114: Building Today For Tomorrow's Growth
Ben describes how a recent Tuple tweet led to thousands of impressions and mentions, as well as possibly increased free trial sign-ups. Ben is experiencing the enterprise sales process where he could make a good deal of money from a large company, if he chooses to meet its numerous demands. Also, Tuple is making progress with scaling challenges by addressing related Heroku and Ruby issues. Tuple\u2019s smallness is a strength!
\n\nDerrick\u2019s been working on API design for StaticKit\u2019s payments plug-in, especially to handle European customer authentication regulations that Stripe is moving toward. However, complex and flexible API design can\u2019t be rushed to meet requirements. Derrick hopes to move StaticKit\u2019s interface to his Next.js application. Constantly learning new technologies is critical to know his customer base. So, Derrick was pleased to be invited to present at ZEIT\u2019s Backendless Conf.