Daniel Howells

Leaving Mob

2025-01-15

Bar one last handover doc, this week was the final week of working with Mob, the culmination of around 5 years of work, working with OMSE to turn their original Squarespace website into a subscription product that, 2 months ago, broke £200k MRR (and the latest figures are even more wild) and used by hundreds of thousands of users which is growing day by day.

Up until some time last year I was the only engineer, until Andrew Fairlie came and saved the day handling the challenges of a fast growing user base, and for a long time I was the UX/UI designer until Warren Challenger came along to help. And now there's finally a proper team in place on-site in their Shoreditch HQ, my work is done.

It has genuinely been a pleasure working with both Benjamin Lebus and Michael Sladden; the success of the platform has been incredible. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next.

When I get round to it I'll write up a big post talking about the front- and back-end tech, the challenges; there's a lot of interesting stuff.