When we embarked on building a product, we expected some challenges. But not a few others.
I knew we would have engineering challenges and that didn't bother me (having done this for a while). But what kept me awake were the roadblocks that were bound to be there that I had little clue about!
12 Jan 20219min
The True Cost of Meetings - it is more than what you think
How much time are you spending in meetings? And are you sure you needed to be in these meetings?
10 Jan 20219min
One approach to create UX Designs is to draw them out quickly without relying on tools
If you can draw, this approach will work really well! But, even if you are like me and cannot really draw, it will still save you a ton of time if you manually drew out the UI pages to share with your development team.
31 Des 202010min
User Experience(UX) Designs for Web and Mobile Apps
While it would save time (which is priceless for everyone, not to mention smaller startups where it is even more valuable!) to use UX designs created for the Web for Mobile Apps, and vice-versa, it is hardly ever possible (if a seamless User Experience across devices is at the top of your priority list).
26 Des 20207min
How to deal with the issue of Bot Sign ups?
Well, as technology improves, we get smarter as humans. But, so do bots. There's any number of things you can, and should, do to ensure your app is not hit with bot (aka: fake) sign ups.
26 Des 20202min
GitHub Projects - How we manage our repo-specific issues
We use our own product (obviously!) to give us a federated view of all the projects that our ecosystem comprises of but at a code repository level, we use GitHub's Project feature to manage repo-specific issues. Here's how we do it.
1 Des 20202min
Snowpal Pitch: GitHub Branch Management
There is no single answer to what branching strategies work for you when it comes to GitHub. We've tried more than a few ourselves but eventually arrived at one that works quite well for us.
28 Nov 20203min
Unit Testing vs Functional Testing vs Integration Testing: What are some differences?
While it's important to not be bogged down by terminologies, it is also imperative that there is consensus within any given team so there is no confusion.
28 Nov 20205min
