I’m always looking for opportunities to not code. On a new project, we’ve been using Zapier to extract data from a source and store it in google sheets. Then we manually categorize the data. One of our challenges on this project is presenting the right amount of actionable data to the customer. After hacking our way […]
Notes from the Edge of Ecosystems
This is where my thoughts live — across time zones, industries, and identities. I’m Hadiyah: builder, investor, nonprofit leader, and global citizen currently living in Denmark with my family. I write about the things I’m learning as I move between the worlds of tech, capital, and community.
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I inherited a rails codebase that was written about 5 years ago. The codebase is a web application for a nonprofit that does leadership training and assessments. Training participants perform a self-assessment and invite peers to evaluate their leadership. Each training participant receives a report that shows their self score in relation to peer scores, […]
I’ve been thinking recently about current onboarding techniques used by Saas products. Many of the products that I sign up for send an automated email after signup. I usually receive one of two types of emails. The first type of email is sent from ‘the company’, with ‘thank you for signing up’ content, and other […]
Last Wednesday, October 8th, I turned 35. On Friday, October 10th, I underwent an egg retrieval process for the purposes of cryopreservation. Even as I write this post, nearly a week later, I still feel the pressure of swollen ovaries, and other annoying side effects from the process. This week, the week after my egg […]
There are about 20 items on my passion project list. Lately, I haven’t had much time for any passion projects. Most of the projects are time intensive, write a book, build silly game app, and so on. However, tonight, in avoidance of doing other work, I turned my attention to making a board game. I […]
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 3:30am My alarms goes off Hurried out of bed. Poked my husband and said, “Let’s go! You don’t want to miss it.” We had discussed the plans for my birthday the night before. I was uber excited about the lunar eclipse, and we spoke in length about the best place to see the […]
for the tl;dr – 1)Create a mailchimp mailing list for those you want to stay in contact. 2)Once a month (or whichever frequency works for you) send an email with a personal touch and ask that people reply with their latest happenings. 3)Create an email address to easily auto-subscribe new contacts to the email list. […]
I’ve had a crush on Meteor for about a year now. And have done a few sample apps. Yesterday, I decided to create a meteor package. One of the cool things about Meteor is its smart packages. The smart packages are similar to other package or libraries in other languages, like Ruby Gems or NPM. […]
Notes from SOMA Tech Panel Meetup, Marketing for Startups, hosted at Tradeshift. 1. Know your audience. It helps to create personas for your customers. ie. Becky, a 35 year old, stay-at-home mother, may be a persona for one of your users. Where does Becky hang out online and offline? What does Becky read? These might […]
I’m pretty ecstatic to announce that I now have an app in the Google Play Store. For all of September, I spent most of my evenings, (along with a cohort of other engineers), learning Android mobile development with CodePath. The coursework was pretty intense, but extremely rewarding. Each week students wrote sample apps, and were […]
Hadiyah Mujhid 