How to save 200K in development costs with lean startup principles
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This document discusses techniques for saving money in software development projects. It provides several use cases of companies that saved money by avoiding unnecessary features, automating processes later, focusing development based on user behavior, considering alternative workflows, optimizing for scaling, using appropriate third-party tools, hiring experts for specialized work, building for maintainability, and planning for future requirements. Savings ranged from 5,000 to 40,000 ILS (Israeli Shekels) per project by employing these lean development practices.
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- 1. How to save 200K in development Adam Klein
- 2. That's me Adam Klein Co-Founder of 500Tech.com @500TechIL
- 3. What this is about The technical side of "being lean" Actual use cases Not technology specific
- 4. Please Don't wait for a "questions?" slide
- 5. The advantages of being small
- 7. Fake features - use case Community app where users can request assistance from each other Users define the radius in which they are available V1 - 100 alpha users - radius feature is fake V2 - decided to give up feature altogether Save - 5000ILS
- 9. Automate later - use case Use case - @Chicago.com Manually setup email & domain forwarding (less than 1 new user every day) Later on - automatic integration Domains weren't even being used Save - 12,000 ILS
- 11. use case Entertainer marketplace Complex code for payment flow - user pays, entertainer approves, user is charged Users were not even getting to the payment page After changing the website flow users started doing online purchases Save - 20,000ILS
- 12. Green flow
- 13. Green flow - use case Same use case Alternative solution - refund if entertainer is not available Save - 20,000ILS
- 14. Think out of the box
- 16. Control your users 15,000 users accessing streaming videos Scaling up the streaming servers is costly Solution: send push notifications in batches Save - 23,000ILS (a year)
- 17. Lean != cheap
- 18. Use SaaS Urban airship, Pusher - don't reinvent the wheel Heroku - optimization against increasing dynos Choosing a better SaaS over a cheaper one Save - 20,000ILS
- 19. Hire experts Can save days of development in a few minutes Learn and become better at what you do 4 hour * 400ILS < 40 hours * 200ILS Save - 25,000ILS
- 20. Build to last
- 21. Cheap workforce Messy code - hard to change Voodoo bugs Noone actually does complete refactoring We received a project and did a complete refactoring over time Save - 40,000 ILS
- 22. Have the next step in mind Building a mobile app as well - think about SPA Mobile Web - use a responsive library Know where you're going to fall on performance SaaS costs Save - 35,000ILS
- 23. Questions adam@500tech.com @500TechIL 500tech.com hackademy.co.il angular.co.il