Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 602
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
122: Ruby, the Weird Way (Britt Ballard, Caleb Thompson, Richard Schneeman, Terence Lee)
Britt Ballard leads this roundtable discussion on home-growing your own conference and their experiences, from theme and logo selection to scheduling guests and venues, turning Keep Ruby Weird from a…
121: Prolificness (Allison House)
Guest-Ben Chad Pytel talks with Allison House about maintaining personal growth while freelancing, and her approach to harnessing your capacity to learn.
- allison.house
- Origins
- Tiny Habits- BJ Fogg
- …
120: Open Your World For Commentary (Tom Lehman)
Ben talks with Tom Lehman, creator of Genius, about the power of honesty in corporate culture, and navigating the mores of discussing salary.
118: Scare Yourself (Dan Martell)
Ben talks with Dan Martell, CEO and founder of Clarity, about self-actualization in business, how life is affected by those around which one surrounds themselves and the value of staying outside one'…
117: Designing Quality (Will Sulinski)
Ben talks with Will Sulinski, founder of Pistol Lake, on translating lessons learned from the tech sector into success in the fashion industry.
116: A Model Jellyfish (Carl Smith)
Ben talks with nGen Works founder Carl Smith about alternatives to a "flat" structure, remote management & community building.
115: There's a Spectrum Involved Here (Brandon Bloom)
Ben talks with Brandon Bloom about finding the right tool for the job, there being too many objects in OO Programing and the importance for a full spectrum of options, regardless of the choice.
114: Offer Value First (Ryan Delk)
Ben talks with Gumroad grower Ryan Delk about standing out from your peers by adding value before you ask for value.
- Gumroad
- Chris Sacca on Foundation: "Create Value Before You Ask For Value Back" …
113: Minimum Path to Awesome (Rob Walling)
Ben and Rob Walling, founder of Drip and HitTail, discuss engaging your audience, the path to building new habits and the need to create.
112: Data By Design (Joanne Cheng)
Ben talks to developer Joanne Cheng about lessons learned from the conference circuit, as well as the subject of her latest conf talk, Data-Driven-Documents within JavaScript, and trends in dashboard…
111: Thinking Outside the Loop (Chris Granger)
Ben talks with Chris Granger, creator of Light Table, about building a better IDE and envisioning a world where all programming happens inside a database and anyone can do it.
110: Protecting Invisible Things (Eric Mill)
This week Ben talks with former thoughtbotter, and creator of Is It Christmas, Eric Mill about the power of blogging, the personal empowerment offered by the internet and the role of government in th…
109: Venturing Thru Capital (Alex Taussig)
Ben delves behind the scenes of a VC firm with Alex Taussig of Highland Capital.
108: Picking Your Obsession (Brett Van Zuiden)
Ben talks to Brett Van Zuiden, founder of Filepicker, about the importance of finding your specialization and passion in your industry, as well as his experiences in Y Combinator.
107: The Best Secrets Kept (Sara Haider)
Ben talks to Sarah Haider, Android lead at Secret, about anonymity in social media, her work with Girls Who Code and Android Development.
106: Sprinting Thru Design (Alex Baldwin & Galen Frechette)
Ben is joined by fellow thoughtbotters Alex & Galen to break down their product design sprint workflow.
- Google Ventures: Design Sprint Recipe
- Human Centered Design Toolkit
- Jobs To Be Done Framework …
105: Use Your Info-magination (Marc-André Cournoyer)
Ben welcomes Marc-André Cournoyer of Coded Inc. to discuss self-marketing and sustaining info-product platforms.
104: Maintaining The Meat Machines (Adam Wiggins)
On this weeks Giant Robots Ben welcomes Adam Wiggins, Heroku co-founder and former CTO, to join as more of a guest host than guest. They discuss team size/structure, project scalability, the benefits…
103: Consulting the Consultants (Adam Wathan, Chris Keithlin)
Giant Robots welcome Adam & Chris of Vehikl who inquire about project selection / scheduling, portfolio building & customer-facing.