Startup Software Development

SaaS Products Leave Small Businesses Behind

The SaaS business model ignores 99% of businesses

Oct 16 • 

Beekey Cheung

September 2025

A Services Firm Makes A Great Startup

I believed the wrong thing for a long time

Sep 24 • 

Beekey Cheung

Can We Make The Software Engineer Hiring Process Better?

Candidates complain about broken interview processes, companies complain about not being able to find talent...

Sep 14 • 

Beekey Cheung

August 2025

The Problem With The Term "10x Developer"

Measuring developer productivity is not universal across all software development

Aug 17 • 

Beekey Cheung

2

July 2025

LLMs and the No-code Trend

We've seen the "anyone can build software now" idea play out before.

Jul 20 • 

Beekey Cheung

1

60 Hour Weeks and Diminishing Returns

There are producitivity gains in rest

Jul 13 • 

Beekey Cheung

1

June 2025

The Broken Mentality Around The Software Development Process

Building software is not like running an assembly line

Jun 18 • 

Beekey Cheung

1

1

A Monolith of Microservices

Microservices were over-hyped years ago, but the design required to make them possible is still useful in a monolith

Jun 5 • 

Beekey Cheung

1

May 2025

The 0.1x Manager

10x engineers won't help if there are multpliers in the other direction

May 28 • 

Beekey Cheung

3

2

What Do LLMs Threaten?

Most human jobs are safe. B2B products/services however...

May 14 • 

Beekey Cheung

1

Thoughts on Vendor Lock-In

What happened with VMWare can happen anywhere to anyone

May 7 • 

Beekey Cheung

1

April 2025

Providing Better Customer Support

It helps to have developers involved

Apr 30 • 

Beekey Cheung

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