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How I manage my team at designcode.io while building apps and creating content for my 1M / year startup.

Intro
Self-funded, 6 years, small team of 14
1M / year revenue, growth for 3 years
Product design
Inspirations: Apple for design, Stripe for web, YouTube for content
Design and feedback driven
UX research based on love, usage + analytics, Stack overflow, WWDC + Google for all else
Figma & Notion for collaboration, good understanding of dev and constraints
Twitter, Email and PH for distribution
Hiring
If you hate repetitive tasks (a lot of people say “hire the best”? Not for us)
Family, early skilled and instructors, Montreal-based salary
Can’t compete with cost, help them grow, more skin in the game = longevity + allow for mistakes
Start with support, then to design or code
Single interview, look for attention to detail & growth
Struggle with quality, but make up with speed & harmony
Team management
100% Remote
Monday meeting
Friday presentations for practicing content & feedback
What you’re working on + goals + speed = informed decisions
Good understanding of design + engineering = best estimates
Dev meetings at 11am or 3pm, allow for productivity
Tasks on Notion for project management
Zoom, Discord, Notion, GitHub, VSCode, Xcode
Speed or quality culture, choose your poison
Design and code together
Team travel once a year to Japan
Failures & pivot
Writing to video platform
Book to online education
Sketch to Figma, iOS-only to React + SwiftUI, bc we use them
Chase good products, not money
Always iterate process
Routines and balance
9am to 5pm
8 hours of sleep
Weekend study is a choice
Flexible hours depend on sprints
Passion driven reduces stress
Love for difficult tasks, not for sake of being difficult, but for solving problems
Having kids prepare for difficulties
Want to help, optimistic
Always learning