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Dan La Savita

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197 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

What's too expensive to pay?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

What's too little that you would want to pay?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

But we're just starting those pricing conversations with users right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

It is 12 engineers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

Oh, wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

Majority engineers, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

Yeah, well, I think it's what it affords you to do that a desktop may not afford you to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So for example...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

When you're designing on your phone, you're designing in the native environment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So you now get to plug into all of these native elements that iOS has to offer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So if you're designing a video player, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

All the primary design tools don't support native video.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

They don't support native modals or live maps or haptics or input text fields.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So what happens is designers spend all these times on their desktop designing around hacks for all of these native things that you and I and everyone else feels on our mobile product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

or just prototypes, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

We're using web technologies to simulate what a native gesture feels like, a pan gesture or a pinch and zoom.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

So in Play, you're using all the real native iOS gestures and controls.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

Now, that's not to say there won't be some sort of desktop companion to Play in the future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

We currently have a web dashboard, so it allows people to drag their images, their SVGs, their custom fonts over into the dashboard.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Can they convert 11k Designer Installs to Revenue, $40m+ Valuation?

You would think that the Play web dashboard will grow in its fidelity as a tool as we're also launching iPad.