Hey Avinash 👋 Super excited to hear that! Can’t wait to see what you build and ship out 🚩
Primarily these were the factors that I had to tweak within the team culture (between me and my friend, we are a team of 2) to ship faster:
- Avoid Perfecting things — the more we spend time perfecting the border radius of a button, the further the launch date gets pushed. We always settle for the most minimal version of the UI
- Build the most minimal version possible — we write down the most critical components that are necessary in the system to manifest our idea and we simply shut down the notebook. No more feature creep-ins, no more UI updates
- We love coffee and 3AM cat videos on youtube — we stay up a little too much. This gives us a little bit of an advantage over time 😅
As for technicalities:
- We use Firebase for most projects. This is a backend as a service, meaning, we don’t have to build a backend ourselves. This saves a massive amount of time for every product. It’s ridiculously efficient, cheap, scalable and most importantly: realtime.
- With Firebase ☝️, all we need is the front-end. We always go with the best tools in the arsenal: plain javascript and static web pages. We avoid jumping in to ‘.JS’ wagons that get hyped every now and then. I bet they are useful as they claim but the stack doesn’t matter in the end if we fail to execute the idea.
I’ll write a comprehensive blog post on this to help out more makers :) These are some of the things off the top of my head. Good luck and I can’t wait to see you ship better and faster! 🔥