Future of Web Apps – Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson, owner of Amigo and DropSend and also Summit organizer presented, “14 things I wish I’d known before building a web app”. I found his discussion to be clear and well presented. I am certain he could have spoke for 90-120 minutes about the items he listed. Here are the 14 items he presented:

1. Work with people in the same timezone (otherwise you will always be on the phone all day/night)
2. One user database (otherwise you will be in user hell)
3. One ecommerce system (same as #2)
4. Don’t have your coder do the xhtml/css (then he/she can’t focus on the programming)
5. Obsess about your website copy (whats impt to visitors )
6. Work with a top notch hardware partner
7. Don’t cut corners
8. Measure and measure more
9. You are not done when you launch
10. Tea-spoons  (what he was saying is that after you focus on all the big items, there will still be lots of loose ends)
11. Four tips merged into one - provide logos and details for the press, use a monthly csv for invoices, add an about us page, make contact easy
12. add tons of stuff to your faq and support pages
13. Be nice to your nasty customers
14. Tips from the pros – here Ryan provided some quotes from other speakers at the conference

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