jpincheira

Good stuff! Thanks for sharing. Out of simply curiosity, did you use a multi-platform SDK for building the apps? Or just native?

From our experience, most customers go for Wyoming LLCs because of the cost-effective option of a $50 Annual filing charge as compared to Delaware which has a $300 Annual franchise tax. The option is totally up to you.

We wrote a guide around how to choose the best state for new LLCs [1]

[1] https://www.startpack.io/best-state-to-form-your-llc-in

It's a state that has services very well streamlined, and it's perfect for C-Corps. For LLCs, probably the best state will be Wyoming.

We recently launched our new company [1] and are deep into helping entrepreneurs getting started mostly in Delaware and Wyoming.

[1] https://startpack.io

Thanks so much man! Greetings back :)

We're different than Atlas and people prefer us over them (and others) because we're much more than just incorporating, and leaving you out there alone navigating all the challenges. We support founders along the way.

Once, one of our customers said "most services out there throw you to the wolves after you paid". You get the point.

congrats on the domain Taylor! Way to go man.

As we've learned from building for remote teams [1], is that it's really about how you set a process for async communication, and not just about the tools. This is why we've been heads down since the outbreak helping work-from-home teams set the right processes of communication using us and other tools.

It's really around building a healthy culture of working from home, and not encouraging multiple disruptions during the day, and actively doing so, thinking that it unites teams. We wrote a basic guideline [2].

[1] https://standups.io

[2] https://standups.io/blog/a-basic-guideline-for-async-communi...

I think that what's key here, especially during the current crisis, is to support businesses as much as we can to switch to WFH in the best possible way, with a simple process, and by helping them to stay engaged, hopefully without the need to make them all jump into real-time video calls many times through the day and lose focus.

At our company [1], we've been receiving an incredible amount of inbound. People really need tools that don't get in the way —we're a video-first async comm platform— and I'm happy our team is being able to help these companies switching to WFH.

The team and I are happy to help anyone with setting a basic process of communication for companies moving to WFH during these weeks. Just write to me at jp@standups.io and we'll be happy to jump in a call and see how we can help.

[1] https://standups.io

Exactly, we say the same thing to people using our product [1]. And the same falls true for team compositions. If you have a 10+ team is already hard to work "as a team" like that. And standup meetings becoming bloated are a strong sign that you need to change and / or split that team and responsibilities.

[1] https://standups.io

Me and my cofounder have only two sync meetings per week. For the rest we dogfood our own async video product [1] as we are 9 hours away in time zones. He’s in SF and I’m in Germany at the moment.

We believe in that most of things can be communicated asynchronously. For those things that strictly need to be address synchronously we keep those too slots in the week.

[1] https://standups.io

Instant but you gotta pay. Also in Canada.

Funny that in countries like Chile transfers are free and instant.

Don’t get me wrong but I know a lot of people that don’t use the right tool for the job. And people here are very biased towards Dart.

I was a software engineer coding objc and swift at a pretty well known publicly traded German company. If it wasn’t because of typescript/js I wouldn’t have been able to build my startup completely on my own supporting backend, web, iOS and Android.

Exactly. Seems here that there’s tons of Dart fanboys in this thread forgetting that most people code to solve a business problem in the most efficient way.

Funny how this got many upvotes and then lots of downvotes through the hours.

I state again here: full stack Flutter is not ready for prime time. It needs more time to mature, and for small product startups I will not recommend it, not even if you’re starting from scratch.

To me "not enough packages" out there means it's an instant competitive disadvantage to do production-ready apps, at least for Web — which at for us at Standups is a critical platform, especially given we're B2B.

Hopefully, it catches up soon though, as I do think Flutter is better than React Native in most fronts.

Sure! Send it over to jp@standups.io :) Cheers!

What are you using for web? We're using react, and are planning to move to react-native-web for better web + mobile code sharing, and for Catalyst for having a native macOS app — not sure also if Flutter will work for that.

But it's key for us, since we started with JS, to stay in JS due to the knowledge out there and within our team — already. It, of course, depends on your team and in your hiring options.

I feel Flutter/Dart is still too immature to be deployed all across the stack. Maybe if you're today starting from scratch it would be doable, like it is for you. Mind sharing your landing page? I'm interested in seeing your product.

If you’re a small startup, just like we are doing at ours [1], you want to share as much code as possible between your web and mobile apps, and also backend, so sadly due to Dart, I don’t see us anywhere in the future using Flutter.

[1] https://standups.io

Wow. Pretty cool. Had no idea about this.

Wow. No tests though — joke. But super impressive. Didn’t know he was a C programmer.

You are already a distributed team. Here I share a few thoughts on why you're already doing work in a distributed style/setup, and discuss a few ways to help you improve the communication in your distributed team.

This is something that I implemented in Swift while working iOS engineer at XING.com 2 years ago, it was really a fun widget to work on, that recognized the link and loaded title/body/descriptions along with their `og:image` for the image preview.

Now in my own product [1] I was a long time without implementing the right tags on my landing / marketing page, and blog posts. I wish I would have done this since I launched, but just started doing this 2 months ago since I switched to Gatsby for our marketing page. They have a very easy to implement SEO component [2], that allows you to focus more on the content than on tweaking the meta tags for social.

[1] https://standups.io

[2] https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/add-seo-component/

Work & mental health are tied together, even more, now with remote work becoming more mainstream.

It is well-known that working from home and being lonely in general can trigger mental health issues.

I wrote these actionable ways to help your remote team to stay mentally healthy while working distributed.

Building a successful remote company is no different than building a successful on-site company.

It's about culture, and about setting the right processes with the right toolset.

Establishing a great communication flow [1] is key for remote companies, and you have to help your teams to:

· Create a community feeling

· Get to see each other face-to-face daily

· Be open about feelings

I recently wrote a few tips on how to set the right environment for remote work [2].

[1] https://standups.io/blog/communicating-better-in-distributed...

[2] https://standups.io/blog/a-productive-environment-for-remote...

Wow what a sick animated page! Amazingly done.

Paul Kalkbrenner is great! I met him in Toronto in a show and shook hands. Super down to earth guy. It's funny that I ended up living in Germany — he's from Berlin :)

Currently listening to this great Piano Chill playlist [1]

https://music.apple.com/de/playlist/piano-chill/pl.cb4d1c09a...

It worked out great, but you have to want to do this. You have to set out time for it. No wonder why people from Lambda School get well-paying jobs: it's because you have to be motivated to reach the goal.

Educational materials/courses are out there, it's all about you, wanting to smash it on the wall and work hard for the goal.

Bad. Went I went from JS front end to iOS, I was put in a learning period on my own + internship in the iOS team and that worked great. It’s how companies like Spotify also did it. They paid companies like the Big Nerd Ranch to travel to Stockholm and give workshops to future iOS devs.

They benefited and I also did, as it helped me evolve into a full-stack (web, mobile & server) developer. This was essential for me to transition into building my own company [1] at a later point, as I could build the product on my own both for web and mobile.

[1] https://standups.io

Totally. And more companies should widen their budget for this. It’s pretty clear that it’s also an investment for employers too.