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Pao Ramen
@masylum
🍼 Stay at home dad. 🦄 Former founder and CTO at Factorial. I craft products: ☕️ fika.bar 🎩 handinger.com 🀄️ whatajong.com
Barcelona, Spain
fika.bar/paoramen
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Oct 9, 2021
    Replying to @GergelyOrosz
    I've seen developers that are just extremely good. Fast, with deeper knowledge and pragmatic. No drawbacks. Not sure why they are always mentioned as something evil. In any discipline there is always some people on the p99 skill distribution, and the tail is long.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Oct 28, 2021
    One thing that people are often surprised about Factorial is how lean and boring our infrastructure is. We haven't yet paid a single euro for AWS – still consuming the credits – and incidents are rare. How? The team focuses on customer value instead of engineering vanity.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Jul 17, 2024
    tomorrow I will officially launch the project I've been working on for the last months. You can already try it out at fika.bar. I'm writing a blog post, probably recording a video and will tune the public pages a little bit. Any advice?
    Fika | Publish, Grow, Earn
    From fika.bar
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Jun 27, 2019
    We've spent two hours implementing sorbet.org at factorialhr.com and it already discovering many bugs. Productivity and safety don't have to be a tradeoff. Gradual typing allows you to prototype fast and cover with types when you want to ensure contracts.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Dec 2, 2021
    Recruiting imposters syndrome: Each time I contact an engineer I feel like I'm trying to convince Warren Buffet to work as a waiter for my little coffee shop.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Aug 16, 2021
    2021 Prediction: Ibai Llanos buys $PSG tokens and starts pumping it on twitch. He becomes the third richest person in the world and goes into a rocket for an epic New Year's Eve stream and never makes it back. Covid runs out of letters and we start using emojis. Permafrost melts.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Jan 30, 2022
    One of the things that I find boring when talking to other people in tech is that knowledge is overrated. Everybody reads the same books, articles and tweets. Information is a commodity. We only differentiate on how we execute, which is hard to explain and rarely asked.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Sep 22, 2023
    One of the challenges of entrepreneurship in Spain is the schadenfreude attitude towards it. It's exactly the opposite in the US, go figure!
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Jul 26, 2024
    Most developers have stoped doing basic engineering. Agile, fear of overengineering, and "the root of all evil" have killed it. I've written about it, exploring Fermi problems, napkin math and sharing the calculations for building fika: fika.bar/blogs/paoramen… Enjoy! ❤️
    paoramen.fika.bar
    Fear of over-engineering has killed engineering altogether
    Second article about building fika. In this one, I'm going to review the napkin math behind it
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Sep 8, 2021
    On a job interview, is a thousand times better to say "I don't know" than to start saying random words. Most people have knowledge gaps, and it's fine! Those who hide it, have a harder time filling those gaps.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Sep 6, 2021
    Some people claim that rounds shouldn't be celebrated, but after 5 years fighting with our teeth and claws, it feels pretty damn good to have the resources to fulfill our vision. I'm extremely thankful to the early employees and investors who trusted us.
    techcrunch.com
    Spain's Factorial raises $80M on the back of strong traction for its 'Workday for SMBs' | TechCrunch
    Factorial, a startup out of Barcelona that has built a platform that lets SMBs run human resources functions with the same kind of tools that typically
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Oct 23, 2024
    I've been working alone for the last months so several people told me I'm an "Indie Hacker". But I do not identify with that movement. I do think there is a need for people solving problems in the long tail, but it does not need to be a hustling game.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Oct 3, 2024
    I'm launching a new product soon: Handinger! While working on @fika_bar I built a cheap way to fetch metadata, screenshots and markdown content from websites. I've just extracted it from fika and productized it. Try it out and bring me feedback!
    handinger.com
    Handinger: Build AI Agents for Your Company
    Build AI agents in plain English, connect them to your company tools, and automate the boring admin work nobody wants to do.
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    Pao Ramen
    @masylum
    Apr 25, 2024
    Replying to @Yoda4ever
    All Spanish teenagers look exactly like this nowadays
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