A presentation by Paris Kasidiaris

2. SourceLair
Frictionless software development

3. SourceLair in brief
- A unified and frictionless web development toolset in your browser
- Perfect for solo developers and education
- It is the main product of SourceLair Private Company

4. The story of SourceLair in brief

5. Open Coffee Athens 11 Feb 2011

6. The story so far
- Late 2010: Hacky project in our basement (5 co-founders)
- 2012: We go to the Bay Area in search for funding
- 2015: We secure €200,000 from NBG Business Seeds and incorporate in Greece
- 2017: Almost self-sustainable company with customers from the whole planet

7. Today our company has a new baby!

8. Stolos.io
Remote development environments for teams.

9. What Stolos does
- Puts your team’s development environments on the cloud
- Organizes and manages your team’s development environments
- Your team’s developers keep to use their favorite tools

10. How Stolos works
- Runs your application in Docker containers
- Synchronises code between your computer and Stolos in real time (like Dropbox)
- Makes your Work In Progress accessible via a shareable URL

11. Stolos is security audited

12. Stolos will be open sourced next month.

13. Let’s talk business.

14. Mistakes

15. Mistake 1: Spend funding on payroll

16. Mistake 2: Be a feature factory

18. Mistake 3: Equate product and company

19. Wins

20. Win 1: Make our products paid only

21. Win 1: Making our products paid-only
- Revenue over-doubled when we dropped SourceLair’s free plan
- First line of code to first customer: 4 months for Stolos vs 4 years for SourceLair
- Sets expectations for your customers

22. Win 2: Open-Sourcing our terminal

23. xterm.js
Open Source terminal component

24. Used by
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25. Win 3: Cherry-picking our investor

26. Win 3: Cherry-picking our investor
- We spent the least time possible on fundraising
- We talk only with one team, which we already know, like and trust
- We have full control and responsibility on our company

27. Success 4: Choosing self-sustainability

28. Success 4: Choosing self-sustainability
- Puts top priority on ensuring happy and increasing customers
- Investments are a way to reach more customers and take risks, not live
- Removed the time bomb from our backs and brought our sleep back

29. We owe a lot to our customers

31. Thank you.
https://sourcelair.com

32. In a web development team?
Catch me afterwards and say hi!
https://stolos.io