Derrick Reimer

Like, I've had outreach from larger companies that are almost like putting me through kind of a BDR process where they're like, you can tell they're reaching out to a lot of companies asking for integrations, because they have some some random person in their partnerships department who just is working the long tail of trying to get their service integrated with a bunch of other people.

Like, I've had outreach from larger companies that are almost like putting me through kind of a BDR process where they're like, you can tell they're reaching out to a lot of companies asking for integrations, because they have some some random person in their partnerships department who just is working the long tail of trying to get their service integrated with a bunch of other people.

And those are not super high value. I don't have any evidence that their customers actually want to use my product. They just are looking for another backlink and another notch on their list of integrations to be able to say, we integrate with thousands of tools. So I think it's trying to make sure, is there an actual case here?

And those are not super high value. I don't have any evidence that their customers actually want to use my product. They just are looking for another backlink and another notch on their list of integrations to be able to say, we integrate with thousands of tools. So I think it's trying to make sure, is there an actual case here?

Have you actually heard demand from your customers for something like my product and vice versa? can we develop something meaningful here? Or is it kind of just this transactional, like we're hoping to get a quick win on some traffic?

Have you actually heard demand from your customers for something like my product and vice versa? can we develop something meaningful here? Or is it kind of just this transactional, like we're hoping to get a quick win on some traffic?

Yeah, I think that's the majority of, well, we have our integrations with the big players, but the smaller players that we integrate with, a lot of that came from some degree of warm connection to the point where I could reach out, ping them and DM them or email them and make the case like you talked about. We're hearing a lot of customers mention wanting to

Yeah, I think that's the majority of, well, we have our integrations with the big players, but the smaller players that we integrate with, a lot of that came from some degree of warm connection to the point where I could reach out, ping them and DM them or email them and make the case like you talked about. We're hearing a lot of customers mention wanting to

wanting to integrate our two products together. Here's what we're seeing. Are you guys seeing anything similar? You know, and just like start the discussion on like, have you heard anything? Oh, that's interesting. You want to do a test? You know, like we get the ball rolling on conversation for good reason and not just like cold outreach.

wanting to integrate our two products together. Here's what we're seeing. Are you guys seeing anything similar? You know, and just like start the discussion on like, have you heard anything? Oh, that's interesting. You want to do a test? You know, like we get the ball rolling on conversation for good reason and not just like cold outreach.

Oh, yeah, there's no notion of quarterly planning in my flow. And I think that's probably the case for a lot of startups.

Oh, yeah, there's no notion of quarterly planning in my flow. And I think that's probably the case for a lot of startups.

We generally have a sense for what the next four to six weeks looks like. I'm not a religious follower of shape-up. I think that's a pretty popular methodology from the Basecamp folks that people have latched onto as a way to budget your time as a team and say, what are we going to let's fix the time budget and then get done whatever we can on what we set out to do and flex the scope as needed.

We generally have a sense for what the next four to six weeks looks like. I'm not a religious follower of shape-up. I think that's a pretty popular methodology from the Basecamp folks that people have latched onto as a way to budget your time as a team and say, what are we going to let's fix the time budget and then get done whatever we can on what we set out to do and flex the scope as needed.

And I think that's kind of generally, folks have kind of coalesced around that as a good way to kind of shape your work. And I think it scales down to to pretty early stage as well. You might want to keep the cycle a little shorter.

And I think that's kind of generally, folks have kind of coalesced around that as a good way to kind of shape your work. And I think it scales down to to pretty early stage as well. You might want to keep the cycle a little shorter.

Six weeks feels kind of long for a super early stage, but when you get to a place of product maturity where you're really just kind of incrementally improving it, I've seen that be a pretty helpful time range.

Six weeks feels kind of long for a super early stage, but when you get to a place of product maturity where you're really just kind of incrementally improving it, I've seen that be a pretty helpful time range.

The goal there is to try to say, we're going to build this thing and we're going to build whatever version of it we can get done within our time constraints so that you don't let projects just run away on you.

The goal there is to try to say, we're going to build this thing and we're going to build whatever version of it we can get done within our time constraints so that you don't let projects just run away on you.