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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Costs of Running a Business

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the costs of running a business when you’re a solopreneur or solo founder. Contentful - Sponsor Contentful is a great way to manage your data. Update once and publish everywhere. Contentful gives you a ton of flexibility and reliability and everything you need to build excellent front-end content without having to worry about the back-end of your site. Check out contentful.com/syntax and get a free pair of socks! Show Notes 3:48 - Email GSuite Missive Drip Postmark Mailchimp Mandrill SendGrid Mailgun 10:44 - Transactional Costs Stripe PayPal Braintree 12:31 - Software Sketch Figma Screenflow iShowU DaVinci Notion Todoist Things Principle For Mac Textexpander Transmit Cyberduck 17:03 - Services PO Box 17:18 - Domains Hover Cloudflare Name.com Gandi 19:30 - Backup NAS Dropbox Backblaze S3 22:12 - Labor Assistant Part-time developer Contractors for projects 24:53 - Insurance Prescriptions Dental Optical Critical illness Home insurance is higher because of business 26:51 - Professional Accountant Lawyer Bookkeeper TransferWise 29:08 - Hosting CDNs Galaxy Heroku Dokku Netlify Compose Vimeo Amazon S3 Digital Ocean Now.sh Bluehost mlab 34:16 - Travel Taxi / Hotel Dinner Transportation Uber Links Codepen Radio - Software We Pay For Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday, Monday, Monday,

0:02.0

Open wide Dev fans.

0:04.0

Get ready to stuff your face

0:06.0

with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips,

0:09.0

get workflows,

0:10.0

break dancing, soft skills, web development,

0:12.0

the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is

0:18.1

Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Tolinsky.

0:25.0

Welcome to Syntax.

0:27.0

This is the hastiest, the tastiest web development podcast out there.

0:31.0

Today we're going to be talking about the costs of

0:33.6

running a business. One of the podcasts I love to listen to is Chris Coyer's

0:39.2

CodePen Radio and they always dive into different aspects of actually running a startup in a business like that and they just did one called

0:46.7

Software we pay for and it just went through all the different subscriptions and software that they pay for and I thought it was kind of interesting to see like what does a big business like Codepan or I don't know how many employees they have but it's more than just a Scott and I which is just one.

1:00.3

So I thought to be interested to also share sort of what does it cost to run a business

1:06.0

But when you're trying to do the soloprenner type of thing that's gotten I do so looking forward to that today's episode is sponsored by contentful and they've got some sweet socks coming your way

1:17.6

You want to talk a little bit about that Scott? Yeah, so contentful is one of those services that makes working in the sort of modern web, just super duper, duper easy because a lot of the times what we're working with is front end code and we really struggle with some place to not only hold our data but access it easily.

1:35.6

And relational data, just sort of all sorts of things that you might be working with.

1:40.0

It's beyond just like sort of blog content or something like that.

1:43.4

It's really the answer to the modern CMS.

1:46.6

So contentful is, as they say it's beyond the headless CMS,

1:51.1

it basically allows you to store all of your data and access it very easily

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