How We Stopped Clients Complaining Site is Down Again with AWS Kubernetes and ArgoCD
Tired of clients writing site is down again? We fixed this for SaaS teams with AWS + Kubernetes + ArgoCD → 99.99% uptime and lower costs.
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How Vrinda Normand Scales Her Coaching Business with an AI Copywriting Agent (You Can Too)
Coaches and course creators often dream of scaling their business, helping more people, and finding new clients — without sacrificing their time or energy. But in reality, many are overwhelmed by endless tasks: writing content, responding to students, managing marketing campaigns, and trying to stand out in a crowded online space.
Spectrum UI: The Ultimate React Component Library for Developers and Startups
At Start Matter, we help early-stage startups and SaaS companies build beautiful, scalable web apps. In our work, we’re always exploring tools that speed up development without sacrificing quality. One of the best discoveries we’ve made recently? Spectrum UI – a modern, open-source React component library that makes it
How Start Matter Helped Milana Leshinsky Build Her Dream Product
Milana Leshinsky had a problem. As the creator of Coaching Genie and a business strategist who helps coaches and speakers, she was using too many different tools to work with her clients. "I always had to piecemeal my solution," Milana explains. "I would use Google Docs, WordPress,
From Idea to Both App Stores (and a Powerful API!): Our Full Service for Vesper VIP
At Start Matter, we love taking a promising idea and nurturing it into a thriving digital product. A perfect example of this is our recent collaboration with Vesper VIP. What began as a core concept from the Vesper VIP team blossomed into a complete digital ecosystem, and we were there
Migration from Confluence to Notion
As we all know, our company is looking for new and optimal ways to organize the work process. So now we are moving away from Confluence in favor of Notion. We have been working with Confluence for almost two years and during this time a lot of useful information has
Start Matter Recognized by Clutch as Industry Leader
According to Forbes, maintaining a user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing website or a client-facing web application is critical for business. But, with a sea of software development firms to sort through, choosing the right development company can be intimidating. Well, we hope to make that decision easier for you. At Start Matter,
Start Matter Digest #4
Code caching (also known as bytecode caching) is an important optimization in browsers. It reduces the start-up time of… How to do code caching in Chrome/V8 A group of engineers, designers, and writers began to centralize and standardize components. We named it Slack Kit. Do you want to build
Start Matter Digest #3
Preact X is a huge step forward from Preact 8.x. We've rethought every bit and byte of our code and added a plethora of… Do you wanna try something sweet and new? Preact X is here! The second problem with the approach is that it requires serializing
Emotional Intellect
Do you remember how were IQ tests popular? ? There was an opinion that a high level of intelligence guarantees the success of a person. Now we can see that it was a big mistake. ☹️ Why do people who studied at school well, who have well-developed logic often achieve lower business
Start Matter Digest #2
Bunch articles of how to use Redux Practical Redux Building dark mode on desktop Slack Engineers Videos of javascrtipt patterns Javascript Patterns How to profile React Apps for Performance Profile a React App for Performance How to do semantics the right way Kristofer Selbekk Medium Post
Procrastination or Why do we postpone tasks for later?
?♂️I need to do a work task. ?♂️I also want to go to the gym. ?♂️Instead, I just sit and do nonsense. I know that I spend time and blame myself, but … I continue to sit and watch the next episode of the series, which I do not even like.
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Sociability is a soft skill
☝️The ability to share ideas, to transfer one’s thoughts to another and understand him is an important condition for teamwork. There is a person in any team with whom people cheerfully discuss their affairs during lunch or over a cup of coffee. These people are smiling, sociable and always
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Start Matter Digest #1
Every Friday, we are going to share the links that mostly impressed us this week . How Instagram engineers accelerated their Web Version Making Instagram.com faster: Part 1 & Part 2 If you need a quick start of the application and support for offline mode, you can see how it
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Bench is not the doomsday
At some point, any company faces such a frightening moment (event) as Bench ?♂️ Calm down, everything is ok, it`s quite a normal phenomenon, which indicates only one thing, it’s time to get a move on! You should bring the action skillfully, promptly and with grace. That`s great
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Why do IT specialists need soft skills?
Every french ?? soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack Each of us thought about #career advancement. Our skills are growing and experience is gaining. But one skill to write code or find bugs is clearly not enough. ☝️ It is important not only to be good in the
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Why do you do what you do?
This was a key issue in our conversation today with the team. The guys were smiling. They called the pleasant atmosphere of the office, friendly colleagues, the opportunity to develop and bring benefits, the desire to succeed in their work and the realization of potential. Psychologists distinguish two types of
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Deployment Django+Celery on Heroku using Bitbucket
Introduction In this article we will analyze how to deploy a Django project from Celery to Heroku from Bitbucket. In most cases, such articles on the Internet are already outdated, so now we will go through all the steps and find out how to do it quickly and easily from
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TOP Fast Python Web Frameworks in 2019
In 2018, Python strengthened its popularity among programmers and entered the Top 3 most popular languages on github. More and more people are going to the bright side … that is Python. There is an even greater number of developers who are interested in this language and develop their projects with
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Our company has become a resident of Belarus Hi-Tech Park
They say detectives solve puzzles and search for clues. This is quite similar to what we do in Start Matter, fortunately we’re dealing with software, not crimes. We are glad to open a new chapter of our detective story as a resident of Belarus Hi-Tech Park. After reaching the
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CSS Animals with your own hands
Hi, everybody. I’ve got an idea to give the task to make something amusing as a test task for new employees when hiring. Something that won't take a lot of time and even if the applicant doesn't suit us for any reason he won'
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ClickUp and Kanban
ClickUp is a simple workflow monitoring system. It can be used for any enterprises, firms and companies, but most commonly used in IT- companies. In this article I will try to tell you about the interface, how to work with the system, what the initial structure is and how to
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Start Matter commended by Prestigious Rankings Firm
Why do people love races? Horse races, car chases, marathons, and Michael Phelps all capture our collective imagination. The answer in a word: speed. People intrinsically know that getting there first, moving fast, is a great feat. At Start Matter, we channel everyone’s love of speed into every aspect