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I am a bootstrapped business founder & advocate, ruby on rails developer, husband, father, sometimes basketball coach. I love to build things.
I have worked at startups (we call them small businesses on the east coast) for nearly 20 years. This site is a collection of what I am working on, learning, and find interesting.
I am @scottw on Twitter and can be emailed at hi@scottw.com.
One of the benefits of side projects is giving yourself a chance to see new solutions to problems you have already tackled. For nearly seven years, KickoffLabs has had the option to send weekly or...
Jan 17, 2019KickoffLabs current widget framework was built on CoffeeScript. The entire system is something that started small and then grew over the last seven years. It is managed (I am using this term very loosely) via...
Jan 16, 2019Back in 2014, I wrote a post called 33 Amazing SaaS tools that Power KickoffLabs 1. Since it is not a good idea to litter your company blog with posts about the internals of the...
Jan 15, 2019A couple of weeks ago, I half-jokingly asked on Twitter: Any idea why we grandfather pricing and not grandmother? Are grandmothers more OK with change? Bryan Marble was nice enough to explain: Grandfathering refers to...
Jan 15, 2019I was navigating around Indie Hackers one day, and I came across this post, Indie Hacker Etiquette: No Post Left Behind. But I do feel that this is a powerful enough community and could be...
Jan 14, 2019Time for another round of It’s News To Me. Today is the Netlify edition. I continue to be impressed and amazed with Netlify. It reminds me of when I started to use rails (in 2011)....
Jan 11, 2019