Large code pushes are always rewarding, if a little scary. This week
LeadsPedia is doing
a pivot and opening up our product to companies who can now
sign themselves up
for a free one month trial. (Previously companies had to engage with our sales team and then we set them up manually). We also
released a support portal which fully documents our platform - my team wrote the code for the site and its ticketing system while
the customer success team produced the articles and videos which are its content. Our business is to serve market makers in the
lead generation space and allow them to automate the tracking of clicks, conversions, leads, calls, etc while managing and tracking affiliates and
advertisers. Today we also released an advertiser portal and a new version of our affiliate portal that allows our customers to set up
end to end automation of that management. Advertisers can sign up and submit offers in their portal while affiliates can sign up and apply to
offers in their portal. The upshot is that for our customers this will greatly simplify their business.
The past couple months or so putting all these pieces together has had my team working at a sometimes frenetic pace, and it's
been rewarding to help the guys fresh out of school grow as programmers. Both Joo and Carter are hard workers and even put in the
hours over the weekend to hit our goals. I am quite proud of their work as well. Tonight after pushing all the code to
production and retesting all the new features we played a celebratory game of Settlers of Catan and munched on pizza.
Now it is 1 AM and I cannot sleep for all the excitment.
Après cela, le déluge.
We are, of course, hoping the flood is one of signups rather than bugs. Either way it's exciting to open up any SaaS product to
public signup. It was something Philip and I always wanted to do at
PatientFocus. I have also heard Luke Stokes tell about
how he and his partner were developing
Foxycart
and put a public signup out there. They had a customer sign up and realized "Oh, I guess
we just launched." And of course we all know tales like those of Mark Zuckerberg having most of the Harvard campus sign up for
a site running off his dormroom computer. Self signup can be an incredible catalyst for growth.
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