A Millennial’s Ideas About Building a Technology Company

I haven't worked on a whole lot of different places, but from the places I've worked at, these are some things I've taken away from my experiences. These are things that I would apply if I would start my own company in the future.

Tools and tech

• Use Linear for issue tracking
• Host code on GitHub (OSS?, then you might want to use GitHub issues instead)
• Use Slack for communication (this would be open for customers as well)
• Build a accessible component library using Tailwind (definitely make it OSS)
• Bot that checks in on employees' mental health each week/day
• Public change logs
• Live streams for major releases where a couple of employees talk about what's new
• Google suite for communication (unless something better comes along)
• Build the API using REST and Prisma as ORM instead of GraphQL
• Svelte or Next.js for front end
• PostgreSQL for the database

Processes

• Validate your idea (product market fit) before you invest too much
• Have very clear scopes, start & end dates for projects
• Test product and features with customers regularly
• Talk with customers very regularly
• Optimize for a remote culture but also promote in-office.
• Grow organically as long as possible
• Hack days
• Off-sites