Bootstrapping a Successful WordPress Business Through Customer Feedback and Iteration
In this episode, Mark chats with Aurelio Volle from WPUmbrella about his journey in creating a WordPress management tool, maintaining customer focus, and the importance of community and transparency in business growth.
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How Decentralized Social Platforms Grew from Identica to Modern-Day Mastodon
Matthias Pfefferle discusses the Fediverse's origins and evolution with Evan Prodromou, highlighting decentralized social networks, protocols, privacy, and the future of federated systems.
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Surviving the WordPress Plugin Grind Growth, Marketing and Overcoming Burnout
In this WP Behind the Builds episode, guest Devin Walker discusses his transition from corporate IT to successful WordPress plugin development, focusing on GiveWP, WP Rollback, and lessons learned about business and community engagement.
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How a Global Cake Brand Was Built Using WooCommerce and Open Source Communities
In this episode, nurse-turned-baker Precious shares her journey of launching "Cakes in a Jar" with WordPress and WooCommerce, blending her Zimbabwean roots with a vibrant online brand.
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Exploring WordPress, Textcasting, and Open Web Standards
In this episode of Fediverse Flows, Matthias Pfefferle chats with Dave Winer about the open web's evolution, emphasizing interoperability, linking, and decentralized publishing through WordPress, while discussing challenges faced by contemporary platforms.
Open Channels FM brings you stories and insights from the people shaping the open web and open source. Through our three channels Open Makers, Open Source Reach, and Open Web Conversations, we share real experiences from builders, developers, product makers, and community leaders worldwide. Discover how ideas become products, communities grow, and openness drives innovation. Each episode gives you inspiration and practical takeaways to help take your own ideas further.