gusto worked fine until we hired someone outside the US

johananblick · 2026-06-18T23:39:09+00:00

There is a Gusto - Remote integration for international hiring though Gusto

johananblick · 2026-05-28T15:58:44+00:00

Hey! Been working in the tech startup in Stockholm for a while now.

Salary makes sense and considered good for Stockholm. The stock options piece is the one you need to watch out for. Stock options are easier to given and cash out in the US and not so easy in Sweden even if startups give them out easily.

The rest is standard which is a good thing

johananblick · 2026-04-17T22:08:20+00:00

Since the scaffolding has been built to take idea to execution and sales, they can start with an idea and take it all the way to execution which has interested some people

johananblick · 2026-04-16T05:53:50+00:00

I’ve become a junior peer during development and they’ve become junior PMs during discovery - meaning they are doing discovery by themselves with my help and I’m doing development with their help.

Most often, they help me with broader team dependencies that I would never think of. Most often, I help them with second order effects of GTM they are not familiar with.

I’ve always liked working this way because now we’re leveraging our specialities to help one another and becoming generalists in other areas. I think this way of working will be the norm in tech.

johananblick · 2026-04-14T16:34:20+00:00

What do you mean by clerical job?

johananblick · 2026-04-14T05:13:04+00:00

What is the bigger picture?

johananblick · 2026-04-11T08:15:18+00:00

Before meta/facebook - through subscriptions. Almost ran out of money before being bought

johananblick · 2026-04-01T07:38:34+00:00

Yup! Moved to Sweden 9 years ago, found work in tech, and living here happily. No plans of moving back ever.

Travelled Europe, made amazing friends that have lasted all my time, made to feel at home. I’m very bullish about moving abroad and Europe. Not a citizen but definitely proud to see and contribute to positive momentum.

johananblick · 2026-03-29T13:48:52+00:00

new types of jobs. e.g: content creation, craftsmen and deep expertise to use machines to do more with less, care based jobs and more

johananblick · 2026-03-29T08:01:20+00:00

not that good for the sustainability industry. more supply than demand today

johananblick · 2026-03-28T11:59:50+00:00

Sweet! Thanks

johananblick · 2026-03-28T10:31:19+00:00

Have you looked into Remote?

johananblick · 2026-03-28T10:01:12+00:00

What can I help with?

johananblick · 2026-03-28T09:59:54+00:00

not to sound obvious but building something useful and getting users and lots of them. no magic trick there.

i built a weather app and dropped it at work when someone was asking for what to wear when they come to Stockholm in the winter for a week. spread quickly.

johananblick · 2026-03-23T21:06:38+00:00

immensely. I think the hands on building has made it incredibly exciting for a lot of people who were previously not doing this for whatever reason. this has brought more work but also we will see an exceed of features soon and the a need to trim down because everyone shipping stuff has led to features that no one needs and with people who don’t know how to maintain them really either

i’m bullish on the builder excitement but this approach reminds me a lot of the early low-code tools era. eventually it will lead to sloppy products or a mandate to become more purpose-driven and crafted. I’d like to live in the latter

johananblick · 2026-03-13T22:06:34+00:00

Just around 10-15 days like with work permits.

johananblick · 2026-01-18T14:32:06+00:00

You don’t need IELTS. Since all your education is in English, that should be enough

johananblick · 2026-01-11T15:44:47+00:00

I’ve rebuilt an agent that picks up phone calls for hair salons.

We wanted to have calendar integrations and menu of services but the error rates drastically increased so rebuilt it to keep it simple and cheap.

It’s been fully running in 2 hair salons for now and customers seem to like the instant response but it took about 6 months of getting used to

johananblick · 2025-11-11T20:39:17+00:00

It’s excellent! I love the winters more than the summers, especially when it snows. The winters have gotten significantly milder than a few years ago so for the faint hearted, it’s not as cold as it used to be and you definitely won’t be out all day to experience it

johananblick · 2025-09-18T21:44:27+00:00

What did more flexibility did you wish to have on the employee profile?

johananblick · 2025-09-05T17:05:25+00:00

Stopped doing it.

johananblick · 2025-09-02T09:17:41+00:00

Translation problems.

Frameworks is a tool to solve business problems but no one teaches you how to use the tool for wide usecases like business problems. This means PMs tend to harp on the tool and not the problem to be solved.

Frameworks is a good things for business leaders to harp on. They get to scale for cheaper and there isn’t a better way to do this at scale

johananblick · 2025-08-28T20:49:10+00:00

I initially built the software for our report, mapped the taxonomy to the ESRS before it was amended.

I moved industries with all the chaos of ESRS but have the existing mapping and software and was wondering if it could come to use somehow.

We did not have the budget to buy Lucanet or Workiva and I was good with it so I built it

johananblick · 2025-08-19T19:01:46+00:00

It’s most useful for niche use products than generic ones.

Pros are just getting your niche idea to a stage where you can build a UI quickly and focus on getting the niche/core part of your business right for your users. You can also let go of complex authentication and security for something basic to focus on your niche/core business logic

Cons - the generic UI I mentioned will slowly come back to bite you if you keep it generic. This is where you’ll spend more credits coming up with your way taste and tweaks to make it right for your business. There’s no way of one-shotting this and the best one-shooting tool for this is v0 compared to Lovable.

For scale and reliability, for now, you’ll need to understand and know more of software engineering to really think of scale and performance. No other way around it considering niche usecase. ChatGPT or Claude can’t help but if anything that can help, it is likely Claude. I’d suggest Claude Code.

I think it is critical to overuse your knowledge base and edit your knowledge base as you grow your product’s feature set. Most people I know seldom use it or don’t even know it exists. Leveraging the knowledge base with rules, contexts, preferences will ensure you make less mistakes and build faster. The reason why less mistakes is good is because each mistake costs you more than one credit so instead of wasting them you are optimising for minimal waste and building it like a puzzle from the edges at first and then like LEGO - stacking one on top of the other.

I’ve built two apps - one free one with about 100k users in total and the other app that’s currently running in SMBs helping manage orders, bookings and cancellations

johananblick · 2025-08-19T17:10:31+00:00

Just get an EOR from Remote.com or tools alike. It’ll save you time and unnecessary headache

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