Indie startups and the shit I learn in therapy
I wrote in my 2024 year-in-review that it was the happiest year of my life. I wish I could say the same thing again, but 2025 was rockier and full of big transitions. Here are the big events of 2025: Launched a new product MetaMonster with my longtime
“There’s no easy way to say this, so I’m just going to get into it.” Ah, shit. As soon as I heard those words, I knew what was coming next. I was being fired.
Go to the Olympic peninsula! Do it. What are you waiting for? Book your tickets now. I spent 4 nights and 5 days solo, car camping and hiking in the Olympic peninsula in September and had the most incredible time. I went to visit my friends who moved to the
This time feels different… The first product I ever launched was called Ink - a contract generator and eSignature tool targeted at freelancers. The whole thing actually started with the idea to build a Dribbble competitor, until a mentor convinced me I needed to actually talk to potential users first.
It would be easy to look at this year by conventional metrics and see it as a failure. I made less money than I have in 5 years. I didn’t get a single paying customer for either of the products I worked on. I have fewer newsletter subscribers
What do you do if you aren't getting obvious signals to quit on your idea, but all the feedback is lukewarm?
Everything I learned about growing an agency business to over $1M in annual revenue over 8 years, and how I would do it faster next time.
In this post I break down how I validated the original idea for ChartJuice to the point I was confident investing 3 months building an MVP. I talk about picking the idea, conducting a landing page test and user interviews, and then weighing the pros and cons. Plus what's next.
Trip report from my 76-mile thru-hike with my dad of the Foothills Trail in South Carolina with packing list and meal plan.
How to think about market size as a bootstrapped founder and developing some quick heuristics founders can you to evaluate markets based on their goals.
A recap of my experience walking across Spain on the Camino de Santiago
I love annual reviews. Weird, but true. I love reading other people’s year-in-review posts and taking the time to do my reflection each year. Here is my 2023 annual review.
In this post I go over why I'm hiking the Camino de Santiago (more specifically the Camino Frances Route) as well as my Camino de Santiago packing list, itinerary, and more.
A bit of meta context, even though I'm publishing this with a January 2023 date, I'm writing it in August of 2023. I was pretty sloppy this year about getting a proper review put together. But progress over perfection, right? Plus, gotta keep the streak alive.
In June we signed the paperwork to join GreyNoise Intelligence. Everyone on the team received an offer to join GreyNoise, with all but one deciding to join their team. We’re incredibly excited to be a part of their incredible team and to continue the work we’ve done together!