Not taking decisions is frustrating
As much as you can read about business and about how to manage your own company, you will never be prepared to face this hard reality: slowly and gradually, decisions take more and more of your daily time and mental bandwidth.
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One year of Life on Mars: how to start listening to our podcast
We are celebrating one year of our podcast, Life on Mars. If you are joining just now, here's a guide of what you can find in it!
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A small trick to help you estimate the size of a site
Here's a small trick we use to calculate the size of sites, in numbers of pages, when we're facing a migration or we need to estimate costs for our proposals, using the sitemap of the site.
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Beating the virus: lessons from our seventh year running MarsBased
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone differently and we are no exception. We want to share our ups and downs from 2020 in our annual post about lessons learnt, including management, finance and mental health, among other topics.
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How to generate TypeScript types and React hooks from GraphQL queries
We have been working with Shopify for a good while now, for all kinds and sizes of e-commerce sites, but we've been lately experimenting with GraphQL and React-based frontend applications to enhance user experience to unprecedented levels, so we've compiled some guidelines for you.
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From Valencia to the stars! We've partnered with Singularu!
We're happy to break the news to everyone that we've signed a contract with Singularu! During 2021, we will help them to scale their e-commerce platform and make it skyrocket to bigger heights!
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Hiring more Martians!
2021 has started in good fashion for us. We've hired a couple of extra people, and we're signing new projects for the rest of the year, so if you want to work on exciting stuff, drop us a line! We're hiring!
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Good to see you back, Rundit!
We have joined forces with the Finnish startup Rundit to help them up their development pace with our JavaScript team! Rundit had been our clients between 2015 and 2017, so it's good to have them back!
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What's up?
2020 was quite a wild ride for us and 2021 is off to a good start already. In fact, we've been so busy that we haven't blogged in two months, so it's time to let you know what we're up to and catch up properly!
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All the 2020 episodes of Life on Mars, the MarsBased podcast
In June 2020, we launched our very own podcast, Life on Mars! During the second half of this extremely convulse year, we've released a few dozens of episodes about technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Check them all out in this blog post!
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What a cool thing we're building!
Throughout all the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial voyage, one tends to lose focus and forget about enjoying the ride. Also, we tend to focus on our own vision and forget about how others perceive us, which is as important or even more than what we think about ourselves!
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A breakdown of 2020: what a ride!
2020 has been a wild ride, to put it simply. We can't find words to describe such an awkward year, but we want to share a breakdown, month-by-month, of what we lived, to have a recollection of our learnings and feelings as a company.
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