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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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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%)

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.

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

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.

10 tips for better product analytics

The interface in which I am writing this blog post is over 5 years old and has UX issues. A quick write-up of what we're thinking about and what we are struggling with.

Redesigning the writing & publishing experience

This project can be broken up in three different components:

I've been thinking for a while that I needed to document the different ways we use Prezly to run Prezly. Browsing twitter today I saw Peter Suhm started a great trend.

How Prezly Uses Prezly to run Prezly

You know how you have one Netflix account shared within your immediate family, a few colleagues, that couple you met on holiday and your family physician? So, that's called account sharing. We've all done it at one point or another, and by and large, most people see it as a victimless crime since the only ones put out by it are big, faceless corporations who make too much money and probably test their products on puppies or babies or something equally defenseless and small.

Account Sharing and Free Coca-Cola Refills

Inspired by a great post on reddit i took some time to go through the costs of running Prezly. Initially, I figured it would be a great read but at the same time, it's a useful exercise for me to see if there are any services we can get rid of or downgrade.

The cost to run a SaaS (with a few million $ ARR)

I was scoping some changes to the website today and noticed how much better we plan and execute on changes to the website.

The Prezly homepage from 2010 to today

Text editors are central to most online apps. While text editors used to be important for Content Management Systems (CMS), they are now an important part of many more tools such as Project Management Systems and CRM systems. Customers are rightfully more demanding when it comes to how they create content.

Create an editing experience people love

In this article, I am going to break down how this blog works. When I started this project my main requirements were 1) developer experience, 2) performance and 3) simplicity.

Product Management