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10 UX Best Practice Patterns

By Anjana Silva August 16, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

UX best practice patterns are proven, reusable solutions to common design problems, from skeleton screens and progressive disclosure to large clickable targets and destructive action warnings. This guide covers ten of the patterns that remove the most friction for the least effort, curated for founders and product teams.

5 App Maintenance Strategies for Non-Technical Founders

By Anjana Silva August 9, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

App maintenance strategies for non-technical founders come down to five decisions: budget for the software tax, set up automated error monitoring, secure a support retainer, audit third-party integrations quarterly, and enforce a code freeze during updates. Fifteen years in software engineering, distilled into what keeps a product alive after launch.

5 Engineer Hiring Strategies for Non-Technical Founders

By Anjana Silva July 26, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

Engineer hiring strategies for non-technical founders come down to five decisions: get a fractional CTO first, hire for communication as much as code, run a paid trial before any offer, never let a candidate define their own role, and document from day one.

5 Database Strategies for Non-Technical Founders

By Anjana Silva June 14, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

Database strategies for non-technical founders are easy to get wrong and expensive to undo. Drawing on 15 years in software engineering, this guide covers the five decisions that matter most, from choosing relational over NoSQL to building for GDPR from day one, before a single table gets created.

Top 10 API Integration Pain Points for Tech Startups

By Anjana Silva November 16, 2025Remote Organisation Challenges, Downloadables

Whether you are building an app from scratch or modifying an app, one thing you cannot ignore is integrating with external (e.g. third-party) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Over the years,…

Top 10 Cloud Infrastructure Pain Points for Remote Tech Startups

By Anjana Silva October 12, 2025Remote Organisation Challenges, Downloadables

While remote tech startups often focus on hiring talent and building products, they frequently overlook the critical foundation that supports everything: their cloud infrastructure. Poor infrastructure decisions made early on…

Top 10 Pain Points for Remote Tech Startups

By Anjana Silva September 28, 2025Remote Organisation Challenges, Downloadables

The challenges facing remote tech startups today are vastly different from those of 10 years ago. Most founders assume the primary obstacles are funding or achieving product-market fit. While these factors do play a role, they're not the main challenges remote startups face.