vaclavhodek

Entrepreneur, idea maker, developer, saas & mobile enthusiast. Building developer-friendly localization solution for at https://localazy.com. Follow me on https://twitter.com/vaclavhodek.

Hacking LinkedIn to build database for our salesman

With paid LinkedIn Sales Navigator, it's simple to filter companies based on various criteria, but we need to send filtered companies to our CRM. Writing a small hack to export them outside of LinkedIn :-).

More money from our VC on the way?

Our VC is happy with our progress and would like to speed up the growth by providing us with additional money faster than initially negotiated.

Good sign that we are doing great?

Merge master to our new feature set

Wow, that wasn't easy - master is moving forward fast as we need to be flexible and react to our users' needs. And the new feature set changes a lot of internal things. So there are always a "big" clashes.

Finished a huge DB migration

Sometimes, to introduce new features or fix issues, it's necessary to migrate the current database schema to the new one. I wouldn't say I like it. I'm always scared :-). Of course, there are backups and replicas, but you know... that weird feeling is still here. Do you know it?
Heman

Great work. DB migrations can always be tricky

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30% of tests failed 🤔

I left my computer turned on overnight to let it go through all the test suites. It takes almost an hour to go through all of them.

I went to bed at 3 am, and I wanted to wake up and check those few that failed. Due to changes in some internal mechanisms, I expect a few of them to stop passing.

Well, I made a routine mistake, and 30% of them failed :-). Let's start over!

It's 3am and I finished a solution for edge but annoying issue

Finally!

Finished presentation and documents for investors

Building a product is more fun, but sometimes, you need to invest time in things that can scale the fun! 🔥🚀

$500 received -

Returning users, so it's not accidental payment or a mistake, but nice proof of our Virtual Translator - a human-assisted machine translations.

👀 nice!

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Finished Learning from billion dollar startups by Thomas Oppong

Not as good as I expected. Analysis are not deep enough, practical value is missing. But it's light inspirative reading.

Finished a lot of paperwork and organization today.

I do really hate these first days of every new year.

Marketing/Sales strategy meeting

We are completely remote team but this one is rare in-person one.

Finished improved support for Android, RESX and XLIFF

I slowly become crazy about these formats as they are all built on top of XML and inherit its problems with entities, tags, CDATA section, etc. Nothing like this is necessary with JSON and other formats.

Finished customizable plural types

While it's not recommended, some clients substitute empty check with plural types. We don't want to break their existing workflow, so adding a support for it.

Finished a call with VC fund

We have something hot here (!), so there's a couple of VCs interested but as we are not in hurry and have enough money, it's time to evaluate each offer carefully.

I love this community

Guys, I'm an introvert. I have a problem with sharing anything from my life and mostly the progress of my company. Why? Because it's not yet performing as much as I would like it to. But this community help me. A lot. Thanks!

Get your app translated to Czech -

Hey, the Czech language is used in the Czech Republic... just a small country in Central Europe. Well, it's a small country. Pop = 10 Mio. Not much. But we have everything in our language. Need another 10 Mio users? I will get your app/web translated into the Czech language.

Upload your app to #localazy and I will personally translate it to our language.

Why? One word. Dogfooding....