Level
4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2020 by Derrick Reimer · said 18 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Rob Walling (14), Derrick Reimer (4)
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2024 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2020 11 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Level, oldest first
Jul 21, 2020 positive
Reimer: Scheduling tools appeal due to single-player utility and fast MVP builds
“The opposite of level, like, people can use this in single player mode, which is very attractive to me, and you know, it's something that I could build the kernel of decently quick, and so that kind of checked those boxes right away”
Jul 21, 2020 negative
Reimer: Huge gap between employees hating Slack and securing approval to switch
“A big, big learning that, that smacked me right in the face once I Attempted to, ah, to kind of launch it after building it for about nine months was just the wide chasm between people's recognition that their communication patterns are not healthy and that a …”
Jun 18, 2024
Reimer: Six essential filters for validating and picking a bootstrappable SaaS idea
“The filters were, the market must already exist, so I'm not inventing a category. MVP must be shippable within a few months. Level took a long time. I spent, I think, nine months on it before I was able to get it in front of anyone, which was way too long. Sho…”
Jun 18, 2024 negative
Reimer: Level failed because enthusiastic end users were not the buyers
“With Level, which I think a lot of folks probably have heard me talk about this, wrote a blog post about it back in 2018 when I shut down that startup attempt, and that one I found, like, contrary to what I expected, or I just didn't anticipate this, that the …”