Pivoted my Slack bot tool to a Serverless Platform in the browser
Pivoting is always a hard decision to make, you've poured all your energy into this idea and suddenly you realise that you've got to drop everything and do something else.
I originally built a tool to build Slack bots using very simple JavaScript functions that you could edit from the browser. I built this to scratch my own itch.
After a while I discovered that:
- I wasn't solving a huge problem
- Most people I talked to thought it was interesting but had no real use cases for it
I understand that those two things are not enough to make a big decision like this but I also had a feeling that I would personally struggle to market this too.
I then realised that I built a solid serverless platform to execute those Slack bots, so why not remove the Slack bot layer of the product and just expose those serverless functions? Like AWS Lambda but way easier to use and batteries included, all in your browser.
I started to talk to more people and this seems to be a bigger market with quite a lot of players already, which helps with validation.
The cool thing is that I can still market it as a tool to build Slack bots, but it's not the only thing it can do, this is making talking to people much easier and fun than before.
Most importantly, I am much more excited about this new direction!
If anyone has any insights into my new direction it would be most welcome, the project in question is: https://bluegenie.co/
Have you ever had to pivot before? It'd be cool to hear stories on how it went.
