OctoTales: Balanced [video]

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41 points·jordanmessina··6 comments

Love it. Balanced utilizing github for public discussions is an absolutely amazing approach to running a company. I have to imagine that validating their features before even building them does wonders for their development schedule.

I work at Balanced.

> I have to imagine that validating their features before even building them does wonders for their development schedule.

More so than I could have imagined.

This is awesome. Over my last two years, I've become a bigger proponent of open sourcing parts of your process that aren't key to your revenue in an effort to help other developers and promote your development efforts. GitHub makes this super easy and the community around GitHub is amazing. I can't wait for Episode 2.

(I work at Balanced)

If you're interested in seeing other great companies use GitHub to "open up" their company, check out Gittip[1]. Balanced's first open interactions were with Gittip founder, Chad Whitacre[2]. He's definitely one of the most forward thinking in this space.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6054867

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whit537

Here's the GitHub issue that made GitHub reach out to Balanced about doing a case study:

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues/29

I'd love to know what type of standing desks they had in the video.

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