February 15, 2022

86: SavvyCal and Indie SaaS with Derrick Reimer

50 minutes

We talk with Derrick Reimer about his product SavvyCal. He used Elixir as a solo dev to create a service that can take on an 800lb gorilla like Calendly. He shares what competitive advantages he feels he has both from Elixir but also in being more nimble. We also talk about creating a company as an independent, solo developer and how that can work. Derrick shares some tips and resources that were helpful for him on his journey. We feel the PETAL stack positions Elixir developers well for optionally taking that Indie path if desired. Check it out! Lots of nuggets here!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/86

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1488640181364273160 – Livebook Kino gets a new Youtube control feature

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1489234959592214531 – Only display LiveView topbar progress animation after a delay

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/commit/22ac99b108a167c324182f22be369aeea9eff346 – Commit showing the topbar changes to add delay

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/make-your-liveview-feel-faster/ – Mark's blog post about the topbar progress delay

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1489522409426325504 – Ecto minimal cheatsheet

https://twitter.com/innovation_code/status/1490729612892069889 – Grisp2 boards are shipping

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2 – Grisp2 Kickstarter project

https://medium.com/opentelemetry/opentelemetry-erlang-elixir-javascript-and-ruby-v1-0-3a0c32e0add4 – OpenTelemetry for Elixir/Erlang reached 1.0

https://hex.pm/orgs/opentelemetry – OpenTelemetry group

https://www.germanvelasco.com/blog/starting-elixir-lunch – German Velasco is starting a remote Elixir lunch

https://github.com/fly-apps/live_beats – LiveBeats project works great as an example

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://twitter.com/derrickreimer

https://twitter.com/savvycal

https://savvycal.com/

https://twitter.com/frigidcode/status/1477656247772094467

https://artofproductpodcast.com/ – Podcast Derrick co-hosts

https://www.drip.com/

https://github.com/whitfin/cachex

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Founder-Painfully-Honest-Startup/dp/0735213321

https://tinyseed.com/

https://microconf.com/

https://www.indiehackers.com/

https://www.derrickreimer.com/books-for-founders – List of books Derrick recommends

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/derrickreimer – on Twitter

https://github.com/derrickreimer/ – on Github

http://derrickreimer.com/ – Blog

http://savvycal.com/ – SavvyCal website

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward