In this episode, Mitchell and Gavin recap Mitch’s Tasmanian honeymoon, unpack a sudden surge in leads, build out management reporting and Slack notifications, and wrestle with how SixSides can compete with much larger event platforms without hiding what makes the product special.
Chapters
- (00:00) - Intro and audio note
- (01:18) - Life after the wedding and Mitch’s honeymoon
- (14:10) - So many leads
- (17:54) - Building management dashboards
- (19:49) - Slack notifications and sales visibility
- (27:00) - Startup World Cup and the next three months
- (34:26) - How do we compete with larger competitors?
- (47:47) - Building a changelog for SixSides
- (51:45) - Dev updates - Bento, attendee search and notifications
- (54:16) - Voting, app releases and managing the dev team
In this episode, we cover:
- Mitch’s honeymoon in Tasmania, including Hobart, Bruny Island, Port Arthur, Freycinet and Launceston
- The shift from being “on the tools” to building a management and reporting structure
- A growing number of leads coming through LinkedIn and HubSpot
- Why the team may need better dashboards to track revenue, pipeline, lead indicators and website activity
- Using Slack notifications to surface new deals, website visitors and product activity across the team
- Gavin’s trip to a Startup World Cup info night and why he wants to pitch SixSides
- The massive three month lead-up to the first World Police Games release
- How SixSides should prepare its website, onboarding and positioning for more international exposure
- How small SaaS companies can compete with larger competitors
- Why public product docs, feature pages and changelogs might be worth the competitive risk
- How AI changes the speed at which competitors can copy features
- Building a changelog as a signal that SixSides is becoming a more mature product business
- Dev updates including Bento integration, attendee search, notification scheduling, adjustable logo heights and voting
- How Mitch is evolving the engineering review process with Martin and Raymond
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