These days early-stage founders assume they need to build their own technology. It's the default. Hiring a CTO seems to be the first thing people do.
But what does that assumption actually cost: in money, in flexibility, in the attention you pull away from the mission you set out to solve?
In this episode, I sit down with Rob, our Tech Lead (or CTO) at Library of Things, for something of a public \"retro\". We trace our journey from Excel spreadsheets and asset management software through to our reluctant decision to build our own platform, and then our own custom lockers.
We get into the open source question (it sounds like a no-brainer; it isn't), how human-centred means creating the right kind of friction, and what it means to design technology around behaviour change rather than transactions.
If you're wondering whether to build, buy, or borrow your tech, this is for you.
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