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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower SaaS

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. Drop-off on the first page of an application is bad news. It means wasted advertising spend and lost goodwill. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Rapid response: How we fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout

Intercom, Inc.

Back in the early days of Intercom, our CTO Ciaran was the entirety of the on call team, both in and out of the office. Soon after, new teams started building a lot of new features and services, and they assumed full on call responsibilities. The history of on call at Intercom. There were too many people on call at any moment.

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4 Lessons For SaaS Startups From Optimizely's Early Days

Tom Tunguz

Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted Optimizely co-founder and CTO Pete Koomen. Famously, they tested the idea by calling two advertising agencies and asking them to pay $1000 a month for early access to a product that didn’t yet exist (but soon would). Now 400 people strong, Optimizely is the leader in A/B Testing.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

They had occasional advertising here and there. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful.

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Top 22 Full Stack Developers to Follow in 2022

Frontegg

In his personal blog Overreacted, he shares his experience, new trends and features, and explains complicated programming tasks. A co-founder of Mozilla and Firefox, in 2015, Brendan Eich built his own company Brave Software, a blockchain-based digital advertising platform. #7 ReactJS frontend developer at Facebook 311.9K

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How SMB Digital Brands Can Win the Best Talent

FastSpring

If you have the CEO, CTO, some executive chat through, here’s the big picture of the company. Why are you looking for a new job? Let’s find a new shirt. Yeah, I think especially now with AI, there so many garbage messages and people are so tired of being solicited to and sold to and advertised to all the time.

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I Grew From Zero to $1,000 MRR in 94 Days: Here’s How I Did It

Baremetrics

This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. How I made it to $1,000 MRR Here are the tactics I used to grow Friendly from a brand new startup to a company that makes over $1,000 in MRR. So at age 38 I finally started my own start-up—in the midst of the Corona crisis.

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