How your startup can benefit from serverless

When Cloud Horizon grew to 12 people, it became clear that we need a tool for managing vacations and days off. Using Google Spreadsheets was hard, and there were no notifications when someone’s vacation is about to start. We tried with a calendar, but it doesn’t give you an easy way to see how many days off someone has left for the year. Then we tried to to find a tool for managing days off, but most of the available tools were full HR solutions. For a team of 12, those tools were way too expensive and had a bunch of features that we didn’t needed.

As our long term plan was to build a product, this looked like a perfect opportunity. So we decided to bite the bullet and build Vacation Tracker.

Vacation Tracker - Manage your requests and receive vacation reminders

When you start thinking about your new product, the path to your core feature seems clear and obvious. But as soon as you start the journey, the road becomes blurry and full of roadblocks. Most of the roadblocks are caused by side issues, things that your product needs, but that are not solving your core problem.

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