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Building Your Product

Obsidian Systems delivers solutions that fulfill specific user needs or solve particular problems. We like to share the "backstage process" of our development by writing about project management, technical details, and user-centric design.

The National Georeferenced Data Platform powered by Obelisk

Building Your Product

The National Georeferenced Data Platform powered by Obelisk

Developing innovative software can be challenging, and even experienced software agencies can struggle to estimate the time and resources needed to complete a project. Working with government entities can add additional obstacles, often requiring tailored solutions that accommodate multiple operating approaches and needs of various users, without altering people'

Accessing the Software Heritage Archive via the InterPlanetary FileSystem

Building Your Product

Accessing the Software Heritage Archive via the InterPlanetary FileSystem

Building a bridge to disseminate the Software Heritage archive over IPFS. Software Heritage is a non-profit initiative with a mission to preserve open source software code. It houses the largest public archive of software source code in the world. IPFS, developed by Protocol Labs, provides a decentralized, peer-to-

Why Organizations Pick Haskell and Why You Should Care

Why Organizations Pick Haskell and Why You Should Care

Haskell: Like a Steak in a Hot Dog 1 Since 1990 and beyond Haskell attracts students, researchers, and passionate engineers, thanks to its maturity and vibrant community who are deeply involved in various opensource projects and its gift economy approach. It welcomes those new to functional programming or those who

How Obsidian Systems Builds Products

How Obsidian Systems Builds Products

For almost a decade, we’ve shaped our unique modus operandi to deliver great products to our customers with shorter timelines and smaller budgets, and we guarantee to lead an idea from plan to prototype in only ten weeks. This post is an overview of our workflow. How it started

Tools to Build your Remote Workplace

Tools to Build your Remote Workplace

What tools do we use for our digital office? In 2020, many teams went remote. Obsidian Systems has chosen to remain remote. We are a fully remote, distributed team with more than thirty members, and we know how to operate effectively. Remote offices are not a fad: Atlassian and Stack

The art of MVP. A successful way to build a product

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The art of MVP. A successful way to build a product

To build a successful business it is not enough to be quick to market, you also need to be able to iterate and adapt quickly. The MVP approach could be described as “Release early, and release often!” Being able to iterate quickly saves both money and time as it lets

Seven GUIs in reflex-vty, Part 2: The Temperature Converter

Seven GUIs in reflex-vty, Part 2: The Temperature Converter

7GUIs defines seven tasks that represent typical challenges in GUI programming -- 7GUIs: A GUI Programming Benchmark 7GUIs is a set of 7 typical GUI programming tasks of varying levels of complexity. We're going to implement the 7GUIs in Haskell using the reflex functional reactive programming framework. The structure

How to Choose the Right Software Consultancy for Your Project

Building Your Product

How to Choose the Right Software Consultancy for Your Project

A Short Checklist for Every Entrepreneur A brilliant business idea, which might change the market, needs an exemplary implementation. Depending on your background, that could be a task for a technology partner who would build the software product and enable you to enter the market with your new solution. When

Building a Haskell CRUD stack with Obelisk for PowerZonePack

Building a Haskell CRUD stack with Obelisk for PowerZonePack

There isn't an abundance online of writing about successful, reliable, and reproducible CRUD stacks for Haskell developers. We wanted to add to the amount of explanation available, using by example the practical context of our work with PowerZonePack, or PZP. PZP is a group of Peloton users who

CI / BC in Nix

What roles do continuous integration and binary caches play in software development? How does Nix facilitate their implementation? What are continuous integration and binary caching? Continuous integration (CI) is the automation of testing, debugging, and merging when a change is upstreamed to a development team's codebase. It prioritizes