Corey Maass is a full-stack web developer with a love for entrepreneurship and building web apps on WordPress.
He built his first website in 1995, his first SaaS app in 2003, and his first WordPress plugin in 2009.
In 2015, after 4 years of full-time WordPress development, he combined his passions and launched his first commercial plug-in, Kanban for WordPress.
He has spent the last few years growing the business. He currently lives in Saugerties, New York, USA.
The talk ‘Stuck in a Rut: How I Overcame Six Months Without Progress’ is about how he overcame battled depression, doubt, jealousy, imposter syndrome.
You’ll hear about how he was finally able to identify what was stopping him, move past it, and what he’s done to prevent a lot of this ever happening again.
Corey will also be speaking about ‘Building a Web App MVP with Little or No Code’
WordPress is known to be a powerful and versatile tool for rapid proof-of-concept web app development.
During this WordCamp presentation, we will investigate why WordPress may be the best tool to help create your next web app. We will look at different examples of business cases where WordPress is the best option, and also where it falls short. I will illustrate how I have solved the most common UI patterns required by web apps using plugins, web resources and occasionally code.
We will walk through one of the apps I’ve built from idea to development to production to see the patterns in action. Finally, I share other considerations from my experience like deployment, syncing dev environments, AJAX, the REST API and iterating on feedback.
After the presentation, the audience will have a better understanding of WordPress for web app development. They will be ready to build a minimum viable product (MVP) web app on top of WordPress even if they have limited coding experience.