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Before you MVP

Reduce the risk of failure before building your MVP by conducting some invaluable research first.
Emily Bahna
April 2, 2018
When to Approach a Digital Consultancy

Anjali, Bukol and Carol each have a startup. Each of them chooses a different time to start talking to a digital consultancy. But, what are the benefits of each approach?
Laurie Young and Sandra Donskyte
March 28, 2018
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Join thoughtbot as Development Director in San Francisco

We’re looking for a technical leader to support and grow our development team in San Francisco.
Chad Pytel
March 27, 2018
- News
Tell Me When It Closes — Improved!

Tell Me When It Closes just got a massive email makeover.
Chris Toomey
March 26, 2018
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How to Reduce Market Risk by Building Your Reputation and Audience Before You Launch

One of the risks when starting a new business is that you launch and no one knows about your product. By building your audience in advance of launching, you can ensure that like-minded people, who are your early customers, are already primed and paying attention.
Chad Pytel
March 23, 2018
- Playbook
Start with the problem

Take a moment to define the problem to improve your likelihood of success.
Christian Reuter
March 21, 2018
Organize your functional code

When coming to a functional language, I often hear people ask, “How do I organize my code?” Let’s take a look at some ways in which data can tell us how to organize our modules and functions.
German Velasco
March 19, 2018
Using `yield_self` for composable ActiveRecord relations

On the code-changing magic of yield_self.
Derek Prior
March 13, 2018
- Rails
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The Barbican Estate: Walking Through Lessons Learnt

Reflecting on the design lessons learned from wandering around the Barbican Estate. An honest, beautiful and inspiring example of brutalist architecture in the center of London.
Luke Mitchell
March 12, 2018
Querying an Embedded Map in PostgreSQL with Ecto

Structs and maps are easy to work with in Elixir, but if they are stored in the database as JSON and accessed via an Ecto Schema, it’s not as clear how to query them. We’re going to explore how to do that, and make it clear and easy.
David Bernheisel
March 9, 2018
- Ecto
- Map
- Embeds One
- PostgreSQL
- JSON
- Elixir
- Query
- Web
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