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TinyPilot: Month 45

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Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-110k/month in revenue and employs six other people.

Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my business and my professional life overall.

Highlights

  • I worked with the TinyPilot team to lock down access to deployment secrets without interfering with our workflows.
  • I learned from my mistakes to limit downtime when migrating services between platforms.
  • I wrote my first compiler, albeit an extremely simple one.

Goal grades

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