#45 - David Heinemeier Hansson // Ruby on Rails Creator and CTO at Basecamp and Hey
alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders - Un podcast de Tobias Schlottke - alphalist CTO Podcast
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David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of Basecamp and Hey and creator of Ruby-on-Railsđ blows us away yet again in this thought-provoking podcast about bootstrapping, scaling, remote work, and of course Ruby on Rails. Learn insights into technical leadership from someone who has been leading a remote team since 2004 (hint: You are doing Slack and Zoom wrong), believes in async work, and loves the fact that his company doesnât have an office đą. Plus, after 20 years of creating multi-million dollar SaaS products - he just made his first middle management hire!! đ€Ż Listen to find out: - Product discovery: Why he rather ships a product instead of doing discovery with Figma prototypes. There is no stronger confirmation than a user that pays for your product - Why they capped Basecamps size to 60 for a long time đ§âđŒand discontinued a lot of products to fully focus - How he would bootstrap a startup in 2022 đ (e.g. SaaS, remote, small team, nodecode vs. handcrafted software). - Why he doesnât work on Ruby on Railsđšâđ» full time and why he thinks itâs good for the framework that itâs not commercial at all - How Rails 7 brings back developer productivity + pushes UX to the next level WITHOUT a lot of Javascript (No SPA inside!) with Hotwire + His favorite productivity tip? He cut down Twitter by 97% Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/45-david-heinemeier-hansson-ruby-on-rails-creator-and-cto-at-basecamp-and-hey