How to Build a Product Company with Andreas Prins

Andreas Prins comes on to share the pivot and journey he’s gone through with StackState, a product company. My biggest takeaway is how much more effective you can be by solving one problem, and solving it really well. By maintaining focus on a single use case, things become simpler and more clear. Both from a customer perspective, as well as from the teams that build the product. “If you need 6 web pages to explain what you do, you might want to rethink your solution” One of my favourite quotes from the episode.  It was a real pleasure to learn from his journey and I hope it’s a good listen as well :) Enjoy! 🎙 Connect with Andreas Prins: https://linkedin.com/in/andreasprins https://twitter.com/andreasprins Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/ojJZ4ijWq0I New episodes every Wednesday with our host 🎙Patrick Akil!   Big shoutout to ⁠Xebia⁠ for making this episode possible! OUTLINE:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:28 - The day to day of Andreas00:01:14 - Market Research00:02:31 - Taking ideas from open source00:03:45 - What problem is StackState solving?00:06:45 - How has StackState evolved?00:09:46 - Building the right thing00:12:55 - Engineers adopting solutions00:16:17 - Breadth vs. depth00:17:54 - Feedback from the engineering team and customers00:20:26 - Who talks to customers?00:21:55 - Pitfalls of technical founders00:25:49 - Super focus on one problem00:27:20 - Getting great engagement at demo's00:30:30 - Processing feedback00:32:51 - Understanding the big picture00:35:56 - Entrepreneurial mindset00:37:41 - Entrepreneurial environments00:40:18 - Open core and building a community00:45:52 - Not accepting the status quo00:47:29 - Outro