Your Favorite 15 Aha! Blog Posts in 2022
4,650 pounds of mangos. That is how much fruit 25 Aha! teammates can sort through in one afternoon. We discovered this while helping out at a food rescue organization — we make a point of volunteering together wherever we meet for our company onsites (most recently in San Diego). As we picked and packed mangos for local families, I felt immense gratitude for the opportunity to give back to the community. It also got me thinking about 2022 and what is ahead in 2023.
Over the past 12 months, we wrote about many ways we can all be less wasteful at work — and build toward a more sustaining, meaningful future.
After a few uniquely challenging years, 2022 was a return to "normal" at some human-connection level. Many of us were able to see loved ones again and?travel for work. Aha! was fortunate to?surge past $100 Million?in ARR. And we hired across all?areas?of the business.
But the year also brought global turmoil and hardship for many. The tech industry in particular is reckoning with poor financial results and mass?layoffs. Understandably this has led people to look inward — seeking to rediscover professional?joy?and purpose. Many readers of the Aha! blog have shown more interest in the?principles of bootstrapping?as a counterpoint to the panic, greed, and?wastefulness?that is associated with raising silly amounts of money (back when that was possible).
Our most popular blog posts of 2022 reflected these themes — calling for better leadership, value-driven product building, and sustainable happiness. Here are the top 15 posts that captured readers' attention:
Responsible leadership
If you want to build something truly great, you have to be willing to be different. The following posts proposed a different path to growth and profitability:
Product development
The concept of?value-driven product development?struck a chord with many readers. We wrote these posts to help you bring even more value to your customers and business:
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Sustainable happiness
We have long championed the idea that everyone deserves to be happy at work. These posts brought more stories of how we achieve as a fully remote team:
I am grateful that we can continue to have these important (and sometimes difficult) conversations — each pushes us to become better versions of ourselves.
2023 is special — it will be the 10-year anniversary of Aha! and a decade of me writing regularly on our blog. This is a humbling reminder of what a privilege it is to pursue work that is both fulfilling and rewarding. Thank you for being part of it. I look forward to more of our conversations.
Looking for a new way to work??Try Aha! and be happy.
About Brian and Aha!
Brian de Haaff seeks business and wilderness adventure. He is the co-founder and CEO of Aha! — the world's #1 product development software. He is also the author of the bestseller Lovability. Brian writes and speaks about product and company growth and the adventure of living a meaningful life.
Aha! is a very different type of high-growth SaaS company. We are self-funded, highly profitable, and 100 percent remote. We provide the world's #1 product development software so teams can build products that customers love. More than 600,000 product builders use our suite of tools which includes Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Create, and Aha! Develop. And they rely on our training programs via Aha! Academy to become product development experts. We are recognized as one of the best fully remote companies to work for, champion the Bootstrap Movement, and have given over $1M to people in need through Aha! Cares. Learn more at www.aha.io.