Ex-Google & Ex-Microsoft. Bootstrapping my own indie apps. Profitable 💰 Now Scaling up 🚀🤞 Transcriptions - https://transcript.lol Content repurposing - https://repurpose.lol Travel planning - https://roamaround.app Personal portfolio - https://pkp.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3low7kwrtre2cI'm glad I added dark mode to Transcript LOL. I spend most of day building / dogfooding transcript - cannot look at a bright screen for so long!11 May 2025 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3low7kwrtre2chttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3logqhz6n7b26Personal moats in tech are eroding fast! Are distribution and sales the only skills with long term moat? A year ago: skilled programmer is a scarce and sought after skill. Now: demand shifted and effective scarcity is low.05 May 2025 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3logqhz6n7b26https://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lnxjccd27m2oWhat’s your main motivation to work for yourself? I started out just for the fun of building. Freedom is another big factor I discovered along the way. It was rainy this weekend so, worked on Sunday and took Monday off instead 😅29 Apr 2025 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxjccd27m2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lnpm76v7ce2dWeek 33: Email sequences - example where it really helps knowing how to code + sell 🔥 Spent a lot of time researching techniques specific to each sequence: - 🔢 # of emails in the sequence - 💬 Key message in each email - ⏱️ Timing the message26 Apr 2025 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnpm76v7ce2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3ln44civgw72hWeek 32: Started off feeling defeated 😞 📢 Ad campaigns: Weeks of work leading up to this moment! Launched our first Google Ads campaign on Sunday. Got rejected with an inconspicuous policy error. I have tried everything I could think of to get around this - Google is very unhelpful here!18 Apr 2025 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln44civgw72hhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lmmnhf7bq42lWeek 31: Bottom of funnel optimisations Moved to Spain for the next couple of months. Same consistency in the routine just a different location. Rebuilt the pricing page and upsell components. Focusing on the final step in the funnel: Visitor -> User -> Key feature use -> Subscriber12 Apr 2025 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmmnhf7bq42lhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3llvxlygnsa2cWho Is Your ICP? An onboarding survey can capture this! Inspired by @TallyForms I'm adding this. But... I don't want to overload the path to key feature usage. I plan to show this right after user requests their first transcript and waiting for the result. Are there better ways to gather this?03 Apr 2025 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3llvxlygnsa2chttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3llgnwrstfp2yWeek 29: No one cares about your product... It's your job to convince your users to care! We have to get users to the wow moment as quickly as possible! In practice, this means: keeping the funnel to key feature usage as short and distraction free as possible.28 Mar 2025 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3llgnwrstfp2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lkw57gphj42rWeek 28: Marketing, marketing, marketing Word of mouth has been good but not enough for the growth I want to see in Transcript. This week's focus has been on doing some ground work to test new marketing channels. Excited to hit the ground running by next week!21 Mar 2025 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkw57gphj42rhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lksoupjlbs2dSleep hard, work hardly20 Mar 2025 12:23 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lksoupjlbs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lkel6r4fl624Week 27: Marketing work Been doing some groundwork for a consistent marketing push. Need to crack the distribution problem well or everything else I’m building is for nothing Also, I have finally taken a few days off this week with a long weekend trip to Norway.14 Mar 2025 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkel6r4fl624https://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3ljx3zofjay2yRecharging 🧠 with this little boy 🐶09 Mar 2025 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljx3zofjay2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3ljszlm23ks2jWeek 26: A slow week 🐢 🔢 Dashboard to track conversions per channel 📢 Prep for Ads and organic experiments 🚀 Fixed bottlenecks with database07 Mar 2025 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljszlm23ks2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3ljmvdifht72fThe look and sound of real luxury…. I’m grateful that I get to wake up to this and build my company on my own terms.05 Mar 2025 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljmvdifht72fhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3ljhowz2bcy2rI will give investor updates bootstrapping. I will give investor updates bootstrapping. I will give investor updates bootstrapping. I will give investor updates bootstrapping.03 Mar 2025 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljhowz2bcy2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3ljaigs4d5r2yWeek 25: I survived a week without AI 🤖 Here's what I learned... Thanks to @EE I'm practically cut-off from internet this week so, I challenged myself to build offline!28 Feb 2025 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljaigs4d5r2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lj5tsr7ley2gI gave the same problem to ChatGPT, Deepseek R1, Claude and Grok. The results tell a very different story to benchmarks! Models tested: - o3-mini-high (ChatGPT) - DeepThink R1 (DeepSeek) - Claude 3.5 Sonnet - Grok 3 beta (thinking on)27 Feb 2025 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj5tsr7ley2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lj3ddorhtk2qOne thing I learnt from successful founders and good programmers. Successful founders 🏎️ When building something, built it fast so you can do: users 🔁 feedback 🔁 improve Good programmers 🧠 When building something, build it right so you don't have to keep coming back to it26 Feb 2025 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj3ddorhtk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3liyswan4ph2q0 ➡️ 25 ➡️ 0 - in just a few minutes. Very happy with the results of scaling work last week. Transcript LOL demonstrated it can scale, and more importantly scale quick! Onto improving other areas now!25 Feb 2025 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3liyswan4ph2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3liw44ev2gz2uWhat did you do last week? Everyone should be asking this question themselves. It’s a basic pulse check if you want to grow! I been answering this question every week, publicly, for 24 weeks now!24 Feb 2025 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3liw44ev2gz2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3litokdvmuy22I been getting a lot of requests lately to chat about startups. I'm always enthusiastic to listen and share my experience! If you do book a meeting, please show up because, I will! And it's not fun sitting in a cold room (where I take my calls), in my weekend, waiting for you to never join the call!23 Feb 2025 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3litokdvmuy22https://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lirfxaulm72cI gave ChatGPT $500 budget. Watch me turn it into $50,000 - these are the FOMO bros I do not miss!22 Feb 2025 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lirfxaulm72chttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3liosp2ryfi2vWeek 24: Scaling up: millions of hours per year ⬆️ 💪 Transcript is now ready to handle ~100 hours of transcription per minute 🛣️ Clear path to scale this further 2-5x ⌛️ Cold boot optimisations Scaling is an endless pit of things to do. Will revisit after demand catch ups.21 Feb 2025 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3liosp2ryfi2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3linc54nmya26Stress tested Transcript LOL’s scaling mechanism today. Hit a peak of 200 hours per minute, no problems 🔥🔥 Making improvements to cold boot speeds before the next test.20 Feb 2025 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3linc54nmya26https://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lilzs3lvqc2aThe simple autoscaler we use in production. Can make it smarter as we know so much else that we don't use: - Size of each active job - Size of each queued job - Mean-time to completion per job per size20 Feb 2025 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lilzs3lvqc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lik2spioa52uUnpopular opinion: Computer science fundamentals are useful and essential! I'm thoroughly enjoying building an auto-scalar for Transcript LOL workers. A very interesting scheduler problem. You can make it however smart as you want! And the impact is real and tangible!19 Feb 2025 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lik2spioa52uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lief3abyqi2hFastest transcriptions without zero compromise on quality! 🚀 1.9 minutes to transcribe per hour of audio 🚀 13 seconds or less for files under 20 mins What's measured will be improved!17 Feb 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lief3abyqi2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3li4tr6p2f22vWeek 23: Messaging automation setup (super useful tool at the end) There are so many scenarios for communicating to my users:14 Feb 2025 09:02 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3li4tr6p2f22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lhz34gu5fi22The best internal feature I have built into transcript, by far! - Imitate a user! Saves me so much time as I don't have to go back and forth when a customer writes to me with an issue. I can easily log-in as them and dissect the issue faster!12 Feb 2025 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhz34gu5fi22https://bsky.app/profile/pkp.io/post/3lhtzzr2v342aMy complete strategy on how to win this year: Make Transcript a little bit better each day, everyday. These small improvements will compound and give the best value for money to my customers. It is really that simple. The key is consistency!10 Feb 2025 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:65iwmxwgd2ed6ciflwk4evil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtzzr2v342a