Posts by Scott Barstow

What's the part of your app that you have to nail? Have you thought about your app this way? I'm not talking about MVPs. This is even more granular than...

Yesterday was Thanksgiving here in the US, and I'm enjoying the holiday with my family. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who reads my posts, follows me...

As you're building your tech product, you're at some point going to have the opportunity to hire contract developers to either augment your current team or perhaps even to be...

If your developer left today and you hired their replacement, could you tell them where all of your source code and other digital assets are? You know, all those things...

I had a call the other day with the CEO of a fast-growing company on the west coast. He was really struggling with a delicate situation involving his CTO, who...

"Automation is to time as compound interest is to money" - Rory Vaden I heard this quote the other day and I was like "Oh man. That's brilliant. I need...

Are you new to testing? Read my Introduction to Testing article first. It used to be that the only kind of testing on a product was human testing. Software companies hired...

As you build out your project, one of the decisions you'll make every day is what kind of testing you should do, and how much of it there should be....

Disclosure: None of the following should be considered legal advice. You should consult an attorney for any and all legal matters If you're new here, I'd recommend that you start...

If you're new here, I'd recommend that you start here and read about why I'm sharing all of my learnings on building technology products. You've got your team of developers ready...

Photo Courtesy of CNN Last night I had the privilege of being in the room with Jerome Jenkins (above), one of the principals at C Jenkins Company in Ferguson, MO....

Whether you've got a technical co-founder or you're hiring an outside firm for developing your product, one of the first decisions you'll have to make is what language(s) your product...

How I Got to Now I came out of college in the 90's with an accounting and finance degree, and no real love for computers or technology. It didn't take...

Every now and then I have the privilege of meeting someone who's taking a big leap, trying to change how people think about some old stodgy industry. They inspire me...

I read a lot of books, typically somewhere between three and four a month.  I scan probably another 10-15 in a given month that I don't end up reading. As...

I came across this article on First Round about the similarities between making movies and building software at Pixar and wanted to call out a couple of things that I found really...

I was fortunate enough to be asked to comment on a recent article in the Financial Times about software eating software, or software automation.  The article is behind the FT...

The future of programming is not teaching everyone how to code, which is the current and popular path.  The future of programming is, I am convinced, teaching computers how to...