Thoughts and things I learned from my professional work as a freelance consultant and my journey as an indie hacker.
Music is arguably one of the best things humanity ever invented. And though music itself has become ubiquitous, leading some voices to declare businesses around music dead, reality tells a different story. "Music" is more than just listening to something on Spotify or Apple Music. It opens up a vast...
Many humans have a tendency to focus on negative outcomes. Well yes, in general, it is easier to see problems and risks instead of opportunities and possibilities. It's the well-known "yes, but" instead of "yes, and." To some degree, this is the basis for grim, dark futures like tech-/ societal-dyst...
Trending topics, breaking news, all the buzz... Don't we all love it? It is a good indicator to look at something worth pursuing. And many do. Just try to count all products covering social proof, social media scheduling, keyword monitoring (cough), link-in-bio, or GPT-3-based copy generators.
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Reading "Collectors are as confused as you are about that $1.56M Super Mario 64 sale" made me curious. What you'd expect from a collector is this: "the biggest collectors generally wanted to own a complete, playable set of all the titles on their favorite platforms." And, of course, "as these comp...
When I wrote about platform risk, the Creator Economy, and the Indie Web, decentralization was only touched briefly. Buckle up, today is going to get technical.
The first phase of the Internet, or the World Wide Web, to be specific, can be considered as a consumer version. There were only a rela...
On August 19, 2021, OnlyFans announced they "will prohibit the posting of any content containing sexually-explicit conduct." This sounds like business suicide. Most people just shook their heads in disbelief.
Side note: OnlyFans was forced to take this step. Their statement clearly says that "th...
Chindōgu "is the practice of invention of ingenious everyday gadgets that seem to be ideal solutions to particular problems, but which may cause more problems than they solve." Or shorter: pure anarchy. If you want some examples, just do a quick image search to get a feel for them. And if you wan...
The term "Metaverse" itself first appeared in Neil Stephenson's 1992 novel "Snow Crash", where it is described as the "cyberspace home to avatars and software demons, where anything and just about everything goes." You can see this as an imagined future development for the internet or as a metaphor...
When deciding on the technical foundation for a project or product, the one advice you hear most is "the goto stack for building [...] is the one you know the best." So by using exclusion, the following was my thought process for choosing the tech base for Birdspotter.
No-code is no option this...
The Internet Is Rotting. This is another one of those articles showing that the internet actually does forget. That this is something to worry about. Content drift and link rot are a thing. And this observation opens up opportunities.
Here is a first example from my idea list to give you some pos...