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Building software online on the weekend, currently: https://notion-crm-exporter.com Freelancer for Embedded & Backend development by day. Rust 🦀, TS + React https://pascal-poredda.de/links
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4 months ago I wrote a little note to myself, to checkin with my feelings about staying in cold-ass Germany or leave to somewhere sunny. It's pretty cold at the moment, yet I don't find it that horrible as the past few winters here.

Been playing a lot around with o3-mini inside Cursor. But man it's bad. Not sure if it's due to @Cursor or the model, but more often than not it just hangs, get's lost completely or whatever. Sonnet never disappoints like that

Slowly building up reputation on other platforms. And also got back to shipping after a client on-sight last week. Feels good.

I've been playing around with n8n automation and @gumloop_ai Somehow basic programming things like doing if else if / switching feel hard Also having to connect to a gazillion of services / APIs cannot be the future..

My shipping has falling behind lately.

Man, I'm really tired of living in a car.

Having all the freedom is a trap in itself. It stops you from being free. Having all the options to choose from is simply not good.

Life hack when anxiety kicks in: simply lie down on the floor.

Recently I found myself more often looking up domain names for random ideas, If I'd purchase all of them.. I'd soon be broke lol

Sometimes I'm buying domain names like books. They just accumulate.

AIfluencer's is a niche one can grow in. Teaching other people to use AI for their individual business case.

The Dip by Seth Godin has one big insight. Knowing when to quit, and that it's ok to quit. If something is a dead end, and you're not into it to becoming the best, why even bother. Don't settle for mediocrity. Going to evaluate what to quit.

I've been successfully freelancing for roughly 4 years, here are a few learnings in regards to new clients. 1. Always get a deposit before starting a project. It helps avoid future regrets. 2. Link payment instalments to dates, not deliverables.

Never underestimate the power of having other entrepreneurial friends in your close circle. This has given me some many insights into how other business handle things, and the chance to find good barter deals.

The four commandments of business according to MJ Demarco: Time, Control, Scale & Entry Whilst freelancing over the last years has given me a good foundation & baseline in terms of money, I'm literally violating all these. Is freelancing even a business then?

Showed a friend all these "fancy" AI builder tools today. The sparkles is his eyes when he said: "I can build my gf an app she needs" felt kinda cool tbh Teaching other people how to use this effectively is fun!

Got the recommendation from a fellow IndieHacker to read this book: The Dip by Seth Godin.

One of my big goals this year is to learn that I've come already quite far and that I can rely on my own skills, but don't have to, because there are other people that are willing to work with me, and even help me.

99% of the people I know simply consume. If you start to produce something, whether good or bad you're already in the top 1%.

I've fallen into the trap of regurgitating the same thing other people say, without thinking about it way too often.

I'm lacking a good system to produce long form content and creating remixed variants out of it for other platforms like LinkedIn, X etc. Has anyone come up with a good system / approach he can recommend? Maybe even a good tool?

Coding is not the only form of deep work. It also means doing marketing, writing and content creation.

Started the day 5 hours late today, left the house with my keys inside. Had the pleasure to enjoy the DB for 4 hours driving back and forth :) Can it get any better..

"Why moving for taxes is a prison sentence" I'm German and do pay roughly 90.000 Euros in taxes each year to the gov, more often that not I considered leaving Germany for tax purposes. @itsolelehmann wrote a great piece in his newsletter this weekend that resonated with me deeply: Thoughts: ⬇️

Everyone want's to create content with AI; Nobody want's to consume AI content.

Being grateful for the small things keeps me sane.

There's a big hack to all of life: Don't do it alone. Find your others.

If you're using Typefully and Telegram, and want to use your voice for drafts? Checkout my bot: - The source code is open source on GitHub. - Free 5 minutes of usages, then you can use your own API key Record a voice note -> Get Typefully Draft

So many people still know nothing about AI and AI Agents, feels like I'm in my own little bubble online

Posting on LinkedIn always feels cringe.

I really love TypeFully's UI for writing. It's clean and focused. But sometimes I have a thought on the go, and want to draft it in there. So I wrote a little Telegram Bot that I send a voice note to, it transcribes it and creates a structured draft in TypeFully. Thanks to Cursor

In preparation for the podcast episodes I'm learning so much stuff and can just follow my curiosity. I love it. Recording setup wise there's still room for a lot of improvement, but I don't care right now. Just a mic, a camera, some light. Any software recommendations?

4 years ago I started a Podcast called "Software Cafe". I recorded 12 episodes and stopped. For no clear reason honestly. I always enjoyed doing these podcast episodes. So I decided to start again, renamed (rebranded) the podcast into Dein Copilot and recorded my first episode after 4 years.

Last year I launched notion-crm-export(dot)com a simple tool that fixed a simple problem: Export your Notion Database including comments on a record. Made a few $$$ from it. But I had to refund a purchase from a customer.