This summer we launched Perch as a side project from our web development agency, edgeofmyseat.com. Perch is a really little content management system aimed at web designers who want to enable their clients to update their own site content. As this is our first product (we normally work on website projects for design agencies), there were quite a lot of new things for us to learn.

In this post I’ll cover some of the things we’ve learned along the way. Whilst the same lessons won’t apply completely to every situation, they’ll be interesting to anyone thinking about launching a web app.

These rules really apply to any startup.