SourceLairFrictionless software development

SourceLair in brief

- A unified and frictionless web development toolset in your browser

- Perfect for solo developers and education

- It is the main product of SourceLair Private Company

The story of SourceLair in brief

Open Coffee Athens 11 Feb 2011

The story so far

- Late 2010: Hacky project in our basement (5 co-founders)

- 2012: We go to the Bay Area in search for funding

- 2015: We secure €200,000 from NBG Business Seeds and incorporate in Greece

- 2017: Almost self-sustainable company with customers from the whole planet

Today our company has a new baby!

Stolos.ioRemote development environments for teams.

What Stolos does

- Puts your team’s development environments on the cloud

- Organizes and manages your team’s development environments

- Your team’s developers keep to use their favorite tools

How Stolos works

- Runs your application in Docker containers

- Synchronises code between your computer and Stolos in real time (like Dropbox)

- Makes your Work In Progress accessible via a shareable URL

Stolos is security audited

Stolos will be open sourced next month.

Let’s talk business.

Mistakes

Mistake 1: Spend funding on payroll

Mistake 2: Be a feature factory

Mistake 3: Equate product and company

Wins

Win 1: Make our products paid only

Win 1: Making our products paid-only

- Revenue over-doubled when we dropped SourceLair’s free plan

- First line of code to first customer: 4 months for Stolos vs 4 years for SourceLair

- Sets expectations for your customers

Win 2: Open-Sourcing our terminal

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Win 3: Cherry-picking our investor

Win 3: Cherry-picking our investor

- We spent the least time possible on fundraising

- We talk only with one team, which we already know, like and trust

- We have full control and responsibility on our company

Success 4: Choosing self-sustainability

Success 4: Choosing self-sustainability

- Puts top priority on ensuring happy and increasing customers

- Investments are a way to reach more customers and take risks, not live

- Removed the time bomb from our backs and brought our sleep back

We owe a lot to our customers

Thank you.https://sourcelair.com

In a web development team?Catch me afterwards and say hi!

https://stolos.io