Pinckaers: 85% of SaaS app building is generic shared infrastructure
Fabien Pinckaers · 1625 How $31M ARR CEO Profits $500k/mo and Cracked SMB Net Retention of 110% · Jan 5, 2020 · at 12:55
Fabien Pinckaers explains why Odoo organizes its engineering team transversally rather than building separate teams per application.
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“So if you take one app, like a MailChimp to send email or and task management, I would say, 85% of what you have to do to build this app is generic. Generic. Like you need a mobile interface, interface. You need to have a front end with drag and drop stuff the UI. You need a backend and you need the subscription mechanisms to make your customer pay. All those things are generic. So the, what is very specific to an app is like a CRM is probably five percent of the value is in this really in the CRM and the rest isn't.”
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