I have been building software professionally since 2000. One thing that is strikingly clear to me is; the amount of waste that is being created in our industry. We build and build without knowing that what we build is actually valuable. Will they use it? Will they pay for it? We just don’t know!
The Lean Startup has thought us about running experiments and building a Minimal Valuable Product or MVP. But, how do you limit the amount of waste generated, when you are still trying to validate your assumptions. Assumptions that may turn out the be false.
This book will explain, in great details the different, often free, services I have used while working on my two startup initiatives, Inqob and Random Manager.
Expect to learn how you can build a MVP in a day and how to build a product in a week. You will also learn about, for example, how to implement Continuous Delivery and how you will benefit from it.
The tools we will use and discuss (not limited by):
- Node.js
- Heroku
- TravisCI
- MongoHQ
- RedisToGo
- Cloudant
- Mandril
- Google Analytics
- PayPal
- Paymill
- 99 Designs
- DNSimple
Who is it for?
The book is mostly written for developers, is the technical part of the series. Here you will find code ready to be copy pasted to get yourself a quick start into developing your MVP. If you can relate to any of these points then the book might be for you:
- You are thinking of building your own product, but you don't know where to start?
- You have no plans on starting something on your own, but you like the technologies described and would like to apply them in your day to day work.
If you would like to learn about all the non-technical details as well then I also recommend that you read the first book in this series: "Lean Startup for Developers, Part 1 - Non-Technical"
