Waking up one morning about 6 months ago, I just felt like making a 90s version of Wobaka's landing page. This is how it happened. | Continue reading
Sales is by far the most measurable and efficient way to validate a business idea and get your first customers without the need of a large audience. This simple guide to direct sales using email outreach will teach you how. What is direct sales?Instead of complicating things, jus … | Continue reading
Adding a Bcc to an email is a clever approach to sending a hidden copy that will not be visible to any other receipients. It is similar to its friendly cousin cc except no one will know about it. But do you really know exactly what it was created for | Continue reading
I was first introduced to Clojure in grad school where I was taking a course on building large scale software applications. | Continue reading
A good CRM system will let you keep track of all your sales and help you automate some of your processes, without being messy or complicated. Sometimes when you're just starting out, you can get by with building your own CRM without any coding by gluing together popular nocode to … | Continue reading
So, you've got a brand new idea for a startup and are looking to validate it to see if anyone is interested in your new thing? Sounds good! This will let you know how the market responds to it and give you valuable information and fuel to keep going and | Continue reading
At Wobaka we take privacy seriously. We do not track your behavior and use a privacy friendly analytics app¹ that collects minimal data. For some of you this may seem like common sense. However in today's internet, it's becoming increasingly common for services to track you and s … | Continue reading
Starting a newsletter is exciting. I remember my first newsletter about remote work back in 2015. It was so cool having an actual audience of people to write to every week. It was like I had my own TV show or magazine or something. I later on realized that you | Continue reading
As developers and designers we put a lot of effort into making our apps enjoyable but we tend to forget about that when we ship our APIs. Maybe it's time for us to consider that people are actually using our APIs as well? Sure, some of us are lucky enough | Continue reading
We're going in the wrong direction. Big tech companies are growing bigger and bigger and admin processes become harder and harder to manage for small businesses. If we keep this up, everything will soon be owned by a few huge companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon. Wait... Di … | Continue reading
Trying to get your first couple of customers is hard. You need to go out there and manually search for people to reach out to. But finding leads for your business doesn't end in the early stages. In fact, it should never end. Because it's a great skill to master | Continue reading
Finding first customers for a side project can be hard. Really hard. Especially if you're like me. An engineer. For years I neglected sales as something trivial, or even useless. But I have realized now that this has cost me dearly. Because I understood that sometimes, a little s … | Continue reading
A CRM system can be a super helpful tool for most businesses or projects that need to keep track of contacts, conversations and todos. It helps you keep things in order, stay on top of your todo list and avoid missing important follow-ups. This leads to more productive sales and | Continue reading
Things can be simple and things can be complex. However, this is not the same as hard or easy. Because hard things are hard, no matter how you put it. Solving that math problem or figuring out how to get a product to market is hard. And on the other | Continue reading