Simo Elalj

@peer_rich @expo @Baconbrix @euboid @betomoedano Curious if it's open sourced

given how maaany people asked about how we pulled of the @expo iOS and android app + browser extensions I decided to write down how we did it. cc @Baconbrix @euboid @betomoedano cal.com/blog/how-cal.c…

@euboid @tdinh_me @levelsio Congrats @euboid for what you have accomplished!

I’m leaving Senja. 3.5 years ago, I wrote Senja’s first line of code. I’d just finished high school, and was thinking deeply about what it was I wanted to do with the next chapter of my life. I learned about Indie Hacking after seeing folks like @tdinh_me, @levelsio, @yongfook and @tibo_maker building in public here on X. I knew instantly that that was what I wanted to do. So I wrote the code, happy to ship a fun side-project. If you told me that 3.5 years ago that we’d be at $800K ARR today, I’d have laughed. But we did it. @helloitsolly DM’d me on X a month after I launched. He had big ideas for Senja, and knew if we worked together, we could take Senja from being a hobby project to being an actual business. It’s been a LONG journey since then. We poured our blood, sweat, and tears into Senja. We stayed broke for a year, burned out a dozen times and almost quit every quarter. But we pushed through and our bet paid off. We built arguably the best product in our space, and our product is used millions of times every week. We’re finally able to pay ourselves decently, and we work a lot less. This has been life-changing and incredibly rewarding. I don’t regret a second of it. But it’s clear to me that my time here has come to an end. Over the last 9 months or so, I’ve really struggled to find a working rhythm. We’d work for a week and feel great, then I’d be completely bummed out the next. The last few months have been very start-stop, and we haven’t been able to move anywhere as quickly as we used to. I’ve tried to get back on track. Coaching, long breaks, going down to a 4-day work week, taking proper care of myself etc etc. But none of it’s worked. It started to become clear to me that this isn’t a temporary dip. I’ve accomplished what I wanted to with Senja. I’ve built something I’m proud of, and I have the financial freedom to show for it. But now it’s clear to me that I need a change. My instinct is, I’ll get significantly more personal growth away from Senja. There’s still so much I want to build, new working dynamics I want to try, and skills I want to learn. I don’t think I can achieve this with the creativity and freedom I want while working here. We considered selling. But Olly and I aren’t convinced that this is the right time. The business is still growing, and there’s still A LOT we haven’t tried. So I’ve decided to step down instead, and sell my shares to Olly while keeping a small stake. We’re still working out the details, but both of us are trying to be as fair as possible to ourselves and the business. So what’s next? In the short term I’ll keep cooking at @SenjaHQ. We have a few mind-blowing things in the works 👀 And later, I’m going to take the skills I’ve gained over the last 3 years, and use them to ship something amazing… something that better aligns with my current values. I’m not 100% sure what that is yet, but I’m happy to start all over and take a bet on myself. Thanks for reading this far, and huge thanks to everyone who’s been following along since day #1. Thank you @helloitsolly and @rotimi_best. Senja would not be where it is today without you. ✌️

💞 With webhooks, @2syncHQ enables real-time two-way sync between Notion and tools like Google Calendar and Todoist. Update something in Notion—and it shows up instantly everywhere else. notion.com/integrations/2…

And now getting fake bots to collect my personal details... 🤦‍♂️

Serious fraud with @bookingcom : I booked a room in Delhi on that looked legit (good reviews and pictures), but when I arrived, it didn't looked at all like the pictures; it was horrible! I refused to stay, and the day after I got a notification that I left this review: how come?

Hello @eToro, j'utilise @finaryhq pour suivre et optimiser tous mes investissements. Ce serait génial de pouvoir également synchroniser vos comptes 🔥

@medartus @baDotNet Je déménage à Bordeaux plutôt début 2025 ;) mais avec plaisir une autre fois !

@baDotNet @simoelalj si ça t'intéresse Adrien est super sympa ☺️

🍷🍻 Le prochain Apéro Web Bordeaux, c'est dans 7 jours ! 📆 Mardi 24 septembre, 19h N'oubliez pas de partager l'event autour de vous ! 🙏🙌 Sur LinkedIn: linkedin.com/events/l-ap-ro… Sur Meetup: meetup.com/apero-web-bord…

When Will the Apple Vision Pro Be Refurbished? refurb.me/blog/when-will…

@KimChouard @appjsconf @expo Let's gooo🔥

Very excited to be at @appjsconf this year to share more on how to build performant music games using @expo and Skia! 🕹️📲➕💻🟰🔥🎷🚀✨ Hope to see some of you there 🤙🏼

@moonlaggoune J'ai pris un abonnement Pro chez Finary et là, je m'aperçois que le support est absent depuis une semaine !

La critique est aisée mais l'art est difficile Je lis (quasiment) tous les retours des utilisateurs depuis la création de Finary. Certains sont agréables, d'autres le sont moins. J'ai décidé de répondre à tout, sans tabou 👇 youtu.be/ezKgGybwI5Q

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@bloggersarvesh GPT

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@JustJake @Railway I love what you've built, great execution! I wish if @googlecloud were as reactive as your customer support :)

@simoelalj @Railway Absolutely. If you read the article, there's a pattern here of issues from Google's side They've issued undocumented "soft limits"; first with Artifact Registry, now we suspect with their userspace MMIO implementation Path forward is to move to baremetal, a more known quantity

We experienced an issue this morning which we believe is a userspace<>kernel memory transfer issue related to GCP's Virtualization Stack We spent the day pouring through the kernel and writing an incident response + about our experience on GCP blog.railway.app/p/gcp-incidents

Almost felt to this phishing attempt from @bookingcom ! Got a message in the inbox from a hotel @Dakhla_Attitude saying that my card wasn't validated. After checking the of the link they sent, it's clearly not Booking!

Just had a frustrating experience with @Hertz in Valencia🇪🇸🙁. Lost my passport in a rental car, and despite several visits and calls, received very little assistance and faced rude staff. It's important to ensure customer support in stressful situations! #CustomerServiceMatters

You can give ChatGPT a picture of your team’s whiteboarding session and have it write the code for you. This is absolutely insane.

@cihbank Comment peut-on confiance à une banque si leur interface est truffée de fautes de grammaire?

@LiamMartens9512 @Hetzner_Online @Hetzner_Online We are getting this error: error during placement (resource_unavailable)

@LiamMartens9512 @Hetzner_Online This happened at the wort time. Crazy that they didn't reflect that on the status page.

@Hetzner_Online looks like there's some issues with creating servers; they appear to be getting stuck