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Egil Østhus

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216 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

It really caught my interest and we decided to let's put our heads together and then really see where we can take this opportunity. And then we spent about a year as a side gig, just exploring what is the product market fit? How does the competitive landscape look like?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

It really caught my interest and we decided to let's put our heads together and then really see where we can take this opportunity. And then we spent about a year as a side gig, just exploring what is the product market fit? How does the competitive landscape look like?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

And when we started to see that and actually spending a full year of every night and weekend to work on this project, we spoke to a lot of customers. That was basically what we did every minute, just talking to customers, understanding the pain, understanding if this was something that was what we experienced was similar to what they experienced and could this tool also be applicable to them?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

And when we started to see that and actually spending a full year of every night and weekend to work on this project, we spoke to a lot of customers. That was basically what we did every minute, just talking to customers, understanding the pain, understanding if this was something that was what we experienced was similar to what they experienced and could this tool also be applicable to them?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

And when we started to see that and actually spending a full year of every night and weekend to work on this project, we spoke to a lot of customers. That was basically what we did every minute, just talking to customers, understanding the pain, understanding if this was something that was what we experienced was similar to what they experienced and could this tool also be applicable to them?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

Truth was, yes, it was definitely so. And also starting to understand how did we differ from the other players in the category. And that was a very, very important part of this journey because it allowed us to really validate what is the willingness to pay, what is sort of this position, or where does this product fit in next to the competitor that was already in there in the category, you know.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

Truth was, yes, it was definitely so. And also starting to understand how did we differ from the other players in the category. And that was a very, very important part of this journey because it allowed us to really validate what is the willingness to pay, what is sort of this position, or where does this product fit in next to the competitor that was already in there in the category, you know.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

Truth was, yes, it was definitely so. And also starting to understand how did we differ from the other players in the category. And that was a very, very important part of this journey because it allowed us to really validate what is the willingness to pay, what is sort of this position, or where does this product fit in next to the competitor that was already in there in the category, you know.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

This is a Node.js application. It's built on top of a Postgres database. It was built in a few weeks. It was sort of just solving the most simple kind of use case you can imagine. And from there on, it was sort of kept like side project for quite some time, some weeks more active, some weeks less active. The beauty about an open source, there is a big community.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

This is a Node.js application. It's built on top of a Postgres database. It was built in a few weeks. It was sort of just solving the most simple kind of use case you can imagine. And from there on, it was sort of kept like side project for quite some time, some weeks more active, some weeks less active. The beauty about an open source, there is a big community.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

This is a Node.js application. It's built on top of a Postgres database. It was built in a few weeks. It was sort of just solving the most simple kind of use case you can imagine. And from there on, it was sort of kept like side project for quite some time, some weeks more active, some weeks less active. The beauty about an open source, there is a big community.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

If there is some success, there is some community and there is some interest. And you start getting some feedback from others that is also using this open source and what they really need. I think the interesting part of the MVP is basically more than anything, we should as product people look at what is the minimum lovable product or usable product maybe, because that's what we're looking for.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

If there is some success, there is some community and there is some interest. And you start getting some feedback from others that is also using this open source and what they really need. I think the interesting part of the MVP is basically more than anything, we should as product people look at what is the minimum lovable product or usable product maybe, because that's what we're looking for.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

If there is some success, there is some community and there is some interest. And you start getting some feedback from others that is also using this open source and what they really need. I think the interesting part of the MVP is basically more than anything, we should as product people look at what is the minimum lovable product or usable product maybe, because that's what we're looking for.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

Getting into a position where there is other users than yourself that really want to start using this product and invest in understanding this product. So the first version, a few weeks, and then it's slowly growing in feature set and kind of complexity from 15 to 2019. And then some quite extensive usage research.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

Getting into a position where there is other users than yourself that really want to start using this product and invest in understanding this product. So the first version, a few weeks, and then it's slowly growing in feature set and kind of complexity from 15 to 2019. And then some quite extensive usage research.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

Getting into a position where there is other users than yourself that really want to start using this product and invest in understanding this product. So the first version, a few weeks, and then it's slowly growing in feature set and kind of complexity from 15 to 2019. And then some quite extensive usage research.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

And then we spent about a year to build kind of the next like really, really core, let's say, feature parity that is needed in order to kind of go and compete for large contracts.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

And then we spent about a year to build kind of the next like really, really core, let's say, feature parity that is needed in order to kind of go and compete for large contracts.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S9 Bonus: Egil Østhus, Unleash (Replay)

And then we spent about a year to build kind of the next like really, really core, let's say, feature parity that is needed in order to kind of go and compete for large contracts.