Ben Parkison

Ben Parkison

Founder and CTO @ Trelliswork
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Community building for SaaS products

Just listened to this great conversation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/64CbOzlVTYM86A35tSaHhG What tips/pitfalls do people have related to community building for or around a SaaS product? What strategies work best?
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Novel Ways to Share Small Feature Updates

We're toying around with repeatable, bite-sized videos that we can share with our community to socialize new features and also just continually get eyes on what we're building. Trick is to make them easily repeatable (we don't really have time for this!) but still keep it interesting. Anyone else trying things like this? Thoughts? https://www.loom.com/share/58d79ef0347141c7a0602a039cad5dc9
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What unique rituals have you seen on high performing teams?

A great team has its own rituals that create space for culture, creativity, and just stepping out of the grind if only for a moment. What are good one's you've seen or been a part of? Doesn't have to be about the work - often these are more about the people.
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Podcasting as Part of Build in Public

Hey Product Hunt community! Three months ago I got a discussion going here in the merits and challenges of podcasting as part of building in public. Well, we did it! https://trelliswork.com/podcast For our product, Trelliswork (launching soon), we started a weekly podcast with the intention of being "radically transparent" in what we were up to. We've really pushed to make sure it doesn't...
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Who actually built for Google Glass, à-la the PH logo?

What was it? Bonus points if it was for cats
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How do you balance time spent building vs. everything else (evangelizing, funding, networking...)?

Especially for a new product headed for launch!
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What is your experience in podcasting (producing or listening) as part of "building in public?"

Effective marketing tool? Useful self reflection? Anything off limits?
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Focus on small problems. “There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.”
Cansu Aydede
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