Best of Startup — June 2023

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·3y

    Melofi - Melofi: Chill. Focus. Create

    Melofi: "I would absolutely love it if you could give Melofi a spin and share your valuable feedback" "Your input means the world to me, and it'll help me make Melofi even better. So, go ahead, dive in, and enjoy the good vibes," says Melofi.

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·3y

    EP65: What Is A Webhook

    This week's system design refresher: Stack Overflow's Architecture: A Very Interesting Case Study. What is a webhook? The diagram below shows a comparison between polling and webhooks. The approach generally depends on the size of a company, but we try to provide a general overview.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·3y

    3 Engineering Mistakes That Kill Startups

    Michael Lin has been doing engineering consulting in fractional CTO roles for about a year now. His clients spend over 6 figures and several months of time to get an MVP built only for the project to take way too long or never get delivered. The Order in Which You Build Features Matters is what you want engineering to build first.

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    Avatar of discdotDiscover .NET·3y

    Biggest scam in software dev? Best Practices.

    CodeOpinion Sponsor: Do you build complex software systems? See how NServiceBus makes it easier to design, build, and manage software systems that use message queues to achieve loose coupling. Get started for free. What’s the biggest scam in tech that is deemed acceptable?

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    Avatar of dhhDavid Heinemeier Hansson·3y

    Wisdom is not what you know

    The Stoics produced an exercise program for wisdom that is as counterintuitive to our emotions as it is commanding when mastered. It's also why I try to read The Manual by Epictetus at least twice a year. Think better by repeating the few hard lessons you know you need the most.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·3y

    Back end with notification feature via Novu and Amplication

    Back end with notification feature via Novu and Amplication Bootstrap a simple back-end PoC. Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) is a model that provides developers with a pre-built backend infrastructure to create multi-platform applications. Novu is an MIT-licensed open-source notification platform.

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    Avatar of pointerPointer·3y

    The Surprising Power of Documentation

    Every hour invested into documentation by anyone saves literally x100 productivity hours across the company. Documentation is your secret weapon, the unsung hero of your startup, the gray knight. It eradicates guesswork and reinvention of the wheel.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·3y

    Deploy to Vercel with a GitHub Action

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    Avatar of dhhDavid Heinemeier Hansson·3y

    Turn down the volume on the world

    Being in Chicago in those early years of the post-dot-com-bust internet was like living in a monastery. We knew there was a party going on a hundred miles inland, but the debauchery was never so close as to color our thinking or tempt our aspirations. We were geographically destined to see the world in a different light. This was before social media.

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