How To Build A Profitable Lifestyle Web App, Even If You’re Not A Developer – with Dane Maxwell

Dane Maxwell, Paperless Pipeline, B2B, Hiring, Lifestyle Business, Marketing, SaaS (software as a service), System

Don’t have funding? Don’t have software skills? Don’t have [insert any other excuse here]? Dane Maxwell says he can teach you how to build a software company — based on his real-world experiences.

In this program, Dane teaches the step-by-step process he used to create a web app that does real estate transaction management.

You’ll learn how to find a profitable idea. How to test it. How to use a backdoor method for getting a hot designer, cheaply. How to get a top 10 developer to code your app for you. How to manage the development process, even if you can’t tell the difference between Python and Ruby. And how to get paying customers (using a marketing method that other founders I interviewed on Mixergy refused to reveal because it’s working too well for them).

Dane Maxwell

Paperless Pipeline

Dane Maxwell is the founder of Paperless Pipeline, transaction management software system made painfully simple.

 

Andrew: All right. Before we get started, imagine you have an idea for a new product. Maybe it’s a mobile app for students, and you need feedback. Well, you can ask your friends, but few of them area still students. So what do you do? That’s where this site comes in. AYTM is where you go to have surveys filled out by potential users. They’ll find the people to take the surveys for you. They’ll make sure they’re the right fit for you.

So look, you come here, and you can specify the income that you’re looking for, the gender of your potential customers, you can specify their careers, and in this case I pick ‘students’. You can ask for a specific number of people to complete surveys for you, and then, when you create the surveys, look at how many options you have. Video. You can ask them for feedback on photos of your potential product. You can ask open-ended questions, you can ask close-ended questions, lots of different...

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