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    DEV Community Birmingham, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    I've been a Software Engineer at Nintee for over 3 months now, and in this blog, I share my insights and reflections on this period.

    I hope it helps you decide whether working in a startup is something you'd consider and provides a glimpse into the workings of early-stage startups.

    I worked as a software engineer at Geekyants from Oct 2021. It was where I began my corporate journey, shipping my first line of code.

    Working at GeekyAnts was a fantastic experience with amazing community support, providing opportunities to learn something new almost every single day.

    In the second quarter of 2023, I started feeling the need to shift my focus to building products alongside writing code.

    I believed startups were a great way to learn about this, so I decided to make the switch and join a startup where I could take full responsibility for building something meaningful in a product that adds value to people's lives.

    2023 was a tough time, with news of layoffs circulating online.

    One day, while randomly scrolling through Twitter, I saw a tweet mentioning, "If anyone is hiring for React Native roles, please comment below." I was a little confused in this unpredictable market, wondering if I should even consider working in startups.

    He often shares his wisdom on Twitter, and he has already built a bootstrap company, Wingify .

    If you are joining a startup that does have funding and has at least 1-2 years of runway, then that's a really good place to start working.

    On the other hand, initially, when they don't have funding and whether they want to build a bootstrap startup or are looking for funding, it's important to consider how they are going to survive until they reach the point of a little push up.

    He said we already have an MVP in a Discord server.

    I was like, how is it possible to validate an idea without building a prototype of an app or web app.

    It turned out he did a pretty good job in the Discord server , and people were/still are using the Discord server .

    I got the role of Senior Software Engineer, and my primary goal is to build a mobile application for Nintee .

    One thing I'm excited about working here is that if this works, we can make an impact on a huge number of people out there, helping them live a better life.

    In the engineering department, we have a total of 6 people, including CTO Abhinav Saxena , who is my manager.

    We work remotely, and since the team is small, we work very closely with each other.

    Fortunately, I have a manager who is really talented, and he has amazing work experience like building the messaging app Hike from scratch.

    He keeps sharing his work experience with us, which keeps us inspired to work.
    We are having a good time building an app. As I said earlier, it's been more than 3 months, and our shipping cycle keeps iterating. One thumb rule of a startup is that feedback shapes products. In order to keep iterating on that feedback, we started shipping faster. We aimed to make two production releases every week. We started inviting external users and onboarded them via video call. Their support helps the product a lot to shape the product in the initial stage. Most decisions, whether related to engineering or product, are done very quickly.

    In 3 months, we moved things quickly – introducing a UI library, shipping new features, bug fixing, and inviting external users to use our app.

    Work-life Balance
    As I said earlier, I work remotely.

    This is a myth that startups don't have work-life balance unless you don't know what you are doing in your job.

    This is a thrilling time when most startups are about to ship something exciting they've been working really hard on.

    If you are a really good developer and you know what you are doing, then building features won't take much time.

    It's more about understanding what you are building, finding edge cases.
    On the other hand, I never worked in an office.

    I am not against working in an office, but since I have spent most of my time working remotely, I feel that it's more productive.

    If I did not open Twitter, my life would have been completely different that I can't even imagine.
    Do u guys do any sort of white boarding before working on a feature, since it's remote I'm interested in knowing how that works
    Flexible, automated infrastructure provisioning.
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