101: Ben Orenstein - How to Build an App in a Week

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Episode: 101: Ben Orenstein - How to Build an App in a Week
Pub date: 2018-11-07

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Topics include:

• Why deadlines are critical
• Using manual processes to avoid building features entirely
• How launching a stripped down version of your idea can help you build the right thing
• Recognizing when you don't need to solve a problem yet
• Why you shouldn't design your entire UI up front
• How evolutionary design applies to both code and interface design
• Why you should always finish a feature before starting the next one
• Applying this approach to Ben's current project Tuple

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Links:

• The Art of Product, Ben's podcast
• Tuple, Ben's current project
• "You Should Take a Codecation"
• Trailmix.life, Ben's first codecation SaaS
• Briefs.fm, Ben's second codecation SaaS
• Nomadlist, by Pieter Levels
• Airline List
• Basecamp 6 week cycles
• "How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp"
• "What six weeks of work looks like" (at Basecamp)
• "Making Sense of MVP", by Henrik Kniberg

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