Do you know what defines a successful SaaS company? Do you know how to identify and validate your SaaS business idea? As the answer may be easy, the devil is in the details! Having a strategy and developing an MVP are important steps, but what else can you do to be successful? Read our article and let us know your thoughts.
Is it worth starting with MVP or diving head first into the software development? If you're unsure about the MVP approach - find out what benefits it may bring to the table and how it can save your time and money!
Success doesn't happen by accident. It takes clear focus, strategic decisions, and the courage to adapt. In this article, I’ll break down the six core elements that drive digital success
Clients and Wrappers (also referred to as “Facades”) are remarkably useful tools for working with external services, libraries or APIs. While both Clients and Wrappers are primarily used to facilitate usage of before-mentioned libraries or APIs, there are some significant differences in responsibilities each of these patterns have. In some cases a Wrapper can take over a Client’s responsibilities too
In this article, I would like to share my tips on how to improve your Github repository so basically, how to give it some ‘steroids’. I will cover aspects like using templates, coverage report in Github projects and packages, how to improve the CI build speed and finally, how to better document your code.
As a part-time Rubyist, I couldn’t ignore Crystal any longer (+ I enjoy learning new programming languages) so I decided to give it a try. Because I wanted to write something useful and contribute to the community, I was looking for a small idea in the Ruby world and spoiler alert… I found it.
Form Object is a very useful pattern in rails ecosystem as it can address variety of issues and antipatterns. In this article we will attempt to sort out in which situations Form Objects can prove useful and what conventions allow us to make most out of them.
When embarking on a new backend project, our first move as developers is often to use some well-established relational database like PostgreSQL or MySQL. However, for some time there have been different database types available on the market. One of them is MongoDB.
A few techniques which can help you handle errors in production if your client is non-technical. You should always apply best practices in your projects to avoid bad situations. But if some errors slip through your test suite, code reviews, QA and testing on staging, be sure that you handle it in a proper way.
Query Objects (also referred to as queries) is another pattern that helps in decomposing your fat ActiveRecord models and keeping your code both slim and readable. While this article is written with Ruby On Rails in mind, it easily applies to other frameworks, especially MVC based and applying ActiveRecord pattern.
Naming things in programming may not be hard (a matter of imagination), but it is definitely hard to do it right. Also, it turns out to be very unclear what “right” means in each and every context. It doesn’t change the fact that in 8 out of 10 PRs I review, I provide a feedback related to naming, be it naming of classes, methods, fields, variables… you name it
If you want to speed up acquiring new customers for your startup using tools, this blog post is for you. In this blog post, I will present:
examples of different categories of applications
Discovery Phase is one of the most discussed topics in the business world. In this article, we will delve into the specifics and answer the question of "What is it and why should I care?".
Did you know that hiring the wrong person can cost your company at least 30% of that person's first-year salary? Think about it—if you hire someone at $50,000 a year. Read the article and find out more!
Apr 29, 2025 ・6 min read
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