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Reason & Hiring
at Draftbit
Peter Piekarczyk
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Peter Piekarczyk
• Polish
• Loves to Cycle
• ReasonML Lover
• Expo / React Native Lover
• Loves Plants (@petersplantss)
• Y Combinator Alumn
• Co-Founder of Draftbit
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Draftbit is a platform to help
you build mobile apps
visually
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1. Scan QR Code
2. Drag Components
3. Export Code
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• React / ReasonML
• Flowtype
• Web Assembly
• Expo
• GraphQL / Apollo
• Postgres
Draftbit Stack
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TypeScript
Reason
Reason + Draftbit
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• reason-react
• reason-graphql
• bs-emotion
• get_in ppx
• gentype
ReasonML Stack
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Greeting.re
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Greeting.gen.js
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Layers (Js)
Frame
(Yoga / Wasm / Reason)
Config
(JS / Reason)
Live Preview / Code Gen
(Reason)
Navigator
(Reason)
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Draftbit v0.0.1
Javascript
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Draftbit v1.542.0
Javascript
Reason
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Draftbit v1.1749.0
Reason
Javascript
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• Turnover
• Low salaries
• Too much work
• Too many opinions
• Not enough people
Early days at a Startup
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“Hey do you want to
come work for me for
1/2 the pay? We only
have 6 months of
runway and no 401k”
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Perry from Shrek
$3.5 million dollar house
TFW 1 Day Sprints
3/4 Are Gone
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Sebastian
Brandon
Angela
Peter
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Draftbit
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What does hiring
look like?
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Pursuit
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• Friends
• Twitter
• Meetups
• LinkedIn
• Recruiters
Finding Engineers
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Meetups
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Interview
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Asking the Right
Questions is Hard
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Looking for Seniors
Looking for Reason
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Onboarding
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We Used to Start
with Javascript
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“Hey Peter…”
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“I think I broke
something…”
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15 minutes & 10
console.log’s later…
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Config.apiUrl
vs.
Config.apiURL
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Prettier? Eslint?
Editor Setup?
VS Code?
Webstorm?
Sublime Text?!?
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It *just works*
with Reason
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Our New First
PR Review?
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Reason Compiler
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Wait, what?
Junior:
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Look at the
Compiler
Peter:
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Guess what?
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1 month in, our juniors are
productive with Reason
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That being said…
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A Compiler Won’t Turn
a Junior into a Senior
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Closing Thoughts
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BAEs
BEST. AUDIENCE. EVER.
draftbit.com/reason
draftbit • peterpme
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