We are Welabs

When welabs was founded in 2015 by Jens and Mio, the distance between those two was still small, between Darmstadt and Mainz. A bit later Mainz turned to Braunschweig and when one of them started their life as a digital nomad, Braunschweig turned to Vietnam, Thailand, Portugal or Indonesia.

The team grew and also the distances we had to face. Since the founding and until today we have been working together in over ten countries, three continents and counting.

In meetings we usually have one person at their desk with the casual morning coffee while another one is having a dinner smoothie at sunset under palm trees. The first fifteen minutes we usually spend giving a quick update on where we are and what we are up to. And we couldn't imagine it any other way. Remote work became our way within just a few years and we are proud to say that we never had an office. Ever.

But working remotely does not look like sitting with your laptop in a hanging chair all day – to be able to work from home or from somewhere else it takes discipline, autonomy and a high level of communication within your team. Because working remotely does not come without flexible working hours, regular updates on travel plans or individual availabilities. Otherwise this will never work.

We are very aware that only a few companies have the privilege to include remote work into their daily work life. We are convinced that it is a challenge that as many as possible should face if they are able to. Past events like the Covid pandemic have proven that extreme situations require extreme measures which we were not prepared for and our work place is definitely one of them. So we would like to encourage everyone who is able to give it a try!

Now that you know why we love flamingos and work on the beach, maybe you are wondering who we are individually. So let us give you a quick intro on our small but superb team:

Welabs was founded 2015 by Jens who is also our CEO. Jens is a DEV enthusiast. He studied Information Systems Technology and has a strong interest in Tailwind and Laravel. He is based in Mainz and works mostly from home or sometimes on the road. In our team he is mainly responsible for typical CEO work like testing if his headset microphone works after logging in for the fifth time or switching between three devices in only one meeting. His free time he spends mostly with photography and biking.

Co-founder of Welabs and our lead in project management is My Dung Nguyen, but everyone calls her Mio. She has a diploma in Industrial Design and is a certified systemic personal & business coach. She works only from her laptop and travels the world as digital nomad for years already. She also loves nature and healthy food. Mio is the heart and soul of our company and manages both our projects and our very unique personalities to perfection. Her compassion and her empathy are her biggest skills and also create a warm and authentic atmosphere that our clients love and appreciate when working with us.

Ganesh is our lead developer and works from Bengaluru, India. He is highly skilled in all kinds of frameworks and always checks out new development trends. His interest in web development and application architecture already manifested during his time in high school. He studied Computer Science and is co-founder of the Intellispiders Technologies LLP. His commitment and his flexibility in our projects are irreplaceable, just as his IT humour. In his free time he enjoys badminton, racing on empty roads and like all IT people fixing bugs.

Lulu joined Welabs as a working student for UX & UI and is currently our design lead. She is extremely passionate about all aspects of design and gets either incredibly focused or desperately distracted during her work. Her interest in this field has always been there even though she entered it as a career changer after finishing her BA in German philology and starting a second bachelor studies in Interactive Media Design. During the pandemic, Amsterdam became her second home base and she added Dutch to her extensive list of languages she started to learn.

Alex also studied Interactive Media Design as well as Information Science and supports welabs now with her interdisciplinary know-how. She also loves photography together with digital art, DIY projects and dance.

This article covers ChatGPT, a AI-based chatbot developed by OpenAI-Platform in 2022. OpenAI also developed DALL-E 2 which creates images and artworks through prompts interpreted by AI, as well as Whisper (voice recognition and output) and other useful tools.

Other than most support chatbots ChatGPT uses Deep Learning Algorithms to create a natural dialogue flow and constantly improves its authenticity and clarity in responding. The responses ChatGPT generates are based on a controlled set of training data with huge amounts of different texts. The model recognises speech patterns in texts to generate automatic responses that seem human-like. ChatGPT is able to understand the context of a question or problem as well as refer to follow up questions and previously given information.

Nevertheless ChatGPT is yet far from all-knowing and also comes with protecting mechanics that identify questions which should not be answered. With these mechanics the AI prevents the abuse of its knowledge for illegal, discriminating or criminal intentions.

Overall ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can be used both by individuals and businesses. It is ideal in order to analyse and optimise internal and external processes, for example debugging for programmers, content generation for business mails and protocols, the creation of FAQ pages or support of employee workshops and education.

If you want to know more about ChatGPT or try it out yourself, have a look → https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/