187: Convincing People Not to Build Software - a podcast by thoughtbot

On this week's episode, Chris is joined by Matt Sumner, development director in our Boston Studio. Chris & Matt start with a quick update on Matt's crypto adventures, and then transition to the core of the conversation as Matt describes the past few weeks of starting a new project and all the decisions that come with that.

The project kicked off with a product design sprint to help determine the initial direction for MVP. From there, Matt describes some of the thinking that went into the technology choices for the app, as well as describing his experience thus far working in a novel ecosystem for him with Scala & GraphQL.

• Product Design Sprint


• Design Sprint - 5 Phase Breakdown


• Swift


• GraphQL


• GraphQL Ruby Pro


• Pundit


• CanCanCan


• Scala


• Eslint


• Typescript


• Sangria GraphQL


• Play Web Framework


• Http4s


• Doobie


• Postgres enums


• Administrate


• All the Little Things by Sandi Metz "Squint Test"

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