Matt Watson talks with Dave Rael about running a business, creating valuable software, and making a culture
Stackify was founded in January 2012 by Matt Watson. Before Stackify he was the CTO of a rapidly growing enterprise software service (SaaS) provider. He noticed that agile development had caused his developers to be much more involved in day-to-day IT operations, but his team lacked the tools and server access to do it efficiently. He founded Stackify to create a suite of tools to solve this problem, which virtually every dev and dev team deals with.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Matt Watson
- - Matt's life as the head of Stackify and involvement in code
- - Kansas City - home of Matt and Stackify
- - What is Stackify?
- - The start of Stackify
- - How Matt got started in software
- - The things that "light Matt up"
- - Matt's story of failure - the omitted where clause, threatening economic condidtions
- - Matt's entrepreneurial nature
- - Matt's advice for developers who want to own something they are making
- - Rewards and pain of growing a business
- - Scaling systems and organizations
- - Stackify's lighthearted culture
- - Matt's success story - building a unique, useful, and affordable product suite
- - How Matt stays current with what he needs to know
- - Matt's book recommendations
- - The things that have Matt most excited
- - Matt's sources of pain and suffering
- - Matt's top 3 tips for delivering more value
Resources:
- Stackify
- The Stackify Blog
- Kansas City Developer Conference
- Jon Mills on Developer On Fire
- Lee Brandt on Developer On Fire
- Heather Downing on Developer On Fire
- Cory House on Developer On Fire
- Prefix
- Retrace
- Flappy Bird
- Stackify Ad
- Stackify - "Building Our Office Space – Literally"
- Puppet
- Chef
- CFEngine
- Oh, The Places You'll Go! - Dr. Seuss
Matt's book recommendation:
Matt's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Figure out how to make somebody's life easier
- View software from the perspective of a user
- Pay attention to details