What are your tips for running a successful remote-based company building something like this?
Doing this also keeps people focused on the task with less procrastination. No commits in 3 days... why? In my experience this is the best way to keep people moving while also increasing visibility into technical code at all stages of the process.
For smaller teams (sub 10 people), I find that having 1 daily informal standup and having the leaders make themselves readily available for answering questions is often sufficient. The key is often for leadership not to block development (so no long review cycles for PRs or long time deciding on details that subordinates need to accomplish their work).