Breaking Convention: The Radical Thinking of Jack McDade and Statamic

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Jack McDade is the creator of Statamic, a content management system for Laravel. He’s been running it since 2012 and making a few million a year with a team of 6. But what I love about Jack is how he approaches all of his projects, including Statamic, to just be different. There is so much cookie cutter content out there and everything just ends up looking the same - but not if Jack has anything to do with it. Just take a look at his personal website, his Radical Design course and Icons and you’ll see what I mean. I love it.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
01:27 Why Jack started Statamic
02:58 Taking 6 years before going full time
04:20 What would Jack have done differently?
05:14 How to be different
07:40 The unfair indie hacker advantage
08:26 Radical Design Course
12:45 Learning with Jack
15:07 Recommendations

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Book: Steal Like an Artist & Extreme Ownership
Podcast: Friendship Onion & Darknet Diarys
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Published on Mar 25, 2023 in Business

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