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Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by madeofpalk »

blueflow wrote: post #226
madeofpalk wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta: It's a shame all the [dead] comments here over the title of this post are hidden to most. I think it's a good reminder of the opposition some face in this (and other) industries for merely existing.

Replace "woman" with "man" and evaluate if it would be any less or more appropriate. Society is not holding women and men to the same standards.

I don't think it would be less or more appropriate. Gender is not something to hide or be ashamed of - the opposite! Any progressive movement here is on acknowledging gender, and de-gendering when unknown or mixed.

I think everyone making it out to be some big thing (which, the [dead] comments are bringing it up in a negative light for one reason or another) is the 'remarkable' thing.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by brunooliv »

schneems wrote: post #26

Nadia is an amazing speaker. Look up her other talks. You won’t regret it. She blends technical info with an interesting story/mystery in a very thoughtful and well delivered package. Here’s a recent one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pOW4vepSX8g&pp=ygUOTmFkaWEgT2R...

Wow, this was so amazing! And in a way, so... refreshing! Makes me want to learn Ruby :D

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by Alupis »

madeofpalk wrote: post #249
Alupis wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you entirely - however allow me to illustrate a point: I think the difference often is the intention of the writer. We get these types of headlines when people want to really promote how cool it is a female is capable of doing something - and we're all supposed to be amazed. That's pretty sexist if you think about it... of course a female is capable of writing high quality software! We should be amazed a…

> We get these types of headlines when people want to really promote how cool it is a female is capable of doing something - and we're all supposed to be amazed I think you're reading way too much into it. Maybe they're just a women, and they did a turn on the phrase "one man team" to acknowledge that they're not a man?

> to acknowledge that they're not a man?

I think that was my original point - who cares?

It adds nothing of value to their accomplishments, nor the article.

If anything, it detracts from the accomplishment. "Look how cute it is that the females are trying to code, applaud them!" - is the sentiment that comes out of it. It's the same affect as these all-female movie casts that then get promoted as "look how great it is that the cast is all female" instead of "look how great this movie is".

In general, we should just say person. Allow the accomplishments to carry themselves. If they are good, people will respond.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by npteljes »

brunooliv wrote: post #252
schneems wrote: post #26

Nadia is an amazing speaker. Look up her other talks. You won’t regret it. She blends technical info with an interesting story/mystery in a very thoughtful and well delivered package. Here’s a recent one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pOW4vepSX8g&pp=ygUOTmFkaWEgT2R...

Wow, this was so amazing! And in a way, so... refreshing! Makes me want to learn Ruby :D

In case you ever seriously consider it, I suggest doing it with RubyMine. It rekindled my passion for programming with its thoughtful suggestions and magic-like refactoring options. Helped a lot to learn the language, and to convert the code, and so my thought process, to be more like how Ruby does things.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by 0______0 »

eucki wrote: post #132
jumperabg wrote: post #8

Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?

Pieter Levels is creating the kind of software I’ve always dreamed of building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg

Thanks for mentioning him. I gained some new perspective and felt inspired by looking around at his work and Twitter.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by akreal »

jumperabg wrote: post #8

Pretty nice, 1 dev 3 team members in total and 1 million users? Are there any other products with such a small team and a huge userbase? Does this scale and when the business requires more coding and technical debt comes how do they manage it?

Telegram?

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by tptacek »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #246
tptacek wrote: post #155

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Basecamp has a full-sized team and has for many, many years.

It's about the ratio. Employees to users. And the profit per employee is quite high.

That's great and all, I like them fine, but they're not a one-person-band.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by p3rls »

phildenhoff wrote: post #213
phildenhoff wrote: post #147

StoryGraph is an excellent tool and I continue to use it daily. I’ve also found Hardcover.app, which I quite like. It has an API and a slightly more refined UI, but it’s clearly more than one person working on it. Of course, if your focus is book clubs, Fable is likely the app for you

Solidifying my dislike of Goodreads, I got my “year in books” email from them today and the first thing that loaded, at the top of the email, is an ad. For pillow cases. Folks, don’t do that

Once you're #1 on Google searches for half of the published corpus of humanity you stop caring about little things like that... Surprised storygraph even has that many users when they're nowhere on Google when I search books.

Re: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]

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Post by Grimblewald »

p3rls wrote: post #259
phildenhoff wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Solidifying my dislike of Goodreads, I got my “year in books” email from them today and the first thing that loaded, at the top of the email, is an ad. For pillow cases. Folks, don’t do that

Once you're #1 on Google searches for half of the published corpus of humanity you stop caring about little things like that... Surprised storygraph even has that many users when they're nowhere on Google when I search books.

well, books and book related stuff tend to propagate more through word of mouth than direct search or advertisement.
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