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.
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.