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Rebuilding a SaaS from the ground up with Ian Landsman (HelpSpot)
Manage episode 389198002 series 3336860
Ian Landsman and his team at Userscape work on HelpSpot, a well-established SaaS product for customer support. And after well over 10 years in business, they decided to embark on a full rebuild of their app.
Brian and Ian's conversation was recorded on November 3rd, 2023.
Brian's update was recorded on May 6th, 2024.
- (00:00) - Rebuilding a SaaS with Ian Landsman
- (02:36) - Ian returns!
- (03:27) - Rebuild? Redesign? Relaunch? What is this?
- (04:24) - Is this a SaaS?
- (08:25) - Is this the first rebuild?
- (11:14) - Why rebuild? Why now?
- (17:37) - AI in customer support tools
- (22:50) - Killing vs. reworking features
- (26:09) - Thinking about competitors
- (29:29) - Roadmap and timeframe
- (30:37) - Founder designing vs delegating
- (34:23) - Rolling out the rebuild
Brian's Product Studio
My product studio, Instrumental Products, is where I partner with SaaS companies to provide UI, UX and custom-built pages and components to give your SaaS a modern user experience.
Brian's YouTube channel
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This Podcast on YouTube
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70 episodes
Manage episode 389198002 series 3336860
Ian Landsman and his team at Userscape work on HelpSpot, a well-established SaaS product for customer support. And after well over 10 years in business, they decided to embark on a full rebuild of their app.
Brian and Ian's conversation was recorded on November 3rd, 2023.
Brian's update was recorded on May 6th, 2024.
- (00:00) - Rebuilding a SaaS with Ian Landsman
- (02:36) - Ian returns!
- (03:27) - Rebuild? Redesign? Relaunch? What is this?
- (04:24) - Is this a SaaS?
- (08:25) - Is this the first rebuild?
- (11:14) - Why rebuild? Why now?
- (17:37) - AI in customer support tools
- (22:50) - Killing vs. reworking features
- (26:09) - Thinking about competitors
- (29:29) - Roadmap and timeframe
- (30:37) - Founder designing vs delegating
- (34:23) - Rolling out the rebuild
Brian's Product Studio
My product studio, Instrumental Products, is where I partner with SaaS companies to provide UI, UX and custom-built pages and components to give your SaaS a modern user experience.
Brian's YouTube channel
Subscribe to my YouTube channel where I'm building products and showing the process.
Brian's Newsletter
Subscribe to my newsletter where I send my best ideas and stories from working on products.
This Podcast on YouTube
This podcast is on YouTube! You can watch full episodes on video by subscribing to the FSF Podcast Channel on YouTube.
70 episodes
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