71: Beyond Alpha - a podcast by Ben Orenstein and Derrick Reimer

Ben has been busy. The alpha launch date for Tuple was Jan. 7. He was nervous about it, but so far, it’s going well. One participant said, “I’m sort of surprised you’re calling this an ‘alpha,’ because everything seems to work!” Ben was glad to hear it, but admits that’s not totally true. He’s still far from where he wants to be with Tuple, but is definitely on the right track.
Derrick has been hard at work, too. He continues to develop Level and knows that there will be ups and downs with customers, functionality, etc. But, he continues to move forward and strives to help others solve problems associated with team communication.Today’s Topics Include:
Importance of manually onboarding people via calls about productSetting expectations and communication efforts for a rolling roll out
Users understand that bugs will happen and offer friendly feedbackExperimenting with pricing models for product’s current and future releases
Tuple’s performance dashboard displays key details; caring about things that matterBandwidth: Do fewer things and do them well to be able to compete
Level’s future strategies and goals regarding customers and feedbackIf a product can solve a user’s problem, then it’s good enough to give to them
Poor execution and explanation of Drip’s price increaseLinks and resources:
Art of Product on Twitter (https://twitter.com/artofproductpod)Derrick Reimer (http://www.derrickreimer.com) Website
Derrick Reimer on Twitter (https://twitter.com/derrickreimer)Ben Orenstein (http://www.benorenstein.com/) Website
Ben Orenstein on Twitter (https://twitter.com/r00k?lang=en)Level (https://level.app/)
Tuple (https://tuple.app/)Drip (https://www.drip.com/)
Calendly (https://calendly.com/)Screenhero (https://screenhero.com/)
MicroConf (https://www.microconf.com/)Superhuman (https://superhuman.com/)
Jason Fried (https://twitter.com/jasonfried)Jason Cohen (https://twitter.com/asmartbear)
Brian Casel (https://briancasel.com/)

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