Building in Public

Customer discovery insights, production DevOps lessons, and honest updates from the journey of finding problems worth solving.

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Stop Renting Your Audience: Run Your Own Newsletter with Listmonk

After Medium hid my subscriber count, I moved to self-hosted newsletters. Here's how to set up Listmonk on a €12/month server—no vendor lock-in, full control of your audience.

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Medium Hid My Subscribers: Why You Must Own Your Audience

Medium locked away subscriber emails in April 2025. Here's what I learned about platform risk and why every creator needs their own email list.

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What I Learned Turning 31 (In a Year I'll Never Forget)

Reflections on fatherhood, failure, and finding meaning in unexpected places.