Bose Raychaudhuri

Bose Raychaudhuri

@ibrc.bsky.social

Building the future of books. Ex staff engineer at big tech. #indiedev

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The best thing about being an #indiedev is you can take time to polish something you really care about. Not everything has to be about productivity or maximum profits. Some things make the world worth living in.

I've been using a lot of applications written in Rust and for the first time in my life I've had applications not crash on me. Thank god for #rust. Finally we have stable and blazingly fast software.

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step 3: once you have a steady amount of paying customers, focus on finding who would be extremely sad if your product stopped existing then find more of them in the wild in clusters and repeat from step 1

step 2: split them according to the number of steps you have till payment (or trial or whatever you are trying to convert to) with each group, test one step and iterate till you reach 40% conversions

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clear incentives - profit sharing works wonders. it directly solves the alignment problem. and it also puts pressure on growing the team too fast, which I think is one of the greatest mistakes a tech company can make

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path dependence - early decisions lock you in. the people you hire, the products you launch, the customers you target—it all shapes your future. make those first moves count because they’re hard to undo later

agency problem - when you hire someone to do a job, their goals don’t always line up with what the company needs. this is where values help. they should be a checklist for decision making instead of nonsense like "work hard"