David Frahm

I had fun doing this interview to help those suddenly WFH, which includes thoughts and tips for families and small spaces! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👨‍👧‍👦

@scharnell Great book related to how beneficial the outdoors is: Last Child in the Woods amazon.com/dp/B0015DRPAY?…

@afehrenbacher Lmao

working for early+growth stage startups:

@coreyhainesco More than payroll, but @justworks is simply awesome

Best payroll software for a small remote team?

@thogge Try @CoziFamily. They've been at it for many years.

There should be a calendar product for families. We literally tape our summer calendar on the wall. If we aren’t home we don’t know what we have on certain days. Would pay monthly sub.

@jasonlk Focus on what's real and what you can control

What's the #1 tip you'd give to someone just starting out in SaaS?

@housecor @playwrightweb With the Playwright tests and everything else in place, what's your outlook on unit tests for this situation?

I joined a struggling team in January. Then: 🚫 No tests 🚫 Few lint rules 🚫 No CI config 🚫 Over 1,300 “any” in TypeScript 🚫 1,000’s of lines of mapping code 🚫 App frequently crashed Now: ✅ Many @playwrightweb tests ✅ ESLint enforces coding standards ✅ Robust CI (builds, tests, lints, etc) ✅ Eliminated 100’s of "any"s - Validating responses via Zod exposed many bugs ✅ Eliminated all mapping code by returning camelCase JSON from APIs ✅ The app is stable Huge improvement. 🎉

@aprildunford So, as a COO, I get all the credit?! Lol

I've put in a lot of work hours using an iPad (10th gen, with keyboard folio). Most adapts pretty well, though I'm surprised by how many apps still aren't great on iPad. Too many still don't even exist. The biggest struggle is spreadsheets; just no match for that small screen!

@destraynor 5250 terminal

"I'd like to deposit €20 please" Bank teller: "Sure thing, no problem..." Bank teller (on their keyboard) Alt→PauseBreak→F7→F7→Num Lock→Num Lock→Num Lock→PrintScr→Ctrl+Shift+ScrollBreak →Home→End→[→End →F4 →PQ → Esc "So, €20 was it?" WTF is this interface?

@michaelglena @Google @Calendly @googlecalendar I'm good with this change, as I regularly receive unwanted invites from marketers trying to trick me into a meeting. This "friction" you describe seems like a necessary and normal way to deal with these bad actors. All you have to do is accept the invites you want, right?

PSA: @Google is quietly killing 3rd party appointment booking services like @Calendly in favor of their own newly launched competitor... And of course this "spam prevention" measure doesn't apply to meetings booked through their own new competitive software, which naturally doesn't support any video meetings options but Meet... 🙄 What changed: Google recently auto-opt-in'd most user's to default to NOT show 3rd party invites in calendar UNLESS the booker has previously emailed the host (defeats the point of booking software) or they explicitly accept the invite in email (massively more friction). It's causing major issues for us @GrainHQ where users book time and assume all is well, but accidentally miss meetings b/c it never appeared on their calendar. It still shows as normal on the booking owner's end... These moves are so blatantly anti-competitive and anti-consumer... all under the guise of "spam prevention"... which they could easily manage for google accounts using 3rd party booking software. Any chance @FTC / @TheJusticeDept gets involved to protect consumers? x.com/rachel_l_woods…

@samharrisonco @webflow Decent lighthouse scores?

Coming to the end of what's been a really fun @webflow project. - 25 CMS collections deep - 20 static pages - 2 Custom js calculators that send results via hidden fields within a Webflow form - Custom CMS filtering - GSAP as well as native webflow animations - Custom made lottie animations - Webflow memberships usage for an internal knowledge base - Multi-step forms And a kitchen sink.

@steida @addyosmani @GergelyOrosz @expo @Ionicframework All fw have their strengths so "better" isn't universal. Good point though, for some native might be useful. I've scaled apps and companies to millions of users and profitability and @Ionicframework worked great for me.

@davidfrahm @addyosmani @GergelyOrosz @expo @Ionicframework Ionic is web container, not native afaik, it was based on Angular, now it supports React too, no own UI lib afaik. Probably nice for Angular people, but for React I dare to say Expo is better because it’s native.

React Native has come a long way and Blue_sky is a testament that choosing this tech (or another cross-platform one like Flutter) is sensible for many startups over starting native. Blue_sky is on iOS and Android, performance is excellent, and built by 1 engineer (!!)

@steida @addyosmani @GergelyOrosz @expo Yes, @Ionicframework

@addyosmani @GergelyOrosz @expo Is there any other UI library or fw capable of that? Except for that Dart thing.

It's been a few years since I started One Goal, but this year is the year to grow! We closed our first partner deal a few weeks ago, and we're looking for more! Reach out if you'd like to include One Goal as part of your offering!

@editingemily My mom let my kids watch it and they didn't sleep well for days!

Coraline is the best example of why we can’t trust parental ratings.

@dohertyjf So do you ensure those external people are into shack beforehand, or do you have tips on how to get them to actually use it? Most of ours tend to onboard and then just send emails.

I assume this was their intention, but I'm starting to use Slack Connect a lot more with partners, customers, etc. It is GREAT. SO much better than email.

@xavier_coiffard "No more cash" is really just the result of one of the others

How to fail your startup: 1. Burnout 2. Bad Team 3. No more cash 4. Declining Market 5. Don't niche down 6. Fixing a false problem 7. No marketing strategy 8. Raising funds too early 9. No interest in your market What else?

@AsiaOrangio What do your "Monthly / quarterly growth audits" look like?

Here's some examples of processes that support growth 👇 • Collecting VOC • Sending VOC to people who need it • Tracking KPIs • Actually checking KPIs at some frequency • Monthly / quarterly growth audits • Measuring performance of past efforts • Monthly all-hands Etc.

"You need better processes if you want your startup to get to $1M ARR" Shocked? Angry? Annoyed? I know. Here's what I mean 👇

@agileschools Related... twitter.com/girdley/status…

How do we reconcile that we want teams to be autonomous and responsible for quality with Deming’s postulate that only management is responsible for quality?

Explain Kanban in the simplest graphic...