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.

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:

I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program in Go. I found the book hit or miss. Some chapters were fascinating and taught me valuable Go lessons, while others felt boring and got too bogged down in the minutiae of third-party libraries. Overall, I’d still recommend it to anyone who considers themselves a beginner or intermediate Go programmer.