Why would you want your engineers to become leaders? Managing a team of just a few engineers and their output should be easy. You can go deep into the details of solutions and still keep a good high-level overview of everything that’s happening now and should happen in the...
The 12factor manifest is a set of guidelines to help us build SaaS applications that can easily be operated and scaled without much effort. It was originally put together by the folks at Heroku and is as relevant today as it was when it was published in 2011. Heroku uses...
I’m sure you’ve heard the statistic that 9 out of 10 startups fail. How can you win against such odds? Is there a secret startup handbook to read or an investment due diligence checklist to follow? Madewithlove has audited over 50 companies, usually as part of an investment...
As a non-technical founder, it can be difficult to determine if your development team is composed of engineers that are on a staff engineer, senior or junior level, or somewhere in between. This especially becomes a big challenge when it’s time to hire your first engineer or expand the...
Rationale I love React and I love Redux, but one of the things I struggle with a lot is how complicated the latter can make codebases. You add it and look away for five seconds and suddenly it’s all boilerplate and wiring code, sometimes to do very simple things....
Here at madewithlove, we don’t do design. We’ve been saying that in almost every sales pitch over the years, each time with the feeling we leave an opportunity to help our clients on the table. We could have hired a digital designer to bring the madewithlove vibe to...
On this episode of madewithlove’s Pulse podcast, Vinch Battaglia, CTO in residence, welcomes Wouter Sioen, software engineer, and Jonas Drieghe, software engineer, all members of the madewithlove team. We use PHP in-house and on our client projects so we decided to discuss why that is. Listen to this Pulse...
The madewithlove team dives into their first Between Us session where they discuss problems that they encounter through their daily work. Today’s topic is refactoring. Vinch Battaglia, CTO in residence, is joined by Jonas Drieghe, software engineer, and Dimi Van Lunter, engineering manager, to gain their insights. Listen to...
Tune in for spicy and insightful conversations on all things SaaS, products,(technical) leadership and product. In Pulse, the podcast, madewithlove’s Vincent Battaglia talks with leaders in the tech startup and scale-up ecosystem. There are also some podcast episodes where Vincent talks with his own colleagues about everything he...