I'm with a friend and we're focusing on building cool SaaS projects as a way to improve our product building skills and possibly make some money.

At the moment we have a HR platform that one client is using and we're looking to build other stuff - we have some ideas in the making.

If anyone wants to join

Hey, I'm an Engineering Manager trying to solve my own problem / scratch my own itch, which is building solid relationships with my teams, and 1:1s are a big part of that. Think solutions like Lattice and Fellow if they were unapologetically built for technical leaders, and didn't have tens or hundreds of millions in VC to justify.

This sounds (at least) tangentially related to your HR work, so I'd love to connect and share ideas. You can contact me: hello at marigoldapp dot-com

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Hey there, I'm interested in your HR Platform and maybe expanding that? If you've got one client already, it might be scalable! Currently I'm working on wordpress plugin development to try and make small software that I cant bring to market quickly. Would you wanna connect?

Hey there! Sure! Sent you an email!

I have been looking for similar like minded focuses. I spend a lot of time in the DevOps space while always expanding to other areas. Please do reach out, sean (at) ulation (dot) com

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Hey! I'm a Product Manager with some web dev and data science skills. Would love to connect and see if there's something we can work on together :)

Myself working as a product manager, I'm always happy to improve my product building skills as well. I'll be glad to help.

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JS / PHP Developer here. Interested in new projects.

Email is in profile. Thanks!

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There are a few agencies nowadays that are providing these services. You can also find people on LinkedIn (search for people who are working in fast growing tech companies or have graduated from top colleges)

You can try and directly approach people from LATAM. Find workers from great local tech companies and send them messages through LinkedIn

Yeah, I get that. Do you have an office in your house?

Boundaries are tough! But this is good advice.

I've also seen that working days have increased in liquid hours, as it's easier to just go and "check your emails" in the night

Working in a different environment seems like a good idea! How do you solve the disconnected feeling from your company and team?

Also reduced motivation is tough. Are you seeing anything that might help with this?

Yeah it really helps. I rotate through a few different spots throughout the week (3 coffee shops, 2 workspaces and my gym clubhouse) I find it helpful to change scenery and be around other people, albeit the majority of them I don't know.

For me there's something about being in a place with others that keeps me concentrated and focused on the tasks at hand, breaking up the monotony of working from the same room at home every day.

I try to have very regular calls with my team and arrange days to meet and work together from a location we can all get to with relative ease, along with full team meet ups at least every month.

RE lack of motivation, I think it's more of a company culture issue rather than WFH itself.

I'm like you in the sense of having regular calls with the team. At least for me, it's important.

Also the lack of motivation because of company culture, what do you mean by that?

Especially if they don't actually understand that you need to focus to do your work

Hacker space seems like an awesome idea. I've wanted to have something like that, maybe coworking spaces is the closest thing we currently have?

They exist now, but back then they didn't. I would have had to invent one. I think they are a great idea.

Yeah, this is a huge issue. People haven't realized that working remotely is different - I think this is an adaption thing and soon it'll change. Do you?

I think on a scale of years, yes. But it requires churn. I work with a team that hasn't had any turnover since their office days and they behave the same. I'm talking 1-2 hours of Zoom calls with 8 engineers M-Th most weeks.

Only one person can talk on Zoom at once..the project is going slower and they don't know why.

Wow! Did you suggest a change?

Did you learn this in any way? Or just naturally?