Wildbit, the bootstrapped company behind Postmark, writes about product decisions, remote work, and running a small software business.
HN commenters praise Wildbit as a bootstrapped company that treats employees well, and cite its four-day work week and product shutdown posts.
We've been doing 4-day/32-hour weeks at Wildbit for over a year now, and it's been great. We're a remote-first team of just under 30 people spread across quite a few time zones. It's a mental hurdle at first, but the company has continued to grow and be as productive as we were before.
We're all just much more mindful of how we each spend our time these days. We also strive to reduce meetings and lean more on asynchronous communication in order to reduce interrupting each other. That lets everybody focus more and get more high-quality work done in fewer hours.
Our initial write up:
https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/05/31/experimenting-with-a-4-day-work-week
The follow up with what we learned and what we adjusted:
https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/10/19/4-day-work-week-update
I like to keep a list of my accounts on the web and OpenID would automate this task for me, if it weren't for the fact that most websites where I maintain an account do not support OpenID or do not make full use of OpenD (i.e. they link an OpenID URL to a traditional email/username and password based account account).
As most websites that do support it — that I use — require a traditional email/username and password based account and I've yet to encounter a website that required me to have OpenID to make full use of functionality, to me, an OpenID account is the extra account I have to keep track of.
Interestingly, Wildbit removed support for OpenID in Beanstalk earlier this year. (http://wildbit.com/blog/2009/05/26/what-happened-to-openid-support-in-beanstalk/)
It’s Artem from Wildbit (http://wildbit.com). We’ve been using Clojure in production since 2012.
http://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/ — free DMARC weekly digests and API. Clojure back-end + Javascript front-end.
http://dploy.io — a Ruby on Rails app featuring internal Clojure RPC built on top of clj-jgit and subversion-clj libraries (both currently supported by Wildbit).
The usage of Clojure at Beanstalk (http://beanstalkapp.com) has also been growing since the blog post already mentioned in this thread. It now powers our indexing infrastructure, provides internal RPC and runs sophisticated reports in the background.
Because non-technical staff are expected to access, interact, and keep up to date with developer workflow using git now. Seems like abstracting some of the higher-order functionality away while adding project management amenities and making git friendly for those people might be an opportunity.
For instance, I'm thinking of products like Conveyor: https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/02/14/our-next-product-conveyor
Hey everyone, Chris Nagele here from Wildbit. For some background, I wrote about our reasons for moving to a private office plan. In short, it's more than putting on some headphones.
http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/03/06/wildbit-hq-ending-the-open-office-epidemic
And a tour of the office itself:
http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/08/05/wildbit-office-tour
I think it's because 30 supposedly sounds/looks better than 32. 32 is 4x8 after all, so I imagine many "30h jobs" would turn out to be 32h.
Example: https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/10/19/4-day-work-week-update (also found a job offer by this company on the board).