Jens Zeilund

#solopreneur in progress

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@SimonHoiberg Sometimes this AI race feels like the next step of aggreswive vendor lock in from big tech. Their moat. So good callout. Make informed decissions on your stack and your tools. And understand the tradeoffs.

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

I have consolidated all my hosting on Hetzner (alpine linux). It simplifies deployments but creates a single point of failure. None of the services are mission critical though.

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@flydotio Neither cPanel or VPS has gone away. Its more a "get your meal delivered instead of cooking it yourself" kinda thing.

[Robert Rodriguez @Rodriguez]

Your own worst enemy is yourself. Don't let a belief take you out of the game.

🎥: The @tferriss Show

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

Ever wonder why your bank or government has such a terrible website or app? Surely building these things is simple no?

It’s actually a super interesting, perfect storm of misaligned incentives. I’m not even scratching the surface here but I have observed:

- good engineers don’t want to work in big bureaucracies like banks or government because the pay is shit and the work isn’t interesting

- dev is seen as a “cost center” it’s something that management tries to minimize, or needs to be able to calculate ROI of

- everything gets outsourced to overseas body shops where cultural / time zone differences make good execution nearly impossible

- lack of senior technical knowledge, if the dev shop says it will take 3 months to add a button to the homepage the manager at HQ just shrugs and reports back to his boss. and he’s fine with that because it means his job is safe for another quarter until they ship that button.

it’s all very tiresome.

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@ThePeterMick I think i need this on a note that I will see every morning 😅

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@openstreetmap That's great news! What a wonderful summer update.

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@gus_tiffer Congrats! It's very inspirational 🙌

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@yongfook What a beauty!

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@yongfook Prompted in "insert country here". An evolution of "designed in"?

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

Reading @tdinh_me new book My Indie Book getting myself inspired. Is it now that i give indie hacking a new try? 😅

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

Ship Nothing is still shipping. Time to ship. Nothing.
https://t.co/i45087OUbB

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@marclou The idea was noble. But the execution from EU has just been a disaster. Unfortunately EU seems to excel at creating barriers.

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@bdon It would be easier to make a sign on what you can do by the looks of it.

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

Rendering gpx tracks to png files. Just for fun. #buildinpublic

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

My solopreneur journey has temporarily been put on pause due to new full time job. Brain is fried after a work day. Hopefully I can find energy after a while. #buildinpublic

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@daniel_nguyenx I wish i had shipped my side projects 11 years ago. My drawers are full of half done side projects never shipped or shown to others.

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

Toying around with business card a design for https://t.co/lADaEgsr4H. Does it make sense to have business cards for advertisement in 2024? What do you think?
#buildinpublic

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

Work on https://t.co/lADaEgsYUf has been a bit slow this week. But still managed to add a footer to all pages and release the photo wall called "ideas wall".
#buildinpublic

[Jens Zeilund @sketchground]

@ThePeterMick We better stay good friends with Mr AI. 😅