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Adopting Basecamps 'Shape-Up' method at Prezly transformed our company. In an introductory video by Ryan Singer (author of the method) he talked about the three main reasons people are interested in the method

What we learned in 3 months of using the Shape-up approach

It's been almost three months since we moved to Spain and I figured it was time for an update as the last one is dated from the beginning of September.

Ninety days in a new country

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The two (web) apps I use the most in my day-to-day Prezly work are Notion and Linear. I do prefer their native (Electron based) apps.

Mac: Opening Notion/Linear links in the right app

Writing and publishing a blog post or press release is at the core of the Prezly product and we want to make it better, faster, more powerful and easier to use.

Building an Editor: Decreasing the time to publish (by 44%)

Back to school

Another 3 weeks passed by in a heartbeat

Took some time to write a quick update. If you haven't read the previous updates yet you can find them linked below:

We've had a free trial form for over a year now and we're constantly fighting people that sign up to abuse our system.

The spammer that was able to send 4 million emails

Last weekend someone was able to sign-up for a Prezly trial and send out over 4 million emails unnoticed. I mean, we did notice it after the weekend but then it was too late.

It's been three weeks since we moved to Spain and here is a quick update on how it's going.

Settling in

This week we welcomed Peter and Ann who were visiting us from the other side of the Pyrenees (Around Toulouse). Although they made a short stop on their way to Tarragona we enjoyed their stay.

Last Thursday the day had come to pack up our stuff and take the 1250km drive to our new home.

First week in Spain

This would be my most accurate one-liner of what it feels like to build a company from a three-person founding team to a few-million revenue/30+ headcount business.

Our road to building better product teams

Upgraded the blog. It's like Bea and Tailwind had a baby

New blog theme

In the previous blogging theme I hacked away in a few evenings I was lacking quite some functionality like search and paging. Also, the theme didn't score great in SEO and accessibility lighthouse audits.

We bought a house in Catalonia and we're moving this summer

Moving to Spain

We've been contemplating a move abroad for a few years now and we finally did it. In August 2022 we'll be moving to the Spanish Pyrenees where we bought a house.

Disclaimer: I am no expert in product analytics and definitely not claiming to be. I did spend the last 5 years playing with a lot of different analytical tools and made a lot of mistakes. With this post I hope other people can avoid some of those.

Hi. I'm Gijs.