Episode 775 | A.I. Coding Tools, User Experience, Racking Your Own Servers, and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer)

This podcast is brought to you by Mercury. I've been banking with Mercury for years. And whenever I set up a new account, I'm reminded why traditional banking feels stuck in the past. When our previous bank faced solvency issues, we needed to spin up new accounts quickly that could handle millions in funds across multiple businesses. Mercury had us up and running almost immediately. I manage half a dozen different Mercury accounts across a wide range of companies from my personal single member LLC to MicroConf, our 7 figure global events and education platform, to TinySeed, our venture fund and accelerator. Mercury easily handles them all. The interface is elegantly simple for daily banking, paying invoices, and sending and receiving international wires, yet powerful enough to handle the multistep approval processes we needed to put in place when funding founders with large transfers. Anytime founders ask me who they should set up their accounts with, I send them to mercury.com. Check the show notes for more details, and note that Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. It's another episode of Startups with the Rest of Us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. And in this episode, Derek Reimer and I sit down, and we answer listener questions. We enter a question about the impact of new AI coding tools, talk about user experience and how much time you should or shouldn't invest in the early days, talk about racking your own servers versus cloud hosting, the trade offs between those two things, email deliverability and reliability risks around that, and we handle another topic or two if you could possibly believe it. We packed it in to this amazing episode. And if you stick around till the hidden track at the end, you'll get to hear Derek Reimer get ambushed by my trivia questions. Before we dive into the episode, I wanna let you know about some exciting updates to the SaaS Launchpad course. It's my nine and a half hour video course that walks you through the process of going from no idea to your first paying customer. We've just added a new module that dives deep into what founders should think about before adding AI to their SaaS. It's actually a private conversation I had with Arvid Kahl. He's been integrating AI into his own saaspodscan.fm. We talk through the landmines and tricky spots that founders are hitting right now so you can avoid some costly mistakes. And here's the thing I'm really excited about. If you buy and you complete the course material in the next thirty days, you'll be entered for a chance to win a thirty minute one on one chat with me. We can talk through your SaaS idea, any roadblocks you're running into, or just brainstorm next steps together. If you wanna test drive the content first, grab the free sample module at saslaunchpad.co. It's a twenty eight minute video all about the DNA of a great SaaS idea. As …