Every resource founders actually use, in one library.

What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

1. This is a practical, tactics-first piece on the exact problem: keeping a team aligned when working hours barely overlap. It... Arc Article · About a 10 minute read · Starting Up How to Work Across Time Zones as a Remote Team: Best Practices Christine Orchard
2. The single line "working software over comprehensive documentation" is the whole defense against a developer building the wrong... agilemanifesto.org Essay · Starting Up Manifesto for Agile Software Development Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, and 15 co-authors
3. Video · Starting Up The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make Michael Seibel
4. This names the exact risk you are worried about: when one person is the only human who understands your codebase, your bus... Forbes Technology Council Article · About a 6 minute read · Starting Up Survive The Bus Factor: Strategies For Protecting Your Codebase Adam Tornhill
5. Most writing on this topic is either solo developers are heroes or never do it, and this essay refuses both. It walks through... Simple Programmer Essay · About a 7 minute read · Starting Up The Pros and Cons of One-Person Software Development John Sonmez
6. You cannot fully remove the risk of one person holding all the knowledge, but you can hedge it, and the cheapest hedge is... GitHub Tool · One template file plus a short guide · Starting Up readme-best-practices: a starter template for project READMEs jehna
7. The paid trial task is the single most honest way to judge a developer when you cannot read their code yourself, and this piece... Failory Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up Try Before You Hire: The Work Trial Nicolas Cerdeira
8. If you have no warm intros, you need a pond stocked with people who actually want startup work, and Wellfound (formerly... Wellfound Tool · Ongoing platform · Starting Up Hire Startup Talent on Wellfound Wellfound
9. When referrals are not available, you have to manufacture signal yourself, and this is the canonical piece on doing that... Y Combinator Essay · ~15 min read · Starting Up How to Hire Your First Engineer Harj Taggar
10. When you inherit a build from an agency, this walks through exactly what an independent technical review examines: code quality... Codacy Blog Article · About a 12 minute read · Starting Up Technical Due Diligence for Startups: A Complete Guide Codacy
11. This piece is useful because it separates the question of who owns the tech stack from job titles and points it at the real... platvix.com Article · ~10 min read · Starting Up Technical Cofounder vs CTO Hire: What to Do If You Are Non-Technical Platvix
12. Frameworks are useful, but sometimes you just want to hear how real founding teams actually got through a hard disagreement.... Apple Podcasts Podcast · Episodes ~30 to 60 min · Starting Up How I Met My Co-Founder Annie Garofalo
13. Samuel Hulick tears down real onboarding flows slide by slide, and the Slack one shows how a product teaches itself inside the... UserOnboard Essay · 79-slide teardown, ~20 min · Starting Up How Slack Onboards New Users (User Onboarding Teardown) Samuel Hulick
14. Video · about 4 minutes · Starting Up Understanding the Material Design type system Google Design
15. This is the honest counterweight to just copying everything: it lays out exactly when breaking a convention earns its keep and... Laws of UX Article · 8 min read · Starting Up Familiar vs Novel Jon Yablonski
16. Video · ~38 min · Starting Up Designing for the Next Billion Users (Google I/O '17) Astrid Weber and Nithya Sambasivan, Google
17. Use this as the checklist you run before you ship. It walks through 18 specific tells that make an early product feel amateur... mockflow.com Article · Long read, 18 mistakes plus a pre-ship checklist · Starting Up 18 Common UI Design Mistakes and How to Fix Them MockFlow
18. UX Writing Hub is a well known home for this craft, and this guide is a browsable reference of real product screenshots showing... UX Writing Hub Tool · Starting Up Microcopy in a Nutshell: Past, Present and Future Anja Wedberg (UX Writing Hub)
19. This is the practical answer to the scariest part of multilingual design: a button that reads Submit in English can blow out to... Lokalise Tool · Plugin, set up in minutes · Starting Up Lokalise for Figma (localization plugin) Lokalise
20. If Few's book is the deep dive, this is the practical checklist you can act on this afternoon. It walks through visual... UXPin Studio Blog Article · ~15 min read · Starting Up Dashboard Design Principles: The Definitive Guide UXPin
21. Video · ~18 min · Starting Up The beauty of data visualization David McCandless
22. Video · About 40 minutes · Starting Up Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters Adam Tornhill
23. If you cannot yet get your agency or freelancers to ship weekly, the usual reason is the work reaches them half-defined. This... Designli Article · ~12 min read · Starting Up How to Write a Feature Brief: A Guide for Non-Technical SaaS Founders Keith Shields
24. A weekly ship cadence needs a container that resets every week on its own, otherwise the discipline lives in your head and... Linear Tool · Docs page plus free tool · Starting Up Cycles (Linear Docs) Linear

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