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Flight Review is a podcast chronicling the journey of two entrepreneurs building an ambitious devtools startup. Hosted by Brandon Bayer and Mina Abadir, the founders of Flightcontrol. They chat about entrepreneurship, product design, SaaS, marketing, and building devtool products.
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We talk about Brandon’s travels, our new hire, and our company retreat in Italy next week. We also discuss our slow velocity and how we plan to increase shipping momentum.
We chat about how RenderATL is such a stellar conference, give an update on hiring and the technical interview process we designed.twitter.com/Swizec
We talk about the incredible response to our new job posting and the process that went into. Also we go behind the scenes of our hiring process and how we are evaluating candidates.- flightcontrol.notion.site/Backend-Typescript-Engineer-at-Small-DevTools-Startup-12e52471539a4ab9878514e04c415da6
We talk about managing schedules and productivity tools. Then we talk about what we're learning about making a really great hiring process.- meetsidekick.com- mightyapp.com- cron.com- Video on technical interviews: youtube.com/watch
Brandon officially stops coding, now that Blake has taken over all his coding responsibilities. We talk about our completely broken hiring process and how we are fixing it by starting from first principles. And then we rave about how Superhuman has changed our email lives (we never thought we'd be *that* person).- Book: amazon.com/What-You-Do-Who-Are/dp/0062871331- superhuman.com- growthbook.io
We discuss our sponsorship of React Miami, the outcomes from that, and how we are evaluating ROI. After some other product and company updates, we talk about switching our Webflow website to Makeswift. And the tradeoffs of code vs nocode marketing sites.- sound.xyz- webflow.com- makeswift.com- awesomic.io
Being a founder is an extreme exercise in focus, prioritization, and discipline. This week we're feeling this more than ever, with so many things to do. We give updates on hiring, Blitz Toolkit, Flightcontrol product updates including preview environments, and comment on the Redwood 1.0 release.
This is the final week of this YC batch, so we reflect on the past three the months, our fast paced fundraising process in the last two weeks, and where we go from here.- We're hiring a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Week 10 of YC and life is off the charts! We talk about being human, being fully yourself in important meetings, and how we are cultivating a super healthy cofounder relationship in the midst of chaos.https://usenoor.com
Brandon and Mina give an update from week 9 of 12 of this Y Combinator batch. The phase were it starts to feel like the wheels are coming off the bus 🤪 And also discuss YC in general. They also talk about their first in-person company gathering and how important shared in-person context is.
This is a secret episode recorded on November 5, 2021 where Brandon and Mina share the exciting and brutal backstory on how they tried and failed to raise VC money, eventually got into Y Combinator, and then quickly raised a total of $1 million.
This week we dig into how we are managing our work-life balance and mental health while building an ambitious startup. We share our mental framework for processing it all, the guidelines we put in place for ourselves, and some tactics we're using.
We discuss Flightcontrol progress update, how personal perceptions can vary widely between video calls and in person, and then dig into pricing. We talk through our entire pricing journey, the things we tried, and how we eventually ended up at our current pricing.
Pricing your SaaS product
Van Westendorp Pricing Model
https://www.vantage.sh/
It's week 3 after launch, and we now have paying customers! We talk about our current rention numbers and how we're working toward a public launch soon. (Also sorry for the delayed publishing! Totally forgot to upload and publish in the heat of startup life 😂)
It's been an awesome second week since onboarding our first customer. We manually onboarded 20 more and then opened up self signup. We discuss how we're managing it all, and what's coming next.
We have liftoff!!! This was a wild and awesome week onboarding our first users and getting our first taste of product market fit signals. We recall our week day by day, sharing what it feels like to onboard your first users. We also talk about finding the delicate MVP recipe and about how we are figuring out our initial pricing.Van Westendorp Pricing Model
After our weekly Flightcontrol progress update, we dig into our new weekly development cycle process and choosing our KPIs and short term goal.
Development Cycle Planning: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4e-product-development-cycle-fundamentals
http://segment.io/
https://june.so/
https://avo.app/
https://www.amplitude.com/
We finally shipped Flightcontrol to production! And we dissect the last 3 months to figure out why it took so much longer to build than we anticipated. And talk about what we are doing going forward.
We discuss the new RFC to pivot Blitz.js to a framework agnostic toolkit. And we talk about how that plays into Flightcontrol.
Straight No Chaser
Blitz Pivot RFC: https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz/discussions/3075
tRPC
We're continuing to make good progress, but that last 10% just gets you every time!
Sebastian joins Vercel
Adam Elmore, our technical advisor
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