Norbert Jurga

It's an honour to be on a team with such talented, awesome people 🍋 A wise man once said: "we've got some work to do" and I'm so excited for our next chapter 🔥

@TheByteRacoon @thekitze Will gladly switch if you have one always without packaging that you can recommend

@norbertjurga @thekitze there are so many without packaging, that you have to try hard to find ones which are individually packaged. Only really the cheapest one are.

oh god..

@TheByteRacoon @thekitze Hm, untrue. I don't think Fairy is the cheapest:)Usually buying Fairy and same "model" is sometimes in packaging, sometimes without. I actually vividly remember taking more expensive ones once with hope of getting ones without packaging.. without luck. Back luck i guess.

@nikpolale Wait, were they not mocking OpenAI for having ads?

first time saw ads in Perplexity seems like it's now only for big publishers waiting for it to go public💸

@nikpolale can you take on more paid users?

every single time

@jupwhale stop the gambling and do sth useful with your life

@martindonadieu @ImSh4yy Thanks! Yeah I think I'll give it a shot :D I'm a sucker for nice charts.

@norbertjurga I’m in between. Posthog is way more powerful, but Logsnag is so better to use ! @ImSh4yy is king in UX.

Wife joined 2 months ago full time. Conversion 5% = almost doubled Growth rate 10% doubled Churn rate under 3% again She is obsessed with our clients experiencing Capgo This year will be huge

@urbandigitalz @thekitze Eheh i remember that was my first rookie mistake when I got my 3d printer. Had to order new plate the first day 😆

@thekitze no blades on my plates doe!

i called my wife to open the 3d printer and take out the current print so i can remotely start printing something else she was like "i'm trying but it's stuck to the plate" and i was like you'll never guess what is the current print you're taking out

@nikpolale @yongfook You could employ some usage statistics for that though.. apart from your motivation and engagement :D

I've wanted to do ltds for a long period of time some competitors are successfully doing so but I understood that when I do it - I lose track of the product what works, what doesn't. do people really need it still? or no? every 1% of churn increase gets me extremely engaged to go improve 1000 different things, rework onboarding etc different incentives

I'm much more bullish on the indiehacker doing $2k MRR on $50 / mo subs, than I am on someone who did $10,000 sales of lifetime deals. Getting people to buy something on a "one time" basis has gotten easier, in terms of making a sexy site, making a bunch of sexy videos, and being aggressive in your paywalling or onboarding. Getting people to pay monthly is hard and will always be hard. It means you're providing enough value month after month, for people to keep paying. If you have 40 or 50 customers doing that, you're in a great place. Aiming for MRR is harder, but has more long term potential, you can improve the product, tweak the pricing, onboarding, marketing, etc. And it all compounds and eventually turns into a real business.

@TakoTreba Why failed? I'd say they are successfull for what they were. Not to mention pspdfkit which was probably at least as impactful as openclaw.. just not so glamorous.

43 failed projects. Then a €100M+ deal. Peter Steinberger sold OpenClaw to OpenAI. This is probably the best thing I’ve read in a while. Because it kills the most dangerous lie in tech: “That successful people have a master plan.” What Peter’s story shows (in a very unromantic way) is something else: Success is often just high-quality repetition. You don’t “find your thing.” You build your way into it. After PSPDFKit, he wrote about feeling burned out and broken, like he lost the identity he had poured 13 years into. Then he came back to building anyway. Not with a grand rebrand or a polished narrative. Just… projects. Lots of them. Most didn’t land. And then one did. OpenClaw didn’t hit because it was “an AI agent.” It hit because it made the future feel usable. That’s the difference between: cool tech and tech that changes behaviour The part I find most inspiring is the hidden skill here: the willingness to be temporarily unimpressive. To ship things that don’t work. To keep momentum when nobody is clapping. To stay curious when the internet is loud and your confidence is quiet. I think this is the same muscle we’re building at @chatbase. In customer support, you don’t win with one big launch. You win by doing the boring things repeatedly: fix edge cases clean up flows respond to real tickets ship improvements users actually feel do it again next week People call it “iteration,” but it’s really a belief system: small improvements compound. So yeah, Peter’s story is inspiring. Not because it’s a fairy tale. Because it’s a receipt. If you’re sitting on project #7 and it feels pointless: Congrats. You’re in the part where most people stop. Keep going. The scoreboard updates late

@nikpolale @starter_story Congrats man! 👏

I GOT FEATURED ON @starter_story !!! still feels surreal I remember reading those stories on a website when I was just starting out Watching the underdog videos Dreaming I'd be there one day And here I am. ~3yrs since I first started building I tried to be as valuable as possible Please give it a watch Huge thanks to Pat & Gus. You're awesome ❤️ youtube.com/watch?v=hYF4fQ…

@naaavinash @zeddotdev Thanks! Will check out!

@norbertjurga been using @zeddotdev it's buttery smooth compared to vsc

What code editor is now meta? I don't need it to have any agentic features, just a *good autocomplete*. I work mostly with Codex - I want something minimal to review and polish the AI output. VSC? Now that I don't have Cursor's subscription it makes no sense to use it.

@nikpolale Cursor free agent is so useless compared to Codex that it's basically clutter, also don't like "Upgrade to Pro" from every side :D Wanted to see if there's something nice & new before going back to VSC. yo! took a while:)

@norbertjurga dude why getting rid of agentic features? happy to see you back!

@eliasstravik Exciting! 🎉 what are you using to create these demo videos? These are sweet!

finally back to shipping! i'm building Cleanroom – AI-powered CRM data cleaning. if you want your GTM motion to run on better data – hit me up!

@eliasstravik I know some engineers who don't use it.. mostly because companies they work for don't allow it. Wild.

buddy said he ran into a full time software consultant that said he doesn’t use any ai at all we are still so early

@SebastianRoehl @focuskitapp He's doing it again!

HUGE milestone for my new app @focuskitapp: $104 MRR $1,000 Total Revenue in the last 28 days Feels great to make progress with a new app 💪

@SaidAitmbarek Can't complain! Nice, what's the next platform?

@norbertjurga Norbert, my man :) ! How have you been doing? Haha yes, kept growing Microlaunch & now preparing an upcoming platform.

Spent 2 years growing Microlaunch. It's finally accelerating. Marketplaces only work when they're brutally simple. Just stay in the game.

@TakoTreba Congrats, Sandra! So happy for you!

This Friday I’ll close my laptop and start my maternity leave. And to be honest, it feels strange and huge and exciting all at once. I’ve been “the woman in tech” in so many rooms: - the only woman in the meeting - the one asking “why are we building this, who does it actually help?” - the one balancing ambition with everyone’s favourite question: “But what about kids?” Tech taught me to move fast, iterate, break things, fix them, ship again. Pregnancy is the opposite: slow, physical, messy, absolutely not under my control. And somewhere between those two worlds, a lot of women quietly get scared. - Scared that if they disappear for a few months, their career will disappear too. - Scared they’ll come back “behind”. - Scared they’ll be seen as less serious, less ambitious, less “in the game”. I’ve felt that fear too. But I don’t believe the story that you’re either a “serious woman in tech” or a “mom who’s distracted”. I think both identities can feed each other. I want my kid to grow up seeing their mom build things, make decisions, lead teams, and also show up fully at home. And I’m really lucky here: I have the most amazing team at Chatbase. We’ve been building so much this year, and they’ll keep shipping while I’m on leave. I’ll still be around online, reading, writing, sharing what I learn – just with a slightly different schedule. I’ll be back at work in March. So that’s my update: woman in tech, starting maternity leave, coming back in March.