When I started dogfooding Find Work, I found an annoying invisible issue. Try to spot it in the screenshot below:
It’s finally happened, we have launched our site!
https://findwork.co/
There are a bunch of small tasks remaining (e.g. removing unused icons from FontAwesome, year-tolerant date formatting) as well as a handful of larger features (e.g. email…
Now that we have launched, we can talk about our design process freely. This article is going to cover what happened from start to finish.
First things first, I’m a proponent of making things open source so here’s our mockups:
This is now the second Friday of my first 2 weeks of experimenting with starting a company. I wanted to write this last week but I got horribly sick on Thursday/Friday last week =(
Overall, I feel like I’m going slower than I should but am confident in either finishing or…
We just had our first fire drill and we haven’t even launched yet. Thankfully it was relatively easy to patch, it was great practice, and it highlighted some areas for improvement.
For the past few months, we have gotten infrequent alerts from Librato regarding hitting our memory usage threshold (600MB/1024MB). Up until today, I thought it was a slow memory leak (likely due to previously seeing articles like Eran Hammer’s Walmart Labs post) but it turns…
I returned to the USA a month ago. Berlin was lots of fun und jetzt ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch sprechen. Unfortunately I didn’t work much on the project while staying there.
After working for a few days, I came to the conclusion that my time would be better…
Last Thursday we wrote “Password-less login”, detailing our plans for building a password-less email login into Find Work. We had an ulterior motive to collect opinions from outside our organization so we can find any major flaws.
As the title suggests, it’s been 3 months since I started on this project. I have under 2 weeks left until my departure for Berlin. I’m certain that I won’t be launched but I am content with my progress thus far.
While I have stated that the point of this experiment is to build and launch a product, I feel like I haven’t stated my other goals.
From my observations/experience, most startups want to grow fast both in revenue and…
