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How Validating Your Idea First Can Save You Money

We walk through the importance of product validation and how we’ve seen it succesfully save founders time and money in planning their first version product.
Kelly Gebo
September 21, 2021
Seeking Product Managers who love launching NEW products and NEW product teams.

thoughtbot is growing our Product Management Team. Please see our current open positions.
Emily Bahna
September 20, 2021
Hotwire: Typeahead searching

Build a search-as-you-type text box with Turbo, Stimulus, and Rails.
Sean Doyle
September 17, 2021
- Hotwire
- Rails
- Turbo
- Stimulus
Migrating thoughtbot Repositories to use Main as default branch

thoughtbot is moving all of it’s GitHub Repositories to use “main” as the default branch.
Brian Tenggren
September 16, 2021
- News
- Git
Spaces: The Final Frontier

One big giant blob of words is hard – and tedious – to read. Let’s get back to elementary school and see how we can improve this.
Matheus Richard
September 15, 2021
- Refactoring
- Code
Hotwire: Server-rendered live previews

Turbo-charge your Article drafting feedback cycle with Hotwire-powered live previews.
Sean Doyle
September 14, 2021
- Hotwire
- Rails
- Turbo
- Stimulus
Testing Your Edge Cases

A little combination math goes a long way to catching edge cases.
Joël Quenneville
September 8, 2021
- Testing
- Ruby
- Development
Solving the Prototype Puzzle

Curious what you can expect from a product prototype. Here is how we suggest getting the most out of a prototyping effort.
Kelly Gebo
August 19, 2021
MVP vs PoC: What’s the right road?

You have a product idea but aren’t sure how hard it is to build (or if it’s technically possible). thoughtbot shares our perspective when a Proof of Concept might be a good first step before moving forward with your MVP.
Kelly Gebo
August 3, 2021
I have a product idea. Now what do I do?

Walking through how we work with founders to determine the best first step in exploring a business and product idea.
Kelly Gebo
July 20, 2021
- Startup
- Strategy
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