Founders' retreat

This podcast is hosted by transistor dot f m. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Build Your SaaS. This is the behind the scenes story of building a web app in 2022. I'm John Buda, a software engineer. And I'm Justin Jackson, and I've got the meat sweats. John. Hey, Justin. I'm sitting next to you. We are actually in the same location. Yeah. For the first time in two and a half years. Yeah. We we've been wanting to do this founder retreat forever. The pandemic made it not possible. Yeah. And here we are. We bit the bullet. Bit the bullet. Well, you bit the bullet. I did the bullet. You had to you had to go through all the travel. Not exactly the best time to travel. The funny thing is we were looking at because John has come to British Columbia, which is pretty fun for me. I get to show him around my hometown of Vernon. We went up to Silver Star. We, did a road trip to Revelstoke. Yep. And, we're here in the Rockies and it's been super fun. But then I was looking up on the, on the news here and, Revelstoke is currently the the has the highest incidence of COVID in Right. British Columbia. So we we basically I I took I took you to the hot spot. Thanks, Justin. To the COVID hot spot of British Columbia. So far so good. Yeah. So far so so far so good. It is it's hard to explain how good it is to be together after so long. Yeah. Just the the like, two and a half years was a long time. It's a long time. Yeah. It simultaneously feels like a long time and somehow not that long. I don't know if it's just the pandemic compressing time down to Yeah. Weird weird amounts of length. But yeah. It's been a long time. Yeah. Yeah. And the I think the benefit you you kinda forget about the benefit. But there's just, like, just we had hours in the car. And there's just at first, it's kinda like it you're just spending time. And even if it's just silence of the car, there's something about being in the same place. And then, eventually, in all of the gaps of hanging out, there's, like, just tons of benefit. Both in terms of, like, our friendship, like, it's good to be together. But then also in terms of, like, being able to talk about things in the business that you wouldn't normally have the gaps in yeah. You wouldn't normally have the gaps to talk about. Yeah. We're not yeah. We're not gonna hop in a video call and talk about and hang out for eight hours. Yeah. Right? And just yeah. It's a lot different. So yeah. We've been doing, some road tripping, some snowboarding. Went up to Revelstoke and had a couple days there. Lots of eating out. And last night, we had, Le …