You *can* just build things.
Looking over last year, and a first incident for 2025.
Working with big systems all day can slow you down.
Feels like I've already said everything I had to say
I was young, and needed to ship...
Dipping my toe in enterprise sales
Refactoring the business entity, thoughts on marketing and building
Starting the year by cleaning up even more
On learning screencasting, cleaning up tech debt, and focus
On content marketing, starting a YouTube channel, and improving status pages
Heading back into the arena. We are so back.
Back to regular programming.
I tried building a monolith.
On failing customers, failing to ship a new feature, learning sales, and giving up on ads.
On building table-stakes features, and breaking through a plateau.
On re-rearchitecting.
On cleaning up the shop.
Building a new feature in a couple of weeks.
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
A new monitoring service for OnlineOrNot, and new learnings for my pricing page.
In which I doubled my conversion rate without trying too hard.
On ripping out product analytics, updating the pricing page, and adding multi-region monitoring
Marketing week? More like reliability week
In which I ship a CLI (for real this time), and improve a few things
On marketing, and shipping a CLI
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