Noah Labhart

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Join the Wolfpack at QAwolf.com to see if they can help you squash the QA bottleneck. Let's flip to scalability. And this will be interesting. Did you build this to scale efficiently from early days or with scale in mind, things like that? Or have there been interesting areas or stories where you've had to fight it as you've grown?

Okay, so let's flip the script a little bit. William, tell me about a mistake you made and how you and your team responded to it.

William, this will be fun. Tell me what the future looks like for Basket, for the product and for your team. Future is cool, man.

Let's switch to you, William. Who influences the way that you work? Name a person or many persons or something you look up to and why.

William, last question. So you're getting on a plane and you're sitting next to a young entrepreneur who's built the next big thing. They're jazzed about it. They can't wait to show it off to the world and can't wait to show it off to you right there on the plane. What advice do you give that person having gone down this road a bit?

And this concludes another chapter of Code Story. Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or the podcasting app of your choice. And when you get a chance, leave us a review. Both things help us out tremendously. And thanks again for listening.

This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share what it takes to change an industry, who built the teams that have their back, keeping scalability top of mind. All that infrastructure was a pain. Yes, we've been fighting it as we grow. Total waste of time. The stories you don't read in the headlines. It's not an easy thing to achieve, mind you.

Took off the shelf and dusted it off and tried to begin. To ride the ups and downs of the startup life. You need to really want it. It's not just about technology. All this and more on Code Story. I'm your host, Noah Lapart. And today, how Rohith Varanasi built a way for you to explore the town. and have an adventure earn rewards all with your friends. This episode is sponsored by Speakeasy.

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QA Wolf gets engineering teams to 80% automated end-to-end test coverage and helps them ship five times faster by reducing QA cycles from hours to minutes. With over 100 five-star reviews on G2 and customer testimonials from SalesLoft, Grotta, and Autotrader, you're in good hands. Join the Wolf Pack at QAwolf.com.

Rohith Varanasi grew up in Jersey and had a chill childhood playing video games and sports from a young age. He wanted to learn how to build a video game and upon Googling it, decided he should build a website first. And at that point, he was hooked on coding. He got into jailbreaking the PlayStation and writing real code to mod games.

Eventually, he got into hackathons and ended up building a web browser based on SMS called Cosmos, which went viral. Outside of tech, he's into paddle, loves going to the gym and hanging with his girlfriend and their one-year-old cat. Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products.

The latest product they built allows people to earn in-game rewards by walking and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes and optimal replayability. This is the creation story of Block Party.

So tell me about the MVP for Block Party. What did that first version of the product look and feel like? And what sort of tools were you using to bring it to life?

On that MVP version, when you're building any MVP, you got to make certain decisions and trade-offs about how you're going to approach building the solution, creating the product. So tell me about some of the decisions and trade-offs you had to work through, maybe around tech debt or approach, or like you said, you're on iOS only, kind of working through those decisions.

Tell me about how you made those and how you coped with the decisions.

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