The only easy day was yesterday There is a sense of permanent strength in CEOs as we stride into the office every day, and I never go to work without this facade of strength.However, not every day is
The bootstrapper's hierarchy of needs It takes 10 hours a day, seven days a week, and two years of computer time to get good at programming. For a bootstrapper, it is that, and everything else.I didn't choose
I will be happy with $3000 / month That is a lie I earnestly believed right after I graduated.The goal was to build a product business that will make me $3000 a month, and that will mean I can spend
I built the first Android Browser with Adblock, hit a million users. Then Google took it down It is late and I am burning the midnight oil fixing a compatibility issue brought about because the platform that the product (which shall not be named) was based upon changed radically.The
Slack is Magical No, It has nothing to do with Slack being the fastest growing startup. No, it has nothing to do with the fact that Slack went from product launch to IPO in just five
I can see your bikini pictures We don't have to be friends on Facebook, but I can still see hundreds of pictures of you. You do not have to follow me on Instagram, but I can download your stories
4867 users read my bullshit last week Hitesh is an acquaintance that I knew from university who bullshit-ed everyone that he is a partner at a venture capital fund -- of his own companies that never worked out. Don't be
We sold Bitcoins at our condo and people queued up an hour for it This is a story of a stupid idea.In 2017, my company downsized to just Bach and me after shutting down Kloudsec and we were building SilvrBullet. Because it was only the two
A lesson no one taught me - Don't be a bangla Being a programmer is both the biggest bane and boon in my entrepreneurial journey.There ought to be more tutorials on how a programmer should run a company. Because this tutorial can be
My product died because it got way too many users - here's how: A few years ago, I worked on a product called Kloudsec. It is a content distribution network (CDN) not unlike Cloudflare. And it was a great product. Oh, the product is also dead
It is better to be feared than to be loved Right after I graduated, I had a belief that I have to "love" the company that I work at, "love" my manager, and "love" my job. It didn't help that the only company
I accomplished nothing today and it is probably ok Most days at work is straightforward. An email arrives, and it will take me a few minutes to respond. Another minute and a colleague will have a question that involves a spot decision
Fuck correctness: I made my money through porn I would not be who I am today if I had listened to what people have preached to be the "right thing".When I was 15, my mom caned me for using the
How I had my second company stolen. Also, bonus office scandal This is my story of how I lost ownership of Unifide, my second company. I began my entrepreneurial journey in 2015 with Spawt, a Foursquare for Food. Spawt was my first full-time venture
I am not the CEO anymore With the Bitcoin crash of 2018, NuMoney was at the crossroads. Do we persist with the vision of building the largest cryptocurrency exchange for Southeast Asia, or do we move on? These were
I hate startups Paul Graham's definition of a startup is a company designed to grow fast. But I hate startups, where do I begin?Let's start with Crystal Horse Investments (a venture capital firm). Crystal Horse
Once, I got a girl's number on the bus (She didn't turn out to be the one, this girl in the picture did)Back when I was 15, my delinquent friends and I would go to our favorite mall to "fish" for
fundraising I was all for bootstrapping until I raised 500k (Picture above shows Putra, who is CEO of LandX, and I incorporating the company in Jakarta)I am bad at fund-raising. A backchannel source told me that I am uninvestable because I look
The database is corrupted, what do we do? He came sheepishly to me and told me he corrupted our Postgresql database, what do we do now?Ok, time to backtrack. A while ago, we built Kloudsec, a CDN product with a
Tutorial: How to crawl Linkedin with Python and `requests` library with code examples (Part 2) This is a two-part series on crawling Linkedin in scale. In an earlier article, we studied why Linkedin is a hard target to crawl. In this follow-up, I will dive deep into a
Why is it hard to crawl Linkedin in scale in 2019? (Part 1) This is a two-part series on crawling Linkedin in scale. In this first part, we study why Linkedin is a hard target to crawl. In the follow-up part two, I will dive deep
