609: Blake Watson on Home Cooked Apps

ShopTalk

Show Description

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.

Listen on Website →

Guests

Blake Watson

Guest's Main URL • Guest's Twitter

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

Links

• Watson Brothers Games
• 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

Sponsors