Good point. I realized that too late xd I already had the retros app public when I saw that mistake
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These are the main advantages I found in go going solo (for my specific case):
- Less costs, this is critical at the beggining, paying 4 salaries with the early income is not the same than paying 1.
- Faster developing. If you combine several skills, the discussions are only in your mind (from your CTO mind to your CMO mind, passing throug your CEO mind,etc.) , you don't need to arrange meetings to talk between your different minds.
- More freedom. You can work when you want, and have days off when you want. You don't need to coordinate with anyone. Maybe with your life partner but thats anotther story :)
- You learn even more. IF you cofund you may tend to don't pay attention to the things that don't fall in your domain. When going solo you learn about everything: taxes, invoices, developemnt, design, marketing, etc.
For me the cons of going solo is that you lack expertise in other fields that a cofunder could fill.
My personal suggestion to everyone starting a startup is to identify the main pilars of the business and then find a founder for each pilar.
For example, for an online food store, the pilars would be 2: Digital (marketing and site development) and Food logistics (buy, store and sell food). Then, the founders could be: an expirienced CTO, and an expirienced Chief from food industry.
In my case, the scrum's "Planning Poker Online" app, there is only one pilar: Digital. As the app is a 100% automated SASS and the users are Digital people like me.
I hope this helps someone, :)
I like it because I don't need to worry about naming conflicts so I can speed up development a bit.
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About point 3: yes, game urls are persistent and never expire but only in premium version, for free users games expire after a certain amount of votings. (Only game's creator needs to be premium)
Thanks for your time!
Planning poker, also called Scrum poker, it is a simple cards game where teams can estimate the effort of tasks in software development.
The goal of the app is to allow remote teams to play it in a simple and funny way.
It is used by 1k daily users and we are getting the first premium subscriptions.
We want to keep improving it so any feedback is appreciated.
Tech stack (my favourite as it is super agile): - React (CRA with typescript) - Firebase - Stripe