the end.

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GuestsBlake Watson

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

Currently a member of the frontend dev team at MRI Technologies, working on projects for NASA.

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  • An app can be a home-cooked meal
  • blakewatson.com – About
  • blakewatson.com – MagnoliaJS 2023: The joys of home-cooked apps
  • MRI Technologies
  • blakewatson.com – Building our own private Discord knockoff
  • blakewatson.com – Things I miss
  • blakewatson.com – Use your Mac the way I do: a thought experiment
  • Overimagine1/old-discord-font: CSS to revert Discord's font change.
  • A Fine Start - minimal new tab page
  • Knockout : Home
  • Vue.js - The Progressive JavaScript Framework | Vue.js
  • The Programming Language Lua
  • Save 10% on Thronefall on Steam
  • Game Off 2023 - itch.io
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