The Railsware Way - Mistakes & Lessons in Product Evolution, with Oleksii Ianchuk
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
5.0 • 217 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners, welcome back as we are dropping the final episode in our series sponsored by our good friends at Railsware. |
| 0:07.0 | Railsware is a leading product studio with two main focuses, services and products. |
| 0:12.0 | They have created amazing products like MailTrap, Coupler, and Titanaps, while also partnering with teams like Calumly and Brightbytes. |
| 0:19.0 | They deliver amazing products and have |
| 0:21.6 | happy customers to prove it. In this series, we are digging into the company's methods |
| 0:26.2 | around product engineering and development. In particular, we will cover relevant topics to |
| 0:30.4 | not only highlight their expertise, but to educate you on industry trends alongside their |
| 0:35.4 | experience. In today's episode, we are speaking with Alexei Yanchuk, product lead at Railsware, specifically |
| 0:42.4 | from MailTrap. |
| 0:43.6 | Though he doesn't like to limit his activities to product development only, Alexi has spent |
| 0:47.9 | six years in product and project management and is keen on searching for insights and putting |
| 0:53.0 | them to work. |
| 0:55.4 | Alexi, thanks for being on the show today. Thank you for being on Code Story. |
| 0:58.8 | It's my pleasure to be here. |
| 1:00.6 | Before we jump into our topic today, which, you know, this episode is entitled, A Story of Product Evolution through mistakes and Lessons Learned. |
| 1:08.0 | We're going to dive all into your experiences as product lead at |
| 1:11.4 | Railsware and MailTrap. Before we do, tell me a little bit about you. Tell me in my audience, |
| 1:15.6 | a little bit about you. So I've been in kind of software development and IT sphere around 10 |
| 1:21.7 | years. I started as a person who was told, do whatever you want in a small growing team. |
| 1:28.6 | The time I was in affiliate marketing, especially in travel industry. |
| 1:32.6 | And I had to pick up all jobs and all things that have to be done. |
| 1:37.2 | So I did support, I did business development. |
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