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Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 643 | Feature Flags, Impostor Syndrome, and More Listener Questions with Derrick Reimer

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8792 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In episode 643, Rob Walling chats with fan favorite Derrick Reimer, the founder of SavvyCal, as they answer listener questions. They cover topics ranging from SaaS feature flags to communicating product needs to a technical founder and combating imposter syndrome. Episode Sponsor: Find your perfect developer or a team at Lemon.io/startups The competition for incredible engineers and developers has never been more fierce. Lemon.io helps you cut through the noise and find great talent through its network of engineers in Europe and Latin America. They take care of the vetting, interviewing, and testing of candidates to make sure that you are working with someone who can hit the ground running. When it comes to hiring, the time it takes to write your job description, list the position, review resumes, schedule interviews, and make an offer can take weeks, if not months. With Lemon.io, you can cut down on a lot of that time by tapping into their wide network of developers who can get started in as early as a week. And for subscribers of Startups For the Rest of Us, you can get 15% off your first 4 week contract with a developer by visiting lemon.io/startups Topics we cover:  2:17 - How to think about feature flags for different pricing tiers 10:31 - How to communicate product needs to a technical cofounder 22:03 - When to put your main SaaS on the backburner 28:13 - Combating developer imposter syndrome Links from the Show: Derrick Reimer (@derrickreimer) I Twitter SavvyCal  MicroConf US The Stair Step Method to Bootstrapping  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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of startups for the rest of us.

0:03.6

I'm your host Rob Walling, and today with Derek Reimer, I'm answering listener questions.

0:08.3

We cover topics ranging from how to implement feature flags in your SaaS app, combating imposter syndrome,

0:15.3

whether to use the stair step method, and more amazing listener questions from listeners, just like you.

0:22.1

But before we do that,

0:30.3

I want to let you know about microconf US next April 2023. Leanna Patch and I will be emceeing.

0:37.2

We have amazing speakers, Claire Swellentrop, Dev Basu, Patrick Campbell. We have workshops. It's going to be great. It starts April 16th and runs

0:39.8

through the 18th in downtown Denver, Colorado. Head to microconf.com slash Americas. If you want to find

0:47.7

out more and buy ticket, tickets are on sale now. They are going fast. I'd love to see you there.

0:52.8

And with that, let's dive into listener questions.

1:06.9

Derek Grimer, you're back on the show.

1:08.9

Thanks for having you back.

1:10.1

By popular demand, and we're answering listener questions today.

1:13.3

Woo-hoo.

1:14.1

Let's do it.

1:15.3

What led to this is there's a lot of listener questions all of a sudden, and I'm not exactly sure.

1:19.5

I think it's the YouTube channel ticking up and just more people getting interest,

1:23.0

but a lot more questions than in the past.

1:25.2

And the interesting thing is I started going through him, and I'm like, got to answer the video and audio first?

1:29.2

The first question we're about to answer, I was like,

1:31.0

you know, I have thoughts on this,

1:32.5

but you don't answer this really well is Derek.

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