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James Broad shared thisFor any companies that need a better understanding of their users needs and translating that into a product that leads to a financial success, get in touch with Alistair. I’ve had the pleasure of working with him for nearly a decade through almost every challenge that could be thrown at us and I’ve only got positive things to say. In wartime Alistair has stormed through barriers and flipped problems into opportunities in the most creative ways. In peacetime he’s been conscientious in leading R&D on new product lines and is the kind of person that’s happy to get on the phone with customers to understand their workflows and extrapolate their pain points. He has a knack of prioritising the most important and impactful issues broken down into the smallest units of work to be delivered in the shortest timeframe. Bonus points that he’s a really nice guy to have around and a great energy for the team.James Broad shared thisHi everyone! I’m looking for a new role and thought I’d ask for help from my network to find opportunities I might otherwise miss on my own. If you’ve ever enjoyed working with me or think I’m any good at what I do, I’d really appreciate if you could re-post this to your own networks. My CV is updated and ready to be shared, but in summary: 🏅 10 years Product Management experience having developed successful digital and physical, B2B and B2C products 📈 6 of those years in the role of CEO at the same time, having taken my own startup OnCare from just a concept, through several investment rounds, and finally to an exit (sale) in early 2023 🌱 My Product roles have been mainly focused on the green-field stage: creating something from nothing/almost nothing - this is where I really shine and get the most satisfaction 👨👩👧👦 I’m equally happy working with print and design products as I am working with marketplaces or software for the care sector - for me it’s all about uncovering and solving real-world human problems regardless of the sector or context 🔎 I’ve also played the role of QA Engineer in many of my Product roles because I naturally enjoy solving puzzles, so I can test from both from a customer and a bug-finding perspective - it’s a 2 for 1 deal! 🙌🏻 I’m really passionate about ‘outcome-driven innovation’ for developing products and services based on real people, their lives, and the actual outcomes they’re trying to achieve 🏃 People have also described me as ‘relentless’ or ‘tenacious’ for the thorough way I interview customers/users or even arrange to shadow them during their day; but as I see it if you can’t fully understand a person and the context in which they’re trying to complete the ‘job’ at hand, you can’t create meaningful solutions for them 🗣️ I’ve also had some really lovely testimonials left on my LinkedIn over the years: - “Ali is an inspiring CEO to work for” - “The best Product person I have ever worked with” - “A true product evangelist and a joy to work with. Personable, passionate and committed to his craft. He's also a great team player and motivator.” This is obviously just a snapshot, but I hope it gives potential employers an insight into my experience and what I’m like to work with. Please do get in touch if you think I might be a good fit for current or upcoming roles and I can send through my CV. Thanks!
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James Broad shared thisOne of the best parts of working in the B2B space is that customers make it blindingly obvious what you need to build. OnCare's just launched our Care Plan & Risk Assessment tools which our customers were thirsty to get their hands on but it's not been a linear process. It's tempting as a techie to overthink features when a simple solution might suffice. This project was a good lesson in going back to basics. We demonstrated to customers super early visions of the project, starting with something infinitely flexible and powerful but quite complex which was met with pleasant but muted reactions. I had lofty expectations of people loving what we'd come up with, but it seemed it was back to the drawing board, simply based on perceived reactions and gut feelings. Our next version of Care Plans was what I'd thought of as possibly being too simple; a highly opinionated series of steps and questions that deferred some of the complexity behind the scenes. This time early feedback was glowing, people wanted to not have to think, to be told what to complete even if it didn't cleanly fit in with their prior ways of working. We knew we were on the home stretch when customers were chasing us, asking for it to be launched ASAP. Here's a tiny glimpse of what we've delivered (care worker app experience): #b2b #productmanagement #saas #caremanagement
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James Broad posted thisI'm on the lookout for a full-time full-stack backend focused engineer for OnCare to help us scale the platform as we're growing. We've got some meaty projects around our proprietary scheduling tool with immutable data structures that would appeal to those that like a challenge. Salary circa £50k. Remote ok. DM me if interested. Not using recruiters or agencies. #hiring #backend #healthtech #fullstack #django
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James Broad shared thisExcited to be working with Mishcon de Reya LLP to help us scale with a trusted law firm behind us.James Broad shared thisCongratulations to the latest cohort of exciting tech start-ups to have joined Mishcon de Reya LLP’s M:Tech programme. Can’t wait to work with OnCare as its M:Tech mentor
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James Broad shared thisDoing what little we can to support those on the front lines supporting those in need of care. #care #covid19James Broad shared thisThe team at OnCare - the care management software startup - have made their tools FREE to any new care agencies to support their teams to work remotely during the #COVID19 crisis. This means that care workers can keep visiting clients without the need for transferring paper notes or doing a handover. Office staff can manage schedules and alerts and family members get updates on their relative's care whilst in quarantine. cc Co-Founder and CEO Alistair Cohen #careworkers #socialcare
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James Broad shared thisOnCare's facing some steady growth that means we need an extra engineer to keep up with the demand from our lovely customers. I'm looking for a senior software engineer who's keen to be part of developing our full SaaS stack (Django, React, React Native). We‘re based literally outside Liverpool Street station, paying market rates, have ample funding and have a pretty good, diverse culture. More details here; https://lnkd.in/gW9d4vh Recruiters – we‘re already good, thanks 😉 #django #saas #react #reactnative #engineer
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James Broad shared thisI've written about some of the techniques we've used at OnCare to create a robust offline-first app https://lnkd.in/etK5UWT
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James Broad posted thisWe're looking for our next full-stack engineer (React & Django) to join our growing company that's looking to solve the elderly care crisis with technology, product focus and great design. If this sounds interesting, let's chat (james@weareoncare.com).
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James Broad posted thisthere's a pretty exciting role going at Founders Factory (backers of OnCare) at the moment; Head of Engineering https://lnkd.in/efbsmxu
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James Broad liked thisJames Broad liked thisI'm in Shenzhen this week and today I visited BYD HQ. Incredible to see the scale they've achieved in a relatively short period of time. Some real innovation and great design too. 🤖⚡🚙
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James Broad liked thisJames Broad liked thisFrom university classmates to best friends and co-founders, Adam H. and I have had an incredible journey together. We first got to know each other during our Engineering Science degree at Oxford University. Because our surnames both started with H-U, we were automatically paired up by the University for tutorials and project work. Our accommodation was also next door to each other. But aside from the University pushing us together, we became inseparable friends and have been so for over 16 years now. Even in those university days, we realised we made a great team with complementary skills. When paired together on projects, we excelled because Adam was super strong on the technical side, solving the hardest problems and building amazing solutions. Meanwhile, I had strengths more aligned with what you'd now consider a product manager's role—understanding problems and coming up with out-of-the-box ideas. We worked well together, building on each other's ideas in a very constructive way. Ultimately, our mutual love for building things is what drew us together. Those university experiences were the starting blocks that led us to found Log my Care together, and we've been working together tirelessly for seven years on this shared vision of building the world's best care management software and positively transforming social care. Having run the company together for so long, we've evolved from being just great friends to leading a fast-growing company of over 40 people. We now have many grown-up responsibilities, but what makes it work is a deep level of trust that is extremely hard to replicate. This trust comes from knowing each other for 16 years. We understand how the other thinks, fully respect each other's strengths, and defer to each other in those areas. We've also supported each other in developing our areas of weakness, providing feedback and encouragement for personal growth. Ps Check out this pic of Adam and I taking a road trip across Europe just after we graduated
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James Broad liked thisJames Broad liked thisReal slick new Vidsy website 🔥 https://www.vidsy.co/ If you're a brand looking to made some really creative video ads; or a content creator looking to make some good money and unleash your creativity, check it out.
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James Broad liked thisJames Broad liked thisIt's particularly exciting for me to announce that I'm joining ZOE on this international women's day. Here's a short video featuring just a few of my new ZOE colleagues in honor of international women's day. I will be focused on growing and building the brand and business in the US market. I've included a link to ZOE and the ZOE podcast in the comments for all my American (and British) friends to explore the ZOEverse. If you have any questions or are interested in trying ZOE, please DM me. One last fun fact, ZOE was founded by Professor Tim Spector and Yahoo! alumni Jonathan Wolf and George Hadjigeorgiou. 🌎 #womenshealth #longevity #healthtech #foodforthought #personalizednutrition
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James Broad liked thisJames Broad liked thisIf you work in social care, you’ll know that service users’ behaviours go up and down all the time. Because of that, documentation is key for care providers. Remember, if it isn’t recorded, it didn’t happen. Consider a scenario where one of your service user's condition has deteriorated. You urgently need more funding and you need rock-solid evidence to make your case in front of the local authority. How do you produce it? By tracking the behavioural decline in your patients through our 'mood recording' feature. Every change in need, every concern raised, every support provided and escalated - it's all right there, recorded. Couple this with data analysis to spot trends e.g increases in risk assessment scores and the volume of interactions recorded and you've got yourself the perfect advocate during discussions for change. Not only do we track declines, but also the rise! These records help you identify patterns, develop effective strategies, and make informed decisions so you can unlock improvements in your service users' lives. For more social care tips in your feed, hit the 🔔 #DocumentationMatters #ServiceUsers #SocialCareSoftware #HealthTech
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James Broad liked thisToday is my last day at Slack. To say this is the end of an era for me is an understatement - working at Slack for the last 6½ years has been *the* highlight of my professional career so far, and it's been a true honor to work on a product that is loved by so many, with such incredibly talented and empathetic colleagues. It's become somewhat of a tradition for leavers to set a "Forever" profile picture on their last day – one that gets to live on within Slack's Slack long after your time there – and I wanted to share mine, as no doubt, these emoji will become my legacy 😂 During 2019, the frontend team took my profile picture and created over 200 varying custom emoji. I've seen these emoji be used all over the company – from CE using them within incidents, to VP announcements, all the way to the Japan team letting their local colleagues know they're going on "vacationuj". This week, Issac Gerges took all of the custom emoji and mosaicked them into my profile picture – a fitting end to this fantastically whimsical company joke. As to how this all happened ... well you'll just have to get a job there and search the log of all communication and knowledge yourself 😉. To any future team members who *do* get to join this incredible company: Congratulations! You belong there, and you've hit the team jackpot; now go make all of our working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive ✌️
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There was a void in the London meetup scene for a good Web Components community so I created one.
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The hope of the group is to create a community of developers that can learn more about the technology, share their experiences and meet like minded people.
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George Bell
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It's that time again! I've got a talk up this year that started out as a discussion in a DigiLocal CIO session about the best ways of talking to young people about testing the code you've written and led to me writing a basic testing framework in Scratch and seeing how feasible TDD was in that environment. The talk is called "Testing from Scratch" and if that sounds in any way interesting I'd really appreciate any votes to get it into the programme, but there are loads of great talks on offer (in particular, I'm curious to see what both Lorraine Pearce and Michael Luke are talking about) so do have a scroll and see all the wonderful things on offer
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Matthew M.
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Really happy to share this piece published on DjuroAI. The core idea: AI is most useful when it lives close to the people and hardware doing the work. Small local models, not massive black boxes that only well-funded companies can access. This is what AI for good looks like. If we want AI to actually help people, whether in renewable energy or anywhere else, it has to be something they can understand, adjust, and run themselves. Not something handed down from the cloud. The article walks through how the Renewable Energy Dashboard works and the thinking behind it. The project started during my time at Erdos Research where Rosie and I collaborated on it. Thanks to Rosie Djurovic and DjuroAI for the opportunity. Link in comments 👇
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Jason Gorman
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All set for this morning's TDD workshop for self-funding learners. Last time I ran weekend workshops was in the early days of Codemanship, and it's proving to be as fun this time around as it was then, even if we can't go to the pub afterwards. People who *want* to be there, and have paid with their own hard-earned money, are a qualitatively different experience for a trainer. I shall reward them by demonstrating in Java, which is the dominant language in today's group. Next month, my plan is to run 2 sessions on Specification By Example (BDD, ATDD etc), which feeds into TDD very nicely. All these Essential Code Craft workshops will dovetail. They're like Pokemon - gotta' collect them all! And that'll be a non-coding workshop, so if you're a tester or a product manager or anyone else who *should* be involved in defining system behaviour, you'll be very welcome. Keep your eyes peeled for registration going live soon.
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Nicky Speakman
Code Galaxy • 10K followers
Validate First. Build Later... Especially with customer facing software. In software development, it’s dangerously easy to spend months (even years), and thousands of pounds building a product no one ends up using. You launch with high hopes. You wait for traction. And then… nothing. Not because the tech was bad, but because the problem wasn’t properly validated, and the solution didn’t land with your target audience. Before building the software: 👉 Validate the customer problem 👉 Test the market demand 👉 Build a lightweight proof of concept or landing page 👉 Get real feedback from real users 👉 Then commit to full development Whether it’s a SaaS platform, booking system, app, marketplace, or customer portal; skipping validation can burn time, budget, and opportunity. ✅ Have you spoken to potential users (not just internally)? ✅ Do they need it, or just say it sounds “nice”? ✅ Would they pay for an early version? ✅ Are you solving a painful problem or offering a “nice-to-have”? Custom software can be incredibly valuable, but only if it solves a real customer problem! #SoftwareDevelopment #BusinessSoftware #StartUp #SaaS #PaaS
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Thierry Mabonga
Azawa (UK) • 55 followers
No wonder creatives have a nightmare filing their tax because there's so much jargon. Filing our income should be super easy. That's why with Making Tax Digital (MTD), my team at Azawa (UK) are building a creator first software. We've built tools that actually complement your gigging lifestyle so that when its time to submit your quarterly MTD or final declaration you can do so with confidence and peace of mind.
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Partho Protim
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Claude is offering a double usage limit until 28th March. applicable for free, Pro, Max subscription. this applies for the less active time. I suddenly noticed I am using Claude a lot but still it's not hitting rate limit. anyway yesterday Claude showed a pop-up, saying the news. if you didn't know this, try it. it has become extremely helpful for people who are opposite in American time zone. because for EST guys this free limit applies at night time. but for us (Asian) it's our day time.
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Ross Dawson
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Been wanting to do some vibe coding? Bolt, one of the top dev tools along with Vercel's v0, Lovable, and Replit Agent, is free for the next 2 days. I've been flat out on other things and haven't been playing with the tools recently so will hop in again myself. A few thoughts if you're just getting going on Bolt. You don't start by typing into the Bolt screen, you should plan first, even if you're just playing. Work out a clear idea of what you want to create, imagine how it will function. Use an LLM to get feedback on the idea, refine your idea so it is clear. Use Claude or o3 with a prompt like this: "I want to build: [IDEA DESCRIPTION] Help me create a complete Bolt-ready brief including: 1. A refined 1-sentence product description optimized for web apps 2. 3-5 core features ranked by importance (focusing on what's possible in a single-page web app) 3. Specific user flow from landing to completion of main task 4. Visual style guide (colors, typography, layout approach) 5. A technical prompt I can paste directly into Bolt Keep everything focused on what Bolt does best - interactive web experiences without complex backends." Read the output. Edit directly or iterate with the LLM, asking for any changes. You're ready. Input this into Bolt. Use 'Enhance prompt' Generate your first version. Try it out. Consider what you want to change. Get functionality right, then work on how it looks. Follow the “one change, one prompt” rule, don't work on more than one thing at a time. Be as specific as possible in any changes requested. If Bolt isn't doing what you want, get help from an LLM, or break your instructions down into smaller steps. Go into preview and test it, make sure it all works as it should, get fixes as needed. Deploy! Any other suggestions for people jumping in to try out Bolt (or similar tools)?
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Anna Appleton-Claydon
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Are you paying for your own plugins? Last week I wrote about the number of plugins we often see on websites we take over. One of the reasons this gets expensive is how plugins are sometimes used by agencies. In some cases, plugins become a revenue stream. An agency might have a multi-site licence for a plugin that costs them, say, £300 per year. That licence could legally cover hundreds of websites. But the client is still charged a full single-site licence fee, often £200-£300 per year. If that plugin is used across 100 or 200 client sites, the maths is obvious. The cost is passed on, and then some. What’s being sold as a necessary expense is actually off-the-shelf code with a markup. The bigger issue is incentives. If an agency profits from a specific plugin, they are less likely to suggest the best option for you. They are more likely to suggest the option that makes them the most money. That’s personal interest over client interest.
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Bradley Hughes
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Vibe coding prompt of the day... try it after your LLM coding agent has just finished a significant coding task... "yes, all that sounds good, but... can you apply best practice software engineering principles for efficient algorithm design to optimise the code you just wrote?" The results may surprise you... Efficiency Improvements 📊 Performance Optimization Results: DB Queries (offers) - Before: ~3,574+ - After: ~4-8 - Improvement: 99.8% reduction DB Queries (listings) - Before: ~5,600+ - After: ~6-10 - Improvement: 99.8% reduction Memory Complexity - Before: O(1) per item - After: O(n) batch - Trade-off: Memory for speed Insert Operations - Before: N individual - After: 4 batch - Improvement: ~500x fewer round trips "Algorithmic Improvements 1. Duplicate checking: O(n) → O(1) per item using HashSet 2. Asset mapping lookups: O(n) → O(1) using HashMap 3. Database round-trips: O(n) → O(1) using createMany with batching 4. Expiration updates: Individual updates → Single bulk updateMany The optimizations follow best practices for batch data processing: minimize database round-trips, use hash-based data structures for lookups, and process data in memory before committing to the database." #VibeCoding #PromptEngineering
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Ben Morton
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If you’re paying a web agency for a retainer, say a few hundred quid a month for development, should they A) wait for you to send stuff over or B) proactively find things on your website to improve Most web agencies choose A. They sit back, invoice you every month and wait for instructions. But here’s the truth. If you have to tell your agency what needs doing, you don’t really have an agency. You have a liability. A good web partner should drive progress. Spot issues before you do. Suggest improvements. Keep your website evolving. That’s the difference between a traditional web agency and a web partner like Wrev®
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Nick Sales
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“Don’t optimise early” is *right* for software But “don’t optimise ever”? Only if you want bigger bills and more expensive power I’m looking at 5 - controversial - ways software engineering could do better this week. Number 1 is “optimisation”. The maxim most people know is “Don’t optimise early!” And that’s right. Otherwise you’ll waste time and money almost all of the time. But “don’t optimise EVER”? A big mistake. These days, many people feel that it’s cheaper, easier, quicker (pick any you want) to just throw more cloud resources at a problem. And some application spaces, like LLM construction. often rely directly on pure brute force. (Honourable mention to all teams developing more cost-conscious approaches though!) Because - and this isn’t just about AI and LLMs - hugely increasing cloud usage and forecast usage is… ⚠️ driving up electricity prices [plus factors too, of course] ⚠️ creating water scarcity ⚠️ costing more money! What’s your take - is optimisation a thing of the past, or should it be growing in importance?
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Fred Cooke
The University of Auckland • 353 followers
A long Long LONG time ago Ross Duncan told me "It's amazing how little code you write when you do TDD" after having had the privilege of working with some famous legend in London. It's my observation today that it's amazing how MUCH code <your LLM of choice> writes if you don't tightly constrain it. Ask for a simple script to do X? Get a tiny masterpiece with correct set options inc pipefail and a sophisticated usage function and who knows what else. Far in excess of what you'd have done yourself and totally overkill for the task at hand. But yet it's MORE effort to get the simple script that you imagined without the bells and whistles because to do so you must write enough to overcome the built in "be very helpful" driving force in every LLM and get it to "be very reasonable" instead - something they're not always good at. Now I'm just wondering does Ross remember that conversation? :-) he probably didn't know he popped into my head periodically over the years with that short punchy line. :-)
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Noah King
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I'm excited to go to the ClawCon Boston event this week. In preparation, here's the setup I've been working on: - Openclaw is running in an isolated docker instance - Installed on a Mac Studio with Gemma 4 31b as the local/free AI inference - Using remote screenshare/tailscale to manage the Mac Studio from my laptop - Using Composer 2/ Cursor to plan and build the skills and settings within OpenClaw Still figuring out what skills and use cases to get this setup running with. Starting small and simple for now to help with some marketing/sales work. Any suggestions?
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Aarish Shah
EmergeOne • 22K followers
Such a blast recording pod with Timothy Armoo yesterday, so many nuggets in this one for folk who are building, considering building or thinking about exits. My favourite? How the best businesses are built around what Timo calls "The Expertise Gap". A simple concept but deeply consequential. Think about the world of software development, for example. Till now you'd have paid a dev agency (or hired a team) to build any kind of software. And they could charge a fair whack for their expertise because you lacked the time, desire or interest (all of which build into expertise) to learn how to do it yourself. That game has shifted. Collapsed even. Because now the only expertise you need is how to describe a problem and the outcome you want and (with a bit of to and fro to figure out the detail) and with the right app and some tokens you've just compressed not only the cost to build, but the time to build too. Watch out for this episode of Nothing Ventured over the coming weeks - it's a gem 🔥
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Moses Nyikwagh
SIRFITECH • 676 followers
Rebuilding a website doesn’t always mean starting from scratch. For https://www.2dotcom.net/, the focus was clarity: who they serve what problem they solve how enquiries happen We re-imagined their online presence, improved user flow, and added chat-based enquiries. The result was over a 15% increase in conversion — without chasing trends. Quiet improvements often deliver the best results.
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Kareem Phillip-Jackson, MBA
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The standard dev shop isn’t appealing anymore. As an agency owner I’ve never been wowed by the idea of just spitting out lines of code for the sake of it, and let’s be honest, neither are clients. No, websites and dev shops aren’t going anywhere just yet. But in the future the focus is going to be more about solving a different array of problems instead of just coding. Code is democratized now so that can’t be the end game as a developer or as an agency (nor should it ever have been). A developer’s job is to solve problems using code, whether that means building a website, a web app, a mobile app or creating something entirely new. So this has got me thinking about the future of dev work, software engineering and agency work. At Ghost Savvy being design-first has always been our launch. But lately we’ve been doubling down on what customers truly need, and that’s a way to solve their problems. That starts by understanding the customer problem first, then building the right solution even if that solution isn’t what they first asked for. If it needs a website we build a website. If it needs an app we build an app. If it needs hardware we do that. Sometimes, we might even tell a client they don’t need a website. Because that website isn’t the end game, the outcome that solves the customer’s problem is. That’s where I see the agency of the future. One focused on innovation and problem solving and that’s what we’re building at Ghost Savvy.
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Matt Hammond
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Having spent quite a bit of time at developer events in the last few weeks I am absolutely amazed that the majority actively engaged in these communities seem to be so sceptical and dismissive of the effect AI is likely to have on the industry. On the the flip side LinkedIn is full of stories from vibe coding founders who built their SaaS product, are AI-hacking their marketing and should be able to exit in a fortnight. The reality is somewhere in-between, is messy and is moving so fast it is hard to keep up. Social networks obviously favour extreme views but the middle ground is where the really interesting stuff is happening and both groups would benefit from listening more closely to the other.
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