The Friendly Blog

Every year, we really look forward to our Friendly retreat. This year, we had a special reason to celebrate: 5 years of Friendly! 🥳

At Friendly we work remotely. That’s why we value our annual retreats, where we can meet in person and exchange ideas, have a good time together and get to know each other better.

Since Friendly came into existence, joint retreats have been an integral part of our team culture. As a self-funded startup, we watch our budget, so our third team retreat took us to Joey in Budapest in early August 2023.

A cloudy Saturday morning in Lucerne, Switzerland set the scene for our second Friendly Team Retreat. At Friendly, we work completely location-independently and otherwise only meet in our virtual daily team meetings. This has many advantages for us: We can work where we feel happy and enhance our team with good people from all over […]

In the first weeks after founding Friendly, I made a big mistake. Due to a careless oversight, I deleted numerous important files on what was then our only live server. I saw letters and numbers rattling down the screen like in Matrix. All files that had just been deleted. By the time I could stop […]