Szymon Rączka

Former video creator, now re-#buildinpublic. Burnout ended my career with 165m+ YouTube views, but I'm not done creating yet.

[Szymon Rączka @screenfluent]

I achieved something big today!

Yesterday I got an idea that I'd take my cheap second-hand road bike I bought two months ago and do 100K distance today.

And I did it!

Even though my mind was trying to convince me that I need a special workout plan, more preparation and how bad and imperfect my approach is.

I'm in the process of solving perfectionism with my therapist and this bike became a great lab for me to practice what I learned about myself, the root cause of my problems and how to stop it when it's kicking in.

Because perfectionism in combination with seeking validation and acceptance from others is the reason I turned successful online projects into failure.

I've been working on servicing it and upgrading patiently past many weeks, without my typical intense, hyper focused, quick burnout approach. Waiting for stuff from Ali or finding good second-hand deals. Learning everything on the go, not being afraid and paralyzed I'll make a mistake. And I finished complete groups upgrade on Friday and together with today's trip it feels so good!

I hope to use this new, healthy way in this online space to build things someday.

But now let me lay down for the rest of the day... 😅

P.S. My previous PR was 46 kilometers, and I'm still processing that I really made 100!

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@T_Zahil No priority access for Uneed Pro folks? :)

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@BN_Geek True! 🫶🏻

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@YasKTechTips While I feel embarrassed, I know to overcome it I have to act and do it often. Today is the big small beginning. 🙌🏻

[Szymon Rączka @screenfluent]

Hi, I'm Szymon from Poland.

And I am overthinker.

Next month I'll turn 46 and just this year I'm finally able to name and connect with this condition.

Overthinking, perfectionism, never ending preparations to make the best possible decision. Like I have just one shot for everything in my life.

I'm turning everything into this linear full of suffering process where I need to achieve some kind of checkpoints to be able to move forward.

It always starts with a very simple idea, that suddenly grows into enormous complexity, full of conditional requirements.

I spent thousands of hours past 2 years, building projects that never got published. So many big ideas that would be even too big for a team of several people.

Even with this post it took me weeks of keeping it in my head, waiting until I'm ready. But this post most likely will hear crickets, so why do I stress so much? That's so stupid!

Screw this! I'm not ready, but I'm doing it. There is no functional app. No landing page. No waitlist to sign up. No logo. No deployment pipeline. No business plan. No sophisticated marketing plan.

Just a name to overcome my overthinking disease: Untitled Notes

Yep, I wanted to stop the spiral of finding "the best" note-taking app name, so I called it Untitled Notes and suddenly it becomes a synonym for the way I want to take notes. Just write down a thought, a task, a bookmark without all those complex systems behind.

Just a single place to put them down and organize later or never. One never-ending page with a simplicity on the surface, but with amazing capabilities under the hood.

I tested the concept with a prototype and confirmed that I love the UX and that's what I want to exist. Now I'm at the stage of rebuilding it into an actual app.

This time the approach is completely different:

- find if anyone is interested in testing it
- ship it no matter how unpolished and "not ready" it feels
- improve based on actual feedback
- find more users
- keep going

I'm building it for myself, but believe there are some people who might like it too and I'd like to connect with them.

Are you one of them?

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@jackfriks Replace coffee with 5g of cocaine. $1k is more than enough and it changes your life way faster.

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@davidcasarez @thekitze This is a new kind of bait on X these days...

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@TfTHacker Wait for Duo 2 ;)

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@T_Zahil Really nice, but I would take it only with this property included! 😁

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@hexsprite And of course what you mentioned deeply resonating with me obviously. And my intention with Untitled Notes is to be the reminder itself, to practice keeping things simple and imperfect.

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@hexsprite Thank you, Jordan! Now I see the demo isn't perfect haha ;) Because while it has an outliner mechanics, the default content is a long-form prose. It is just your choice if you want make it starting with bullet points.

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@T_Zahil I think my approach is slightly different. I use Remote Desktop apps (I use two, as the primary doesn't have linux client). So I have just one environment with all apps, windows, settings available everywhere. No extra layers in between.

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@realchrisolin I follow @wickedguro journey since @robj3d3 mentioned him in some video and while it's extremely inspiring I think starting open source project two years later in completely different world isn't the best approach. Especially in this niche it is big red ocean.

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@T_Zahil I haven't opened my MacBook for months now. It's closed with monitor plugged in. But I not use it only when I sit at the desk, but from everywhere else. I have apps letting me use it from my iPhone/iPad and Linux laptop. And love it!

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@T_Zahil My thinking is simple. The sense of independence is worth much more than the RAM price difference we have now. So hypothetically even if the prices would drop to same levels as before (I don't believe it) then I still would be a winner.

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@martindonadieu Hahaha, don't change anything I love it!

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@T_Zahil Nope, I don't have hardware to do it, but if I could afford this machine I would do this straight away making local model main orchestrator with some fallback for cloud models for difficult tasks.

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@boardyai But my post is about my own notes app... that's why I don't get it.

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@OniRazem Yeah, this is my attempt to rewire this pattern wth this post. On tech side I'm designing it to be able change every decision I made on start.