Apr 4, 2020How to manage your side project — now that everyone is working from homeHaving a side project and maintaining it is not easy. How many times have you enthusiastically started something only to abandon it again a few days later? I’ve been there. Many times. They’re called side projects for a reason: By definition it will never be the main thing you are…Project Management6 min read
Nov 18, 201824hours in 3 minutes — what we shipped during the #24hrstartupchallenge and whyIf you’ve been on Twitter these days you’ve probably noticed the 24hr startup challenge. The idea is to “build a startup” within 24 hours while live streaming it on Twitch. Joshua and me also participated in it as a team. We’ve been building side-projects together for around 1.5 …Startup3 min read
May 1, 2018Why we’re building a service that enables authors to sell an early version of their Book on Google Documents (and engage with their audience)Robbert, a friend and coworker, is currently writing a guide that helps Startups to run better experiments. He has lots of ideas on what to include in the guide but ultimately he wants customer feedback to determine contents of the guide. As the guide is constantly evolving he decided to…Startup3 min read
Nov 29, 2017Four weeks — Four learnings. Conclusions after working remotely from BaliThe remote months follows Joshua and Yann — a Developer and a Designer at Firmhouse — on their one month journey working remotely from Bali instead of their main office in Rotterdam. This is part 3. Click here to read the other parts. For the last four weeks I’ve been…Remote Working5 min read
Nov 13, 2017Enjoying the mundane things — Halftime at the remote monthThis series follows Joshua and Yann — a Developer and a Designer at Firmhouse — on their one month journey working remotely from Bali instead of their main office in Rotterdam. This is part 2, click here to read part 1. It’s been two weeks since we started working remotely…Coworking4 min read
Published in Firm Builders·Nov 2, 2017Working remotely from Bali: The promised land or working in isolation?This series follows Joshua and Yann — a Developer and a Designer at Firmhouse — on their one month journey working remotely from Bali instead of their main office in Rotterdam. At Firmhouse we call ourselves a hybrid company. We have our main office in Rotterdam but we don’t need…Travel3 min read
Published in Firm Builders·Aug 25, 2017From idea to experiment — How we enabled people to sign up for our candy subscription service in two daysThis blogpost is part of our Dogfood-Series. We’re building a subscription business and document the whole journey. In the last blogpost we talked about the importance of using our own products along the way. …Startup4 min read
Published in Firm Builders·Aug 11, 2017Practicing what we preach — Why we’re building a new business. In public.At Firmhouse we help our clients build businesses. We go from idea to a first version of the product together. A lot of what we’re doing revolves around discovering and testing new propositions and products. We’ve been doing that for eight years now. To put our process, methodologies, and tools…Startup3 min read
Published in Interactive Mind·Jun 3, 2015Five things I learned at General Assembly’s User Experience Design Immersive programIn March 2015 I took the ten week UXDI course in London. Here’s what I’ve learned. From March until May 2015 I took General Assembly’s ten week User Experience Design Immersive program in London. Before taking the course I’ve worked as a (mostly) self-taught UI Designer in a small Digital…UX Design4 min read
