Speakers’Bench

Our product is almost ready for closed beta tests.

We just published the landing page with a form for gathering emails to the waiting list. I know we should probably do this a long time ago, but this is something that we're not good at - creating the hype around the product and start building the traffic before we even have an MVP :/

In the meantime, we will be looking for conference speakers who we will invite to our closed beta tests.

I chose the overall system architecture and started working on the API.

At this time I knew I will be using Node.js + MongoDB for Backend and React for Frontend.

When you start working on something remember to not overthink the architecture. One of the key rules of a good software architect is to make your decisions as late as possible. This will give you the flexibility you will need.

For technologies - go with what you already know and feel comfortable with. You will be spending a lot of time, solving problems that you don't expect.

The idea came during a sunny walk through one of the most beautiful parks in Wroclaw. It struck like a lightning!

Once I got home, I had already figured out who will be the target, how will it work, and what will be its name - so I bought a domain right away!

I couldn't find any dedicated place where professional and semi-professional speakers could share some additional materials, continue the Q&A, and receive valuable feedback after the speech.

I decided to create such a space, for speakers and their audience!