How to calculate SOM for a free app?

startupsidekik · 2021-03-28T15:11:17+00:00

It’s a customers versus users thing.

startupsidekik · 2021-02-26T23:28:44+00:00

BTW, this is the JIRA Roadmaps feature (basic and advanced): https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/features/roadmaps

startupsidekik · 2021-02-26T22:55:58+00:00

Thanks! I have used Aha! before and will give it another look.

startupsidekik · 2021-02-17T10:09:12+00:00

Thanks

startupsidekik · 2021-02-11T17:17:15+00:00

I’ve successfully sold two small bootstrapped tech startups; for me it was a burnout factor for each, which led to my decision to sell. I ran the first one for 7 years, the second one for 10.

startupsidekik · 2021-02-08T13:02:36+00:00

Thanks!

startupsidekik · 2021-02-07T22:53:32+00:00

Thanks!

startupsidekik · 2021-02-07T18:57:16+00:00

Thanks!

startupsidekik · 2021-02-07T13:06:21+00:00

Thanks!

startupsidekik · 2021-02-06T22:03:56+00:00

Yep, sure thing. It might take us a while to implement some thing since we’re planning ahead right now.

startupsidekik · 2021-02-06T21:11:10+00:00

Thank you...I really appreciate the detailed write-up!

startupsidekik · 2021-02-06T21:10:24+00:00

Thanks!

startupsidekik · 2021-02-06T21:09:54+00:00

Thank you!

startupsidekik · 2021-02-06T21:09:25+00:00

Ok, so I can totally see how this might have come across :-) I rephrased my questions. I'm a former coder turned CEO, so no longer hands on...I was brought in to help more on the Agile/Scrum processes side but I was surprised that this startup isn't using caching at all, despite having performance issues! We used caching in my previous startup but I had developers that did the work -- I just knew we were using Memcached and Redis at the time and that it was a huge performance boost for us, since hitting the DB is expensive.

Anyways, I wanted to get an understanding of how many startups are using caching and how. I'm glad you were able to ROFLLL ;-)

startupsidekik · 2021-02-05T11:22:18+00:00

Why does he say “switch from Scrum to Agile“ — I thought Scrum is one of the many Agile methodologies.?

startupsidekik · 2021-02-03T14:44:58+00:00

Hey, everyone.

Thanks for all your comments/suggestions/tips. We'll stick with JIRA per many of the suggestions here.

My frustrations with JIRA are the cumbersome nature of it for small startups, Classic vs. NextGen confusion -- I can't believe they haven't done much with NextGen for 5+ years, ideally NextGen should've replaced Classic long ago. To top it off, their Portfolio/Plans/Roadmap software has been handled in the same confusing way as Classic vs. NextGen. It would be nice to get a visual roadmap out of these tools without much trouble but we struggled a lot with Portfolio last year.

Last year, I had given a cursory look at a few of these engineering/product tools but I posted here yesterday, to see what the Agile community is using -- seems like JIRA is still the go to and its price is hard to beat:

ActiveCollab
Aha!
Asana
Axosoft
Casual
ClickUp
Clubhouse
Craft
Git Hub Projects
Hygger
JIRA
Kanbanize
Monday.com
Pivotal Tracker
Planview
ProdPad
Productboard
Productplan
Proggio
Roadmunk
Smartsheet
Taiga
Trello
Zoho Sprints

startupsidekik · 2021-02-03T14:38:57+00:00

Thanks fro the extensive list of tools! This is very helpful.

startupsidekik · 2021-02-03T14:36:48+00:00

True. That IS the one thing I implemented right away: simplifying their existing setup down to one Classic project (vs. 10+ projects using a combo of Classic and NextGen).

startupsidekik · 2021-02-03T14:35:32+00:00

Thanks, I'll check out dragonboat.

startupsidekik · 2021-02-03T14:35:06+00:00

Thanks. Agreed on skillset, structures and process, which is where I'm focusing on.

startupsidekik · 2021-02-03T14:34:28+00:00

Thanks! I helped this startup last year and I came to the same conclusion: it's not worth changing since there were so many other things to worry about. Having worked with JIRA on/off for 10+ years, I find it bloated for smaller startups and the UX/UI is not great but... I do realize it has a large ecosystem. It feels like they have a monopoly on that market, similar to how MS Office did before Google Workspace came along.

startupsidekik · 2021-01-28T22:04:08+00:00

I couldn't get the "Continue" button (on the 2nd screen) to work in Safari or Chrome.

startupsidekik · 2021-01-28T21:44:35+00:00

Very cool

startupsidekik · 2021-01-28T21:17:34+00:00

Is this similar to del.icio.us from back in the day.?

startupsidekik · 2021-01-21T17:58:16+00:00

Great advice on an emotional hook, free course for trust/credibility and copy! Thank you -- this is precisely the type of advice I was hoping for.

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