Christian

What I'm to at the moment: - building and scaling bookcall.io - building a portfolio of microSaaS via building/PE strategies @ kaion.ventures - coaching CTOs and doing fractional CTO work Slide into my DMs with anything interesting ✨

@Bencera Gotta up your hacking travel game bro. Spend 80€ + miles to and 47€ to upgrade to business back via lottery (inner European, major airlines, not Ryanair shit). Worth it alone with the lounges, fast lanes and all the food you get

Unpopular founder take: I fly economy. Business class is paying 10x to fall asleep slightly faster. The ROI is terrible and it’s my job to be good at ROI.

@elithrar @Shpigford @thomasgauvin Pleeeeaase, this would be so awesome. Sending and receiving from domains I have on cloudflare

@Shpigford very, very soon this won't be a problem (cc @thomasgauvin)

this is a very niche problem but as someone who as an offensive number of domains/projects, dealing with emails to/from those domains is...not great. cloudflare's email routing works great for *receiving* emails to any domain. but replying from those domains is a huge pain.

@thisritchie @GergelyOrosz Why would the cto be scared?

@GergelyOrosz were the devs bullish or the CTO? cc is insanely powerful, but I could see that power scaring a CTO (rightfully so). Cursor has an opportunity to be the "safe" coding agent if they decide to be.

This week, from a CTO at a large tech company, when I asked them about AI tools usage: "We have teams of ~100 evaluate various tools: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor etc. Then we decide where to invest in. We're actually starting to get really bullish on Cursor, again"

@RikNieu Yeah. It made me aware that I get absolutely no visibility or distribution. ROI is 0 on this. I don’t want to spend hours perfecting tweets

So, you cancelling X Premium now?

@rameerez How is it?

I've completely switched to Codex 5.4 as my main coding model

@zeeg Judgement is literally the one thing AI sucks at

Gotta love the grifters who just sit back and postulate on how the world works without living in it That podcast is best way to learn about wealth induced stupidity.

@Pauline_Cx Yeah this “you can have it free by just investing hours of your time to set it up” is a brokie mindset

There’s almost always a cheaper or free alternative. Yet people still pay more. Why? •better UX •less setup •trust / privacy •they don't know alternative If they pay, it means it solves a pain point, they get value. I pay $100 for Supabase. I know I could run it on Hetzner for $10. I’m buying peace of mind.

@KaiXCreator supasec.co ☀️

Drop your project URL below. Let’s drive some traffic.

@plbiojout Try it with a proper business and not shilling garbage via spam

5 AI companies just made their first dollars. No human involved. I launched NanoCorp 2 weeks ago. You describe a company, an AI agent builds it and runs it autonomously while you sleep. Yesterday I pulled our the sales data. 5 companies have real paying customers in just a few days (not counting the ones I launched myself): A LinkedIn profile auditor selling expert reports at €4.99 in France An AI crypto trading agent charging $20/mo subscriptions A PDF guide for women diagnosed with ADHD/autism in adulthood ($19) A League of Legends coaching marketplace matching Silver players with Grandmaster coaches A hangover prevention shot brand targeting Europe These aren't demos. Real credit cards. Real money hitting real bank accounts. The craziest part? The agents built the landing pages, wrote the copy, created the Stripe products, set the prices, and started marketing. One of them made 7 sales in 10 days and is now iterating on its conversion rate. Without being told to. The amounts are tiny today. But let that sink in: AI agents made their first dollars online. Completely autonomously. From zero. Launch your first autonomous company today → nanocorp .so PS: Peltor noise-canceling helmet designed for aircraft maintenance. Highly recommend for focus.

@AlexBoyd08 😂😂

This is still up. On their actual live website. "Spoiler alert". ...wow.

@yashhq_22 I think it sucks tbh

Google stitch just launched. So how many vibe designing SaaS are “dead” now?

@robj3d3 You might want to hold off on that. Met a founder last week who was glad to get out. They still get a few drones/rockets a day

I actually booked a flight to Dubai yesterday it was discounted by $250 from 2 days ago

@AlexBoyd08 Yeah I’ve heard this a lot that just throwing money at employees most of the times doesn’t work as expected. Even when tied to outcomes. People just work very differently than we as founders do.

“It seems like people only take ownership when they have significant, meaningful equity.” AKA: if you want someone to treat the business like their own, you’d better hand them a big slice of the pie. I don't think this is true. Not really. Three reasons: 1. THE MATH RUNS OUT You can either sell a false vision of what constitutes a "meaningful" equity stake (0.05% is not meaningful), or you run out of cap table pretty quick. If we only solve our hiring problems by handing out big share grants, then that tap will run dry after one or two hires. If I go overboard on equity a couple of times, my cap table is toast. Better to develop a talent system that doesn’t require such enormous outlays. 2. THEY MAY NOT WANT IT I don’t always want to marry the future of my business to someone just because they are great at their specific job. Sometimes I want to work with someone and pay them well, and that's also what they want from me. Founders have a distorted risk and return profile, different from most: even in a cash-flowing, bootstrapped SaaS environment (which is what I operate in), salary is almost never the primary way that a founder gets paid. Upside is. Yet barring some sales roles, most people prefer a strong base salary as the main aspect of their comp. 3. NON-FOUNDERS SPECIALIZE WELL Many top-tier people bring an even greater level of skill and commitment to their craft than founders do, but without the founder title. As a founder I have to spread myself across a dozen functions because I must, but a great engineer or marketer can focus entirely on mastering one area. Also: people like me, who can set our sights on potential liquidity events far in the future, often assume others' motivations are wired the same way. But they're usually not, and we're liable to disappoint people who aren't motivated along the same mechanics. -- So what's the answer? Well... recruiting. But it's more than just talking to a lot of candidates. (And I ran out of characters here, anyway.)

@PhantomStays Check your boarding for “SSSS”

8 years of hardcore international travel. never had issues with US CBP (customs) Now my past 2 times reentering this country, I’ve been pulled out of the passport control line for a “random search” Ripped apart my stuff, pat down in a private room, hand up butthole, etc This time I missed my connecting flight because of it. Could just be coincidence, but makes me think my name is on an internal “watch list” or something. Anyone else deal with this? American citizen here. Annoying.

@AlexBoyd08 Also my approach right now, some solo ventures but most with partners that are better at stuff I suck at. I think that’s a real advantage. More solo founders that limit themselves

@andinfinity_eu No not solo! One company I was majority shareholder but had other partners, in this current company Wildfront.co I have a technical cofounder :)

I need to adapt my social media strategy. It doesn't make sense to talk about the same stuff or even in the same way on LinkedIn vs Substack or Twitter or Bluesky. And I need to keep expanding beyond LinkedIn. Rough breakdown of how I'm thinking about it as follows: LinkedIn → talk about DemandBird. Basically continuation of the Aware days in terms of being a 'social media' guy. That seems to be what y'all (slash 'the algo') want from me so, so be it. Twitter & Wildfront Community → more of my journey as a SaaS bootstrapper. Sharper, more terse tone. Pull fewer punches. Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon → talk about DemandBird. Social media growth but shorter quips. No longform due to the format. Substack → kind of a question mark... probably both? I think due to our product having a Substack scheduling tool as part of it, I'll lean somewhat on that since it's pretty "on the nose" for that platform. Youtube → on the Wildfront channel, lean on SaaS bootstrapping content; on the DemandBird channel, 'grow on social media' DemandBird content. Facebook & Instagram → continue to skip entirely unless I decide to promote LayoffAlert more heavily, but for now that's in "let it build up organic traffic" mode before I invest more there. BTB Community → Me as the whole person/entrepreneur. Of course, I'm going to use DemandBird to keep a handle on all of this, cause it's damn near impossible to track it without it... :) especially for the 3-4 platforms I'm most focused on. - Thoughts, marketing folks? Open to feedback.

@marckohlbrugge Wow. I kinda have that on bookcall.io but obviously missed the opportunity to market it better … ouch

indie hacker math

@sobedominik Cmux and about 10 Claude code opened in multiple projects. Zed as the editor to check things Conductor when I need to work on stuff in isolation because I’m too lazy to learn worktrees within Claude code

What's your coding stack these days? I feel like with agentic coding it becomes less and less important to be in the IDE for the majority of the time but I'm still defaulting to Cursor because I can use: – Terminal with Claude Code – Git viewer – Quickly edit code I've seen people use things like Cmux more and more and just curious what your stack is these days?

@AlexBoyd08 They got me to upgrade to max 20x that way haha. Seems to work better now

@andinfinity_eu ooooh yeah. Opus OBLITERATES my limits. I launched on a new device and forgot to check model.

What happened to claude code? I'm on max and burned half my weekly tokens since friday and it's absolutely retarded. What are we using instead atm chat?

@AlexBoyd08 On that note, sent you an invite to connect @AlexBoyd08

@AlexBoyd08 Awesome mate! Even tho sometimes it’s hard, I think quitting is the only way to lose. Just iterate, keep pushing, learning, iterating. Just gotta execute and learn 🤝 Those numbers are awesome! All solo?