In this episode, Patrick Rauland (WooCommerce Product Manager) shares how the WooThemes team validates product ideas.

The Core

* This week, Doug didn't join us (he's on vacation)
* Patrick Rauland (Twitter: @BFTrick (https://twitter.com/bftrick)), WooCommerce Project Manager
* Patrick’s Blog - Speaking in Bytes (http://speakinginbytes.com/2014/12/2014-business-review/)
* WooCommerce Cookbook (coming soon), published by Packt Publishing (https://www.packtpub.com/)
* Nathan Barry (http://nathanbarry.com/2014-review/) (great content on self-publishing)
* Patrick’s WooCommerce Extension - WooCommerce Terms and Conditions Popup (http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-terms-conditions-popup/)
* Patrick has built multiple Ninja Forms Extensions, including PDF Form Submissions (https://ninjaforms.com/extensions/pdf-form-submissions/)
* 300+ WooCommerce Extensions (http://www.woothemes.com/product-category/woocommerce-extensions/)
* 80/20ing your business WPCAST.FM Episode (http://wpcast.fm/8020principle)
* WooCommerce Roadmap (https://trello.com/b/YgRbpuze/woocommerce-roadmap)
* Product validation

* Survey existing customers
* Uservoice Idea Board (http://ideas.woothemes.com/forums/72423-general-ideas)
* Be strategic about what features to build: eg. idea board where customers can vote (so you have data on what to build next).

* Develop for WooCommerce (http://www.woothemes.com/develop-woocommerce/)
* David’s business - Fatcat Apps (https://fatcatapps.com/)(WordPress plugins that drive conversions).
* Easy Pricing Tables (https://fatcatapps.com/easypricingtables/).
* Basecamp (37signals) (https://basecamp.com/)
* Airplane Mode WP plugin (https://github.com/norcross/airplane-mode) by Reaktiv (http://reaktivstudios.com/blog/building-custom-plugin/)