S5B: E7: Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains

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On today’s episode, Corry Maass and Sam Brodie are talking with Brad Touesnard. Brad is an entrepreneur, developer, and designer living in Nova Scotia, Canada. Brad runs a successful business called Delicious Brains which is known for two popular products called WP Migrate Pro and WP Offload S3. Brad discusses his approach to SaaS  (Software as a Service) and the challenges of getting users to participate in a beta release and provide productive feedback during testing.

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S5B: E7: Brad Touesnard from Delicious Brains



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Guest:

Brad Touesnard is the founder of Delicious Brains Inc. Brad wears many hats; from coding and design to marketing and partnerships. Before starting Delicious Brains, Brad was a busy freelance web developer, specializing in front-end development. Brad also has a podcast which he co-hosts with Pippin Williamson called Apply Filters which is dedicated to WordPress development.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Delicious Brains has two successful products Migrate DB Pro and WP Offload S3


• Delicious Brains has now grown to eight full-time employees and is working on a new SaaS effort called MergeBot. (4:27)


•  There is always the problem of how do you merge database changes from the local site to the live database? (7:30)


• When merging data in a database, most people keep track of all changes made and differences from the local to the live database. All these changes become the deployment list. (8:28)


• Developers have been asking for about four years for a way to merge local and live databases for their web customers.(9:50)


• Mergebot launched early and was created from requests made to the Delicious Brains support channels to address datab...