A Big Code Push

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January 17th, 2015

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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