The Heavybit Library
The Heavybit Library is an extensive catalog of educational content featuring hundreds of hours of expert presentations, insightful podcasts, and articles focused on helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
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How Local-First Development Is Changing How We Make Software
What Local First Is, and Why It Matters Local-first development is a development ethos that keeps data and code on your device...
How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: Community & Leadership
Welcome to the second article in our definitive series on how to launch a developer-first startup, featuring advice from veteran...
A Guide to SEO in the Age of AI, Plus Modern Best Practices
How Will Generative AI Change SEO as We Know It? Search engine optimization, the art of optimizing your startup’s website and...
What Is Product Engineering? (And Why Does It Matter?)
One of the many trends among high-growth companies in the last five years has been the emergence of an entirely new role, or...
How to Make Open-Source & Local LLMs Work in Practice
How to Get Open-Source LLMs Running Locally Heavybit has partnered with GenLab and the MLOps Community, which gathers thousands...
MLOps vs. Eng: Misaligned Incentives and Failure to Launch?
Failure to Launch: The Challenges of Getting ML Models into Prod Machine learning is a subset of AI–the practice of using...
How to Build a Successful Founder-Led Sales Strategy
How to Build a Successful Founder-Led Sales Strategy Hi, I’m Walter, and I coach startup founders to break through their...
Why Do Developers (Actually) Hate Marketing?
So...How Do You Market a Product to a Developer? “Developers hate marketing” is a statement that’s become a truism – if not a...
The Power User’s Guide to Open-Source Licenses
Licensing: A Key Trade-Off for Open Source Startups Why is Heavybit putting together this guide for open-source startup founders...
Technical & Cultural Learnings from 10 Years of Computing
What the Software Community Has Learned from 10 Years in Tech Amara’s Law states, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a...
Incident Response and DevOps in the Age of Generative AI
How Does Generative AI Work With Incident Response? Software continues to eat the world, as more dev teams depend on third-party...
What Success Looks Like for Modern Open-Source Software Startups
How Open-Source Startups Succeed Estimates suggest that modern developers have built about 70%-90% of all modern software on top...