Episode 207: Scheduling & Calendar Design with Derrick Reimer
02/22/21 • 38 min
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What makes a successful scheduling app? We may never know the exact answer, but we can learn from some of the best. Our guest today is Derrick Reimer, founder of SavvyCal. He shares the story behind his new product, calendar design tips, customer success insights, tool recommendations, and much more.
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Show Notes
- SavvyCal — Derrick’s product we’re talking about
- Episode 150: Understanding Product-Market Fit with Derrick Reimer
- Drip, Level, StaticKit — Derrick’s previous products
- Calendly — a popular scheduling tool
- The UI Audit: Interview with Tope Awotona of Calendly
- Episode 64: Making Freemium Work with Bridget Harris
- Episode 183: Customer Success with Anna Jacobson
- FullCalendar —a Javascript event library
- Userlist — Jane’s product
- Sunrise, Sunsama — popular calendar-based products
- Linear, Twitter, Stripe, Tailwind UI — examples of design that inspire Derrick
- Episode 154: Refactoring UI with Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger
- Corey Haines — helps Derrick with Marketing
- SavvyCal on Product Hunt
- Follow Derrick on Twitter
- Get 25% off your first year of SavvyCal using promocode UIBREAKFAST
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This episode is brought to you by Userlist — a lifecycle messaging tool for SaaS companies. It’s perfect for sending smart onboarding campaigns, or any other behavior-based communication. We have everything you need to get started quickly and painlessly: developer-friendly API, campaign templates, and hands-on support from the founders. Try Userlist free at userlist.com.
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What makes a successful scheduling app? We may never know the exact answer, but we can learn from some of the best. Our guest today is Derrick Reimer, founder of SavvyCal. He shares the story behind his new product, calendar design tips, customer success insights, tool recommendations, and much more.
Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts.
Show Notes
- SavvyCal — Derrick’s product we’re talking about
- Episode 150: Understanding Product-Market Fit with Derrick Reimer
- Drip, Level, StaticKit — Derrick’s previous products
- Calendly — a popular scheduling tool
- The UI Audit: Interview with Tope Awotona of Calendly
- Episode 64: Making Freemium Work with Bridget Harris
- Episode 183: Customer Success with Anna Jacobson
- FullCalendar —a Javascript event library
- Userlist — Jane’s product
- Sunrise, Sunsama — popular calendar-based products
- Linear, Twitter, Stripe, Tailwind UI — examples of design that inspire Derrick
- Episode 154: Refactoring UI with Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger
- Corey Haines — helps Derrick with Marketing
- SavvyCal on Product Hunt
- Follow Derrick on Twitter
- Get 25% off your first year of SavvyCal using promocode UIBREAKFAST
Today’s Sponsor
This episode is brought to you by Userlist — a lifecycle messaging tool for SaaS companies. It’s perfect for sending smart onboarding campaigns, or any other behavior-based communication. We have everything you need to get started quickly and painlessly: developer-friendly API, campaign templates, and hands-on support from the founders. Try Userlist free at userlist.com.
Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.
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Episode 206: Writing Useful Books with Rob Fitzpatrick
What does it take to write a truly useful book? How do you measure and optimize reader engagement? Our guest today is Rob Fitzpatrick, author of The Mom Test and entrepreneur. You’ll hear Rob’s take on traditional publishing vs self-publishing, customer interviews, testing, iteration cycles, book marketing, reader profiles, and his DEEP writing framework.
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Show Notes
- The Mom Test, Workshop Survival Guide — Rob’s books
- DEEP — Rob’s framework for writing (Desirable, Effective, Engaging and Polished)
- Authority — a book by Nathan Barry
- The E-myth Revisited — a book by Michael E. Gerber
- Sense & Respond Press, Rosenfeld Media — tech-themed publishers
- The Tiny MBA — a book by Alex Hillman
- The Brain Audit — a book by Sean D’Souza
- Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur — the authors of Business Model Generation who invested heavily in illustrations for their book
- writeusefulbooks.com — Rob’s website
- Follow Rob on Twitter or email him at [email protected]
Today’s Sponsor
This episode is brought to you by Userlist — a lifecycle messaging tool for your SaaS product. At Userlist, our mission is to make your founder journey more enjoyable and less overwhelming. That’s why we built an email automation tool that does exactly what you need. No more, no less. Manage your users, segment them, and get in touch throughout their journey — all based on their behavior. Try Userlist free whenever you’re ready at userlist.com.
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Today we’re bringing you the first episode of Better Done Than Perfect’s Season 2. Join us for a talk with Alex Hillman, founder of Stacking The Bricks and author of The Tiny MBA. We discuss the company’s conception and philosophy, how they handle customer service, what makes a great course, and so much more.
Please head over to the episode page for the detailed recap and key takeaways.
Show notes
- Stacking The Bricks — Alex’s company together with Amy Hoy
- Noko, EveryTimeZone — products by Amy Hoy, Alex’s partner
- 30x500 — Alex and Amy’s flagship product
- Indy Hall — Alex’s famous coworking space, now a remote work community
- Just F#*!ing Ship — a book by Amy and Alex
- Write Useful Books — a book & tool by Rob Fitzpatrick
- UI Breakfast Episode 206: Writing Useful Books with Rob Fitzpatrick
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- The Essential Podcasting Guide — a book by Craig Hewitt of Castos
- Nathan Barry’s ConvertKit Academy
- Mastering ConvertKit — a course by Brennan Dunn available at Double Your Freelancing Rate
- Fundamental UI Design — a book Jane wrote for InVision (currently a free course)
- BadAss: Making Users Awesome — a book by Kathy Sierra
- Follow Alex on Twitter
- The Tiny MBA — Alex’s book (use promocode BDTP20 at checkout for 20% off)
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