Processes

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Your startup does not need more engineers, it needs fewer mistakes

Your startup does not need more engineers, it needs fewer mistakes

Hiring to fix velocity often multiplies your problems. Reduce avoidable mistakes first: tighten decision-making, align product and engineering, and put foundations in place that make a small team dangerous in the right way.

Navigating Outages: lessons from recent cloud failures

Navigating Outages: lessons from recent cloud failures

Outages can strike unexpectedly, impacting businesses and users alike. In this episode of the SaaS Show, hosts Andreas and Sjimi delve into the recent outages experienced by major cloud providers like Amazon and Cloudflare.

A Rubber Duck’s Guide to Better Engineering: Part 2

A Rubber Duck’s Guide to Better Engineering: Part 2

Professor Quacks is back with five more principles for better engineering: build tools that help, move with healthy urgency, plan wisely, work well with others, and lead by example. These aren’t just coding tips, they’re culture-shaping lessons.

Fitness for purpose: taking risks with quality

Fitness for purpose: taking risks with quality

When product teams obsess over perfect quality, they risk standing still, but by embracing a 'fit for purpose' mindset and planning for instability, they can move faster and smarter.

Making progress without a technical leader

Making progress without a technical leader

Startups without a technical co-founder can still build great products, but only if they avoid the usual traps of overengineering, needless infrastructure, and late developer involvement.

Pricing strategies in the era of AI: why hourly billing no longer works

AI tools are changing how agencies work and how they should bill. Fewer hours, faster results, and ballooning token costs are reshaping agency economics. We dive into what comes next, and why value pricing might be the way forward.

Building a customer support machine: a pragmatic approach for startups

Building a customer support machine: a pragmatic approach for startups

When customer support becomes a blocker for engineering progress, it’s time to build more than just your product—you need to build your support infrastructure. This article explains how to scale support before chaos kills your velocity.

Making an impact by combining our services

Making an impact by combining our services

Madewithlove combines interim CTOs and staff engineers to help SaaS scale-ups align strategy with execution and build resilient tech teams.

Why involving engineers in product meetings saves time and money

Why involving engineers in product meetings saves time and money

Involving engineers in product specification meetings reduces costly iterations and accelerates feature launches for SaaS startups.

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