Stiva 1.0.5 is live , and it's the first version of the app anyone outside a closed test group can install. Everything before it, 1.0.0 through 1.0.4, stayed inside a private testing track with a small group of testers. This is the one I'm actually calling public. I wanted to mark the occasion properly, explain a few things about how the app and this blog will work going forward, and be upfront…
I've already shared why I'm building Stiva as an antidote to information overload, and why I chose a one-time purchase model instead of yet another subscription. But beyond the core philosophy, I want to be transparent about what you actually get when you install the app. Here is exactly how Stiva works, what stays free, and what the Premium version unlocks. What is free My goal with Stiva is to…
Subscription fatigue is a real thing. And it makes sense, up to a point, because plenty of software genuinely benefits from the model: cloud services, collaborative tools, anything that involves ongoing infrastructure and real recurring costs. But somewhere along the way, even small utility apps started charging monthly fees. Apps with no backend. Apps with no recurring operational costs. Apps…
At work, I love being organized . I feel completely in my element with Kanban boards, Scrum sprints, and using Jira every single day. In a professional setting, making everything fit together perfectly is natural, it’s essential. But when I close my laptop, the rules change. It’s not that personal life isn't organized, running a home takes a lot of planning, too. The real difference is the…
We are constantly bombarded. We open social media during a lunch break, scroll through the feed, and stumble upon dozens of interesting links, articles we’d like to dive into, or insights that could be useful. But time is short, and the "snackable" format of modern content pushes us to consume everything at lightning speed. The result? We read superficially, falling victim to FOMO, accumulating…
Francesco , a fellow tech nerd, shared an interesting interview with Jason Fried . The interview sometimes felt a bit too staged, and I don't know if he actually behaves the way he described, but I appreciated some points. Fried didn't invent these concepts, but he made me think. Small is beautiful In a business you must earn more than your spend. You can’t control the context where your Business…
Following the learn-by-doing approach, in September 2024 I started working on my first app, Drinklytics. In these articles I share my journey, ideally once a month Following the “fresh start effect” of the new year, I spent some time reflecting on Drinklytics and its trajectory. I asked myself: what value does Drinklytics actually bring to people? To answer that, I refined the value proposition:…
Following the learn-by-doing approach, in September 2024 I started working on my first app, Drinklytics. In these articles I share my journey, ideally once a month I failed, and maybe I could have done more, but I see goals, especially for this side project, as inspirational moonshots. In July 2025, I set a goal for Drinklytics: 1000 active installs in six months. We could talk about how relative…
Following the learn-by-doing approach, in September 2024 I started working on my first app, Drinklytics. In these articles I share my journey, ideally once a month Welcome to a new update on my Build in Public journey with the Drinklytics app. I realize just now that September marked the anniversary of the start of the project; not the publication, but the very first experiments. I had the…
Following the learn-by-doing approach, in September 2024 I started working on my first app, Drinklytics. In these articles I share my journey, ideally once a month This is the October update, made in November. I am such a rebel. But I like the idea of a monthly post to tell what happened the last month. Given that time is short for everything, I set up a new priority system, or better, I optimized…