Lessons from MicroConf Day 3
The third and final day of MicroConf 2017 was focused on a few themes: revenue, time and value.
Any conference Patrick McKenzie (patio11) speaks at will surely have a simple message: double
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9 postsLessons from MicroConf Day 2
"Leverage your failures."
if i were to summarize day 2 into a single statement, that would be it. In a conference focused on bootstrapping products, a lot of the information
Lessons from MicroConf Day 1
I bet you've considered building a product and earning enough income to quit your job. I'd even bet you already have one; partially built, sitting in digital mothballs.
You are not alone.
A/B Testing Features by Segmenting Users
"A/B test everything."
Those of us in the startup world hear it routinely. But it is a useless statement. Ask "how" and you will be met with
There Can be No Ego in Products
Software engineers are an opinionated bunch. We hold unreasonably strong opinions on how code should look, read, be styled and where it should go. Hell, we can't even talk about tabs and
Programmatically Capturing Spam with Detextion.io
There is a [modified] adage about attracting users to web apps.
"Build it and spammers will come."
The fact is that if your users can enter text others will see,
Designing as a Developer
Software developers have two things in common: we write code and we suck at making things look nice. Or so we think.
The truth is we aren't actually bad at making stuff
Prove Features Manually
At companies, we spend a lot of time using intuition to solve problems or increase revenue. But it is rare that these features, in their first version, end up working as we
Your App Has One Feature
Ask an engineer to list all of the features in a product they work on. The result will be long. Next, ask a non-technical employee the same question. The list will be