We Built Hybrd as a (Mostly) Non-Technical YC Startup (medium.com) 3 points by byearthithatius 1y ago ↗ HN
[–] byearthithatius 1y ago ↗ Saw this on LinkedIn and curious for HN senior engineers thoughts. From the LinkedIn post:How we got our non-technical founders shipping production code at HYBRD during YC and beyond- Our CTO Matthew Ruiters set us up (iOS simulator, test envs, etc.).- He then gave us a “Git 101” & “Linux 101” to familiarize us with the basics (version control, terminal commands).- He assigned us exclusively frontend tasks at first since there’s a faster feedback loop (you can see the impact of your code).- He broke down tickets into bite-sized steps (“File 1 does X, File 2 does Y...”) so that we knew how to approach tasks.- Every PR goes through his review before merge (Greptile is the first line of defense, but Ruiters puts eyes on everything before merge).- Feedback from Ruiters is simplified & copy-paste ready for the non-devs to drop into AI tools like Cursor.The result of these systems? Our non-devs are now helping to build features our users love.More velocity. More output. More ownership.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 9.3 ms ] threadHow we got our non-technical founders shipping production code at HYBRD during YC and beyond
- Our CTO Matthew Ruiters set us up (iOS simulator, test envs, etc.).
- He then gave us a “Git 101” & “Linux 101” to familiarize us with the basics (version control, terminal commands).
- He assigned us exclusively frontend tasks at first since there’s a faster feedback loop (you can see the impact of your code).
- He broke down tickets into bite-sized steps (“File 1 does X, File 2 does Y...”) so that we knew how to approach tasks.
- Every PR goes through his review before merge (Greptile is the first line of defense, but Ruiters puts eyes on everything before merge).
- Feedback from Ruiters is simplified & copy-paste ready for the non-devs to drop into AI tools like Cursor.
The result of these systems? Our non-devs are now helping to build features our users love.
More velocity. More output. More ownership.