Episode 16: Matt Wynne
Indiedotes Podcast
English - October 18, 2017 02:02 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCareers Business Technology development technology ruby ruby on rails rails careers programming developer tech software Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Creating Cucumber Pro, a boot-strapped product, how to ask the right questions and how to avoid building something your customers don't need.
Show Notes:
Matt Wynne, the CEO and a founder of Cucumber Ltd talks about building Cucumber Pro, a product designed to solve collaboration problems and bridge communication in software.
“It’s harder than you think. It takes more resilience than you think."
Matt gives us a behind-the-scenes look at building a boot strapped product. He shares the mistakes they made with Cucumber Pro 1.0, why they eventually built code they knew they'd throw away and the importance of asking the right questions.
What to read: How learning to ask questions transformed my career
Show Links:
Matt Wynne TwitterCucumber ProCucumber SchoolImpact Mapping Living architectureThe balancing barn