Building a quick and easy retrospective tool for teams who value simplicity

The Idea Since running a team and having to use off the shelf Retrospective products I’ve dreamt of building my own. Not only because I thought it would be interesting to do, but because everything on the market, at least in my mind, wasn’t great. What I wanted was something simple, easy setup, easy sharing with just a link and a simple User Interface with none of the bells and whistles other solutions have. Just a board, adjustable columns and cards and nothing else. ...

April 24, 2025 · 4 min · 774 words · Rob Dunn

Running NX with Frontend and API Proxied

Overview NX is a great tool to manage Mono-repos. I’ve been using it for near on 5 years in my professional life and around about the same on a number of side projects. One of the first things I set up in any new mono-repo is the proxying of API requests through the front-end to the API running in parallel. With NX this is super easy and makes life simple as you only have to run one command and get both stacks running all at the same time. ...

November 1, 2024 · 4 min · 702 words · Rob Dunn