Pckgr · B2B · app deployment tool for IT admins
Check forums to see if others at work share your daily headache
Found many admins with the same problem; became the product
Workedvalidation
What they did
Noticed that packaging and verifying one app for Intune could take an hour at his IT admin job. Searched forums and found many other IT admins with the same problem, then checked existing tools and found them lacking. Advice: build where you already have credibility and look for pain points people complain about.
What happened
Confirmed the problem was common and existing solutions didn't fit
- Stage
- Pre-launch (Idea)
“I started looking on forums, and I noticed there were a lot of other IT admins that had the exact same problem.”
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