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We are primarily communicating via Slack and in-person standup. I want to switch our team to use async written standup notes. However, some team members are non native English speakers so some written comms come across confusing (albeit way better than oral comms). I want to get some tools to help with this. https://hemingwayapp.com/ and https://www.grammarly.com/ came to mind but I feel like they are geared towards long essays instead of concise engineering standup notes.

Please let me know if you have any recommendations here -- preferably anything with Slack bot integration.

My friend and I were talking about if VC funding is a good idea (ie: something like $1M at $8M post).

A $20M exit will be life changing for solo founders. But if you take on VC money, you will get the pressure to go all the way.

I am curious if it's common to see those successful exits with little to zero funding. Any case studies would be appreciated.

I am a CTO of a seed round startup and would love to learn from how fast other startups scale up their engineering teams. I understand there are so many factors at play here (industry, funding size, growth rate), but it would be great to get some frame of reference.

Hi,

I am building a SaaS to help customers sell their products. Our data is stored in PostgresSQL with a pretty typical products/orders tables setup.

I want to build an internal dashboard for us to track GMV and external dashboards for customers to see their sale volumes with different date range and search filtering. All of this would be embedded in our user portal web dashboard built with ReactJS.

I am wondering which tools startups are using these days to help with this data indexing so we don't have to select all from our sql database. I have heard of metadabase.com and cube.dev but curious to see if anyone has any recommendations.

I am building out a vertical marketplace for people to trade merchandises on iOS and web (think Depop but in a different vertical). What are some engineering resources or blogs I should read to pick up best practices? I have many years of experiences building consumer products but this is my first time building e-commerce/marketplace.

Especially I would love to explore topics that I may not know about: when to use headless e-commerce, when to build in house inventory management tracking vs using something off the shelf, how to think about compliance, design database for product variants, cart management, in house fulfillment vs offload