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Damir Bulic

Attracting top talent

Attracting top talent

What can a self-funded company do when competitors are much larger and infinitely better funded?

Should you raise capital?

Should you raise capital?

Many of us are die-hard bootstrappers, proud of shouldering everything themselves. One gets to choose a quality of life, but there is a high probability the price will be paid in tempo and reach.

Introverts vs conferences

Introverts vs conferences

To get the most out of conferences you attend, you will need to step out of your comfort zone. This is good for you in several ways.

Software pricing models

Software pricing models

Choosing a wrong pricing model can rob you of the success needed to bring your product to its full potential.

Which product to make?

Which product to make?

A little bit of due diligence goes a long way. Most startups fail and most failures are due to building the wrong thing.

Should you launch your own product?

Should you launch your own product?

Perhaps you can do better on your own. But, perhaps, it's not a wise choice.

Features are not the answer

Features are not the answer

Success is just one feature away. Or is it?

Hiring in a fully-remote software company

Hiring in a fully-remote software company

While we are a fully remote company since the beginning, forming a well-functioning remote team isn't easy. I made a ton of mistakes.

Bureaucratic API design...

Bureaucratic API design...

Our software is used in 90 countries (last time I looked). Of course, being somewhat overly pedantic and in wish of control, I built our webshop. In Javascript. Then in Elm. Then in Javascript again. Oh, well. Anyway, regarding the VAT. EU, in an effort to get a piece of

Persistent workspace in SQL Studio

Persistent workspace in SQL Studio

When Sublime Text showed up, it was a breath of a fresh air with some unique concepts. Two concepts were game changers for me: * persistent workspaces * instant fuzzy search Persistent workspaces meant that you could have saved the editor without being prompted to save your files. Next time you launched

Security concerns for the cloud infrastructure

Security concerns for the cloud infrastructure

There is an all-around push to the cloud due to massive simplification of resource management. If done well, it leads to massive costs savings as well. There are many concerns of the security and unforeseen weaknesses of the cloud application deployment - not to mention cloud database deployment where data

Autocomplete in SQL Studio

Autocomplete in SQL Studio

I have wished for powerful and instant autocomplete in SQL editors for a long time. It never came - autocomplete in all database managers is pretty basic. Let's see what we have prepared in SQL Studio. We are offering table autocomplete in the FROM clause - standard. However,

State of database management tools

State of database management tools

Database managers seem to be more or less the same for the past 20 years. They differ in functionality and features, but see one and you've seen them all.

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