The site is created using Ruby on Rails by a bunch of folks who worked at Amazon.com before. Recently they turned two and got funding from Amazon.com, so looks like they made it. Here are a few things a learnt along the way:
- Bring your own computer.
- Sit around one big table. Make communication easy.
- No discussions over mailing lists.
- Meetings take place at the pub, or as a standing meeting.
- Use paper and notecards instead of documents.
- Share the stereo.
- Walk or bike to work if you can.
- Eat lunch together. Play credit card roulette.
- Make it more fun than useful.
- Embrace constraints.
- Build something you’d use. Use what you build.
- Don’t overmonetize.
- Rely on the software in your head rather than try to replicate culture in features.
- Design as you build. Keep the cost of change low.
- Be in it to win it.
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