Join Honeybadger cofounder Ben Curtis as he uses Honeybadger to find and query for application errors in Honeybadger Insights. Honeybadger Insights is a new full-stack logging, observability, and performance monitoring tool from Honeybadger.io. Gain insights into your errors, application logs, and other event streams with a powerful query language and ready-made dashboards.

Josh and Ben reconnect with their friend, JP Boily, to discuss the recent sale of his company Metrics Watch, along with conferences they may or may not want to go to, and company retreats they may or may not attend. FounderQuest Episode 18, Season 5 October 25, 2024.

Josh and Ben talk with John about his recent acquisition of Fireside, covering the finances, pitfalls avoided, and more acquisition tips. FounderQuest Episode 17, Season 5 October 11, 2024.

Ben, Josh, and John discuss pricing, including how to approach pricing, what they do and don't like about pricing, and how pricing works at Honeybadger and Flipper. FounderQuest Episode 16, Season 5 August 30, 2024.

Longtime friend of the pod Adam McCrea joins Josh and Ben to catch up and chat about his journey building Judoscale—an autoscaling service for Heroku, Render, and AWS! FounderQuest Episode 13, Season 5 June 7, 2024.

John Nunemaker returns to FounderQuest to discuss his writing process—after the guys debate code linters and formatters, of course. It's important to start with the essentials. FounderQuest Episode 12, Season 5 May 24, 2024.

Josh and Ben are joined by John Nunemaker to discuss their recent trip to Detroit for RailsConf, as well as the announcement from RubyCentral that 2025 will mark the final RailsConf (though not the last Rails conference!). Later in the episode, Josh and Ben reveal the outcome of their Honeybadger Insights launch goal and discuss the team's last dev cycle. John also shares an update on his work with Flipper!

This week, Josh and Ben dive deep into the marketing strategy for their new product, Insights, in response to a listener question. They talk about what groups they are targeting first, some of the planned marketing tactics for reaching each group, and how they are building awareness within the Honeybadger app without annoying existing users.

This week Josh and Ben discuss shipping Insights, what's next for the product, and their strategies to get people to actually use it. Plus Ben shares the results from his latest performance science projects. Grab your safety glasses and headphones!

This week Ben interviews Garrett Dimon to talk about some of his exciting new projects. They also cover alternatives to the SaaS business model, such as self-hosted licensing options, to make vacations more relaxing for founders if something goes wrong.