Not raising funds to stay small and happy

“Any plans to raise funds?” is a question I get a lot. Here are a few of the reasons why we intend to stay bootstrapped.

Conventional wisdom says you start building an MVP, maybe acquire a few customers and raise funds. If you go…

Postgresql’s Jsonb brings all the NOSQL you’ll ever need into Rails

If you ever had a project in which data to save to your database would come in all shapes and size you certainly had this dilema : Should I make lots of models, lots of migration and lots of column ? Should I…

Getting hired as a remote worker

Over the last few months, I got to do about a hundred interviews to hire new members of our remote team. Here are the most frequent issues I experienced. Most of them seem obvious, but you would be surprised how frequently they happened.

Super simple worker pools in Go using channels

I’m sure you’ve had to write some code where you have a few hundred thousand items and need to do some work on them. Performing the jobs serially would be too long. And launching everything at once with goroutines isn’t possible because of some…

Improving our freemium by better understanding the cost of support

Freemium models usually have a bad reputation within SaaS companies. You don’t want a user not willing to invest a few dozen dollars on your service. Or do you? At Email Hunter, we found that having a generous free…

Creating a business using open data

Open Data isn’t new but as time goes by, it gets more available and its quality keeps increasing. By definition, this data is free but is there a way to create value and launch a sustainable business using it? For some the question is even tougher: how can we expect…

How to disable some of your website’s endpoints in seconds

They are cases when you need to disable some endpoints of a website as fast as possible. For example, in the case were an issue on an endpoint is causing all of your website to go down. Or because you need to limit the traffic…

Tools distract us from building

When building a SAAS, every week comes with opportunities to use news tools. Maybe we need to add a new database or to track a new project. Those are almost never first-times. You most likely already have a database currently online.