Marko Anastasov

Chatting with an early-stage founder recently, he posed a question that I’m sure rattles around in the heads of many: “We’re selling our consumer software for $10/month.

Many aspiring founders dive headfirst into product creation, carried away by the fascination of the process.

Hobbyists create what they wish to see in the world.

A recent conversation with an aspiring founder led to an intriguing question: “How did you know that you were ready to start building your products?”

During a recent indie founders’ meet-up, one question sparked a lively discussion: “What are your biggest weaknesses as a founder that are holding you back?”.

You might have heard some of the most effective leaders and innovators proudly declare, “I love being proven wrong!”

Like any executive, a startup founder’s primary task is to concentrate their energy where it will be most impactful.

Have you ever thought of yourself as an executive?

Just a week after my post about the ins and outs of establishing KPIs, I was heading to a company retreat with the teams from Semaphore and Operately.

“Outcome vs. output” is the wrong way to frame business performance.

Have you ever seen Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) get set and then fade away?

Small startups lose their edge over incumbents when they fail to manage projects effectively as they grow.

Here’s the latest idea that’s gone too far on the startup scene: ignore your competition.

Startups are often in search of that perfect pricing model for their products.

It’s a familiar scene: a passionate first-time founder, eyes wide with ambition, lays out an intricate plan to change the world.

Sally is a new manager, overseeing a team that’s brimming with enthusiasm and ideas.

As startups grow, they face an onslaught of information, problems, and uncertainty.

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is about minimizing the feedback loop.

A gift for you: a free, 90-page ebook to learn CI/CD with Docker and Kubernetes.

CI/CD enables the best tech companies to improve their products many times per day.

At Rendered Text and Semaphore, we have a long history with Ruby on Rails.

Risk has a bad reputation.

One of the less obvious things that I enjoy about running a product company are the diverse conversations that I get to have with our customers.

It seems like there is always a shortage of good programmers; that is why programming is one of the highest paid professions today.

Last week I was invited by Vukašin Stojkov to mentor attendees of the Startup Academy in Belgrade.

Steve Klabnik has recently posted an argument that Rails now has de facto two default stacks: the “37signals” stack and “Prime” stack, and that this as a result: puts a pretty heavy burden on a new developer: they have to learn the 37signals Stack and the…

The core points come from the Continuous Delivery book.

Ben Horowitz in A Good Place to Work In good organizations, people can focus on their work and have confidence that if they get their work done, good things will happen for both the company and them personally. […] In a poor organization, on the other han…

Heroku recently tweeted that they’ve had 99.99% uptime during July.

There are moments in work when I’m trying to do something with a mature, well-established tool (eg a framework or library), but it gets very difficult.

My interest in static code analysis has been renewed after I came across John Carmack’s blog post: The most important thing I have done as a programmer in recent years is to aggressively pursue static code analysis.

It happens that people identify themselves with a piece of work that they did.

From Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide: When building a new system, the software developers’ livelihood is based on creating change.

This book could be called Timeless advice for working programmers and it would be appropriate.

A common statement among the people who don’t do TDD or BDD goes something like this: We don’t write tests in this project because we don’t have time, but if we’d start a new project we’d write tests.

Common sense is most objective.

Chris Dixon wrote a nice and concise article on the economics of software platforms, which reflect how seasoned software developers approach them.

This post is for our clients and anyone who needs a high-level overview of HTML5, focusing on use cases and examples.

If you do something, your business will do something.

If you want to use Flickr API with Ruby, there are plenty of options.

Recently we needed to deploy a site made with Textpattern CMS by our friends from Sprawsm, along with a forum app that we built with Rails.

This video shows the new event explore page on Plakatt that we’ve been working on recently.