April 10, 2020
Essays
It’s perhaps the most difficult time to run a small business or startup in years, decades even. Even if your family and team aren’t directly affected by COVID-19, there’s a high chance your sales and cash reserves are down and your team members need more time off work to care for family. Fundraising…
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.
For those who have worked remotely for years—decades, even—it often started as a gradual process. We worked freelance first and figured out collaboration remotely on individual projects. That’s easy enough: One task, one set of deliverables, a deadline and a…
9 years ago, a new startup in Germany proved to-do lists didn’t have to be boring and sterile. Wunderlist was the perfect to-do list for 2011, when the iPhone still had bubbly buttons and the popular new apps looked more like real-world items than software. And here came Wunderlist with its…
It wasn’t the next big thing we were expecting when Slack came into the world in late 2013. Team chat was already everywhere if you wanted it. HipChat had built a growing business around team chat, as had the Basecamp team’s Campfire. There were chat apps galore on mobile, thanks to Apple’s…
It took little under a decade for the headline feature developer Jon Skinner added to Sublime Text’s second version to become one of the defining features of this decade’s software.
“Goto Anything” is how it started, a search pane to jump to other files. Open a folder, press CMD/Ctrl+P, start…
~ William Gibson
It’s hard enough to convince people to pay for software, much less unfinished software quits working merely 9 months after purchase. Not Apple. When the first beta of Mac OS X came out in 2000, fans paid $29.95 for the…
You found new software, it’s free to try for a couple weeks, and it turns out to be perfect. All you need to do is to close the deal and pay.
Here there be dragons. You're signing up for a subscription, something you'll pay for over time. It's something you want to get right. Yet every part of the…
Education is expensive. If there’s one tiny bright side to the costs of tuition and textbooks, though, it’s that tech is far cheaper as a student.
It’s not only the regular back-to-school discounts on laptops or Apple Music and Spotify’s half priced student plans that help. You can also get much of…
How do you build a company that over a million users trust with their deepest secrets: Website login credentials, financial data, ID, and other secure documents? Then how do you keep those customers happy, while also meeting the needs of more than 50,000 businesses?
In Capiche's community AMA with…