There are several reasons why you should be interested in Fleep, Slack’s prime competitor. Apart from boasting some nice product features like incorporating emails they also seem like a cool distributed bunch. In our chat, Fleep’s CEO Henn Ruukel talks about their remote culture, shaped by experiences from building Skype. How many employees Fleep has …
Trello surely doesn’t need a special introduction, especially if you have been online for the past few years. Beloved by distributed teams, freelancers and even co-located companies all over the world, Trello boards make us more productive and organized. Being keen users ourselves at Surf Office, we’re happy we could have a peek into their …
Starting as a bootstrapped business in 2008, Balsamiq has always placed transparency and trust high. Nowadays more than 20 people are part of this distributed company where vacation is mandatory and team retreats lead to a special kind of jet lag. Surf Office caught up with their UX designer and writer Leon Barnard to find …
We hosted Matthew Esterhuizen at Surf Office a few months ago, just after he’d fearlessly left the company he’d set up a few years previously to become a remote worker. He told us why he stepped out of his comfort zone and about his awesome side project of remotely creating a virtual reality game. Here’s …
The productivity tool I Done This allows everyone to stay in sync so they can be wherever they need to be. Coming from an entirely different background, their CEO Teri Wilson came to lead I Done This after it was acquired. She agreed to have a chat and shared with us how the company has …