Tanda Product Team

Preventing erroneous Rails migrations

At Tanda, we’ve never really had a smooth ride with migrations, a medium-sized development team, and shared development resources (such as a common database for staging data and development).

Building the Tanda App

Before 2017, Tanda did not offer a mobile app. It was clear that building a…

What a product manager is… and is not

Product management is a relatively new field and as a result…

Designing Rosters in the Tanda Mobile App

In January 2017, I started my paid summer internship at Tanda. Our task was to design…

Getting started with React Native: A designer’s experience

Lessons learned from jumping head first…

Rails teams, what are you meant to do with structure.sql?

One of the big unsolved mysteries about building a Rails app in a team — at least, in my team — is what you should do about the structure.sql file. I feel like it is far and away the thing that confuses both new and experienced…

The only reason to build software is to sell it

When we were a small young company, this quote went unsaid and was probably fairly obvious, because we had no other option. If we couldn’t get people to buy our software, we wouldn’t be able to pay ourselves, and we wouldn’t be able to buy food or…