Episode 699 | How to Build Elegant, Scalable Software Products with Derrick Reimer

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In episode 699, Rob Walling chats with fan favorite Derrick Reimer, the founder of SavvyCal, about scaling products tastefully. Derrick offers his perspective on maintaining a tidy UX and deciding which features to implement. They also cover best practices for maintaining knowledge bases, changelogs, and documentation. As a bonus, Rob and Derrick offer podcasting advice to their past selves. 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: 2:35 – Establish design systems and language as you scale your product 8:36 – Building out a front-end directory to maintain consistency 10:17 – Truly understand how customers are moving through your product 16:28 – Naming convention dilemmas, industry norms vs. accuracy 19:22 – Hiding product features with feature flags 23:04 – Scaling new products that serve different verticals 31:12 – Best practices for maintaining a product knowledge base 37:11 – Bonus: What advice would you give to your prior self starting a podcast? Links from the Show: Register for MicroConf US in Atlanta, April 2024 The SaaS Playbook Derrick Reimer (@derrickreimer) I X SavvyCal Allen D King (@allendking) | X FunJoin FullStory Episode 681 | Why Launching a Second Product is Usually a Bad Idea Help Scout Knowledge Base Headway Changelog ...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Start Up to the Rest of Us. I'm Rob Walling. I'm your host this week and every week. This week I speak with Derek Rimer. He's a fan favorite guest on this show. He is the founder of Savical, what I call the best scheduling link on the internet. And today we answer a handful of listener questions from a single listener, a bit about UX design, how to prioritize and build
0:24.7	features that scale.
0:26.8	We talk at the end.
0:28.1	There's a bonus question about podcasting and just how to get better at that.
0:31.7	All in all, it's a, I think of really informative and casual conversation between Derek Grimer and myself.
0:40.0	Derek and I have known each other for, I don't know, 14 years or something.
0:43.1	So these episodes flow very naturally.
0:45.9	And I feel like hopefully the content in this episode in thinking about product decisions and Ux paradigms.
0:55.2	And just we relive some moments from building drip as well.
0:58.3	Hopefully these are inspirational as well as provide you with some, you know,
1:03.3	actionable things that you can implement in your own entrepreneurial journey.
1:07.7	Before we dive into that, tickets for microConf U.S. in Atlanta next April
1:13.0	2024 are on sale. This event will sell out if you're thinking about coming to Atlanta
1:18.8	April 21st through the 23rd to see me co-host this event with Leanna Patch and to see speakers
1:26.0	like myself, Rand Fishkin, and several others,
1:29.8	head to microconf.com slash US to grab your ticket before they sell out. We had an amazing event
1:35.9	just a few months ago in Denver, and I expect the event in Atlanta to be no different. So
1:41.7	microcomf.com slash US to grab your ticket today.
1:45.4	So with that, let's dive right into my conversation.
1:59.5	Derek Reimer, thanks for joining me, on startup to the rest of us.
2:03.4	Thanks for having me back. It's always a pleasure.
2:05.1	Yeah, it's good, man. It's good to catch up with you.
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