LamaFi took one week to build internally, months to package for customers
Filippo Barattini · How he makes $7k/mo from app the fund his new SaaS tool · Jul 3, 2022 · at 5:11
Filippo Barattini discusses the development timeline of his churn-reduction SaaS product LamaFi with Nathan Latka.
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“Oh, okay, so building for us was week, like, one week, maybe. Yeah, we have a good Engineering team. And then, but then packaging it and transforming into a solution that can work for others. It took a bit more, like a couple of months maybe.”
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