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In my “Startups Suck” post, I alluded to the excitement of being ready to sell. You finally come up with a product that sparks people’s interest and, all of a sudden, you start thinking it’s time to do...
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Every startup goes through the debate of “How should we do developer pricing?” The conversation normally goes something like this: Person A: We need to come up a package that developers will buy!...
View ArticleAPI Design Smells
In software development, a “Design Smell” is a signal that something isn’t quite right. Think of it like your car sounding a little bit different or your Spidey Sense tingling. In the best of times,...
View ArticleThe Painful Truth: Your Version One Sucks
When we first picture our new product, it’s wonderful, looks beautiful, and works perfectly every time. We imagine how people will use it and how successful we’ll be. We dream of how quickly and...
View ArticleMy Books to Love & Hate from 2022
After college, I resolved to read one book a month. It can be fiction, non-fiction, technical, business-oriented, or whatever as the goal was to always be absorbing and digesting new ideas and...
View Article4 Audiobooks and Podcasts to Hone Your Software Development Skills
As discussed in a previous article, finding Books to Love & Hate can be as easy as switching authors, from Jim Butcher to Jeff Carlson, or skimming through anthologies. More than just leisure...
View ArticleHow ChatGPT will solve all API problems.. except yours
This blog post is part of the APIFutures coordinated by Matthew Reinbold where he recruited some of the best and brightest for their perspectives on APIs in 2024. Hit the end of this article for links...
View ArticleMy Books to Love & Hate from 2023
After college, I resolved to read one book a month. It can be fiction, non-fiction, technical, business-oriented, or whatever as the goal was to always be absorbing and digesting new ideas and...
View ArticleBuilding a Developer Community in Five Steps
I recently had a call with a former colleague who asked a simple question: How do we build a developer community for my company? A few years ago, that answer would have been simple: Swarm the field...
View ArticleSelling to Developers: Developers Have Exactly Two Goals in Life
I’ve done the rounds through a number of SaaS companies – Twilio, Okta, ngrok, and now Pangea – where we… The post Selling to Developers: Developers Have Exactly Two Goals in Life appeared first on...
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