Zeke Gabrielse
@_m27e
Father of 3. Founder of http://keygen.sh. Sometimes I like to argue with people online about software, licensing, startups, bootstrapping, and other ramblings.
I really shouldn't be responding to sales emails at 12am after a couple glasses of wine, but here we are.
I've seen more and more people talking about various forms of personal and professional burnout, and one common thread almost everyone mentions is that it started 5 years ago. I don't have anything to go with that yet, but I just found it interesting.
Sometimes a problem feels impossible at first, but that's because you didn't understand it deep enough or you didn't break it down far enough. Often times I'm able to solve for 'impossibility' by code sketching.
I don't know if I'm just touchy but I don't like how often ChatGPT is calling out my spelling mistakes lately…
I bought the domain. 🙈 I saw a post on here recently (which I can't find) about a founder talking with their wife about side projects. The founder was feeling guilty about working on his side projects instead of his main business, which I relate with a lot. But she encouraged…
I've decided, since I already have the .ai domain, that I should focus on validating the idea first before I buy the .com. I have about 3 side projects right now and so a $10k investment is too high for this one, seeing as I'm already investing in branding another one.
I tried Maybe, and I think it could've worked. But Maybe had an execution problem, not a market problem. The lack of a mobile app was execution problem number one for a B2C product, but that could've been over overlooked if the web app was executed well. But it wasn't. The web…
Maybe is making a pivot to B2B tl;dr @maybe is pivoting towards B2B financial forecasting + scenario planning The Problem We’re about 6,000 paying customers short of breaking even, with only around 200 paying customers currently, most of whom joined during the beta phases when…
I've told a few people about this idea already, but I've started working on it. At the current stage of my business, this type of tool would be very helpful in planning hires and new projects. Every founder I've talked to still uses spreadsheets for this, and I hate spreadsheets!
I have ideas! And a domain! 😅 Been spitballing essentially baremetrics but tied to bank/bookkeeper data so that forecasting and reporting are actually useful and not just vanity metrics. Also, an AI assistant ofc to answer all my business/growth questions.
I daydream of renting a @wander cabin in the woods and working offline for a week straight on some new ideas.
If you lost internet for a few days, could you still get work done?
I've decided, since I already have the .ai domain, that I should focus on validating the idea first before I buy the .com. I have about 3 side projects right now and so a $10k investment is too high for this one, seeing as I'm already investing in branding another one.
🚨 Spend $10k on ads or hiring or literally anything else 🚨 Spend $10k on a .com for a side project I'll probably never finish
If you lost internet for a few days, could you still get work done?
🚨 Spend $10k on ads or hiring or literally anything else 🚨 Spend $10k on a .com for a side project I'll probably never finish
Sometimes I get really caught up in my perfectionism and it blocks new projects from even starting. Just sits in the planning stage. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but *feels* bad because my ability to hyperfocus stems from me believing the idea is good enough to build.
People who pivot their entire online persona to hype AI — almost exclusively through hyperbole — are a certain archetype of human.
A sales guy for a large vendor I use just said that accepting his annual contract proposal would 'be a big help on his side,' as if I make spending decisions based on random people I don't know. Very off-putting interaction, imo.