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Leadership

Why it’s worth spending time on writing out tickets

Have a small team that likes to move fast and break things? You are writing tickets. Right?

madewithlove

Pulse: Episode 10 – Employee lifetime value with Leslie Carr

How to improve your company culture? How to increase your employee lifetime value? Leslie Carr and Andreas talk about feedback as an essential aspect of personal and professional growth.

Leadership

What a React Native developer needs to know to get hired

Some of our clients need help expanding their mobile teams. Often, we work on projects that are built with React Native. It’s a natural

Leadership

Hiring on speed: a hypergrowth experience

When it is time to scale up an engineering team, hiring quickly becomes a headache. Hypergrowth leads to senior engineers that don’t spend any

madewithlove

Pulse: Episode 9 - Hiring and retaining talent with Simone Eret

Welcome to Pulse, the heartbeat of the SaaS software industry. Your host, Andreas CEO of madewithlove, is excited to bring you an interesting episode where

Engineering

How listening to Treebeard can help you fix performance issues

On one of our projects, users complained about a performance issue. They were experiencing loading spinners and timeouts when using the application. When we evaluated

CTO

How a CTO makes technology decisions

It’s time to build a new product. Some people within the organization have championed individual native applications built in Swift for iOS and Kotlin

madewithlove

Pulse: Episode 8 - Outdated documentation with Christophe Pasquier

In Pulse, a madewithlove podcast, Andreas talks with leaders from the tech startup and scale-up ecosystem. There are also some podcast episodes where Andreas talks

Engineering

Setting up Laravel Horizon in Google Cloud Run

“Wait, what? Cloud Run is serverless!” I hear you shout in confusion as you jump out of your chair. Well, give me a chance to

madewithlove

Pulse: Episode 7 – Free Range Management with Steve Tauber

In Pulse, a madewithlove podcast, Andreas talks with leaders from the tech startup and scale-up ecosystem. There are also some podcast episodes where Andreas talks

Due diligence

Pulse: Episode 6 – Johann Romefort on Technical Due Diligence

In Pulse, a madewithlove podcast, Andreas talks with leaders from the tech startup and scale-up ecosystem. There are also some podcast episodes where Andreas talks

AI

ChatGPT and the future of software specs

In case you just woke up from a coma and missed the news that’s whipping Tech Twitter into a frenzy, OpenAi just released ChatGPT.

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