Open Source Startup

Unit 13: Building Software Products

Key Takeaways

• Understand how to select a tech stack
• Understand how to balance speed and readability in writing clean code
• Understand how to build scalable code
• Understand how to develop product specs and a product plan
• Understand the product life cycle

Readings

• Hello, Startup
• Chapter 5: Picking a Tech Stack
• Chapter 6: Clean Code
• Chapter 7: Scalability
• Chapter 8: Software Delivery
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship
• Step 7: High-Level Product Specification
• Step 24: Develop a Product Plan
• The Innovator’s Dilemma
• Chapter 8: Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle

Deliverables

• Select your startup’s tech stack
• Establish coding guidelines and standards for your startup’s codebase development
• Set out high-level product specs and a product plan for your startup