Summary: <p>Derrick discovered his marketing and promotional tasks were eating up too much of his time and mind, so he took a break from them. He shifted his focus to the actual development of his product, Level. He made some forward strides on the product’s design. </p> <p>Ben decided to give notice and leave his current job for an opportunity to develop a Screenhero alternative. Screenhero is a pair programming tool that has a rough history with Slack. So, he has a co-founder, new technology findings from Stanford, and encouragement from original developers. Could anything be more aligned?! Ben’s alternative and Derrick’s Level is a match made in heaven.</p> <p>Today’s Topics Include:</p> <ul> <li>How Derrick is refactoring and optimizing data model items</li> <li>Is having one identity the right way to go or do people want to establish different identities within different communities?</li> <li>Ben encourages Derrick to not automatically do the opposite of Slack</li> <li>Derrick is trying to envision what people may request and be able to customize</li> <li>Shifting from the anonymous to identified Web<br> </li> <li>Why Derrick decided to rewrite some database migration history </li> <li>Derrick is developing Level’s registration and sign-up process<br> </li> <li>Derrick is on a development roller coaster every day; getting back on the yoga train</li> <li>Development teams will become increasingly distributed, so the customer base for Ben’s alternative will only expand</li> <li>How Ben feels about the technology risk factor with his alternative tool</li> <li>Ben will be learning C++ to write the codebase and maintain it</li> </ul> <p>If you’re enjoying the show please give us your ratings and reviews in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-art-of-product/id1243627144?mt=2">iTunes</a>.</p> <p>Links and resources:</p> <p><a href="http://www.benorenstein.com/" rel="nofollow">Ben Orenstein Website</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/r00k" rel="nofollow">Ben Orenstein on Twitter</a><br> <a href="http://www.derrickreimer.com/" rel="nofollow">Derrick Reimer Website</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/derrickreimer" rel="nofollow">Derrick Reimer on Twitter</a><br> <a href="https://tailwindcss.com/" rel="nofollow">Tailwind CSS</a><br> <a href="https://blog.getbootstrap.com/" rel="nofollow">The Bootstrap Blog</a><br> <a href="https://www.drip.com/" rel="nofollow">Drip</a><br> <a href="https://github.com/" rel="nofollow">GitHub</a><br> <a href="https://www.steveschoger.com/" rel="nofollow">Steve Schoger</a><br> <a href="https://screenhero.com/" rel="nofollow">Screenhero</a><br> <a href="https://www.microconf.com/" rel="nofollow">MicroConf</a><br> <a href="https://thoughtbot.com/" rel="nofollow">Thoughtbot</a><br> <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/" rel="nofollow">Ruby on Rails</a></p>
