01.28.2015 - By David Hehenberger and Doug Yuen
In this episode, Patrick Rauland (WooCommerce Product Manager) shares how the WooThemes team validates product ideas.
The Core
* This week, Doug didn’t join us (he’s on vacation)
* Patrick Rauland (Twitter: @BFTrick), WooCommerce Project Manager
* Patrick’s Blog – Speaking in Bytes
* WooCommerce Cookbook (coming soon), published by Packt Publishing
* Nathan Barry (great content on self-publishing)
* Patrick’s WooCommerce Extension – WooCommerce Terms and Conditions Popup
* Patrick has built multiple Ninja Forms Extensions, including PDF Form Submissions
* 300+ WooCommerce Extensions
* 80/20ing your business WPCAST.FM Episode
* WooCommerce Roadmap
* Product validation
* Survey existing customers
* Uservoice Idea Board
* Be strategic about what features to build: eg. idea board where customers can vote (so you have data on what to build next).
* Develop for WooCommerce
* David’s business – Fatcat Apps (WordPress plugins that drive conversions).
* Easy Pricing Tables.
* Basecamp (37signals)
* Airplane Mode WP plugin by Reaktiv