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Two founders share an unedited look at what it's like to bootstrap a startup through weekly updates. Chris Spags is the founder of Jetboost, a suite of no-code plugins for Webflow. Corey Haines is the founder of Swipe Files, a membership site for marketers built with no-code tools. They chronicle their journeys getting to and staying "default alive": profitable, self-sustaining, with infinite runway.
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Draftkings Week 2 NFL DFS Picks - Chris Spags is back for the DraftKings Week 2 fantasy football slate and he will hand build a team with DraftKings Week 2 NFL DFS picks, get optimal NFL DFS lineups with an optimizer, see what the sims have to say about the best lineups to play! This is a UNIQUE look at the NFL Week 2 fantasy football slate with so…
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TNF DraftKings Week 2 - Chris Spags is here for the Commanders-Packers Showdown for Thursday Night Football DraftKings Week 2! Spags will hand build a team with his top NFL DFS picks, get optimal NFL DFS lineups with an optimizer, and see what sims have to say about the best lineups! There's an edge in this Commanders-Packers Showdown TNF DraftKing…
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DraftKings Showdown Week 1 MNF - Chris Spags is here for the Vikings Bears Showdown for Monday Night Football DraftKings Week 1! Spags will hand build a team with his top NFL DFS picks, get optimal NFL DFS lineups with an optimizer, and see what sims have to say about the best lineups! There's an edge to find in this Vikings-Bears DraftKings Showdo…
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Draftkings Week 1 NFL DFS Picks - Chris Spags is back for the DraftKings Week 1 fantasy football slate and he will hand build a team with DraftKings Week 1 NFL DFS picks, get optimal NFL DFS lineups with an optimizer, see what the sims have to say about the best lineups to play! This is a UNIQUE look at the NFL Week 1 fantasy football slate with so…
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TNF DraftKings Week 1 - Chris Spags is here for the Cowboys-Eagles Showdown for Thursday Night Football DraftKings Week 1! Spags will hand build a team with his top NFL DFS picks, get optimal NFL DFS lineups with an optimizer, and see what sims have to say about the best lineups! There's an edge to find in this Cowboys-Eagles Showdown TNF DraftKing…
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Learn more about Danny at https://www.dannyperry.me Learn more about the podcast at ⁠https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Danny Perry — Founder of Plugin Play — historically a plugin development company and just recently expanding to be a new marketplace for motion and video pros. We spoke about - How AI development has evolved in his or…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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Learn more about Antonino at https://antoninoiacona.it Learn more about the podcast at ⁠https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Antonino Iacona — motion designer & director. Antonino has worked at Apple, Google Creative Lab and is now running Studio Santo. We spoke about: How Apple shaped his craft through slow, iterative, detail-obsessed d…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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2025 Best Ball Draft - I drafted across ALL THREE major best ball platforms —Underdog Fantasy, DraftKings, and Drafters Fantasy — with $4.5 million combined to 1st place on the line. What are the current differences between a 2025 best ball draft when you do an Underdog Best Ball Mania draft, DraftKings Millionaire draft, or a Drafters Best Ball Ch…
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Learn more about Justin at https://www.youtube.com/@CleoAbram Learn more about the podcast at ⁠https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Justin Poore — an animator and the producer of Huge if True — a show by Cleo Abram that’s had a ton of attention and engagement over the last few years, recently reaching 6 million subscribers on YouTube. Cl…
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Today I’m speaking with Grant Shaddick, CEO of Tella. Tella is a recording and editing tool that is totally cloud-based. It’s like Loom but more HQ, and it handles a lot of the post-production for you. I’ve used Tella for a couple of years now and have been using it more recently as I’ve moved to more off-the-cuff production. It’s been a really del…
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Learn more about Audrey at https://www.audreyhavey.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Audrey Havey - a freelance designer, illustrator, and motion designer. I know Audrey through her YouTube channel where she teaches and vlogs on a wide variety of topics. And as I discovered her work i really wanted …
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Today I’m speaking with Meng-Hsueh Lin, an animator and motion designer. He’s worked with studios like Ordinary Folk, Coat of Arms, Awesome Inc as well as clients like Disney, Airbnb, and Volkswagen. We spoke about: ​His CS degree ​His passion for anime ​His experience with School of Motion ​Freelancing and collaborating with studios like OF ​Riggi…
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Learn more about Twisha at https://www.twishapatni.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Twisha Patni, an Art Director & Graphic Designer. She’s worked with brands such as Apple, Spotify, Netflix, NYTimes, The Economist, and is now at Buck. We spoke about — Being multidisciplinary — How she’s developed…
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Learn more about Tom at https://www.tparkes.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Tom Parkes - a Web+Brand designer. Tom’s worked at both agencies such as Instrument, Justified Studio, MetaLab, and freelanced for companies such as Airbnb, Microsoft and he’s now at Glide - where I work - leading web & br…
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Find out more about Chris → https://cspags.com/ Find out more about the podcast here → ⁠https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Chris Spags, a software developer and the founder of JetBoost. I was involved in a project with Chris a few years back and recently found out that he's just sold JetBoost, a very popular suite of tools in the Webf…
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Today I'm speaking with Chase Goulet, a product designer and former professional Minecraft builder. Find out more about Chase → ⁠https://chasegoulet.com/⁠ Find out more about the podcast here → ⁠https://jackvaughan.com⁠ We talked about: - Failure, mindset, and the art of learning - Minecraft, architecture, and his road to product design - His colle…
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Find out more about Greg → https://www.jdgstewart.co/⁠ Find out more about the podcast here → ⁠https://jackvaughan.com⁠ Today, I’m speaking with Greg Stewart—one of the founding members of Ordinary Folk and now Lead Animator at the Bible Project. I’ve known about Greg for a long time, as Ordinary Folk are without doubt my favourite motion design st…
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Find out more about Abdoulaye → https://barrymotion.com/work Find out more about the podcast here → https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Abdoulaye Barry, a Motion Designer and Teacher. I've been aware of Abdoulaye’s work for a little while now and wanted to get him on to catch up about his work, his approach to marketing in the motion w…
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Today I’m speaking with Coralie Delpha — a lead technical architect at Shopify. Coralie is a lovely, calm and curious individual. And very well regarded in her community — i’ve known her for a while and was really interested to catch up and dive deeper into her work, the Shopify ecosystem and more. We spoke about her journey in law, business school…
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Today I'm speaking with Maria Cruz, an artist, animator & motion designer. Maria’s worked with big companies like Google, Netflix, Apple, Sony… as well as top studios like Hornet, Odd Fellows, Buck, and now Hook. We spoke about many things: Early creativity and childhood ways of seeing Art direction, connection, inspiration, curiosity, and breaking…
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Today, I’m speaking with Arie Stavchansky, CEO and Founder of Dataclay. Dataclay is a company that develops software for motion designers and video professionals focused on data-driven video. Although this concept has existed for a while, it's not that widely known, but understanding data driven video and it’s interaction with AI is going to become…
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Today I'm speaking with Matt Perry, creator of some of the most used web motion libraries in the world. His work has transformed how developers bring interactivity and smooth animations to the web. For the last 6 years he’s been at Framer, building Framer Motion — and he’s just taken that independent as a new project — Motion. I've been wanting to …
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Hayley Akins is the founder of Motion Hatch, a school that helps motion designers and creatives grow their business. Hayley is one of the originals in this space. She's been active since 2017 and has helped many people in the industry. I wanted to bring her on to discuss marketing, how it's evolving for creatives, and how to effectively connect wit…
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Imsety Taylor is a creator, motion designer, and founder of Set Angle — a web and motion agency. He’s worked with brands like Ford and Keller Williams and collaborated with studios like Ravie. I identify a lot with Imsety — although I'm probably not as talented. He’s got a deep love of being creative in four mediums that we share: animation, techno…
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Today I’m speaking with Ian Waters - CTO of Cavalry. This is a really fascinating and quite technical conversation about designing motion tools. Cavalry is a relatively young Motion Design tool with a really talented team. And to be building a new motion design tool at this time is really interesting… Motion design is still young and it’s a paradig…
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Today I’m speaking with Oscar Brooks, co-founder and CEO of V88. V88 is one of the leading Glide agencies. They've built hundreds of applications and scaled incredibly quickly in the last year, mostly due to their talent and personality, but also because it’s just a really interesting time at Glide right now. So I wanted to get Oscar on to help exp…
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Today on the podcast, I’m speaking with Wes Cockx (@wes_cream), creative director and 3D designer. Wes is one of my favorite 3D artists and has worked for Microsoft, Deepmind, Apple, Meta, Google, Github and more. We spoke about his early experiences in 3D, rendering, his creative process, experiments, working with different clients and much much m…
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Today on the podcast, I’m speaking with Isaac Gili (@isaacgili), CEO and co-founder of Shuffll — an AI Studio for Video Creators. We talked a lot about Shuffll, the tech behind it and the future vision for making video marketing & production more accessible and scaleable. Please reach out if you have comments, guest-suggestions, or feedback. @jackm…
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Today on the podcast, I’m bringing you Evan Abrams (@ECAbrams), motion designer and educator, renowned for his expertise in After Effects. We discussed communication skills, the process of idea render, design concepts, tools, the art of learning AI's future role in the industry and much, much more. Please reach out if you have comments, guest-sugge…
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Learn more at → ⁠https://jackvaughan.com⁠ Yann’s Website → ⁠https://yannglt.com⁠ Yann-Edern is a software designer and maker based in Paris, focused on developer experience. He’s currently working at Linear and most recently contributed to the new UI of the desktop app. He previously worked at Specify, where he contributed to creating a Design API …
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Today I’m bringing you Tristan L’Abbé, a product designer and head of design at Glide. We talk about design tools, paradigms, the evolution of web & native, Tristan’s background in design & engineering, the role of constraint in creativity, the way your tools impact your work and thinking process, and a look at the process and craft of product desi…
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Kyle Hamrick is a creative and technical director, motion designer, video editor, and Adobe Certified educator. Despite its youth, motion design is a vast and continually expanding field. I was eager to restart this podcast with an overview of it from Kyle's perspective. Show notes at: https://jackvaughan.com/posts/008-kyle-hamrick…
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Corey shares some learnings on startup taxes. Chris shares how the recent growth of the Jetboost team is going and what he’s learning from that. They also discuss SaaS team account architecture, user onboarding email sequences, churn trends in 2023, and of course, they have to talk about ChatGPT. Ask us a question → Notable mentions: Andrew from Fl…
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Corey is working on co-marketing campaigns for SwipeWell. Chris is back from Webflow Conf and shares everything that happened at the event! They also discuss some of the unique aspects of the Calm Fund SEAL agreement. Ask us a question → Notable mentions: Webflow Conf Announcements Webflow Apps Reilly Chase’s tweet Tyler Tringas’s tweet More podcas…
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Corey recaps the SaaS Marketing Summit and State of SaaS Marketing report. Chris is wrapping up his final prep before Webflow Conf next week. They also talk about AI, newsletter sponsorships, and SwipeWell mobile apps. Ask us a question → Notable mentions: Webflow Conf Agenda Corey’s AI generated profile pictures SaaS Marketing Summit recording Sta…
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Corey hits a big newsletter subscriber milestone. Chris gets back from vacation and officially launches the Jetboost blog. They also talk about playing the waiting game with SEO, Webflow Conf, and SwipeWell’s public roadmap. Ask us a question → Notable mentions: SwipeWell Public Roadmap SaaS Marketing Summit on October 12th Jetboost Blog More podca…
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