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Seed Stage Ideals - Organization and Productivity

I have worked in seed stage startups, mid-stage startups, and bootstrapped early stage startups. If I had to pick tools and methods for a new company, here is what I would choose.

Initial Roles

Full stack product engineer - employee

UX/designer - 25% time contractor

Sales - 10% time contractor

Ops engineer - 10% time contractor

HR, Finance - minimal contracting

(burn rate: $0.25M/year)

Development Method

Shape Up with 8 day cycle

Requirements, architecture discussion tools

Notion - intuitive

Discourse - long term discussions

Task Management

Asana - snappy UI, very intuitive to navigate, whole team (not just developers) will use happily

Github discussions - for tracking short term tech debt and having conversations spanning multiple PRs

Chat

No chat system. Use notion, discourse, and asana only.

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