Secondly, as <> was digging into the current PHP back-end to change the logic of order/create endpoint, he confirmed that the code is completely opaque, repetitive and unmaintainable. I personally feel like the development of PHP and Laravel is 10x slower that it can be for our team given the right stack and code quality. We had a discussion regarding how to rewrite it to speed up the development. Our strategy is as follows:
— We rewrite one endpoint at a time - only those which currently require changes due to a product request.
— We write it in Node.js and deploy it on Firebase. Pros: same coding standards and IDE settings as for React Native front-end, lower barrier for our front-end team, easy start, built-in monitoring and scalability, feeling of a developing industry. Cons: not so mature and structured as Django.
— Firstly we stay on the same MySQL database structure and write back into it, as there’s a lot of source depending on it. Then, as the back-end is rewritten, we may migrate the database by merging tables or transferring some parts to NoSQL Firestore.

Yesterday <> called me and asked how my tasks in Asap are being delegated. She felt like whatever she does in marketing gets a ton of comments, warnings and arguments from <> and <>. She’s mostly fruitful when given KPIs and free choice of methods. Here at Asap she feels like a micromanaged copywriter. Still, she already does a lot of new and fresh stuff in our marketing channels, especially Instagram, that I appreciate a lot.

<> said that he sees no obstacles to set up the bylaws regarding the share distribution. I got a new concern regarding that - subject to googling yet. Suppose he writes it so that we distribute 8’000’000 shares and I get 800’000 - kinda 10% less investors’ shares. Suppose that <> and <> want to dilute my (or <>'s, or <CTO>’s) share five times. Why can’t they emit 40’000’000 more shares and equally redistribute among themselves? As I obviously won’t have any significant voting power at the board, and neither the investor has, I cannot block this move. Maybe the tax consequences are the blocker, as this emission will already be happening with a non-zero FMV - I suspect it will be at least $2M - our May 2017 valuation. So the tax burden for <> and <> will be around $3M.

We’re drinking after work for the second day in a row. On Tuesday we got the next tranche of money - partially in cash rubles, so that we can instantly pay the salaries to our employees. And yesterday <>'s two weeks trip to Moscow came to an end. We were celebrating it at Steak it easy which is launched in a test mode. As I was testing our waiter's app with tables yesterday, it sucked a lot when you type an order for six guys: it took us around 10 minutes to type the entire order on the waiter's side. A lot to be done yet.

Yesterday <A> and I were thinking again what to do with <B>. He has the weakest performance in our team, he requires a lot of micromanagement. Being uncontrolled he avoids solving problems by blaming the infrastructure around, he always doesn’t like the architecture of the solution and spends a lot of effort polishing it without any reasonable progress. The question is, can we as a startup afford having those guys on board? It feels like 3 more months are required to teach him to be productive.

My thoughts were: we can’t fire him right now as it won’t teach us anything. We should try to fix these guys and grow this internal managerial competence. We should learn from this case, or it will repeat in the future. <B> requires a micromanager that will control his technical decisions and how he spends each hour of coding. We decided to give <C> a try on that, and he agreed that he wanted to try.

On Tuesday we told him that we can’t pay ¾ * 70k rubles anymore (30h rate), as we expect a junior to grow past six months. December is gonna be his second test period during which he’ll only have 30k rubles as an Asap balance and no salary. We also accidentally assigned to him a very complex and global task. It requires changing a lot of moving parts, so it’s interesting to see how he’s gonna own it.

привет!

спасибо огромное за фидбек

по сути мои зарплатные запросы сводились к "мне не надо денег, но дайте мне много денег, которые я потрачу на зарплаты разработчикам, которых сейчас найму". тогда сразу управлять командой мне было важнее, чем получать много денег. альтернативу такого вида на рынке я не искал тк на моём CV тогда вообще не было менеджерских позиций, эта была первая, и в этом был смысл

startupneversleeps я тоже исходно задумывал как hiring funnel

есличе, я считаю, что в этом сезоне всё про менеджмент ужасно со всех сторон. в частности, увольнять нужно наоборот: hire slow, fire fast

разработка отстаёт от вижна - это определение понятия "на проекте есть живой продакт-менеджер". другое состояние "разработчики от нечего делать переписывают код" гораздо хуже

в целом там с самого начала была задача "заменить СТО на меня". она мне не нравилась по той причине, что я-то не хотел быть СТО, я хотел быть продакт-менеджером)) это конфликт, который вылезет у меня и в будущем, если я вернусь в айти: мне интересно быть только продактом, но легко наняться я могу только разрабом

конечно, django не должен в современном мире отдавать html сам. надо понимать что этот кусок джанги написан для веба образца 2006 года. django 2022 == ORM + django-rest-framework + django-admin + jupyter models access

подписчики пришли с рекламы в @thingsread. при этом сам сезон никто вообще не читал (там количество репостов на нуле)

по менеджменту я тогда читал интернет, как раз все первые 100 постов в thingsiread это ровно то, что я читал тогда когда писал этот дневничок. также я пытался читать какие-то книги, но мне не запомнилось примерно ничего. были разумные мысли в The Hard Thing About Hard Things

писал на англ тк мы делали US-based стартап и я мечтал что я эмигрирую на нём, построю большую успешную US-историю и потом сделаю блог такой же классный как книги про Basecamp, Zendesk и SalesForce

навигация по каналу

нормальные твиты начинаются с https://news.1rj.ru/str/ursofuckinghot/188

потом нормальные твиты продолжаются с https://news.1rj.ru/str/ursofuckinghot/857

история одного стартапа начинается с https://news.1rj.ru/str/ursofuckinghot/763

война начинается с https://news.1rj.ru/str/ursofuckinghot/890

(сорян, я понимаю что это никто не читает, но мне важно допостить, там немного осталось)

<> called me today and asked when was the right time to ask about the equity given that <> is working with a significant pay cut. I told <> about equity and options, about cliff and vesting, I sent over og-equity-compensation Github. <> didn’t seem to know much about the topic. I also asked <> to set up regular 1:1s with <>.

I keep getting up at 6:30am. I worked on Snakify for the entire Sunday as well (from a rented Airbnb flat), so now I have 40 problems prepared to be sold on a subnoscription model. The source code for conditionally displaying them is nearly ready and I expect to launch it within the next couple mornings. Luckily, <>, who can blame me for not working after 9pm on Asap, is expected to come back only on Dec 7.

Of course, I use no pomodoros - as we sit together as a team of 4-7 guys and constantly ask each other questions. I’m not sure if ruining each other’s context slows us down significantly. At least I personally feel like doing Snakify in a concentrated way with a killed Telegram process positively affects my mental health.

As a side note, I remind myself that my summer depression was partly the result of low Snakify traffic during the holidays. I expect the ad revenues to drop during Christmas break, so I should plan a lot of fun with friends to compensate for that.

I wonder how long this hack with getting up at 6:30am will last. My idea for the weekend switch is to stay late at work on Friday till midnight or more on coffee, then wake up early on Sunday, catch the “strange sleepy state of mind” that I already like and fall asleep early on Sunday night. Luckily, we don’t have 1:1s anymore, so there’s no point at which <> can raise the question about my schedule should he have one. He clearly sees me being awake since 7am because of my first replies on the overnight discussions.

In Spring I purchased a license for Sketch - a declining app for designing websites and mobile apps - as a promise to brush up more design skills this year. I actually didn’t even manage to watch 2 hours of Youtube videos on this topic. Just as with Chinese, I feel like I need to drop this dream and focus on other skills, because one can’t master everything. So on Friday I transfered my license to <>, a designer who once helped us with offline materials and now is going to lead all things design at Asap. Previously <> was on that, but the communication with her was hard (just as with <CTO>).

<> accepted our offer for 20h/week part-time for $900 full-time salary. He only worked 6 tracked hours during the last two weeks of the pilot, but it was an urgent deadline at his main workplace, and we hope it’s not gonna be like that in the future. As <> and I prepared the offer, I tried to set up an hourly rate. However, <> had concerns that an hourly rate yields to a freelance mindset where the guy doesn’t take the responsibility for parts of the product and only works during the logged hours. <> still underlines that an important thing for our employees is an ability to be available throughout the entire week in case of questions or regressions.

Yesterday was our first day in Downtown Los Angeles. We arrived here at night of Jan 12 with the goal to research the current food tech state and find a niche to launch a product. First of all, we visited four cafes (Cognescenti, Loit, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Verve), ordered a coffee and made small talk with the cashier/barista regarding their POS system. Cognescenti appeared to have a Ritual signed them up a week ago - allowing customers to pre-order coffee drinks. Other three cafes and a couple more we’ve seen that day don’t have a preorder app - though Starbucks is famous for having one.

We discovered three food halls where office workers are eating lunches: 505 Flower, FIGat7th and Macy’s. Most of their restaurants have a Ritual app for preorder. A worker at Salata said that they get around 20 lunch orders every weekday - and a separate employee is assembling them all. She also said that orders from Ritual don’t need to be retyped into their POS (which they don’t know the name of).

Yesterday we briefly tried to work in the morning from the Loit cafe - which's gonna be our main base given to good Wi-Fi and power outlets. Then we moved to a second hostel - the cheapest option that <> found on Booking_com. It turned out to be a private house converted into a hostel with bunk beds. Lots of strange scary people - seemingly all unemployed - including one Russian guy called Ivan who told right away that he moved to the US three years ago after Russian police started hunting for him. As we read the reviews, the place started seeming more scary and inconvenient, so by night we decided to move out to another one and try asking for a refund. Instead of $20/guy/night we've paid $27/guy/night, and a level-up included the room keys, 24/7 front desk, lots of bathrooms, free shampoo and a so-so free breakfast with jam and cereals. We're here for two days - we're still seeking the most cost-effective way to live in this city given that we need to sleep well and commute efficiently.

Jan 15-18 - hostel in West Hollywood
Jan 18-26 - hostel in Mid-City

Jan 19: lock picking

Jan 26-30: SF, boostVC, sativa marmalade

Feb 8: Unproductivity, pomodoros, feeling alone

Feb 13 - pool-request for Stripe payment on backend, frontend check for tax/tip, walking every morning, eating in new places, Snakify calls, planning a new trip to SF

Feb 23: burn rate / runway calculated [we have money only till Apr 20]

Feb 25: onsite interview at Asana, offer, offer accepted, filing for H1B

March 1: our illegal hostel shut down

March 2: rain, hot java cafe, hornet YMCA date

March 3: rain, alamitos library, starbucks

March 4: ons with a porn star, meth party at Newport Beach

March 12: Riot Games hack night

March 18: hiking to Point Reyes, tule elks

March 20: chocolate donut, tsukemen, Melrose hostel, seeking for housing, plan for investment

March 22: many hiring calls for Snakify, offers issued and accepted, tasks are planned, dev envs setup

April 5: moving to Mikado micro-apt rental (DTLA), buying nuts, enjoying the roof

April 6: second call w/ <> on layoff

April 7: Java language support on Snakify (PR review), haircut, delivery of hair dryer and bed sheets, 409A discussion

April 13: Grindr fomo x2

April 15: Dudamel, Sugarfish and sake, Barnsdale Art Park, Griffith Park, Standard rooftop

April 16 [Monday]: Telegram is blocked in Russia

April 18: Gonorrhea and Strut, Castro gyros

April 25: moved to Astoria, Flushing, sweetgreen, Joyce Theater, comedy cellar
April 26: Central park, Upper East side, ramen w/ sake, Death of Stalin, party at Columbia dorm

April 30: HIV center, Trapizzino -> Irish pub -> Boiler room -> The Cock

May 5: Snakify team sync, kimbap, rabokki

May 11 [Friday]: square 1 bank corp card first trial [corp card issued by Asap C-Corp to pay trip's expenses], HDE coding challenge

May 14: blockly games (review for Snakify), reimbursement call w/ <>, starting a task on apple pay support

May 25 [Friday]: bought a ticket LAX -> SVO for June 5

Jun 13: interview w/ HDE (Hengge)

Jun 22: Brazil - Costa Rica at Duckit, call on equity, Serbia - Switzerland

Jun 25 [Monday]: started learning Japanese

Jun 28: HDE internship offer accepted

Jul 7: one-year cliff, leave notice, shot of whiskey, taste of freedom

в 2022 году желаю вам сделать хоть что-то из запланированного на 2020-й

почему мы не можем заменить этот спектакль емейлом?

согласие на секс важнее секса