and how we found a problem that wasn’t really a problem — The two most important definitions you have to get right before you start are asking and answering the two questions and the two sub-questions: What is the problem you are trying to solve? Why are you certain this problem really exists? How are you going to solve the problem? Why…

.. and what this publication is all about — Hey and welcome to easyridezz. We are a (very) young startup, aiming at revolutionizing the carpooling we know today. What we know: the number of people driving to and from work alone is huge! In Germany, every car in commute has 1.18 people onboard. And parts of that are friends…

Home Office has become part of many people’s lives since 2020. I was flexible to do Home Office before, but it had a different meaning back then. I used my Home Office days to calm down, do an easy day after a long week and get some work around the…

With GitHub not allowing the same SSH key for two different accounts, using two different accounts (like a private and a company one) is a little more complicated. Using the standard ssh-keygen doesn’t do it anymore. It took me some time to get this figured out on my Mac, so…

Time: 10 minutes — Complexity: Easy — In this article, we will be looking at creating a slide-to-cancel from the ground up using Swift and the Storyboard. The results will look like this: The UI First, we will build the UI elements in our storyboard. For that, we first place a normal view (UIView) on a ViewController and center…

Why I was initially super excited but will skip this generation of MacBooks — This is not a review of the MacBook Pro, but some thoughts and hands-on tests. Finally, the day I have been waiting for since the WWDC21. My new MacBook Pro 14 inch arrived. I was skeptical, seeing the keynote. …

And other false advertisements to working less and getting rich — During my first months at college, I was fascinated by books like “The 4-hour week” and “Becoming a Millionaire”. I read most of them multiple times and lived in my world of fascination and imagination of “what if I could do that”. The content of these (kind of) books was…

How Apple missed the opportunity to bring any value to making the iPhone 13 notch smaller and fulfill their promise of revolutionary and “better-than-ever” products — Finally, after four years of making close to no effort in improving and changing the screen (except slightly slimmer edges with the iPhone 12), Apple decided to slim up the notch at the top of the screen with the new iPhone 13. This finally gives back some space to the…

The modern project management framework for agile startups and small teams working together efficiently and cross-functionally — While there are plenty of project- and team management methods, most of them are not 1:1 applicable to pre-scale technology startups. With most small startups, clearly identifying stakeholders and building development teams with clear assignments and technology areas is difficult. Implementing a full version of Scrum is often considered high…