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We Built Hybrd as a (Mostly) Non-Technical YC Startup
- byearthithatius 2y agoSaw this on LinkedIn and curious for HN senior engineers thoughts. From the LinkedIn post: How we got our non-technical founders shipping production code at HYBRD during YC and beyond - Our CTO Matthew Ruiters set us up (iOS simulator, test envs, etc.). - He then gave us a “Git 101” & “Linux 101” to familiarize us with the basics (version control, terminal commands). - He assigned us exclusively frontend tasks at first since there’s a faster feedback loop (you can see the impact of your code). - He broke down tickets into bite-sized steps (“File 1 does X, File 2 does Y...”) so that we knew how to approach tasks. - Every PR goes through his review before merge (Greptile is the first line of defense, but Ruiters puts eyes on everything before merge). - Feedback from Ruiters is simplified & copy-paste ready for the non-devs to drop into AI tools like Cursor. The result of these systems? Our non-devs are now helping to build features our users love. More velocity. More output. More ownership.