Filip Minev

Bootstrapping Tally, the simplest way to create forms

Issue #153 May 8, 2022

About

Filip Minev is currently bootstrapping Tally with Marie Martens. Tally is the simplest way to create forms for all purposes in seconds, without knowing how to code and for free!

Prior to starting Tally, he founded Delta (acquired by eToro), an investment tracker app allowing you to track stocks, crypto, ETF's, forex, indices & more.

Gear

6 items

Computer MacBook Pro 13” with Apple M1‑chip (16 GB RAM)

Monitor Dell UltraSharp U2518D Buy

Keyboard Apple Magic Keyboard with numpad (Space Grey) Buy

Mouse Apple Magic Mouse

Headphones Sony WH-1000XM4 & AirPods Buy

Phone iPhone X

The census

Only 5% of the desks we’ve published have Filip’s Dell UltraSharp.

Ranked across all 516 setups that list their gear.

MacBook Pro 64%

Apple Magic Mouse 13%

Dell UltraSharp 5%

See top 50 gear items ›

Software

6 apps

VS Code, Hyper, TablePlus, Figma, Safari — what I use to make tally.so

Apple Mail, iMessage, Slack — for communication

Notion, Super — from project planning & docs, to public Tally roadmap & help center

Mixpanel — for product analytics

Sentry — for error reporting

Google Cloud Run — for hosting

Interview

1 questions

› What keeps you motivated?

This 1 minute video of David Bowie on why you should never play to the gallery

This clip from BoJack Horseman. At the closing of season two, the main character is running up the hill with his lungs on fire. When our protagonist is lying on the ground from exhaustion, a calming shadow appears saying: -"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you got to do it every day. That's the hard part. But it does get easier."