Ep 5: Can Tech Debt Be Good?
from SaaS Life (saaslife.fm) Hosted by Chris McAleenan, Sam Schrup
On this episode of saaslife.fm, Sam Schrup and Chris McAleenan talk about tech debt. It can be good, especially when you have the time and resources to build a product the right way for new and existing customers to drive revenue. Sam shares lessons learned from working with various types of merchants and different ways to provide offers to sell products to customers. Chris reiterates that to have a viable product, it needs to be sellable. People need to pay money for it. Highlights from this Episode: Epic Refactor: Expansion of where TextRetailer needs to go to grow. Challenge: Reinvent Shopify or put a version of TextRetailer on Shopify? Minimum Viable vs. Sellable Product: People need to pay you money for it. Proof of Concept: Actual customers need to use a product to validate it. Paying Customers: What do they expect and what can you learn from them? PipeTech’s Massive Data Migration: Needs to be dynamic to get right information. Main Goals: Need for flexibility and customization for merchants and customers. Good vs. Bad Debt: Necessary to take on deliberate tech debt to move quickly. Links and Resources: SaaSLife.fm Sam Schrup on Twitter Chris McAleenan on Twitter TextRetailer Textiful PipeTech Project CleanShot App Intro music by Monkey Warhol licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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