That was the same month my first daughter was born my first kid was born, I left there. So I took a fairly decent written redundancy payment from there not amazing, but it was like a decent chunk of cash. So it’s quite a senior person, they were fairly happy to get rid of me because I was expensive. And the opportunity for redundancy came up with I mean, basically, it got to this place it needed to get to, I think, and then they just needed to cut back in and try and sell the business. Yeah, so I was working at a company, I’ve been working out for about 11 years. ![]() So, as I know, you, at some point said, okay, no, I’m actually going to jump into that. ![]() To including myself, as a developer who’s always wanted to build a SaaS and then you’re like, but what should I actually build should be the easiest part, shouldn’t. I’ll try and do that for a business for life. But yeah, fairly typical developer discovered that you could in theory, just sit in a darkened room programming and somebody who puts money into the door, and be like, yeah, that sounds nice. And then yeah, from there sort of jumped into I guess the story we’ll get into later. And then gradually started actually releasing some things, but not making any money. So I spent a long time building things and not actually releasing them or getting close to making any money. And that was fitted in with what I like doing, which is building things. And then sort of finding Rob Walling and people like this, and get included in the idea that you could actually just do it yourself, you didn’t need to do it as part of a company, you know, you didn’t need to raise funds, you could just go out and build something and sell it. And then I’m not sure when I saw a member seeing like Patrick McKenzie, building the bingo card creator and stuff like that. I think that experience of working at a small company was growing got me a bit more excited about startups and wanting to get involved in that kind of thing. But then yeah, I stayed at one and ended up sort of managing the team there. So I started a small company, I always seem to be employing them seven, every company I joined for some reason, I’m not sure. So I was a software developer for a long time, and then ended up managing a small team. ![]() How did you get into wanting to build a SaaS into entrepreneurship? What did you do before? ![]() But firstly, let us know what your background is. I’ve been wanting to this for a long time, because you have some really interesting insights to share. We’ll talk about how he got started by building quick 6 week prototypes to find a product that sticks in how he scaled from there. Today’s guest is Robin Warren, who’s the founder of Corrello and Blue Cat Reports, both SaaS products are based around Trello. This is a podcast about product management, development, remote work, and anything else non-technical as well as technical founders need to know to launch and scale software products. Welcome to Product Stories where we explore how founders build successful software products. Robin Warren is running a successful suite of Trello integrations for teams and shares his story of gaining early traction without having an audience or market insights. How to validate SaaS ideas without access to any specific market? By iterating fast and finding an audience through first prototypes. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | Spotify Summary
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