BuyerDeckfrom first code line to first paying customer

Ilgvars Jecis, co-founder & CTO @ BuyerDeck

Product

www.buyerdeck.com

Team

Initial expectations...

What is astartup?

What really happened

6 monthJun 2013 1 year 1.5 years

# of projects created

What we are doing

Sales

Marketing

Legals

Accounting

Fundraising

Code

ShipLearn

Support

Networking

Vision

Coding / Backend

Selected tools we know:

Java 8, Spring (Boot), Gradle, ...

Mongo, Firebase

and few new ones

Coding / Backend

Really simple architecture

REST API endpoint

Command(business logic)

Mongo

Coding / UI

UI/UX is the hard part

JS / HTML / CSS is a big mess

Tools like Angular, Twitter Bootstrap help a lot

Testing

Automated API tests are lifesaver

Unit tests only for real logic (no mocks)

Manual UI testing

Shipping

We use “*-as-a-service” as much as possible

Fast, zero-downtime deployments

Shipping / Cloud

Shipping

Ansible rocks!

> ansible-playbook -i prod deploy.yml

Shipping / CI server farm

Learning

Listening to the customers

Data, data, data…. (once you have it)

Learning / Tools

Mixpanel example

Examples

“Browser audio” case

“Sharing” case

Few tips

Aim for big markets

Be ready for long, hard journey with lots of failures

Go full time

Non-technical co-founder (“hustler”)

Few tips

Simple / boring tech stack is fine

Don’t hide your awesome idea

Focus on product, 100%

Questions?

Thank you!Thank you!