Julian Shapiro, startup founder and developer, joined the show to talk about his story of entrepreneurship, open source, growth hacking, and more. Julian’s story is a story you don’t want to miss — plus he shares actionable advice on growing and marketing an open source project.

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Featuring:

• Julian Shapiro – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• [Guest Suggestion] Julian Shapiro / VelocityJS
• deleted.com
• Velocity.js.org
• Velocity.js on GitHub
• How to deal with startup competition
• Web Animation Using JavaScript by Julian Shapiro
• Introducing Libscore
• Libscore.com
• Libscore on GitHub
• Stripe Open-Source Retreat
• Thomas Davis on Twitter
• #63: CDNJS with Thomas Davis and Ryan Kirkman
• Jason Chen on Twitter
• Jesse Chase on Twitter
• Searching for Sugar Man (Movie recommendation from Julian)
• Man on Wire (Movie recommendation from Julian)

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