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We are spread around three continents. Our developers are in Europe, while marketing is in Israel and the US. We are partly virtual and partly not. We have an office in Europe and an office in Israel, but some of our team members work from home.
Managing an international team—and dealing with the normal stresses, strains and necessities of business—can be a challenge. To keep everyone on the same page, Rashty and his team use the project management app Asana.
Ideas comes from customers we interact with and from our Country Email List own desires and dreams. Not all of them turn out to be very successful. We have developed several products that we threw in the garbage or re-used is some other way. We always start with some basic MVP (Minimum Viable Product) that we throw out to see the feedback and then start growing the product. Currently we are working on six new products. I would say that we get half of our product ideas from our customers, and half internally.

5. What He Thinks About the Free Plugin Model
One of the most intriguing parts of my discussion with Rashty involved his views on the way that WordPress plugins are currently presented and thought about. He is very critical of the free plugin model:
Making users appreciate the fact that WordPress products take a huge amount of time and effort to develop and even more to support is a challenge. Some users still believe that all WordPress products should be free. I think this free model does not work: out of the 30,000 plugins on WordPress.org, 95% are not well-maintained or written according to WordPress standards, which causes conflicts and problems once installed.
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