Senior Engineer by day 🛠 | Profitable indie-hacker & digital products juggler by night 🚀 | Tweets on building side hustles while embracing 9-to-5 stability
I've been building side projects since 2011. (co)Built at least 10 potential startups, all started with great ambition and rose dreams. Only 1-2 made it profitable. I'll share learning tips from my 10+ years of experience, tackling a successful 9-5 career and enjoying the perks of profitable side hustles. 🚀 #buildinpublic
There was a time in my life when my calendar looked like this.
Big part of my drive to make my ventures work is to save my employees and myself from this hell.
At Parqet, I have 2 regular meetings per week. Both on Monday.
No standups, no coffee chats, no bi-weekly 1:1‘s.
You just... other people are going to build the future, you can just sit back and eat some popcorn and watch the movie of the future unfold. And so both extreme optimism and extreme pessimism converge on sort of laziness."
One of the best quotes out there:
"Extreme optimism and extreme pessimism are very similar. Extreme pessimism tells you there's nothing you can do; extreme optimism tells you there's nothing you need to do. " Peter Thiel
@aloglute a bit delayed response, but It would be helpful if it can give feedback after every session, for example, words to use, grammar that shall be considered and ideally a flashcard of list of common mistakes.
UEFA 24: Perplexity vs ChatGPT vs Gemini
I asked the same question about the live game between the Netherlands and Turkey.
1st place: Perplexity - accurate, up-to-date info.
2nd place: ChatGPT - no clear answers but guided me to check some pages for accurate results.
3rd place: Gemini - wrong answer, showed results from a 2019 game!