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https://appflows.ai I've been tweaking this side-project for the last week, it's getting a bit more useful I think. Features: - It's free - Generate app spec with AI based on your …

AppFlows is a privacy-first online tool that helps you scope, estimate and visualise app ideas as fast as you can type. I made AppFlows to help our clients here at Pocketworks. Mos…

An online tool for product managers that helps them turn written app specifications into something more interesting and visual. https://appflows.ai It doesn't save anything to the …

I've curated a list of tools below which I update regularly. I've spoken to a CTO who are using no-code tools, so here are some views: 1. Cost - Will depend on compute power needed…

Mildly interesting... In 2020, The World Health Organisation started working on a COVID-19 app for Nigeria, built with Flutter. I've been actively interested in Flutter since 2017,…

I run a mobile app agency like you and we do pretty well selling GaSaaS. I'm a developer but have studied sales quite a lot over the last 10 years. The most important thing I learn…

Interestingly, I've found that tools become less important the more you nail your purpose, culture, communications and processes. For that, the Traction book would get you off to a…

You're right about the downturn, it's impossible to run a team for long without a full order book. That said, I think you'd have this problem for an offshore team too, perhaps with…

Not at all, we just finished our financial year and it was 14% operating profit. The previous year was 29%, but last year was lower as I made some expensive decisions during the CO…

I run a small-ish dev shop ($1.5m revenue) and there are a lot of things I wish I knew back in 2012 when I started. 1. Finding clients is hard. Think hard about what an awesome cus…

I roughly follow Getting Things Done (GTD) and built a Flutter desktop app for managing the various lists in GTD (I hate flicking between note files). You can see it on this page. …

I've been curating a list of open source no-code tools. I'm sure I've missed a few but here they are. It includes the ones mentioned here - AppSmith, ToolJet, BudiBase and SaltCorn…

We do this. We're only a small 12-person software agency, we have two Elixir developers right now. When we hired the 2nd, we looked for someone who had good knowledge of Node, Rail…

I've got a few things going: 1. A company playbook writing tool that helps you document team and company processes. It gives you a nice online browseable playbook, along with .epub…

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, we sometimes create flowcharts ourselves so would be a nice addition.

What diagrams do you see used in dev teams these days? In our team (non enterprise), there's a lot of visual flow models for UX, and still some class/interaction/activity diagrams …

yUML creator here. Think I know what you're saying. That said, there are many people using a command line wrapper to generate yUML diagrams as part of an automated workflow. The pa…

Sounds like you're on the right path in that you have a genuine desire to create great looking products. This means you have a respect for design, which is hugely important. I used…

Really cool stuff. Would look great in http://yuml.me which also has a sketchy look. I need to rewrite yUML using newer tech, business collaborations welcome :)

http://yuml.me diagrams as an API. This was scratching and itch, yet get used by 1000s of people every day.

I run a small software company and would like to offer everyone access to whatever books they want. Ideally the team could share books, so we could just order physical books on Ama…

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Whatever you decide will probably be wrong. So I'd try and set your sales guy up for success, get him off to a positive start, and be generous with commission. Agree targets that s…

Spam wouldn't be spam if it was relevant. Could the forms constrain the types of enquiry to only stuff you're interested in?