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by kevsim 6y ago
Since I said nothing of our growth I’d say you can’t make that assumption
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by kevsim 6y ago
You're missing what the parent comment said - they only have one company, so if Elon can run two companies, they should be able to run a company and a family
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by kevsim 6y ago
As a startup founder in Europe, who works what I think of as a lot, but also finds time to make dinner for my kids and read to them at night, this type of article always gives me anxiety and/or guilt. Am I hustling enough? Is it wrong
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Consider making your web app offline first(blog.kitemaker.co)
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Consider making your web app offline-first(blog.kitemaker.co)
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by kevsim 6y ago
As part of an accelerator I did with my startup [0], I had the chance to check out a talk by Scott at https://salesqualia.com/ . While we have less of an enterprise sales approach and more of a bottom-up distribution approac
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Ask HN: Does your organization track metrics like velocity and burn down rates?
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks! Try it out and let us know what you think. It's free to use up until you've created 250 work items (which takes most teams a while). We love having chats with teams that try it out, both to know what would make it work bet
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by kevsim 6y ago
> Unfortunately, this is only half the story I'd go further - I'd say in many, many teams, quant KPIs like burndown rate and velocity are downright misleading and often harmful. It provides the wrong incentives for the team - i
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by kevsim 6y ago
Here, you dropped this: /s
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by kevsim 6y ago
This advice applies equally to a startup taking some form of funding as well. Don't waste time on these things, just focus relentlessly on distribution and your product (what the user sees, not the plumbing).
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by kevsim 6y ago
Yeah, remoteness can be a challenge for any process if you don't adapt. We're finding our [0] users write more than ever, and have fewer stand ups and video meetings. I think it's a win for deep work, but a loss for creative
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Scrum Is Evolving(medium.com)
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by kevsim 6y ago
Knowing when not to talk is particularly important for people in leadership positions. A manager coming into a meeting and blurting out what they think about everything is a sure fire way to stifle creative debate in their team. While some
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by kevsim 6y ago
This is very cool, but for me the problem has always been the repeatability of demo videos. I make a demo video of our product, and two weeks later that demo is out of date and now I need to make the same video again. Additionally, the need
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by kevsim 6y ago
I worked at a company where they had to fire some of Scala programmers. The people who were fired were functional purists, whereas a bunch of the team were coming from Java and (understandably) wrote Scala as if it were just more terse Java
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by kevsim 6y ago
We [0] use Intercom and are super happy with it. In addition to the chat widget (which our customers engage with a lot and which we never make any annoying spam pop up from) their email support works great. We can set up a welcome email ser
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Scrum Guide(scrumguides.org)
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by kevsim 6y ago
There is a fully funded Kickstarter to bring support to Android [0]. We’re using Slate at my startup [1] and have been really happy with it. Our editor is pretty fancy and is relatively easy to maintain, test etc. 0: https://www.
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by kevsim 6y ago
What setup do you use that replicates it? The ones that I’ve tried are a far cry from markers on a board.
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by kevsim 6y ago
> No lag meetings and whiteboard sessions. I really miss whiteboard sessions. I've gotten used to zoom meetings, I'm not overloaded with them, and with a proper structured agenda I've found they can be tolerable. But noth
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by kevsim 6y ago
One of these that resonates a lot for me is screwing up key hires. I've got a startup [0] and we're based in Norway. As in a lot of Europe, it's not trivial to get rid of people if you make a bad hire. Even with probation per
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by kevsim 6y ago
Cool tool! I added it to our slack and did a /pmalerts a couple of times in a channel (twice I think) without first inviting your bot to that channel and I got A LOT (10+) of messages from the bot. Seems like something's a little
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks! We fully agree. For us, with whatever features we decide to add, keeping it as snappy as possible and keeping it possible to do literally everything with the keyboard is a must. We do every once in a while end up with really embarra
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by kevsim 6y ago
We're in the same boat. One of our main driving factors is that in the issue tracker we're building [0], we use an editor (SlateJS) that has its own format for how documents are represented, and our issues are pretty rich and comp
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Work isn't issues, and teams aren't assignees(medium.com)
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by kevsim 6y ago
Discussion from yesterday with an article that actually has some screenshots, etc. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25136898
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by kevsim 6y ago
Emojis are what caused me to learn about unicode personally. We had a big bloated library handling emoji stuff for us in our product [0]. Then one day, someone said that they wanted the comment threads to behave more like Slack - that if on
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by kevsim 6y ago
This looks pretty cool! I'm working on a new issue tracker [0] and one of the things we want to do is to support diagrams embedded in the issues. We're currently experimenting with MermaidJS but we're not totally sold as the
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by kevsim 6y ago
Thanks. Managed to typo my own domain. Fixed now.

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