An introduction: what this blog is, and isn’t, about
Well hello, Internet. We’re Spill, a young startup trying to get everyone talking about their feelings. Why? Because we’re all happier, healthier and more productive when we get things off our chest — and it stops little problems building up into big problems. We make opening up possible — and easy — for everyone with our app, which lets users message with a fully-qualified counsellor every day.
There’s no shortage of startup blogs these days, and so we didn’t want to begin posting just for the sake of it. After many discussions (arguments) we realised there was a gap in the market for a blog that gave a more transparent and detailed account of growing a business. So that’s what we’ll try to do here.
We will…
- Be open about the trials and tribulations we go through, as we go through them, rather than making everything seem easy with the benefit of hindsight
- Provide detail and specifics where we can — whether that’s screenshots of design evolutions or photos of whiteboard brainstorms — rather than keeping things vague and secret
- Have the Spill team member most involved with a certain area write that post, rather than one single writer who may not have a full grasp of the intricacies of, say, code or sales
- Give you a genuine behind-the-scenes glimpse into what life at a startup like ours is really like, rather than a glossy Instagram-style highlights reel
- Try to make each post contain some interesting potential learnings, whilst stopping short of being preachy or generalising
Let us know how we’re getting on, and whether there’s a particular area of the business you’d be interested to read about.
Here goes!
Team Spill
