Highlights

• I left the country for two weeks, and TinyPilot ran smoothly without me.
• A pipe burst in the TinyPilot office, leading to a near-disaster.
• I’m searching for the right balance between reactive and proactive work.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Highlights

• TinyPilot began shipping a new product: the Voyager 2a.
• I canceled our contract with a new 3PL vendor a few weeks into the relationship.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Five years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company.

For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. None of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, and they all had negative profits.

Halfway through my third year, I created a device called TinyPilot. It allows users to control their computers remotely without installing any software. The product quickly caught on, and it’s been my main focus ever since.

Five years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company.

For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. None of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, and they all had negative profits.

Halfway through my third year, I created a device called TinyPilot. It allows users to control their computers remotely without installing any software. The product quickly caught on, and it’s been my main focus ever since.

Highlights

• TinyPilot is facing a supply shortage that will drastically limit its sales for 2023.
• Running leaner might not be such a bad thing.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: