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Good point. I realized that too late xd I already had the retros app public when I saw that mistake

Show HN: Retrospective Online – Sprint Retros for dev teams

https://retrospectiveonline.com/

Some time ago I shared my Planning Poker app in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23219444 . It has been a huge success, thanks to all the community for that.Today I am sharing Retrospective Online, an app for running sprint retrospectives for remote/hybrid dev teams.It follows the same principles as Planning Poker Online, a super simple flow with fun elements (like throwing...

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and Cons of Solo vs. Cofounder? on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:30AM (#29340048)
I did cofund some years ago with 3 people and now I go solo at https://planningpokeronline.com/ (a scrum planning poker tool with $10k MRR)

These are the main advantages I found in go going solo (for my specific case):

- Less costs, this is critical at the beggining, paying 4 salaries with the early income is not the same than paying 1.

- Faster developing. If you combine several skills, the discussions are only in your mind (from your CTO mind to your CMO mind, passing throug your CEO mind,etc.) , you don't need to arrange meetings to talk between your different minds.

- More freedom. You can work when you want, and have days off when you want. You don't need to coordinate with anyone. Maybe with your life partner but thats anotther story :)

- You learn even more. IF you cofund you may tend to don't pay attention to the things that don't fall in your domain. When going solo you learn about everything: taxes, invoices, developemnt, design, marketing, etc.

For me the cons of going solo is that you lack expertise in other fields that a cofunder could fill.

My personal suggestion to everyone starting a startup is to identify the main pilars of the business and then find a founder for each pilar.

For example, for an online food store, the pilars would be 2: Digital (marketing and site development) and Food logistics (buy, store and sell food). Then, the founders could be: an expirienced CTO, and an expirienced Chief from food industry.

In my case, the scrum's "Planning Poker Online" app, there is only one pilar: Digital. As the app is a 100% automated SASS and the users are Digital people like me.

I hope this helps someone, :)

it is good, indeed :)
Cool! I am glad you like it!
It is not the first time we get this kind of idea, maybe we will need to explore it a bit more. thanks for the idea
Thank you! Very nice comment, I appreciate it :)
No, only CSS modules (https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules). It is already included as a feature in CRA https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-a-css-modules-style...

I like it because I don't need to worry about naming conflicts so I can speed up development a bit.

We still haven't a good defined limit, but it should be enough for most of the meetings.

Thanks for legal advertisment.

Thank you so much for your feedback, it is well appreciated and we will think about it.

About point 3: yes, game urls are persistent and never expire but only in premium version, for free users games expire after a certain amount of votings. (Only game's creator needs to be premium)

Thanks for your time!

Good point! We are already thinking on adding stories information and the option "import task list" from jira, or similar.
are you using some kind of firewall? Some users are facing problems when using them
yes good point! It is in the domain name so it will be difficult to get rid off it hehe I will think about it though, thanks!
I hope you like it! :)
I am super excited to share with you the project I've been working on since January!

Planning poker, also called Scrum poker, it is a simple cards game where teams can estimate the effort of tasks in software development.

The goal of the app is to allow remote teams to play it in a simple and funny way.

It is used by 1k daily users and we are getting the first premium subscriptions.

We want to keep improving it so any feedback is appreciated.

Tech stack (my favourite as it is super agile): - React (CRA with typescript) - Firebase - Stripe