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arvidkahl.bsky.social
Building https://podscan.fm so that people and brands can track their mentions on podcasts. I write, podcast & make videos in public. Calmly. Bootstrapping: https://arvid.link/sold Audience-First: https://arvid.link/embedded Audience-Building: https:
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Merry 2025 ;)

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

I just learned about this through @arvidkahl.bsky.social and I think this is amazing. I've been looking for and hoping this kind of thing existed for a long time to help indie founders build more sustainably. calmfund.com

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Sending your Black Friday marketing email on Cyber Monday is still fine, right? 🤣 Asking for a friend.

submitted 85 days ago • 5 comments

hunter2

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

The more I use AI “at work”, the more I come to understand that an AI can not love its work. Anything it produces is unloved, unlovable, and loveless. That’s great if you want analytical insights and data crunching. It’s terrible for anything supposedly “creative.”

submitted 89 days ago • 18 comments

This is why you can't trust user-provided data. Seen here: a podcast's RSS feed, totally legitimately listing its categories. Not keyword stuffing at all.

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

With nascent social networks like this, how do you feel about “intentional audience building?” Part of me longs for memories of the past, where people just hung out and didn’t expect any outcomes. Yet, in reality, most people now optimize for reputation & monetary gain. So… which is it for you?

submitted 91 days ago • 25 comments

It's "on-device LLM" today. Soon, it'll be "on-chip" LLM. Or LLM cores. The system default local LLM. The coding framework's default local LLM. I find this incredibly exciting. A privacy-first, self-contained, user-owned AI—a 24/7 agent for action, insights & feedback. github.com/huggingface/...

submitted 93 days ago • 12 comments

CSS sure is beautiful. www.tyleo.com/html-glass.h...

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

This week, I reflected on my free trial strategy. One thought that I couldn’t shake was that a trial period is free for the prospect, but can be expensive for the founder. So where do we draw the line? How much do we let them use the product? Heres my approach. tbf.fm/episodes/357...

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

I’m really reluctant going all-in on coding with cursor. Maybe that’s old man yelling at cloud, but I prefer having some semblance of a full mental model of my code as I improve it. Only playing “pull request merging expert” disconnects me from the resulting artifacts. Or am I doing it wrong?

submitted 94 days ago • 41 comments

This girl was watching me push a significant UI change to production earlier. They truly mirror our emotional state.

submitted 95 days ago • 12 comments

What’s that one thing about running a SaaS business that nobody warned you about? For me, it’s the inability to turn of my mental background processing. There’s always a new idea or optimization popping up in the least work-related circumstances.

submitted 95 days ago • 23 comments

So, I just found out that a sprinkle of freshly ground cardamom in my morning coffee increases the joy of that beverage by an additional 47%. This may not be mid-pandemic sourdough nerdery, but I am really getting into spiced beverages 🤣

submitted 95 days ago • 8 comments

I've been mired in building machine-learning models in... PHP for the last few days. I never thought I could pull this off, but it would appear I have a pretty accurate audience size prediction system using ridge regression on hand-collected data. Still fiddling with it, but it's working 🤯

submitted 96 days ago • 8 comments

When the studio couch is not in use, my office manager makes sure I still get my work done.

submitted 96 days ago • 7 comments

The painful part of being a founder is knowing just how impactful an hour spent on the business can be. Really gets in the way of relaxing on a Sunday afternoon 🤣

submitted 114 days ago • 5 comments

Happy Halloween 🥰

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

Is there an indie hacker community on blue sky yet?

submitted 659 days ago • 5 comments

I was informed at 6am that it was time to get started writing.

submitted 657 days ago • 4 comments

I bought 4 more books that I likely won't start reading for a few months. Send help.

submitted 663 days ago • 2 comments

Was just hanging out with family. Even though I have people who work in rather modern industries, nobody knew what Stripe was. Or Hacker News. Or Paddle. Or MicroConf. Or any of the podcasts I listen to. Or what my own podcast is about. I do enjoy getting that kind of perspective.

submitted 666 days ago • 3 comments