I spent 4+ years building Atlassian apps for clients.
Now we're building our own, and the hardest part isn't the code.
It's deciding what NOT to build 🧵
@Mr_Indie_Hacker Fair point, though an admin installs the app in Confluence anyway.
The bigger question for us is egress: pulling live data from external APIs can cost an app the "Runs on Atlassian" badge.
We think we've found a workaround. Fingers crossed the review agrees 🤞
I spent 4+ years building Atlassian apps for clients.
Now we're building our own, and the hardest part isn't the code.
It's deciding what NOT to build 🧵
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So I'm back on Product Hunt after 2 years with one question:
What do you wish you'd validated before writing the first line of code?
Especially if you've built on someone else's platform: Microsoft, Atlassian, Shopify, Slack, Salesforce, etc.
5/ 💡 Pro Tip
When something "can't be built", don't force the code or kill the idea. Bring both sides into one room and rethink the approach together. The best solutions rarely come from one person pushing harder. They come from collaboration.
#SaaS#Tech#Startups#Services
When your developers say they can't build something, it's easy to assume it's a code problem. Often, it's not. A designer handed me a "simple" feature. At first glance, I thought: easy-peasy. Then I read it more closely and realized that 🧵
4/ A short call later
We had a different toolbar. One change that quietly did three things:
• Gave the user almost the same experience
• Kept our engineering rules intact
• Left a clean example for the next developer to follow
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@dobermanko_ На домашньому починав з Windows XP. Але мав досвід роботи з Windows 95 - не скажу, що найгірший. Найскладніше - це пошук драйверів і всього такого.