Joe Averbukh and Stopa Parunashvili: Friendship, Startup, YCombinator, Instant | archill podcast #10

Meet Joe and Stopa, best friends and software engineers with true hacker mentality. After years in big tech they both left Airbnb and decided to build staff together. Currently they are working on a startup called Instant a modern firebase which aims to revolutionize the idea of databases inside browsers. In 2022 Instant joined Y Combinator and is already available to build your next application on it. 

EPISODE LINKS:
- Joe's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeaverbukh/
- Stopa's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stepan-parunashvili-65698932/
- Stopa's Essays: https://stopa.io/
- Job Search Course: https://www.jobsearch.dev/
- Stopa's Zeneca: https://www.zeneca.io/stopa
- Joe's Zeneca: https://www.zeneca.io/joe
- Instant: https://www.instantdb.com/
- Database in the Browser essay: https://stopa.io/post/279

OUTLINE:
00:00 Intro
00:54 How Joe and Stopa Met
03:05 How to Make Close Friends?
08:18 Doing Hard Things Together, Building Projects
12:28 Building jobsearch.dev
15:47 Balancing Full-Time Job and Side Projects
19:25 Decision of Leaving Airbnb
25:22 Meeting Brian Chesky
29:04 Building Staff After Airbnb
33:21 How to Launch Projects?
36:18 How to Get Project/Startup Ideas?
46:30 What is Database In Browser?
50:56 What is Instant?
52:42 Experience at Y Combinator
57:35 Current State of Instant
01:08:09 Outro