Best of StartupAugust 2022

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    From Side Project to Startup - things I learned in a year.

    Akash and Akash started Peerlist as a side project while working full-time as a cofounder. They have a vision of 5 years but a plan of 3 months. The goal is clear to both of them, but our plans are always changing.

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    Avatar of futureFuture·4y

    Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects

    A side project is usually a hobby programming project that a developer builds alongside their job. Instead of building one side project, developers are increasingly building lots of smaller projects.

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    Avatar of btrprogBetter Programming·4y

    The Best Software Engineering Career Paths

    You can be successful in many of them, but you can make many mistakes and surpass all your goals. If you succeed, you will get a lot of respect and credit for your team’s success. It is much easier to get promoted, jump into management, or transition to a PM role in a growing startup.

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    I'm So Happy I Quit My Dream Job

    Twitch is a streaming company that allows creators to create live video content. Founder of Twitch says he's been chasing simplicity since leaving Twitch for smaller companies. By moving from Zoom/Discord over to Ping, our creators could now… Pull in guests with resolutions as high Ping.gg 1.0 Launches Today, Starting at $16/month.

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    I Joined A Startup, Left, Then End Up in The Court: This Is My Story

    In 2018, I quit my job at Intel to join a newly startup company, Boostorder. The company has received a new funding from a multinational company, financial check. The director, Chuah Teong Kee and I have a small, heated exchange when he knew that I had resigned.

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    Avatar of pandProAndroidDev·4y

    Build a Real-Time Android WhatsApp Clone With Jetpack Compose

    Build a real-time Android WhatsApp Clone with Jetpack Compose and Stream’s versatile Compose Chat SDK. In this post, you’ll learn how the app architecture was designed and how data flows between different layers. WhatsApp Clone Compose uses Material Theme for styling the overall UI elements and defining custom color schemes with lightColorSceme and darkColorSCEme methods.

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    5 Approaches To Improve As A Software Engineer

    If you have meaningful ideas that you can work on, build them as a side project. If you don’t have any idea but want to improve your skills, build any fun project. Sharing knowledge improves soft skills, such as technical writing, communication, and confidence. Building an audience, or at least sharing content online, can bring you new opportunities.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·4y

    The silent majority

    In software development, the silent majority are the engineers who write the code, debug the programs, and solve the complex issues behind the scenes. Not everyone is willing to do the work just to bring their opinions to the masses. It also takes confidence — whenever you voice an opinion on the internet, there will always be people who have an opposite one.

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    Things to know before joining a startup

    In larger tech companies, you can get away by doing just your piece, not being bothered by how the overall project is held together by build scripts. For Startups, more often than not, you will be laying down what's known as the "scaffolding" of a project.

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    Avatar of futureFuture·4y

    Grow or Die: A Framework for Turning Your Company Around Fast

    A Framework for Turning Your Company Around Fast is a framework that I've come to call SuperGoals. It's a high stakes, focusing goal for a team, an open-ended method of achievement, and a single measure of success that everyone can understand. The framework is designed to encourage an ‘all hands on deck’

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    Avatar of elixirstatusElixirStatus·4y

    My perfect stack ;)

    A full video is now up discussing the stack I would use. I honestly only care about the intro though. Who doesn’t want to be competent, save time and purify their soul?