Behind Schedule, Over-budget, and... Happy?
SaaS That App - Building Tech-Enabled Businesses · 2025-11-11 · 56 min
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When Daniel Cannon started his home renovation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, he expected a typical construction project: create a plan, hire contractors, and get it done in a few months. What he didn’t expect was how strikingly similar the entire experience would be to building custom software and how many of his hard-won lessons from software consulting would apply to keeping his dream house project from turning into a nightmare. In this episode of SaaS That App: Building B2B Web Applications, Daniel joins hosts Aaron Marchbanks and Justin Edwards to unpack the surprising parallels between building software and remodeling homes. From scope creep and over-engineered visions to broken plumbing and software bugs, they share war stories, hard-won lessons, and a framework for handling shifting goals, mismatched expectations, and evolving priorities in any project.