Idea to launch - the start of a startup
summary
A startup story with concrete numbers and tools: the team builds Breaker launched March 2017, runs it as a weekend project until Y Combinator Winter 2017 acceptance, and grows from a few friends to hundreds via TestFlight and a Product Hunt beta that brings thousands of new users. Work style details matter: one-week sprints, weekly App Store releases, no long bug tracker, incremental UI redesigns, and a marketplace product for paid podcast episodes that ships and earns early conversions.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30About me
- 0:52Office hours
- 1:16Breaker
- 2:19Serial
- 2:41pounce
- 3:14forums and chat
- 3:32pivoting
- 4:00current app
- 4:26the formula for startup success
- 7:28looking for a cofounder
- 8:17where did we start
- 8:36interviewing podcasters
- 9:29building a prototype
- 10:20setting goals
- 11:49naming criteria
- 16:06new goal
- 16:42test flight
- 17:26email updates
- 17:57Y Combinator
- 19:01Doing things as needed
- 21:24Goal number 3
- 23:23What are we doing now
- 24:48Marketplace for premium podcasts
- 25:50Sprints
- 27:04iOS App
- 27:29Bug Tracker
- 28:58iterative design
- 29:28lessons learned
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