Product Validation at WooThemes with Patrick Rauland – WPCAST034

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