Brad Touesnard is founder and general manager of Delicious Brains Inc, creator of the popular WP Migrate DB Pro plugin, cohost of the Apply Filters podcast, and founder of the Big Snow Tiny Conf events. Although he was once an employee and then a freelance designer/developer, these days he spends all of his work time managing a fully remote team of 10 people located in the UK, USA, and Canada. @bradt
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
Not sure what you mean
Tell us a bit about your WordCamp Halifax talk.
Making the leap from employee or freelancer to plugin business owner is daunting to say the least. Building a successful plugin business while working full-time on other things seems next to impossible. Yet plenty of people have done it including me.
In this talk, I’ll layout a roadmap for how you can build a product, what you should do, what you should avoid, and all backed up by stories from my experiences and those of my friends who have plugin businesses.
5 Things Audience Members Will Learn
1. How to come up with a product idea: aspirin vs vitamin
2. Why your first product shouldn’t be a SaaS
3. How to make time to work on your product
4. Why you should hire at the very start
5. How to live very well while self-funding your product development
What’s your favourite thing about attending WordCamps?
Meeting new people, catching up with friends
Recommend one to three people in the WordPress world to follow on social media!
@pippinsplugins @chriswallace @tommcfarlin
If you could have any superhero power, what would it be?
Ability to fly