The 6 categories of remote teams
Teams vary on two key metrics: remoteness and working hour overlap. In this post, I highlight the unique strengths and challenges of each type of remote team and summarize keys for success with each one.…
Building a walkie-talkie for remote work
Pragli's A/V communication is inspired by a walkie-talkie, rather than a phone call. In this article, I'll explain why we chose a walkie-talkie, some hiccups we ran into when implementing a walkie-talkie, and how it ended up looking in Pragli.…
How we hired a part-time QA Tester for $40 / session
It was obvious that we needed to do something. Our users were getting increasingly annoyed at the bugs that were constantly popping up. We were moving fast and shipping a lot of features - but in the process, also breaking things.…
Firebase as a React Hook
In this post, I'll explain how to use and how I implemented useDbDatum / useDbData, two hooks for generically loading data from Firebase RTDB.…
How to authenticate with Google Oauth in Electron
Last month, we started to get concerning bug reports from our users that they couldn’t authenticate with Google directly inside of the Pragli desktop application. Here’s the error message that they were seeing:You are trying to sign in from a browser or app that doesn’t allow…
Best Practices
You signed up for Pragli, followed our getting started guide, and invited your teammates, but now you're wondering - how should I use this thing? This post provides best practices.…
Social Signals #3: Using Google or Outlook Calendar to signal availability
Calendars rule my life. I schedule all my meetings through Google Calendar and make sure that any conversation that I plan to have is captured in an event. It's safe to say that most people these days are pretty similar.But, the second most valuable aspect of my calendar has…
Why I use Calendly to schedule my meetings
Vivek discusses why he's frustrated with the current state of meeting scheduling, and why he uses Calendly to now schedule all of his meetings.…
Social Signals #2: Using Spotify to communicate status in Pragli
We released our Spotify integration a few months ago and have seen high usage from our users. In this post, I’ll discuss how the integration works and evaluate it on the two dimensions that we discussed in our first post: Clarity of Intent (COI) and Invasiveness to Privacy (ITP).…
Social Signals #1: Our framework for adding social signals into Pragli
Social signals are critical for team communication and especially so for remote teams. Learn how we evaluate social signals in this post.…