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The Big Man is on Campus to Delight Startup Entrepreneurs
Being a startup entrepreneur is not an easy task, you have to wear many hats at the same time. The boss, the business development executive, the operations guy and the bean counter are rolled into one at Idyllic. This week the bossman Jinesh is donning the role of sales guy on Campus London. For the … Continue reading "The Big Man is on Campus to Delight Startup Entrepreneurs" -
Idyllic Featured as one of the Top Ruby on Rails Developers
Clutch, an independent ratings and reviews firm based in Washington, D.C., has featured Idyllic as a leader in Ruby on Rails web developers, giving Idyllic the #2 rank in Rails technology. Clutch evaluates hundreds of web developers across the globe. Their methodology is based on a number of qualitative and quantitative criteria, including previous work, market … Continue reading "Idyllic Featured as one of the Top Ruby on Rails Developers" -
How Research Killed an Uber Cool Startup Idea Part-2
Research Findings If you’ve made it so far you must be genuinely interested in startup research or if you’ve just landed here, you should read the first part of the blog. Anyways, to pick up from where we left last week, our consumer research threw some interesting facts. While the delivery idea sounded good on … Continue reading "How Research Killed an Uber Cool Startup Idea Part-2" -
How Research Killed an Uber Cool Startup Idea Part-1
The Honest Confession I must confess, it wasn’t the smartest thing to do, when the bossman comes to you flashing a million dollar smile, with what he believed was a million dollar startup idea.Sticking your neck out, putting your job on the line and suggesting we do some user research before we get into execution, much less … Continue reading "How Research Killed an Uber Cool Startup Idea Part-1" -
Rails Girls – Anything They Can Do, We Can Do Better!
The Genesis It all started in November 2010, at Helsinki when Linda Liukas and Karri Saarinen, the founders of Kisko Labs decided to empower women by making technology more accessible. Rails Girls was born as a weekend event to open up technology for women and has since flourished in different cities across the world, breaking … Continue reading "Rails Girls – Anything They Can Do, We Can Do Better!" -
Top 5 UX Predictions for 2017
Predictions for UX design have already started pouring in. From chatbots, artificial intelligence, self-driven cars to virtual reality, 2017 seems to be packed with a lot of challenges and opportunities for designers. All of these predictions sound cool, cutting edge and path breaking. But what if we have to take a step back? Are there any … Continue reading "Top 5 UX Predictions for 2017" -
6 Best Practices for Leading a Development Team
When you are the team lead of a small or a big development team, you have many responsibilities on the project that you don’t as a developer. You become a key player in ensuring successful delivery of the project. Here are 6 things to keep in mind as a lead. Architecture This is one of … Continue reading "6 Best Practices for Leading a Development Team" -
How A Smart Customer Stole Our Business
We had a customer in Canada, let’s call him Smart Alex. They had off-shored their Ruby on Rails Spree development work to us in India. They had a pressing need and we took up the project. We delivered the project on time and the customer was very happy. The testimonial he gave us after the … Continue reading "How A Smart Customer Stole Our Business" -
Startup Conundrum – The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
As a startup founder scouting for new business in software development, I was in Chicago last month. It is very intriguing to find the kind of challenges entrepreneurs have and how they are deadlocked working in their business. Here’s a particularly interesting meeting with a startup founder that I would like to share. A 15-year-old … Continue reading "Startup Conundrum – The Good, Bad, and the Ugly" -
Build your own mini Heroku powered by Docker in 3 simple steps
Heroku, as you are most probably aware of, is a popular PaaS (Platform as a Service) that allows developers to easily deploy their applications developed using different languages or frameworks to the cloud using a simple ‘git push’. This saves you from having to provision a server yourself for deploying your app which involves installing … Continue reading "Build your own mini Heroku powered by Docker in 3 simple steps"
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