Start your PC
Open a tutorial
Watch it for hours
Try to code yourself
Fail to do it
This should scare you as a beginner.
But it doesn't have to be this way.
Instead:
- Watch a short video
- Read the docs
- Build a mini project
Become a problem-solver, not a consumer.
CODE.
The more I hang around the people I look up to, the more I realize that all advice is contextual.
They can't teach you how to do it. They can only teach you how they did it.
Follow their advice. Test its limits. Then write your own rules.
There are two types of software in the world:
Painkillers and vitamins.
A painkiller is something your customer can’t live without. They are delighted to pay for it, because it’s so obvious how the product helps them.
A vitamin is probably helpful, but the effects are rarely…
Everybody loves a good dashboard with some charts.
I finally threw together a MVP dashboard for our SAAS lab software.
It's amazing a how a little eye candy can help sell your software.
#buildinpublic
One boring software feature that will save tons of support time and confusion:
The audit log
With any (even slightly) complex software with more than one user, people make changes then wonder who or why it was done. This will help answer 99% of their questions before they hit…
This is huge!
I know it doesn't look huge, but it's validation.
The pathology lab software I am working on has one paying customer (lab) on an annual subscription fee.
One of the side channels of revenue we are developing is giving shipping discounts to clients of the lab. We…
English is the new programming language!
"Make the border just a bit wider."
"Too much, a little less"
"Just a hair wider than that"
...
"border: 2px;"
🤦♂️
The first customer for the lab software I am building agreed to pay $12,500 per year.
The customer is part of a public university. This required dozens of meetings, IT audits and approvals.
It took nearly a full year to close the deal.
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