hellolawyer — three years

Hellolawyer is not my first project; before that there were about 10. It's not the first project that brought in the first money. But it is the first project where the goal was not to learn some technology and gain experience, but to bring value and earn money for scaling.

I'll write a series of posts about business, product, and technical mistakes. The first one will be universal for business, product, and code.

Don't drag corporate experience into nascent projects

- Customer development -> build it and see how people react
- A/B experiment -> first find something people are willing to pay for
- Design in Figma -> while you're making this design, you'll lose momentum, and momentum is almost the most important thing; you can't slow down, write code immediately
- Microservices -> please, everything in one repository, no network calls between services
- CI/CD -> ssh and scp (maybe ansible)
- Tests -> click through in production
- Staging -> only production
- New features -> sell features before they are built

The main advantage is speed.

Speed, I am speed (c) Lightning McQueen


To be continued 😕