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2024

Consumer products have had growth hackers for many years optimizing every part of the onboarding funnel. Dev tools should do the same. Getting started shouldn't be an afterthought after you built the product. Getting started is the product!

And I mean this to the point where I think it's worth restructuring your entire product to enable fast onboarding. Get rid of mandatory config. Make it absurdly easy to set up API tokens. Remove all the friction. Make it possible for users to use your product on their laptop in a couple of minutes, tops.

Erik Bernhardsson

# 27th September 2024, 2:33 pm / developers, usability

2009

Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web. Paul Carvill explains why you under-value your client-side engineers at your peril.

# 24th September 2009, 7:29 pm / clientsideengineering, developers, paul-carvill

2007

Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February.

Steve Jobs

# 17th October 2007, 6:04 pm / apple, developers, iphone, john-gruber, sdk, steve-jobs