Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit
@alexrodba.com
💻 Founder & CEO @ MarsBased
🎙 Life on Mars & Foc a terra
🎸 Guitarist/vocalist @ RES!
💸 Business angel
👾 Pokémon master
🎙 Life on Mars & Foc a terra
🎸 Guitarist/vocalist @ RES!
💸 Business angel
👾 Pokémon master
Developer = what you do.
Engineer = how you think.
Not the same.
Engineer = how you think.
Not the same.
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Developer = what you do.
Engineer = how you think.
Not the same.
Engineer = how you think.
Not the same.
Great teams don’t ship features. They engineer outcomes. Language matters.
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Great teams don’t ship features. They engineer outcomes. Language matters.
Job titles aren’t vanity. They’re positioning. "Engineer" says you design, build, and improve systems. "Developer" just says you write code.
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Job titles aren’t vanity. They’re positioning. "Engineer" says you design, build, and improve systems. "Developer" just says you write code.
At MarsBased, we keep on giving and sharing.
Now, it's our Linear guidelines, also available on our free and publicly available employee handbook.
github.com/MarsBased/ha...
Now, it's our Linear guidelines, also available on our free and publicly available employee handbook.
github.com/MarsBased/ha...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
At MarsBased, we keep on giving and sharing.
Now, it's our Linear guidelines, also available on our free and publicly available employee handbook.
github.com/MarsBased/ha...
Now, it's our Linear guidelines, also available on our free and publicly available employee handbook.
github.com/MarsBased/ha...
One of my favourite times of the year is when I have to handwrite the xmas postcard for each one of our employees. It makes me appreciate the great team we've built.
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
One of my favourite times of the year is when I have to handwrite the xmas postcard for each one of our employees. It makes me appreciate the great team we've built.
The latest Life on Mars episode is one where I open up about a lot of stuff: early beginnings, founder salaries, moonlighting, contracts with friends and a lot more.
Find about how (and when) we created MarsBased with my two best friends
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY5d...
Find about how (and when) we created MarsBased with my two best friends
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY5d...
When is the right time to start your company? Building MarsBased #2
YouTube video by MarsBased - Life on Mars
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November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The latest Life on Mars episode is one where I open up about a lot of stuff: early beginnings, founder salaries, moonlighting, contracts with friends and a lot more.
Find about how (and when) we created MarsBased with my two best friends
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY5d...
Find about how (and when) we created MarsBased with my two best friends
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY5d...
If you want to know what happens in the startup scene, don't read the news. Talk to founders privately instead.
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you want to know what happens in the startup scene, don't read the news. Talk to founders privately instead.
Return to the office policies are undercover massive layoffs and I'll die on this hill.
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Return to the office policies are undercover massive layoffs and I'll die on this hill.
Growing for the sake of growing is a very dangerous vanity metric.
We've never done it at MarsBased, mostly because our initial intention when we created the company was to be only the three founders. We were forced to hire with every new project and will continue to do so.
We've never done it at MarsBased, mostly because our initial intention when we created the company was to be only the three founders. We were forced to hire with every new project and will continue to do so.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Growing for the sake of growing is a very dangerous vanity metric.
We've never done it at MarsBased, mostly because our initial intention when we created the company was to be only the three founders. We were forced to hire with every new project and will continue to do so.
We've never done it at MarsBased, mostly because our initial intention when we created the company was to be only the three founders. We were forced to hire with every new project and will continue to do so.
I have to get this tatooed somewhere.
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I have to get this tatooed somewhere.
Aquesta setmana, us portem una col·laboració de Foc a Terra amb els amics de La Nova Mobilitat. Gràcies Martí Pascual-Llitjós i Miquel Testar per la vetllada, en un lloc magnífic, una audiència encantadora i un networking d'allò més interessant.
rss.com/podcasts/foc...
rss.com/podcasts/foc...
Somien els Robotaxis en punts de càrrega? | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Avui som quatre al micròfon. Dos anys després, tornem a col·laborar amb el podcast de La Nova Mobilitat, aquesta vegada en directe des de Casa Seat. Parlem de l’estat actual dels vehicles autònoms, de...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Aquesta setmana, us portem una col·laboració de Foc a Terra amb els amics de La Nova Mobilitat. Gràcies Martí Pascual-Llitjós i Miquel Testar per la vetllada, en un lloc magnífic, una audiència encantadora i un networking d'allò més interessant.
rss.com/podcasts/foc...
rss.com/podcasts/foc...
Of all the things we do well at MarsBased, finding that the client's platforms are down before they do is probably one of them.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Of all the things we do well at MarsBased, finding that the client's platforms are down before they do is probably one of them.
Become everyone's antiportfolio
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Become everyone's antiportfolio
I should really build the habit of cleaning up my open tabs and dealing with every file on the Desktop & Downloads folders every Friday.
I'd be a happier person.
I'd be a happier person.
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I should really build the habit of cleaning up my open tabs and dealing with every file on the Desktop & Downloads folders every Friday.
I'd be a happier person.
I'd be a happier person.
This is my latest article on Founder to Founder, on the current AI hype (or end thereof) and whom to follow in these cycles, builders vs talkers and why investing in a depth search is better than a breadth search.
www.alexrodba.com/ai-breadth-v...
www.alexrodba.com/ai-breadth-v...
F2F #61: AI Hype - Breadth vs depth
Every new cycle brings the same dynamics, with new players and new products. But we can reduce them to people who talk and people who build. Follow the builders.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This is my latest article on Founder to Founder, on the current AI hype (or end thereof) and whom to follow in these cycles, builders vs talkers and why investing in a depth search is better than a breadth search.
www.alexrodba.com/ai-breadth-v...
www.alexrodba.com/ai-breadth-v...
Last week, I wrote about something we all know but can't put the right words to describe it: startup advice smells. Don't take it from other people. It's like drinking from their glass: unsavory at best.
www.alexrodba.com/startup-advi...
www.alexrodba.com/startup-advi...
F2F #60: Startup advice ages faster than milk
Don't drink expired milk.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Last week, I wrote about something we all know but can't put the right words to describe it: startup advice smells. Don't take it from other people. It's like drinking from their glass: unsavory at best.
www.alexrodba.com/startup-advi...
www.alexrodba.com/startup-advi...
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Still waiting for the live cam of all the billionnaires packing up their NYC apartments to move to Ohio
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Reposted by Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit
Se puede ganar al dinero.
Se puede ganar al malismo.
Hoy tenemos buenas noticias.
Se puede ganar al malismo.
Hoy tenemos buenas noticias.
La victoria de la esperanza: Zohran Mamdani se alza como nuevo alcalde de Nueva York
La exitosa campaña del nuevo alcalde se centró en tres ejes fundamentales: el acceso a una vivienda digna, autobuses gratuitos y supermercados y tiendas de alimentación con precios regulados por el ay...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Se puede ganar al dinero.
Se puede ganar al malismo.
Hoy tenemos buenas noticias.
Se puede ganar al malismo.
Hoy tenemos buenas noticias.
New blog post: marsbased.com/blog/2025/11...
Building a marketing website with Vercel’s v0: Our honest experience
Our team recently built and launched a full marketing website using Vercel’s v0, the AI-powered web development tool. Here’s our experience, what impressed us, what still needs work, and why it might ...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New blog post: marsbased.com/blog/2025/11...
The @marsbased podcast is finally at a 9/10 in quality. David, our marketing guy, has been doing a terrific job.
Now comes the hard part: getting the website to match it.
Check it out: www.youtube.com/@MarsBased
Now comes the hard part: getting the website to match it.
Check it out: www.youtube.com/@MarsBased
MarsBased - Life on Mars
MarsBased is a web & app development consultancy of experts in Ruby, JavaScript and Python frameworks for both web and mobile development 🚀
As such, if you are a developer, you can naturally expect t...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The @marsbased podcast is finally at a 9/10 in quality. David, our marketing guy, has been doing a terrific job.
Now comes the hard part: getting the website to match it.
Check it out: www.youtube.com/@MarsBased
Now comes the hard part: getting the website to match it.
Check it out: www.youtube.com/@MarsBased
@kikegdelariva.bsky.social Kike, un plaer! M'encantaria entrevistar-te al nostre pòdcast "Foc a Terra". Portem més de 4 anys però només fa 5 o 6 episodis que portem convidats i fem vídeo. T'apuntes?
www.youtube.com/@focaterra/s...
www.youtube.com/@focaterra/s...
Foc a Terra
Un pòdcast de minories, en català, que t’acostarà a la tecnologia tal com raja.
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
@kikegdelariva.bsky.social Kike, un plaer! M'encantaria entrevistar-te al nostre pòdcast "Foc a Terra". Portem més de 4 anys però només fa 5 o 6 episodis que portem convidats i fem vídeo. T'apuntes?
www.youtube.com/@focaterra/s...
www.youtube.com/@focaterra/s...
Lack of focus is what kept MarsBased alive for 12 years (mostly mine).
Turn weaknesses into superpowers.
Turn weaknesses into superpowers.
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Lack of focus is what kept MarsBased alive for 12 years (mostly mine).
Turn weaknesses into superpowers.
Turn weaknesses into superpowers.
We've found a use case for AI that solved a pain point at MarsBased. Our CTO explains how we managed to make more, and better, one-on-ones with our employees using AI.
marsbased.com/blog/2025/10...
marsbased.com/blog/2025/10...
How AI helped us bring back one-on-ones at MarsBased
With the help of AI, we finally solved one of our biggest management challenges at MarsBased, keeping one-on-ones consistent, meaningful, and well-documented across the team.
marsbased.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
We've found a use case for AI that solved a pain point at MarsBased. Our CTO explains how we managed to make more, and better, one-on-ones with our employees using AI.
marsbased.com/blog/2025/10...
marsbased.com/blog/2025/10...
Spending my Monday night debugging riffs instead of code.
Being in a punk band teaches more about teamwork than any MBA.
Being in a punk band teaches more about teamwork than any MBA.
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Spending my Monday night debugging riffs instead of code.
Being in a punk band teaches more about teamwork than any MBA.
Being in a punk band teaches more about teamwork than any MBA.