133: Do The Hardest Thing with Jesse Hanley

Aaron is joined this week by Jesse Hanley, founder of Bento, to talk about building a seven figure business, why he feels less stress now than he did when he started, migrating from Heroku to Planetscale, and more.

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• (00:00) - 5 TB of Data
• (11:12) - Laravel Live Japan
• (15:46) - Seven Figure Business
• (24:32) - Advice for Indie Hackers
• (28:57) - Pick Better Problems
• (32:50) - Friends of Bento
• (42:33) - Heroku to Planetscale
• (01:15:02) - What's Next

Links:

• Jesse Hanley
• Speedshop
• Jesse's Database School episode
• Tatami
• Dragonfly
• RedisShake
• Laravel Live Japan
• Daniel Coulbourne

Creators and Guests

Host

Aaron Francis

Founder of Solo. Sincere poster. No cynicism. Dad to two sets of twins!

Producer

Dave Hicking

Agency Partnerships at @laravelphp

Guest

Jesse Hanley

Tackling hard problems in eCommerce marketing. Running @bento.

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