New Years Resolution: upleveling my social life and app improvements
Using People Calendar app to do it of course!
Read the post →Software product managers and bass players
I became a PM for the first time a few years ago, and also recently took up some bass guitar again for the first time in about 2 decades.
Read the post →Setting Personal Goals for a Personal Project
What are my personal goals building People Calendar?
Read the post →Product Concepts, Features and Flows
When you think about using an app, you tend to envision things you do, and things happening in response to what you do.
Read the post →Going beyond MVP in 2024
So your startup just launched its MVP. Now what?
Read the post →People Calendar App — our app’s new name!
What used to be called ‘Fun Plans’ is now called People Calendar! A bit of a drier and less playful name for sure, but what it buys is an easier time setting expectations with users.
Read the post →10 Essential Tips for Finding the Perfect Babysitter
When you’re a parent looking to make some well-deserved fun plans away from the kids, finding a trustworthy babysitter is a top priority. Whether it’s for date nights, work commitments, or just some much-needed personal time, knowing…
Read the post →The ‘Your JavaScript code tried to access a module that doesn’t exist’ error, Expo Go, and development builds
If you are developing a React Native app for iOS using Expo with the Expo Go app, and the above error strikes fear and confusion in your heart (like it did with me), keep reading.
Read the post →How Minimal can your MVP be while still being Viable?
It is common startup wisdom that you should always aim to ship fast, gathering user feedback and other good things as soon as you can.
Read the post →The natural calendar resolution for your personal life is weeks and afternoons/evenings
One thing that I dislike about classic calendar apps like Google Calendar is that they typically have a really nice single-day view, and a really nice full-month view, but nothing in between. Or at least nothing really ‘at a glance’ useful.
Read the post →Unigift – slimme cadeaubon oplossingen voor steden, verenigingen en KMO’s
Unigift BVBA is de naam die we kozen voor ons nieuw ‘overkoepelend’ bedrijf om online cadeaubon activiteiten zoals TadaBon, stadsbonnen als Cadeaubon Gent… De Unigift website beva
Read the post →Legco: Juridisch Advies
Voor Juridisch Advies is er nu een nieuwe betrouwbare partij genaamd Legco, te vinden op Legco.be. Cedric Claes staat u bij voor al uw juridische vragen, met expertise in verschillende domeinen. Co
Read the post →Bijles in Kortrijk, Harelbeke en Waregem met Integrip Coaching
Wie nood heeft aan bijles voor wiskunde, fysica of talen kan steeds terecht bij Integrip Coaching, een populair bijleskantoor dat vooral actief is in en rond Kortrijk. Uit persoonlijke ervaring wee...
Read the post →Painless Business Networking Followup
So here’s the thing: I consider myself pretty decent at ‘business networking’. The reasons for that are that I am not too intimidated when striking up a conversation with a total
Read the post →TeamView - organize your company without spreadsheet or emails
TeamView is a new cloud app that aims to be the 'productivity app to end all - well, most - productivity apps'. The idea was born from seeing again and again and again how a company faces the 'ok, ...
Read the post →The FLUID model - what do we choose to work on?
This is just a sketch of a draft of an idea, and it may turn out only to apply to myself, not others or something. Many books have been - and will be - written about productivity, and similarly so ...
Read the post →Growing web startup Tadabon part 2 - building a minimum viable product
Tadabon is a platform that enables small/medium merchants to offer printable gift vouchers online. It's a spare time project intended as a learning experience, and I'm trying to document it as I go...
Read the post →Presentation on A/B testing at Growth Hacking Belgium Meetup in Ghent
I gave a brief presentation at the Growth Hacking Belgium (if you're interested in the whole 'growth hacking' thingie at all, join them!) Meetup in Ghent on the topic of 'A/B testing'. These are th...
Read the post →Growing web startup Tadabon part 1 - Idea and conception
Tadabon is a platform that enables small/medium merchants to offer gift vouchers online. The whole thing, including payments, can be managed online as a shop owner. On the other side, as a shopper,...
Read the post →In A Perfect World, This Is How Web Sites Would Handle Login Forms
Ok, so you own a web site with users. Here's what you typically do with your login form, where you ask e-mail (or perhaps nickname) and password. You do some kind of query in your database if there...
Read the post →Wauter's Age Of Kings handleiding [Dutch, oldie]
[NOTE: saved this one from an old web site because somebody challenged me to play it again, and I thought, what the hell, might as well put it on here for posteriority. It's in Dutch though.] Ziehi...
Read the post →Erasmus for young entrepreneurs: preparation
Here are some of my experiences entering as a participant in the Erasmus For Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) program, from the point of view of 'young entrepreneur'. I'll try to include some - hopefully ...
Read the post →The XKCD NOW world time zone converter
Last week XKCD made another great comic, about his 1335th, simply titled 'NOW'. The comic shows the earth in a peculiar circular projection, where the South Pole is in the middle, and the continent...
Read the post →7 Reasons You Are Never Too Old To Learn To Play Piano
I am 29 as of this writing, and have been taking lessons in piano for almost 2 years now. And, it's been fantastic. It's also been challenging, adds pressure in my life, made me realize limitations...
Read the post →A case for the infinite free trial
This post is about free trials for software, specifically web apps. You know, 'try 14 days for free'. I want to argue that we may want to rethink that model, and more specifically: we may want to ...
Read the post →Learning Italian in Lecce - in bocca al lupo!
... Crepi! So far the only way I have discovered to say 'good luck' in Italian are the preceding 2 Italian phrases, translating roughly to 'in the mouth of the wolf!' to which the reply should be, ...
Read the post →Why the most important part of your app has the messiest code
If you've worked at, or talked to, some developers at various software companies, there is one theme that often returns: developers blush when thinking about the central part of their app code, and...
Read the post →Engagor - growth hacking a B2B app using smart tools and metrics
I gave a short talk at the Growth Hacking Antwerp and Growth Hacking Ghent meetups on January 18th and 24th respectively. This here is the content of that talk in slightly extended form. It's actua...
Read the post →My password strategy
A memorable password algorithm: combine one strong gibberish string with a non-obvious, app-specific transformation instead of reusing the exact same password everywhere.
Read the post →Startup on a shoestring: building a poor man's CRM yourself
One of the questions that web startup founders often face early on when starting a web company without a big - or any - budget is: which tools to build, and which tools to buy? As a developer, in p...
Read the post →My Google Reader replacement: Facebook
I just realized today that I spend less and less time reading the RSS feeds I'm subscribed to (though I started using Feedly right after Google Announced shutting down Reader), but I spend more and...
Read the post →Hello world
I know finally have a 'catch-all' blog for, well, me!
Read the post →The difference between typical Northern and Southern European cities
As you - reading this blog and thus probably knowing me personally - are aware, I have been living in Lecce, South Italy for the past few months. For this post it is also relevant that I have also ...
Read the post →Living in Lecce - random thoughts and tidbits
I'm actually halfway trough writing a rather long and boring article on the Erasmus For Young Entrepreneurs application process, but in the meantime, here are some random thoughts and tidbits. Just...
Read the post →Living in Lecce: my first week
[Note: this blog post is ridiculously long winding and, no doubt, boring, but hey, I jotted this down as notes troughout the week so it'd be a shame to not at least try to put it somewhere here] Mo...
Read the post →When life gives you lemons...
... It's best to take advantage of them, and start your day with a freshly squeezed lemon juice containing plenty of healthy vitamine C! This post is part of the Erasmus In Lecce series about my ex...
Read the post →An everyday day of living in Lecce
Holy pasticciotto, how bella can la vita be? Today has by any standard been my most conventional - even menial - day so far. And yet it feels a lot like the happiest: I'd almost forgotten about the...
Read the post →Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs in Lecce, Italy
Ciao! Starting next week I'll be living in Lecce, Italy for about 5 months, participating in the Erasmus For Young Entrepreneurs program. This is my blog on how it goes. [AUTHOR'S NOTE: Moved this ...
Read the post →The People Calendar series was originally published on Medium.