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Radoslav Stankov 04/09/2020 Scaling Product Hunt from 1 to million of users
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Radoslav Stankov @rstankov blog.rstankov.com twitter.com/rstankov github.com/rstankov speakerdeck.com/rstankov
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How it all started
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An Idea t !
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Funding t ⛽
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Product Hunt + AngelList t #
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Max number of engineers we ever had was 8
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image credit: remotehub.io
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3 phases of a startup explore expand extract ...
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3 phases of a startup explore expand extract ... I think, we are here %
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Process
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“Process is automatic decisions for trivial questions and framework for making decisions for all other questions.” - Rado What is process?
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Our process had changed and continues to evolve, and the followings are the constants in our process over the years &
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' single player mode ( automation ) code review * constant delivery + maintenance
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Single Player Mode
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Project , - . % Testing 2 weeks fixed sprints t / 0 1 Project Project Project Project Project
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Automation t 2 3 linters - Brakeman, Rubocop, ESLint, Prettier ) unit & e2e tests - Ruby, JavaScript + type safety - TypeScript, GraphQL * deployment - CircleCI 4 infrastructure - Terraform 5 monitor & alert
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Code review t 4
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Code review t 4
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Feature flags t 6
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OFF ON User Check Feature flags t 6
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1st day 4th day 1st week ...
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1st day 4th day 1st week ... developer
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1st day 4th day 1st week ... developer admins
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1st day 4th day 1st week ... developer admins beta
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1st day 4th day 1st week ... developer admins beta everybody
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t 7 Happy Friday 8 fix exceptions 9 database performance : upgrade dependancies ; pay technical depth & code migrations < bug fixes
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We are a startup, we experiment, iterate, and remove what doesn't work. Our code needs to be decoupled, so it is easy to add and remove features.
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= have good defaults > have good code organization ? make common operations easy @ isolate dependencies A extensibility and reusability
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2014 2019 2015 2016 2017 Architecture History t B
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2014 2019 2015 2016 2017 Architecture History t B
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2014 2019 2015 2016 2017 Architecture History t B
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2014 2019 2015 2016 2017 Architecture History t B
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...we plan 6 months ahead, assuming we will double our targets
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The monolith(s) t C
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Recap
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https://speakerdeck.com/rstankov Thanks ,
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