Episode 604 | How to Decide Which Features to Build (with Derrick Reimer)

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In episode 604, Rob Walling talks with Derrick Reimer and gets the latest update on SavvyCal, how he makes product decisions, and they also share the best things they’ve bought for $100 and $1000 that have added much more value to their lives than the price point. Topics we cover: [4:50] Apple’s influence on startup founders [8:52] SavvyCal’s new Squadcast integration [12:51] Some upcoming features in the works for SavvyCal [14:05] Experimenting with a freemium feature—meeting polls [17:07] Derrick’s mental framework for deciding what features to build next [23:58] Switching from an employee to a founder mindset [25:56] Would you rather fight one duck-sized horse or a thousand duck-sized horses? [27:25] The best purchase Derrick has made for under $100 in the last 6 months [33:14] The best purchase Derrick has made for under $1000 in the last 6 months Links from the Show: Derrick Reimer (@DerrickReimer) I Twitter SavvyCal Squadcast If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind,
0:05.0	a journey into a wondrous land called Startups for the rest of us. This is episode 604. I'm your host,
0:10.2	Rob Walling. Today I talk with Derek Reimer about a number of topics, these new squadcast integration,
0:16.6	how he makes product decisions, whether he would prefer to fight one horse-sized duck or 100
0:21.1	duck-sized horses, and things we've bought for $100 and $1,000 that have added much more
0:26.8	value to our lives than their price point. Derek and I go way back. I've known him for
0:31.8	probably 12-ish years, and I always love jumping on the mic with him because we know each other well. And we can
0:39.1	go from topic to topic and just have a fun conversation. And frankly, it's similar to a conversation
0:45.3	he and I would have if we were just hanging out for an afternoon, going to a happy hour. And in this
0:50.5	case, you get to listen in. It's much more of a conversation than an interview.
0:55.0	You may know Derek as the founder of Savical or as the co-host of the Art of Product podcast.
1:01.4	And if you haven't seen his design and development work, he is a full, full stack dev, head to Savical.com.
1:07.0	And check it out because he makes pretty amazing products.
1:10.2	And that's one of the reasons I wanted to dive into his decision-making process
1:13.7	about which features to build in today's episode.
1:16.5	So without further ado, let's dive into our conversation.
1:31.5	So I want to show you something.
1:34.6	This is completely impromptu, and this is not one of the topics that I brought to discuss today, but a delivery from Apple just arrived.
1:37.7	And I want to show this to you.
1:38.5	We can describe it to the listeners.
1:39.8	But basically, Sherry has, dude, she has a standing desk, awesome, fully standing desk.
1:46.7	They make them in Portland.
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