39: Another New Beginning - a podcast by Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer

Derrick discovered his marketing and promotional tasks were eating up too much of his time and mind, so he took a break from them. He shifted his focus to the actual development of his product, Level. He made some forward strides on the product’s design.
Ben decided to give notice and leave his current job for an opportunity to develop a Screenhero alternative. Screenhero is a pair programming tool that has a rough history with Slack. So, he has a co-founder, new technology findings from Stanford, and encouragement from original developers. Could anything be more aligned?! Ben’s alternative and Derrick’s Level is a match made in heaven.Today’s Topics Include:
How Derrick is refactoring and optimizing data model itemsIs having one identity the right way to go or do people want to establish different identities within different communities?
Ben encourages Derrick to not automatically do the opposite of SlackDerrick is trying to envision what people may request and be able to customize
Shifting from the anonymous to identified WebWhy Derrick decided to rewrite some database migration history
Derrick is developing Level’s registration and sign-up processDerrick is on a development roller coaster every day; getting back on the yoga train
Development teams will become increasingly distributed, so the customer base for Ben’s alternative will only expandHow Ben feels about the technology risk factor with his alternative tool
Ben will be learning C++ to write the codebase and maintain itIf you’re enjoying the show please give us your ratings and reviews iniTunes.
Links and resources:Ben Orenstein Website (http://www.benorenstein.com/)
Ben Orenstein on Twitter (https://twitter.com/r00k)Derrick Reimer Website (http://www.derrickreimer.com/)
Derrick Reimer on Twitter (https://twitter.com/derrickreimer)Tailwind CSS (https://tailwindcss.com/)
The Bootstrap Blog (https://blog.getbootstrap.com/)Drip (https://www.drip.com/)
GitHub (https://github.com/)Steve Schoger (https://www.steveschoger.com/)
Screenhero (https://screenhero.com/)MicroConf (https://www.microconf.com/)
Thoughtbot (https://thoughtbot.com/)Ruby on Rails (http://rubyonrails.org/)

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