Naviu

Leading Naviu to become one of the top digital product studios in Europe.

50+ SaaS & AI products delivered 🚀

Unicorn Factory Lisboa

Startup Mentor

Outono | Portugueses em Tech

Outono is a community of Portuguese programmers, entrepreneurs and designers living and working outside of Portugal, with hubs in different cities. We organise events, connect people and startups, and promote the Portuguese Tech Scene globally.

Berlin Hub Ambassador

buildersklub

Berlin-based community, focused on showcasing how innovators are using automation & AI to accelerate growth and scale faster.

Founder

BERLIN STARTUP SCHOOL

MKT & Events Advisor

Blaze Information Security

Account Executive & Partner Manager

Cobalt.io

Partner Account Manager

Fábrica de Cervejas Portuense

Lead a team of 9 people. Together developed an effective brand & sales strategy that drove us to be the fastest growing and highest selling craft beer in Portugal.

Marketing & Sales Director

Structured the Marketing department and built an agile and fast paced team of 4 that managed Digital Brand Marketing, Trade Marketing, Events, PR, In-house content creation, Product development and Go-to-market strategy.

Reporting directly to the CEO, lead yearly budget and strategic plan creation, monitoring & execution, guaranting alignment across all departments and stakeholders.

Marketing Director

Joined the company in its early stages. With a “hands-on” approach, built Cerveja Nortada's brand from the ground up and lead strategic brand initiatives that promoted constant revenue growth.

Brand Manager

SONAE MC

Member of Continente's advertising team. Worked alongside campaign managers, leading content creation for TV, radio, print and digital advertising campaigns.

Content Production Manager

Manifesto

Developed brand strategies for B2C and B2B companies.

Brand Strategist

Turning an idea into a successful SaaS or AI product takes the right strategy, the right team, and flawless execution.

That’s what we do best! We've worked with 50+ B2B companies to build and scale SaaS & AI products that bring results.

With a proven process, clear communication, and a focus on scalability, we make sure your product is built fast and made to laaaast 🚀

Our process involves:

👉 Defining the best product strategy & tech stack
👉 Designing an intuitive & beautiful UX/UI
👉 Building an MVP in 8 to 12 weeks
👉 Scaling it into a robust, full-featured platform

💡 Experts in: React • Django • Node.js • Bubble.io • WeWeb • Xano

Diogo Guerner

How to launch new products in weeks, instead of months?

At the next buildersklub, I’ll be sitting down for a live conversation with João Fernandes, Venture Development Manager at Lufthansa Innovation Hub, to unpack exactly how they do it.

No theory. Just a practical look inside their venture development process and the story of building Cabinblu, an app designed to help passengers with flight anxiety.

You'll get actionable insights on: 
👉 The strategic playbook for validating and building a product with a lean, agile team. 
👉 How you can leverage rapid development tools to successfully build and launch MVPs. 
👉 The mindset and tactics required to overcome the challenges of fast-paced product development.

See you there! 

This event is happening as part of the Thursday Gathering by Venture Café Berlin!

CEO @Naviu / We build SaaS & AI products. Fast and made to laaaaaaaaaast 🚀

How do you take an idea and turn it into a real product in weeks, not months?

Especially inside a 100,000-employee giant?

At the recent buildersklub meetup, I had the pleasure to chat with João Fernandes from Lufthansa Innovation Hub and learn how they approach it.

He walked us through building Cabinblu (an app for flight anxiety) in just 10 weeks.

Here is the playbook on how they did it:

1️⃣  𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 
Opportunity Discovery → Solution Validation → MVP Development → Scale. 
Cabinblu's idea came from Lufthansa's Medical & Health Department addressing flight anxiety (20-40% of flyers). Every idea must answer: "Why should WE build this?" and align with Lufthansa Group's strategy. Aligned incentives = successful products.

2️⃣  𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 
Each venture runs with 2-3 core people as "entrepreneurs in residence," backed by specialists in marketing, design, and strategy. João partnered with a pilot who has a PhD in flight anxiety to ensure science-backed credibility. Small teams, big impact.

3️⃣ 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬, 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 
Before building anything, João used V0 by Vercel to create a clickable prototype in one morning to test with pilots. Not production-ready, but tangible enough for real feedback and stakeholder buy-in before investing months in development. Show, don't tell.

4️⃣ 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 
With engineers focused on high-ROI projects, João used FlutterFlow to build the full app without writing code. ChatGPT and YouTube filled the gaps. Result? App Store launch in 10-12 weeks. Low-code validates fast, then scale with proper engineering if it works.

5️⃣ 𝐑𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 
2 features got cut from Cabinblu's MVP: calling a pilot (operational complexity) and live flight tracking (complex APIs). João's rule: "We need to understand what is worth building-not just what's exciting to build." Scope discipline beats feature bloat. Ship what validates your hypothesis, nothing more.

6️⃣ 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐲 In corporate environments, momentum dies fast. Leadership changes, opinions shift, budgets move. "Go from idea to MVP as fast as possible. If we take too long, we lose traction and alignment." Speed isn't just efficiency-it's survival strategy. Validate with real paying customers in weeks, not months.s a masterclass in moving from "slide deck" to "shipped product."

Huge thanks to João for the insights, to everyone who joined us and to Naviu, 9x and Venture Café Berlin for making it happen!

Thank you for being part of the klub! 👊

Will AI really be able to build complex software on its own?
 
There’s a lot of skepticism out there:
“It’s just vibe-coding. It's a fad.”
“It lacks real craft and strategy.”
“It’ll always need human oversight.”
 
And for now, that’s true.
But that misses the bigger picture.
 
This isn’t a question of if. It’s a question of when.
 
Let’s look at a simple logic:
 
👉 The industry is in a sprint to achieve AGI
 
👉 Expert timelines vary, but more and more serious researchers are talking about 5 to 15 years.
 
👉 What does AGI mean? It means machines that can think, learn, and reason just like humans... or, more likely, better.
 
So, if we successfully build a machine that can out-think a human engineer...
 
Why would we say it won't be able to write complex software?
 
I get it. It’s hard to picture.
 
It was probably just as difficult for someone in the 1800s to believe we could get inside a 200-ton metal device and fly across an ocean.
 
And yet, now we fly every day.
 
I think the real debate isn’t whether AI will eventually build full systems, run autonomous codebases or do any other complex task.
 
I think the real question is:
 
What happens when it can?

Hubstaff

Frontend Architect

TheStarter - Cursos Avançados de UX Design

Chief Technology Officer (Fractional)

Flexiana

- participated on the Cicada Wallet project (product design, code, architecture, crypto)
- helped implement SCRUM and gather the team to avoid working silos
- participated in the Organizational Guild, helping to drive the change in the company by contributing to build an AI culture, and to raise the team's maturity level

Software Engineer

Lindy Labs

- participated in evolving the app to it's v2 release
- improved accessibility + design details
- stabilized the way to handle big numbers and decimals, making sure roundings were as correct as possible
- implemented the unique monetary value display feature, to provide the users with USD converted values based on ETH, or stable coins such as: LUSD, USDC, WETH

Frontend Engineer

- Adapted scrum procedures, enhancing team efficiency and reliability
- increased team predictability making it possible to estimate accurately how much time a certain task would take.
- Resolved interpersonal issues between team members, improving overall productivity
- Collaborated on client evaluations and led hiring/firing decisions
- Interviewed people for the team and the company
- Helped to pick the best candidates for our team based also on non-technical criteriums
- Onboarded new team members
- Kept contributing to a diverse range of problems in internal services regarding the skills mentioned below.

Team Lead (Livesport Team)

- helped to create and ship the new identity websites (visited by millions of people on a daily basis)
- participated in a varied set of internal services that take care of identity/domain and deployment management, among other things.

Full Stack Engineer (Livesport Team)

nxtedition

- helped to design and improve the UI component library and the Design System;
- developed a sophisticated calendar/management tool based on the RRULE specification for improved time efficiency;
- developed an impersonation feature that allows any admin or superior role to check their subordinate's system
- helped to develop the functionality of a media (image/video) editor made with WebGL (for frontend instantaneous preview) and FFmpeg (for backend saving of the applied shaders) allowing users to quickly edit/transform image/video on-the-fly.

Piksel Inc

- Mentored and led the remote React L17's team during the project, maintaining high standards of code quality;
- Provided support to the Team Lead, advising and helping to coordinate the sprint flow (planning + estimation tasks)
- Developed a diffing tool similar to the GitHub/GitLab one to show edition differences.
- Refactored legacy code for Console Service, tackling tech debt.

Frontend Lead

Airbeem

- Helped to build a web frontend and a mobile app for OTT Video Streaming (Nuxt.js + NativeScript + VueX + GraphQL)

NOTE: Airbeem closed in June 2019.

Irdeto

Remote Worker - Contractor Cavaco&Coquet

- helped to produce an UI Components Library / System Design (StoryBook) and a Developer Guide (Iris Developer) used to build most of the company services
- created the frontend foundations of the User Management Service, a service to interact with Auth0, allowing managers to set roles and permissions in a simple way
- created Dynamic Dashboards abstraction: a Component/Widget wrapper to provide a way to resize, drag and drop, organize components in a dashboard

Frontend Developer - React + Redux

freeCodeCamp

I've been contributing to building the freeCodeCamp community. As a freeCodeCamp advocate, I advise and motivate people to start this awesome totally free boot camp and I give them mentoring and motivation to overcome the growing pains associated with the learning process.

Mentor and Top Contributor (2018)

❤️ Helping you to grow and thrive as a software engineer 🌞 Solar punk 🦄 Indie Hacker 📒 Author of Code Your Future 🏴‍☠️ Software Engineer (Typescript / React / Node / AI / Web3)

👻 Hi, my name is Eduardo “Edo” Vedes
🏴‍☠️ Unschooled Senior Software Engineer (focused on the JS ecosystem)
🇵🇹 I live in the sunny countryside south of Portugal
☀️ Solar punk
🛹 I’m 0b101100 (feeling like a teen 💪)
💅 Beautiful wife, 3 amazing daughters  👸🏾 + 👸🏾👸🏽👸🏼
🖤 Multicultural family, avid activist of the #blm movement
🎓 MSc in Civil Engineering by IST with more than a decade of expertise managing and directing construction projects both in Portugal and Sub-Saharan Africa (Angola 🇦🇴)
🏆 freeCodeCamp Top Contributor 2018
🚸 Mentor and Career Change expert (in the software field)


🏀 Hobbies:

- 💻 Arch + Hyprland
- 👾 Vim/Neovim
- 🎹 Playing the guitar and the piano
- 🛼 Rollerskating with my 3 princesses
- 🍺 Beer lover
- 📚 Book vampire
- 🍿 Netflix binge-watcher
- ✝️ Holy Priest at World of Warcraft (not so often as I'd like! )😅

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