Eitzen: A Single Developer Built SnapBar's Virtual Booth in Four Months
Sam Eitzen · SnapBar Looses $3m Photobooth Revenue COVID, Pivots in 8 Days, Makes $500k on New Idea, How? · Aug 16, 2020 · at 19:05
Sam Eitzen describes how SnapBar rapidly built its virtual event software after live event revenue collapsed due to COVID-19.
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“Right now we have one developer. One guy on our team has built all of this in the past four months.”
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