Lessons learned building Recipe Box
Code Chefs - Hungry Web Developer Podcast
English - July 27, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 92.3 MBTech News News Technology javascript webdevelopment html css codechefs Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Andrew is a software developer and engineering manager with a love for building independent apps. He was the CEO of the recipe storage app…
Andrew is a software developer and engineering manager with a love for building independent apps. He was the CEO of the recipe storage app RecipeBox before it was acquired by emeals.com. He spent the last year at eMeals completing integration duties after his acquisition and serving as Head of Mobile Product for eMeals’ core product.
He’s currently working on his next projects Secret Stash, a secure content storage app, and Mockingbird API, a mock API service that streamlines integration time between frontend and backend teams.
Outline
In this talk, Andrew will cover what it's like building recipe box. These include these points:
Ideation
Learning new skills
Designing a product and cutting to MVP
Getting to market quickly
Finding a partner
Acquisition process
What parts of an app to standup (e.g. technical support)
A cooler segment where we talk about topics not related to the main segment
Vincent - Tampa Devs retirement
Andrew - learning how to play piano
German - Parent leaving and going back to work