I'll offer a different perspective on this: for years we (product/c-suite people) constantly got push back that giving a goal was no longer enough, we had to articulate the path to the goal in excruciating detail.
If I need to think about the solution that hard, I may just as well take it all the way, remove the middleman and get some efficiency back.
There's still a way out of this mess though. All it takes is for folks to take shared ownership for hitting the goal and bring their expertise to the table to help draw the path to the goal.
You’re absolutely right, but just to a point. It should be easy to clearly quantify the desired financial outcome of a sprint, but not of its components. I don’t want to spend a single minute figuring out the financial outcome of a single ticket.
what are the plans to support design systems? no one seems to be able to do this. prototyping doesn't happen in a vacuum, I'll always want to use the design system we spent months building in Figma.
exactly! I do not understand the British obsession for preserving insane amounts of crooked-walled buildings with horrible insulation ratings. zero historical interest, 100% NIMBY-ism. then the general populace mopes about the lack of housing, and dreams 15-minute cities without realising the only way to solve both is tear down what’s taking up space and build tall instead.
Our app helps small accounting firms streamline and automate workflows for thousands of clients in just 2 weeks or less.
We're already supporting ~700 accounting firms worldwide with just a tiny seed round led by A-tier tech VC investors like Seedcamp, MMC Ventures, and TriplePoint. Players in the space have approached us about acquisitions but we want to go all the way.
Our goal is to have 100,000 firms running on Pixie in the next ten years and we're looking for great talent to join our product team in sunny Lisbon:
Our app helps small accounting firms streamline and automate workflows for thousands of clients in just 2 weeks or less.
We're already supporting ~700 accounting firms worldwide with just a tiny seed round led by A-tier tech VC investors like Seedcamp, MMC Ventures, and TriplePoint. Players in the space have approached us about acquisitions but we want to go all the way.
Our goal is to have 100,000 firms running on Pixie in the next ten years and we're looking for great talent to join our product team in sunny Lisbon:
- Senior full-stack/product engineers
- Mid-level product manager
Our stack is based on the latest RoR, VueJS 3, Postgresql, ElasticSearch, Redis, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI.
Email celso [at] usepixie.com if you'd like to have an initial chat about these roles.
I am bootstrapping UsePixie.com, which is a Basecamp for accountants. Just barely launched in fact. Feedback has been really good and a few firms are using it. Tiny team, distributed, but the company’s UK based.
I’m looking for a full stack tech lead to take over from me, but I’d surely prefer a more experienced/senior long term partner/co-founder.
Tech stack is Rails running on AWS, with sprinkles of Vue in a few key parts of the app.
No. Although the email parser as a service idea is nice, it has a couple of major downsides.
For starters, it’s now a GDPR world: I want to avoid the risk of breaches on your side affecting mine. Secondly, today you want to send nice compensation emails, tomorrow (under pressure from your board) you start mining the emails for competitive research and increased monetisation. I wouldn’t want to put the reputation of my service on the line for this.
That's pretty much the idea, with a few extra add-ons like console logs and plugging into existing customer support channels.
I've found this type of feedback tool to be really helpful in reducing the amount of back and forward when handling suggestions or problems in web apps. Hopefully it'll, at the very least, make the "What browser are you using" reply go away.
Employee contracts in Portugal have one of two forms: "fixed term" and "long term". Long term is when there is no deadline for the contract to expire (also, it's the most common type) and it says you're entitled 1mo (perhaps now it's less) of compensation for each year working for the company.
Fixed term, however, has a different set of compensation rules, one of them being that if the employer breaks the contract 1 month into it, the employer still needs to pay for the extra 2 months. This appears to be your case/contract. However, from Vasco's previous comment, it does seem like that has been sorted, so your case does not appear to have grounds I'm afraid.
Personally, I'd recommend moving on, it may be the top thing on your mind right now, but in a year it won't matter one bit.
In Europe taxpayers waste millions with the tax authorities' pre-filled/free filing systems. The major reason for that is that once you have free filing with some data preloaded, human behaviour kicks in and you either spend some time figuring out where to minimize your tax losses (rational economic behaviour) or accept the tax return presented by the tax authorities and go with that even if it means wasting money (irrational behaviour).
To give a sense of how big a problem this is, here in the UK a report came out last year that pointed to £12.6B wasted. In Portugal, waste is around €2B if our math is right.
(Shameless plug): At http://gosimpletax.com we're actually helping taxpayers save as much as possible with as little friction as possible. We're currently operating in the UK & Portugal and would be great to have your feedback if you're in any of these countries.
1) Indeed, price checking is already in place so perhaps in those cases the recommendation system can send data into them?
2) not the target market, not enough data. Remember, a small market that has huge value is still a valuable market worth pursuing.
3) Of course no one browses the stores :-) But when you make a buy there, you're already in a spending mindset so stores can take advantage of that to promote things that may interest you more. With the receipt recommendations, you should be able to track data across shopping sessions. Like a cookie ;-)
5) I don't think any of the possible clients will allow you to store the details elsewhere than at their own DC.