Steamclock Software

This episode, Jane App Co-Founder and Co-CEO Trevor Johnston shares about building Jane App from zero to serving >100k clinicians. Topics include the geometric power of referrals, obsessing over churn, transcending a Rails monolith, and finding the fun in 6 hours of Zoom calls. https://lnkd.in/gT822Bar

This It Shipped That Way, Lorilyn McCue, head of AI product at Superhuman, shares about building LLM-powered products. She talks about maintaining attention to detail while rapidly iterating, things that are surprisingly easy (and hard) for LLMs, testing AI-powered features, and ruthlessly prioritizing the user. 🎙️ https://lnkd.in/gwgj5sm4

Can’t afford to buy awesome domain for your startup? Pay some other way! Clever approach from Milun Tesovic for securing a memorable domain without a big cash outlay.

Read our very own Brendan Lensink's account of how Steamclock Software keeps pushing its skills into uncharted territory, and how we navigate the many side quests, hidden terrors, and scoping issues encountered along the way. https://lnkd.in/gt_nvnTc

This ISTW Milun Tesovic – 3x startup founder, now Expa Partner – shares about building the largest lyrics site in the world, solving the right problem, getting acquired 1mo after launch, early hiring, and getting great domains with one weird trick. https://lnkd.in/gD5SFMTi

📣 We're excited to announce that we're looking for a Senior iOS developer! If you love building thoughtful and beautiful apps with Swift, you're based in Canada, and you need to talk to someone about your favourite emoji, let's have a chat!

Building great products requires your team to be energized by what you're doing – even if what you're doing is optimizing app performance. Is that a hiring question, or a leadership one? I appreciated Dolapo Falola's take on this.

The Browser Company’s Dolapo Falola shares lessons from Google, Facebook, and Slack, and how they’ve informed his leadership of the team building Arc. He shares about the rush to launch Stories at Meta, reinventing the browser with Arc, finding work that energizes people vs. finding people energized by the work, “working out loud” for velocity, the challenge of bringing Arc to Windows, rewarding complexity vs. business impact, and playing the long game to hire exceptional talent. https://lnkd.in/gnKrQY8P

This It Shipped, Cate Huston joins to talk about her new book, The Engineering Leader. She shares why she wrote a book, leadership problems endemic to fast-growing organizations, why career growth is more than promotions, coachability, levelling up your hiring pipeline, how hiring “bars” can go wrong, and why energy management matters more than time management. https://lnkd.in/gEw9v6De

I'm looking forward to participating in next week's Agency Leaders Summit alongside leaders from Massivemedia, iamota, Jelly Digital Marketing & PR Agency, TTT Studios, POWER SHIFTER Digital, and Glacier Media Digital. We'll be talking about all things Digital Agency, and it's going to be a great conversation. 🎤 💥 🚀 Come join us on May 28th! https://lnkd.in/gj_4fvYk