{"podcast":{"title":"Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders","slug":"code-story","podcast_index_feed_id":735330,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/ac5e79a4-0405-49a3-af2c-02c37f0b3879","website_url":"https://codestory.co/","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/5/14/20/c82c3282-f0a8-4b37-b210-96f7da10be1e_4061-b148-29cd200c3504_full_1568830220-artwork.jpg","author":"Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO","episode_count":793,"summary":"Code Story is a startup podcast for technical founders building and scaling software products. Each episode features SaaS founders, engineers, and product leaders sharing how they built their product, found product-market fit, and navigated early-stage growth. We explore: Early engineering decisions and MVP development Landing the first customers Pricing and go-to-market experiments Scaling challenges and infrastructure bottlenecks Hiring the first team Lessons learned from growing a startup From first commit to first scale, Code Story focuses on the critical transition from building software to building a scalable business. If you’re a founder, engineer, or product leader interested in SaaS, startups, and scaling technology companies, this podcast breaks down how great products are built — and how they grow.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story"},"episode":{"title":"S12 Bonus: Reannah Wyatt, The Real Time","slug":"s12-bonus-reannah-wyatt-the-real-time","published_at":"2026-03-19T10:00:46+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story/s12-bonus-reannah-wyatt-the-real-time","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story","url":"https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-reannah-wyatt-the-real-time/","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/e5bc23a0-54fc-4058-b78d-699ecec91e9a/stream.mp3","summary":"Reannah Wyatt shares the high-stakes journey of building The Real Time, a platform designed to bridge the transaction gap in real estate. She details the costly mistakes of outsourcing development and the grit required to scale a tech startup.","meta_description":"Founder Reannah Wyatt discusses the $45,000 mistake of outsourcing dev, building for realtors, and the reality of startup survival.","key_points":["Failure mode: Outsourcing development without deep domain expertise can lead to expensive, unusable products","Main idea: Successful real estate tech must solve the end-to-end transaction flow, not just the listing phase","Practical takeaway: Building a roadmap requires prioritizing the realtor portal as the foundation before expanding to client apps","Main idea: A startup's survival depends on the founder's ability to pivot quickly when feedback indicates a feature isn't working","Practical takeaway: Hiring for a startup requires finding people with a 'clean the toilets' work ethic and high adaptability"],"chapters":[{"start_ms":60000,"title":"The $45,000 Development Mistake","summary":"Reannah recounts the failure of an outsourced project that claimed to be 90% complete but was fundamentally broken."},{"start_ms":330000,"title":"Identifying the Market Gap","summary":"Witnessing the rise of Zillow, Reannah recognized the need for a tool that tracks the entire real estate transaction process."},{"start_ms":600000,"title":"Building the Realtor Foundation","summary":"The strategy of focusing on the realtor platform first to ensure the core user base has a functional workspace."},{"start_ms":990000,"title":"Scaling the Product and Team","summary":"How to approach product roadmaps and the importance of hiring versatile, high-work-ethic team members."},{"start_ms":1380000,"title":"The Vision for The Real Time","summary":"Moving beyond property searches to managing home maintenance and long-term ownership."},{"start_ms":1510000,"title":"Lessons in Product Quality","summary":"The decision to scrap substandard code and the realization that developers need clear, domain-specific instructions."},{"start_ms":1790000,"title":"Advice for New Entrepreneurs","summary":"Embracing the difficulty of the startup journey and the necessity of persistence and rapid iteration."}],"topics":["Real Estate Technology","Startup Scaling","Product Development","Entrepreneurship","Software Outsourcing","Founder Resilience","SaaS Roadmap","Transaction Management"],"duration_seconds":1343,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/code-story/episodes/s12-bonus-reannah-wyatt-the-real-time/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story/s12-bonus-reannah-wyatt-the-real-time.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}