I write about development, product building, and everything related to tech in general. Ideally once per week, but that's in my dream.
Imagine, you just finished your day job, you arrive at home and you have two hours, just for you. Your kids - if you have any - are at a relative and your partner won’t be home for the next two hours with that amazing take-out you love. No need to cl...
Your roadmap is a cat-and-mouse game between new ideas/features/bugs that are added to it versus what you and your team can tackle. Ideally, it should go down, but it’s often the contrary that happens. And then, you get a customer asking you for some...
Now that Fernand is out, it's time for me to reflect back on how I spent the last few years (yes, years), working on this crazy project. Just to clarify things, Fernand is our latest project, a Help Desk SaaS with a focus on speed, efficiency, and ca...
We've been building products with Antoine for more than 15 years now, and we had our fair share of successes (Voilanorbert, Transferslot, PDFShift, and ImprovMX to name a few). Around three years ago, we were heads deep on growing ImprovMX and were f...
I often read that ProductHunt is necessary to reach a broader audience, and having your product not reach the top 5 is considered a failure. But this doesn't apply to everyone. You need to consider which audience your product is targeting and focus t...
There is one service I like to connect to for all my projects, it's Customer.io. It allows you to send events that trigger a campaign with specific workflows and works wonderfully for many areas, such as onboarding, upgrades, and churns. But there is...
There is a nice thing about having a project in the long run, it's the increasing number of edge cases covered. When you first release your code, you have a set of checks you've implemented that covers most cases, but often, you miss a few that can c...
I recently finished the fantastic TV series "Halt and catch fire" (highly recommended) and one sequence struck a chord with what we live in nowadays on the www. Here's that sequence: https://youtu.be/A6rS17qTwwQ?t=58 I recall when I was working on my...
It took a while for me to write this post, but I came to a solution a few days after writing my latest post. Thinking to migrate to Firebase, I started to dig more under the hood of how Firebase was working. I liked the idea to have data retrieved ve...
