The Reactor Podcast is the weekly brainstorming session of two entrepreneurs building software companies. Hosted by Justin Vincent and Mark Wilbur.
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The Reactor Podcast is the weekly brainstorming session of two entrepreneurs building software companies. Hosted by Justin Vincent and Mark Wilbur.
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February 3, 2021
#37 –F@#! you pricing?
<p>Mark's streak app isn't done, but his attempt to build longer streaks of consecutive livestreaming days is paying off. He's published 5 videos within a week and its effect on his YouTube traffic has been remarkable. The rolling 28-day numbers are as follows: views +77%, watch time +75% and reach +109%. It hasn't translated into more money (yet), but that's not surprising given that YouTube views are high up in the Alchemist Camp sales funnel.</p> <p>Justin's still making gradual progress on refactoring his Roblox game, Slider. He's added more instrumentation, gotten some expert advice and planned out some changes to the </p> <p>We also talked about the equal pay for remote work topic that's been trending, the scalability of membership sites, Mark's Black Friday, and the psychology of pricing.</p> <h3>Today's Topics include:</h3> <ul> <li>Livestreaming</li> <li>Analytics-driven game dev</li> <li>Remote work</li> <li>Scalability of membership sites</li> <li>Black Friday</li> <li>Pricing</li> </ul> <h3>Mentioned</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/5siggWM8faY" rel="nofollow">Garry Tan on competition and gatekeepers</a></li> <li><a href="https://phoenixigniter.com" rel="nofollow">Phoenix Igniter</a></li> <li><a href="https://matteomosca.io/" rel="nofollow">Matteo</a></li> <li><a href="https://dnc.show" rel="nofollow">DNC pocast</a></li> <li><a href="https://trends.vc" rel="nofollow">Trends.vc</a></li> </ul> <h3>Mark's goals for next time</h3> <ul> <li>Stream at least 3 days</li> <li>Do the Black Friday email campaign</li> <li>Start the new ebook</li> </ul> <h3>Justin's goals for next time</h3> <ul> <li>Create "the player shaker" for Roblox</li> </ul> <p>Video version <a href="https://youtu.be/K8G-xJztlog" rel="nofollow">here</a></p> <p>Comment at <a href="https://reactor.am/podcasts/37" rel="nofollow">https://reactor.am/podcasts/37</a></p> <p>On Apple Podcasts at <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358" rel="nofollow">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358</a></p> <p>Recorded on 2020-11-18</p>
January 25, 2021
#36 –The livestreamers
<p>The results of Mark's livestreaming are in! It's taken some focus and effort, but it's greatly increased his production per hour of work. The quality of the screencasts is slightly worse, but his YouTube views are up by 50%, watch time is up 83% and he's picked up 11 Twitter followers.</p> <p>Justin has continued working with Chris, the Roblox dev he mentioned meeting last episode, and it's been productive. He's changed the way Justin approaches the entire game. He's now taking a much more analytics-driven approach to increase player retention at every subsection of the game. A key part of this is looking at each player's success to failure ratio at each portion of race tracks.</p> <p>We finished the talk with an extended discussion about livestreaming, working in public generally, why it's hard not to be self-conscious and how there can still be a big upside.</p> <h3>Today's Topics include:</h3> <ul> <li>Livestreaming</li> <li>Analytics-driven game dev</li> <li>Roblox</li> <li>Matteo</li> <li>Working in public</li> <li>Livestreaming</li> </ul> <h3>Mentioned</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://phoenixigniter.com" rel="nofollow">Phoenix Igniter</a></li> <li><a href="https://matteomosca.io/" rel="nofollow">Matteo</a></li> <li><a href="https://dnc.show" rel="nofollow">DNC pocast</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/broadcast/studio" rel="nofollow">Twitch Studio</a></li> </ul> <h3>Mark's goals for next time</h3> <ul> <li>Finish the streak app</li> <li>Livestream for 5 consecutive days</li> </ul> <h3>Justin's goals for next time</h3> <ul> <li>Run a CTR experiment on Slider (and do the dev to prepare for it)</li> </ul> <p>Video version <a href="https://youtu.be/UgyGl2h-0Ls" rel="nofollow">here</a></p> <p>Comment at <a href="https://reactor.am/podcasts/36" rel="nofollow">https://reactor.am/podcasts/36</a></p> <p>On Apple Podcasts at <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358" rel="nofollow">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358</a></p> <p>Recorded on 2020-11-04</p>
January 20, 2021
#35 –Mentored by our youngers
<p>Justin has met another interesting character in the Roblox dev space. He's released about 100 games, has interned at Roblox itself and has over a million monthly players on his own games. He's been checking out Slider and giving Justin some advice—primarily to make the game less linear.</p> <p>Mark has also been inspired by a game dev on YouTube gotten some useful takeaways from him. His name is "The Cherno" and uses livestreams as a way to create graphics engine development screencasts for his audience. He records very long livestreams, gets what he wants to screencast figured out and then does them live in just a couple or usually in a single take! The quality of his screencasts dropped when he started doing this, but the recent ones are very good.</p> <p>Justin also went on Startups for the Rest of Us for an interview, Starlink has some very eyebrow-raising clauses in its TOS and the NTD is getting strong.</p> <h3>Today's Topics include:</h3> <ul> <li>Roblox dev</li> <li>Making non-linear games</li> <li>Recording screencasts during livestreams</li> <li>No code</li> <li>Self-driving cars</li> <li>Jurisdiction in space</li> </ul> <h3>Mentioned</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://heyhi.io" rel="nofollow">Heyhi</a></li> <li><a href="https://replayhero.io" rel="nofollow">Replayhero</a></li> <li><a href="https://alchemist.camp" rel="nofollow">Alchemist Camp</a></li> <li><a href="https://lexfridman.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow">The AI Podcast with Lex Fridman</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChernoProject" rel="nofollow">The Cherno</a></li> </ul> <h3>Mark's goals for next time</h3> <ul> <li>Record 4 screencasts</li> <li>Livestream or otherwise build in public every day</li> </ul> <h3>Justin's goals for next time</h3> <ul> <li>Work out the game mechanic changes for Slider</li> </ul> <p>Video version <a href="https://youtu.be/ASLdMXKLGR4" rel="nofollow">on YouTube</a></p> <p>Comment at <a href="https://reactor.am/podcasts/35" rel="nofollow">https://reactor.am/podcasts/35</a></p> <p>On Apple Podcasts at <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358" rel="nofollow">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358</a></p>
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