Welcome to the Fora blog

Read about what our Fora Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) teams have been up to lately.

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Embracing test-driven development

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Go solo at a startup, or join an established design team?

My experience designing my design career

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How to debug deep linking for a terminated Flutter app on iOS

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The art of engineering design docs

Back when I was a junior software developer, I always dreaded whenever a manager would ask me, “How long will it take for you to finish coding that project?” I couldn’t predict the future, but I felt tempted to give an unrealistically optimistic estimate to make people happy, or a super-pessimistic timeline to protect myself from being blamed for slippage.

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From numbers to empathy: Lessons learned in balancing quantitative and qualitative data in product design

Last year, I made a career move from a smaller startup to Fora. One of the things I appreciate about Fora is that we are a small team that operates a lot like a startup, but with a vast portfolio of online communities and tens of millions of monthly visitors.

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On-call at Fora

At Fora, we know how important it is to have a great work environment that supports proper work-life balance. This is especially important for our on-call team.

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Transitioning from mobile backend to frontend Flutter development

Ever thought about transitioning from backend to frontend mobile development? Fora mobile engineer Hunter Derkach shares his experience of becoming a Flutter developer.

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EPD Partnership: The cornerstone of nimble product development

On the Fora team, Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) operate in close partnership to develop consumer products. Why is this worth mentioning?

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Welcome to Fora

Hi everyone, welcome to Fora! I’m glad that you found us. As the Founder, I wanted to take a minute to share with you what we are doing and why.