Building from the ground up. This has never been done before and there are some definite hoops to jump through to make it happen. And even different legalities depending on which state you are filing your estate in.
Typeform sucks:
The initial pass at Estate Engine used Typeform as it’s tool of information gathering. This limited the amount of explanatory information someone can access throughout the decision process. Some people may not need as much explanation as others, and we wanted to avoid an overload of information for the user.
Development:
Startup development is tough. Where do we build it? How do we build it? What does it look like? How can we build this correctly so we can effectively build off of our MVP in the future? So many questions and Mitchell, our trusty coding master, helped us answer all things development. We built it in react out of AWS and I provided the user flow as well as the identity. Using Google’e pre-built Material UI Design System helped cut our development time practically in half.
Payment:
How do we ensure that people can pay for a plan and that we get paid before we receive their information and have to finalize anything for them? Is this just an iframe out of our website? Or a software you can purchase? Decisions, decisions.
