Product, Design, and Engineering Lessons from Building Sail & Muddy
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Summary
Alejandro García Salas shares product, design, and engineering lessons learned from building two products called Sail and Muddy. The article covers his journey starting in 2022 looking for a small team working on something meaningful, leading to joining friends Ron and Jimmy to build a new Chromium-based browser with $5.5M in funding. It provides insights into startup building, browser development, and lessons from the trenches of early-stage product development.
Key quotes
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I started coding early on and have always loved building and computers.
Two friends from college, Ron and Jimmy, reached out. They'd been working on this idea of a new browser, forked Chromium, figured out how to build on top of it, and raised a 5.5 milli
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