Your tools can make or break productivity when you’re on a fully remote team. Thankfully, here at Buffer, we have the pick of the bunch. Our suite of tools is extensive, especially on the marketing team, and our curated selection helps us fill our queues, manage social channels, create graphics, and generally stay organized. In […]
The early (and also not-so-early) days of building a tech startup means hiring and working with people who are capable of wearing a lot of hats. There are a ton of things to do and nowhere near an equal amount of resources to do them. Even if you join as a specialist, chances are you’ll […]
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. We just finished the 14th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching it in both the winter and spring sessions. During the quarter the eight teams spoke to 919 potential customers, beneficiaries and regulators. Most students spent […]
With every mobile project, you will eventually find yourself hitting roadblocks that are less about the product and features themselves and more about the surrounding infrastructure that allows everything to exist in the first place. This can manifest in a variety of ways, but as a mobile developer you’ve certainly witnessed some of the telltale […]
One of the many things I was constantly amazed about during my first few weeks at Square/Cash App was seeing how fast this team shipped code. All members of the Android team (and likely other platforms as well) were merging to the main git branch multiple times every day. This was in stark contrast to […]
I recorded an episode of the Empower Apps podcast, where Leo Dion and I discussed a wide range of topics. We spoke about everything from how we scale app development to thousands of people and millions of users at Twitter, communication, documentation, people working together, and a lot about and the complexity of holding moral […]
Hey, we have a new thing for you today! Today’s new thing is called Stack Overflow for Teams. It lets you set up a private place on Stack Overflow where you can ask questions that will only be visible to members of your team, company, or organization. It is a paid service, but it’s not […]