James Long talks with Dave Rael about working at Mozilla, building products, making it harder to make costly mistakes, and understanding why something works
James Long worked for Mozilla for 6 years on various projects ranging from Firefox OS to Firefox developer tools. Last year, he quit to pursue self-employed contracting, and recently has been working on launching his own product, Actual, a personal budgeting app. He enjoys leveraging powerful technology to solve real problems for end users, pulling ideas from remote places like academic papers and such.
Chapters:
2:19 - Dave introduces the show and James Long4:51 - Completion of projects and the project currently capturing James's attention: Actual10:33 - How James views the success criteria for Actual12:05 - The reasons James is building Actual14:15 - Developers as users of software16:51 - Barriers for developers to launching a product as a business23:4
