Posts by Topic
We'll cover everything we encounter while building our startup. Whether it's picking an idea, marketing, press & PR, backend code, server maintenance, sales, finance or anything else.. we'll list topics we've written about so far as we're posting our daily updates.All posts so far..
Or browse our posts across all topics:Work/new-life balance • Day 67
Durable tech • Day 67
Dogfooding • Day 66
Early user feedback • Day 65
Spending time to save time • Day 64
Products want to be platforms • Day 63
Always be launching • Day 62
Enjoying the journey • Day 61
Work-life balance • Day 60
Recap @ Day 59 • Day 59
Perils of caching • Day 58
Desktop-first • Day 57
Making sense of contradictions • Day 56
Trust signals • Day 55
DIY javascript error logging • Day 54
Taxes: an automation story • Day 53
Magical thinking • Day 52
Start small • Day 51
High conviction, low conviction • Day 50
Most deals fail • Day 49
Wild ideas for Thymer • Day 48
Reducing sign-up friction • Day 47
Don’t let mistakes cascade • Day 46
Recap @ Day 45 • Day 45
Your app needs a USP • Day 44
Reduce • Day 43
Basic strategies for validating startup ideas • Day 42
Assert all the things • Day 41
Randomness is a perspective • Day 40
Viral Loops • Day 39
Calculating SaaS pricing in reverse • Day 38
Look ma, no dependencies! • Day 37
Some database design strategies • Day 36
Data & event handling in the app • Day 35
Insecure defaults considered harmful • Day 34
Recap @ Day 33 • Day 33
Text-based user interfaces in 2022 • Day 32
Work on what you need to • Day 31
Single miracle startup • Day 30
An update on the coding work • Day 29
Typescript without Typescript • Day 28
Competing with (very) large companies • Day 27
Thinking different about technical debt • Day 26
The advantages of developing in a dev VM with VSCode Remote • Day 25
You need a moat • Day 24
Recap week #4 • Day 23
Creating thymer.com • Day 23
Good customer support means saying you’re sorry • Day 22
Landing page is live! • Day 21
Animations • Day 20
Your app still has to be good • Day 19
It’s not 0 or 1 • Day 18
Thymer – a rough feature list • Day 18
Recap week #3 • Day 17
Setting up a very basic git server • Day 17
State of the Startup (20%) • Day 17
Everything is Power Law • Day 16
A paradox of course correction • Day 16
Bootstrapping B2B vs B2C • Day 15
Some landing page dos and don’ts • Day 15
More UI mockups • Day 14
Beware wanton originality • Day 14
Metal with a sprinkle of cloud: our CALM server stack • Day 13
Where are all the software startups? • Day 13
Work on the landing page • Day 12
Build one to throw away • Day 12
Recap week #2 • Day 11
You don’t need the cloud • Day 11
Your MVP needs to Spark Joy • Day 11
Always build the hard part first • Day 11
Design sketches • Day 10
Designing the app part 1: sketches & mockups • Day 10
Mockups • Day 9
State of the Startup • Day 9
More livecoding • Day 8
Choosing the hard path • Day 8
A no-nonsense server architecture for group based SaaS • Day 7
Initial marketing plan • Day 7
Recap Week #1! • Day 6
First (live!) coding: virtual scrolling • Day 6
Skills you need to bootstrap a SaaS startup • Day 5
Name + domain • Day 5
The initial stages of a SaaS product • Day 4
Features: from core to bullshit • Day 4
On competition and disruption • Day 3
What are we going to build: The Idea • Day 3
Honing in on an app idea • Day 3
Startups are all about constraints • Day 2
Bad Ideas: What Not To Build • Day 2
Not all Startup ideas are created equal • Day 1
Generating Twitter/Social Cards for shared posts • Day 1
Hello World! • Day 1
Custom WordPress theme • Day 0
Creating 80daystartup.com • Day -1
