#45 - David Heinemeier Hansson // Ruby on Rails Creator and CTO at Basecamp and Hey
Feb 17, 2022•2 hr 43 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of Basecamp and Hey and creator of Ruby-on-Rails💎 blows us away yet again in this thought-provoking podcast about bootstrapping, scaling, remote work, and of course Ruby on Rails.
Learn insights into technical leadership from someone who has been leading a remote team since 2004 (hint: You are doing Slack and Zoom wrong), believes in async work, and loves the fact that his company doesn’t have an office 🏢. Plus, after 20 years of creating multi-million dollar SaaS products - he just made his first middle management hire!! 🤯
Listen to find out:
- Product discovery: Why he rather ships a product instead of doing discovery with Figma prototypes. There is no stronger confirmation than a user that pays for your product
- Why they capped Basecamps size to 60 for a long time 🧑💼and discontinued a lot of products to fully focus
- How he would bootstrap a startup in 2022 🚀 (e.g. SaaS, remote, small team, nodecode vs. handcrafted software).
- Why he doesn’t work on Ruby on Rails👨💻 full time and why he thinks it’s good for the framework that it’s not commercial at all
- How Rails 7 brings back developer productivity + pushes UX to the next level WITHOUT a lot of Javascript (No SPA inside!) with Hotwire
+ His favorite productivity tip? He cut down Twitter by 97%
Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/45-david-heinemeier-hansson-ruby-on-rails-creator-and-cto-at-basecamp-and-hey
