What are your top 3 tips on developing and shipping quickly in a small startup environment?
Max Prilutskiy
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Igor Krasnik@igorkrasnik
1. Start validating without development to test copy and value prop (landing page and outreach)
2. Focus 1 core feature and set the strict deadline to build MVP (1 month is ideal)
3. Ask your product team to show demos regularly, at least once a week
PS I have a video based on my viral post on Reddit r/startups that goes over these questions in details.
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- make sure every engineer has the ability to ship code to production.
- ship code every day to production, hopefully multiple times a day.
- demo features to someone every week. we do every friday demo's to the company of what we built that week.
- Continuous deployment: every push to main should be released (make sure to have proper testing and feature flagging in place to accomplish that)
- Single piece flow. It's tempting but trying to do several things in parallel in a small team kills efficiency
- Pair programming first (at least for complex tasks): don't require a third person to review (pair programming should contain the review already). Then it's the fastest way to ship.