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Case Study

Delivering an in Clinic Experience via Mobile App

thoughtbot helped Airrosti Remote Recovery bring their in clinic experience to patients' mobile devices without sacrificing connections with their provider, expert help with therapy exercises, and the results they would expect from visiting a physical clinic location.

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Blog

Why Your Prototype Isn't Securing Investment

If you’re serious about raising money, a prototype is an important part of telling your story, but only if your prototype is high quality and based upon validation, feature prioritization, and strong development strategy. Here Associate Director Kelly Gebo shares some best practices we commonly bring to founders to help build a prototype that can truly raise investment.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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Blog

A Mindset for Better Code

Thinking about code as something ephemeral helps us write better code because we can be sure: things will change. And when they do, we want our code to be easy to change as well.

Matheus Richard, Developer at thoughtbot

Happy new year from everyone at thoughtbot

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Celebrating 2021 Wins Going into 2022

Taking time to celebrate thoughtbot's 2021 business successes and continued culture of learning, improvement and DEI.

Diana Bald, CEO at thoughtbot

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Blog

Who is empowered by your API design?

Analysing API design through lens of skill floors and ceilings can help us think about the impact of adding a feature.

Joël Quenneville, Senior Developer at thoughtbot

Case Study

Validating a market and accelerating patient care

Relias wanted to help post acute-care patients and their therapists get better at physical therapy by creating a tool for patients and therapists to manage exercise assignments and progress. thoughtbot helped them validate the target audience for the patient mobile app, and contributed to more agile workflows for their in-house team.

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Blog

Advice for starting a health tech startup

Over the course of a year, Michael Sheeley, former founder of RunKeeper and now heading up Nurse-1-1 (a HIPAA-compliant chat platform that connects patients directly with nurses), talked with us on the Giant Robots Smashing into Other Giant Robots podcast. In this post are some of the most compelling learnings from our conversations.

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Video

How to launch a product in 8 weeks

Are you planning to launch a new web or mobile product in 2020? Tune in as thoughtbot's Founder and COO Chad Pytel dives into thoughtbot's playbook that has guided the design, development, and launch of hundreds of successful quality products.

Chad Pytel, Founder and COO, thoughtbot

Topics

Validate or Fail Fast

Direct user feedback is your best friend. Learn how to improve your feedback loops.

Learn more about Validation →

De-risk Your Business

Increase your likelihood of success by addressing big risks quickly and thoroughly.

Learn more about De-risking →

Accelerate time to market

Take advantage of opportunities to get your product into new users’ hands quickly.

Learn more about time to market →

Ensure Product Quality

Build for quality and you build for customer (and employee) loyalty.

Learn more about ensuring product quality →

Spotlight guide

Product Design Sprint Guide

Answer your critical early business questions with our guide through the design and prototyping process.

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Who is thoughtbot?

For entrepreneurs who are passionate about building great digital products, thoughtbot offers a range of premier design and development consulting services.

Beyond high-quality development work, thoughtbot provided invaluable guidance to us on hiring, process, and upskilling our team to be self-sufficient.

— Justin Seeley, DRAFT

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