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Community Showcase
Every once in a while we want to spend time highlighting some new communities that are being developed on Assembly. Some of these communities and groups are really new, as in, they have their beginning via our tool while some of these groups have established communities that they are bringing formally into the Assembly family and network.
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Ideas, Tips on How to Get Started
Ideas, Tips on How to Get Started
There’s no two-ways about it – getting started with a new web service, app, and/or tool and technology can be a little tricky and even confounding at times. We have found this especially challenging when you’re building an app mid-flight and sharing the progress in real-time!
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Putting on Makeup in Public
Putting on Makeup in Public
One of the scariest things that we’ve been doing publicly is iterating on our new homepage and every day we’re pushing small changes from text to images to the much larger scripts that run the design and user experience.
To be sure, it’s our most public-facing part of building our new Social Changelog in public.
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Need a Startup? Got a Startup Idea? We've Got You Covered.
Need a Startup? Got a Startup Idea? We’ve Got You Covered.
If there’s one thing true about Assembly is the fact that we are seriously-passionate about startups, new ideas, and the people behind them. Part of why we even started out (and exist) is because of a greater need for people to come together and build great stuff together.
With our recent change and pivot toward a Social Changelog we’re still very much geared towards that philosophy and…
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The Social Changelog
We couldn’t be more excited to “officially” announce something that we’ve been actively (and furiously) building for the past few months: The Social Changelog.
For some of you this may not come as much of a surprise and that’s because we’ve been building this product publicly for the world to see, warts and all. Why? It’s because we’ve been testing ourselves against a question that we’ve been…
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A Tool That Saves Your Most Precious and Most Valuable Resource
A Tool That Saves Your Most Precious and Most Valuable Resource
There’s very little debate: Your most precious and limited resource is time. We all need more of it and we seem to burn through it at record pace.
How many times have you heard or even expressed yourself: “I need more time!” It’s a tension that we all manage daily and there are entire industries (e.g. “GTD” and productivity-hacks) that exist to help assuage or “take back” some of that resource…
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3 Communication Tools Every Startup Needs
3 Communication Tools Every Startup Needs
Communication is the heartbeat of any organization, regardless of size. In fact, much can be said (and has been studied) on the effects, both positive and negative, of an organization and their success as tied to their ability to communicate.
In other words, the more effective an organization communicates the more likely they are to succeed. This is for both internal and external communication…
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Dogfooding a Product Toward Excellence
Dogfooding a Product Toward Excellence
“Dogfooding,” for those that need an introduction or refresher, is most simply an organizational and software strategy where the company and staff uses their own product(s).
In other words, the makers of the software, technology, or product are also users of the software, technology, and/or product.
This speaks volumes to the outside world on the confidencethat the makers have about the very…
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It's a Bit Scary to Be So Open (But Worth It)
It’s a Bit Scary to Be So Open (But Worth It)
When I first encountered open source software development many, many years ago the thought of building a product publicly scared the living daylights out of me. People, complete internet strangers, would be able to see my code plainly and be able to judge the quality of it without hesitation.
Little did I know, though, that the the open source philosophy and mindset would slowly infect more than…
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What is celebrated is repeated! We’re working hard at building something that we think you’ll love!
The New (and Improved!) Blog
The New (and Improved!) Blog // HT to @WPEngine for making our lives a bit easier!
As you may have noticed (or haven’t) we’ve made a big change to our company blog in the past week.
For those technically-inclined we’ve simply moved from GitHub Pages implementation and their support for Jekyll projects to render a static blog to a more dynamic solution using WordPress.
In regards to WordPress we’re using WP Engineand their managed solution which was both a strategic and tactical…
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Bringing Back Tumblr... with Style...?
It’s not that we’ve ever hated you Tumblr... it’s just that we kind of graduated to our own publishing system.
But, we haven’t forgotten about how faithful you’ve been over the years, so, we’ll be reposting and sharing some of the good content that we publish from our other mediums.
So, if you’ve been following this Tumblr, you may start getting some freshness in your feed. Word to your mother.
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Onboarding at a Startup
So you hired a great developer. Now what? Spending time hiring the right person is super important, so integrating them into the team and bringing them up to speed should be important too. Here are 3 things that were important to my first few weeks at Assembly.
Shipping
New employees should deploy to production on their first day; no excuses. Delaying deployments or not giving everyone enough privileges both slows down development and sets the bar for expected friction. You want short, quick development cycles and zero tolerance for unnecessary process, so make sure this happens.
Along with deploying, you should have some tasks, fully explained, with tons of context, ready to go, so newcomers can jump in and produce real work as soon as possible, entirely on their own. This takes extra time to do well, but it's totally worth it. The goal here is to set the expectation for autonomy.
Another big win, is to make sure the codebase can be setup without any ceremony. Bootstrap scripts or Vagrantfiles are great examples. You don't want to waste time remembering how to setup ElasticSearch or asking around about a mysterious exception. Automate it.
Social
Even if you don't normally pair, you should try it out for the first few days. Get to know each other's development styles. Ask questions. Especially if you'll be working remotely, like I am, it's so nice to take the time to do this up-front. Rather than being instructed on "how we do things", discussions about things like development style or the current focus of the business happen much more naturally when working together. And, now that I'm back home in Atlanta, asking for help is super easy, since I have a better idea of who the go-to developer is for specific problems.
Starting a new job is already stressful enough and it's pretty tough to get to know other people when you're not relaxed. Maybe this is obvious, but take them out to lunch, chat in a coffee shop a bit, or go out for dinner and drinks. Or, if you're as rad as @whatupdave, Dance Karaoke with DJ Purple is always a good option.
Learning
Ask for feedback and listen to what they have to say. If something is broken, after their first few weeks they'll probably get used to it. So, this is really your only chance to fix problems before they become a part of your business. Placing value on feedback early on will also make it easier for them to speak up in the future. For example, we have super relaxed retrospectives once every two weeks to review thing things that worked and talk about what to improve.
One last thing. Goals are super important. Not only sharing the more general business goals, but also setting personal goals. Figuring out what new employees want to focus on and figuring a way to help them with it is the best way to keep them happy. Setting these goals up front and scheduling time to discuss progress and concerns is a great way to make sure they actually happen.
How does your company onboard new employees? What are some more onboarding tips that I missed?
Status Messages for Products
We just shipped a feature which allows you to set short status updates for your product. Anyone on the core team can set the status.
Go let the world know where your product is at!
Assembly, now with more apps
We just released the first improvement of many that makes sharing an idea a more open and collaborative process on Assembly. You no longer have to wait for an app to be greenlit. Instead you can now get started on your app idea today and rally the community around building it immediately. Assembly is here to support you and as many products the community has an interest in building.
The next time you share an app idea you'll notice we’ve introduced app goals. They will help guide your product from idea to launch on Assembly. Your product will unlock privileges for every goal it completes. Everyone that contributes on your idea will be helping complete its goals.
We've also introduced a featured apps and promoted tasks section. These are great place to start looking for something to jump in on if you’re new to Assembly. We'll be regularly featuring apps with the most momentum that are on their way to launching. The latest tasks allow an app's team to promote important tasks, that once complete, would really help the app. Tasks can include design work related to logos and wireframes, coding new features and fixing bugs, or any other way to grow the app. Promoted tasks always receive twice the bounty of points when completed so its a great way to quickly make a real impact.
I wanted to thank you again for your continued support of Assembly. We’re excited about the other great stuff we have in the pipeline and look forward to sharing it soon. In the meantime, please feel free to contact me or email me if you have any questions or feedback.
Matt & the team at Assembly
It has been less than a week since the our inaugural post and first view of Assembly. We’ve been floored by your response: thank you!
Our original plan was to wait 30 days to see what app idea the community wanted to build first. However, with so much excitement behind all the ideas, especially Support Foo, we couldn’t make the community wait another 3 weeks to get started.
Green-lighting Support Foo
Support Foo is off the leaderboard and the Assembly team is committed to helping everyone build Support Foo into a very successful product. 116 people have already joined the Support Foo team and ready to start building it. Thats 2x the size of the entire engineering department of Support Foo’s biggest competitor!
There are already in-depth discussion WIPs about potential features and a clear MVP from Kevin Hale that we think will make Support Foo really special product. Plus there are already almost 200 early customers in line for Support Foo’s launch.
How to get started making Support Foo
As of today, you can get started and join in building Support Foo. Each contribution you make that to a WIP that is accepted will earn you the points others have assigned to that WIP. When Support Foo ships and starts earning revenue, you’ll get your share of the proceeds based on your stake. You can dig in and read more about how contributions earn you stake if you like or send us any questions.
There are 3 easy ways to get involved and to start contributing to Support Foo:
1. Find a WIP that interests you, work on it, and earn the bounty. Wips range from features that need to be programmed, concepts that need a mockup, design work, or other tasks that help the product improve. You can work on any WIP not tagged with discussion. When you have finished the work, add a comment to the WIP linking to what you created. You’ll earn all the WIP’s points when the core team accepts the contribution.
2. Vote up WIPs you think are important. Voting on WIPs is one way to influence the direction of Support Foo. Wip points prioritize and value the work that is needed to complete the WIP. The more points on a WIP, the more more stake the contributor earns when they complete it. Seeing high bounties of points on WIPs indicates everyone thinks the work is urgent and impactful, therefore those that want to earn more stake in the product are rewarded by working on WIPs with big bounties.
3. Suggest your own WIPs big or small. If you have an idea for the app create a WIP for it and when others agree, they’ll upvote it. Anyone can do the work of the WIP and earn all the points. Sometimes WIPs may be high level discussions so if you see several smaller tasks, don’t be afraid to break up the work in the big WIP into smaller bite-size WIPs.
Developers & Tech Stack
If you are a developer, you can find the code on GitHub. Referencing a WIP number (e.g. #43) in a pull request adds the its reference to the WIP comments so you can be awarded the WIP by the core team.
Since Support Foo is primarily a web app, we’ve chosen Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework as the initial tech stack. We picked it because Rails conventions make it easy for a developer familiar them to easily jump in, navigate the code base, and contribute. We're experienced Rails devs so we feel most confident offering help to the community if they're using Rails. Future products that get greenlit will go through a polling phase so the early team members can weigh on their preferred tech stack.
What’s next
Support Foo is our first product. We’ll kick off development of an additional winning app idea soon and adding some of new ideas to the leaderboard.
We’re improving the platform every day so please send us your feedback. If you have any questions you can email us at [email protected].