Tech Guidance for Non-Technical Founders

The order in which you build things matters less before you have any users. Assuming you have a clear idea of what will be valuable to your customers, you just need to build it as fast as possible, without sacrificing quality. After launch, you'll typically start getting feedback and feature requests from customers. You'll take the best (or loudest) suggestions and refine them into well-defined user stories. Then they go on the backlog. So, let's say you have three seemingly equally valuable...

Today I saw a social media post aimed at founders. The poster was saying that your general framing of your daily activities should be that everything is urgent. As if you’re running out of money. You do need to be driven. You do need to be focused on making progress every week, and preferably every day. But thinking and acting as if this is your last chance is a recipe for burnout. Good decisions are not made in this mindset. I’d rather look at it as the need for discipline. You have an idea,...

There’s a common idea that your work environment needs to be neat and tidy in order for you to be fully productive. I’ve seen genius come out of shambolic environments but for most people this is true. And it makes sense: less distractions less time spent finding things you need less time spent filing things for later A software development environment is no different. You and your team share a work environment. To keep it in order there needs to be rules that everyone follows. Here are some...