Wildbit Blog
wildbit.com · Company blog · on HN since 2007
Wildbit, the bootstrapped company behind Postmark, writes about product decisions, remote work, and running a small software business.
What HN saysHN commenters praise Wildbit as a bootstrapped company that treats employees well, and cite its four-day work week and product shutdown posts.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Homepage3 people · first shared 2014
- 2Ending the open office epidemic2 people · 208 points · first shared 2015 · 144 comments on HN
- 3Wildbit launches dploy.io: Ship code from GitHub, Bitbucket, anywhere2 people · 20 points · first shared 2013 · 6 comments on HN
- 44 day work week update2 people · first shared 2019
- 5Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable1 people · 227 points · first shared 2012 · 77 comments on HN
- 6Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign1 people · 183 points · first shared 2022 · 67 comments on HN
- 7A gentlemen's agreement1 people · 110 points · first shared 2013 · 78 comments on HN
- 8Getting Postmark’s Lighthouse Performance Score to 1001 people · 66 points · first shared 2020 · 37 comments on HN
- 9DeployBot gets $1M investment1 people · 40 points · first shared 2015 · 7 comments on HN
- 10Why we shut down Newsberry Part 2: Why we didn’t sell1 people · 31 points · first shared 2012 · 10 comments on HN
- 11Refactoring 4+ years of CSS development into Sass1 people · 27 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Responsive design for email – the largest mobile audience1 people · 25 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
- 13Good / Bad Product Manager1 people · 22 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
- 14Streamlining our email newsletters with MailMason1 people · 14 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Basecamp as a bug-feature tracking system1 people · 11 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
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z3ugma · 2021-11-13
Postmark, for sure. Run by a small dev shop called Wildbit that is bootstrapped, treats their employees fairly, and grows in small sustainable ways.
https://postmarkapp.com/
https://wildbit.com/
garrettdimon · 2019-01-06
We've been doing 4-day/32-hour weeks at Wildbit for over a year now, and it's been great. We're a remote-first team of just under 30 people spread across quite a few time zones. It's a mental hurdle at first, but the company has continued to grow and be as productive as we were before.
We're all just much more mindful of how we each spend our time these days. We also strive to reduce meetings and lean more on asynchronous communication in order to reduce interrupting each other. That lets everybody focus more and get more high-quality work done in fewer hours.
Our initial write up:
https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/05/31/experimenting-with-a-4-day-work-we…
The follow up with what we learned and what we adjusted:
https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/10/19/4-day-work-week-update
hoodoof · 2016-08-29
Their team photos look so happy that they seem about to explode in a sparkling cloud of rainbows and unicorns.
http://wildbit.com/
temochka · 2014-11-04
It’s Artem from Wildbit (http://wildbit.com). We’ve been using Clojure in production since 2012.
http://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/ — free DMARC weekly digests and API. Clojure back-end + Javascript front-end.
http://dploy.io — a Ruby on Rails app featuring internal Clojure RPC built on top of clj-jgit and subversion-clj libraries (both currently supported by Wildbit).
The usage of Clojure at Beanstalk (http://beanstalkapp.com) has also been growing since the blog post already mentioned in this thread. It now powers our indexing infrastructure, provides internal RPC and runs sophisticated reports in the background.
alexknowshtml · 2012-02-20
Follow up post to questions about shutting down our $75k/year profitable product: http://wildbit.com/blog/2012/01/26/why-we-shut-down-a-product-that-was…
marktani · 2019-05-14
I think it's because 30 supposedly sounds/looks better than 32. 32 is 4x8 after all, so I imagine many "30h jobs" would turn out to be 32h.
Example: https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/10/19/4-day-work-week-update (also found a job offer by this company on the board).
wyclif · 2018-01-05
Because non-technical staff are expected to access, interact, and keep up to date with developer workflow using git now. Seems like abstracting some of the higher-order functionality away while adding project management amenities and making git friendly for those people might be an opportunity.
For instance, I'm thinking of products like Conveyor: https://wildbit.com/blog/2017/02/14/our-next-product-conveyor
cnagele · 2017-01-11
Hey everyone, Chris Nagele here from Wildbit. For some background, I wrote about our reasons for moving to a private office plan. In short, it's more than putting on some headphones.
http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/03/06/wildbit-hq-ending-the-open-office-e…
And a tour of the office itself:
http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/08/05/wildbit-office-tour
bombs · 2009-10-11
I like to keep a list of my accounts on the web and OpenID would automate this task for me, if it weren't for the fact that most websites where I maintain an account do not support OpenID or do not make full use of OpenD (i.e. they link an OpenID URL to a traditional email/username and password based account account).
As most websites that do support it — that I use — require a traditional email/username and password based account and I've yet to encounter a website that required me to have OpenID to make full use of functionality, to me, an OpenID account is the extra account I have to keep track of.
Interestingly, Wildbit removed support for OpenID in Beanstalk earlier this year. (http://wildbit.com/blog/2009/05/26/what-happened-to-openid-support-in-…