Tales of a web developer

Imagine, you just finished your day job, you arrive at home and you have two hours, just for you.

Your roadmap is a cat-and-mouse game between new ideas/features/bugs that are added to it versus what you and your team can tackle.

Now that Fernand is out, it's time for me to reflect back on how I spent the last few years (yes, years), working on this crazy project.

We've been building products with Antoine for more than 15 years now, and we had our fair share of successes (Voilanorbert, Transferslot, PDFShift, and ImprovMX to name a few).

I often read that ProductHunt is necessary to reach a broader audience, and having your product not reach the top 5 is considered a failure.

There is one service I like to connect to for all my projects, it's Customer.io.

There is a nice thing about having a project in the long run, it's the increasing number of edge cases covered.

I recently finished the fantastic TV series "Halt and catch fire" (highly recommended) and one sequence struck a chord with what we live in nowadays on the www.

It took a while for me to write this post, but I came to a solution a few days after writing my latest post.

While working on ways to implement a faster and efficient data layer for Fernand (see my last post here), I (re)discovered Firebase and their real-time database called Firestore.

(Fernand is the new helpdesk service we are building at the time of the writing.

Helpspace.io is a customer support product that got my attention on ProductHunt for a few reasons: The name is easy to remember The design of the landing page is nice Customer support is a trending market All in all, I think the makers behind Helpspace ha…

Generating a PDF document can be hell.

I always had a passion to work with emails.

We recently switched Transferslot to a new model, one that only accepts profitable projects.

I don’t know about you, but when I’m working on a project, I sometimes have a few moment of excitations thinking about the future, how the project will be, how that specific feature I’m working on will trigger some great feedback when I’ll start to talk a…

Wow, this is a strong title, isn’t it?