New personal record I did not want to set. Tokyo to Austria, door-to-door: 39 hours. Beats my previous worst (Honolulu → Vienna) by one hour.

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One more thought before boarding my flight back home: Together, these people design and build products for Billions (with a B!) of people.

Incredibly grateful to be even a tiny part of this. Blows my mind. 🤯

Design Forum Tokyo was an absolute blast. So glad I extended my trip for this. 👏

My coffee came with a business card. Tokyo’s attention to detail is something else. ☕️ 👀

Tokyo Lights. 👀🔥

#photography #tokyo #shibuya

Immigration in Bangkok: Almost two hours this time.

Immigration in Tokyo: 15min. Touchdown to hotel in almost under an hour. I’d say that’s a very good start Japan! 🇯🇵 👏

Your worst customers demand discounts and other special prices. They either aren’t seeing the value, or they’re not building a respectful two-way relationship.

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Climbed 1.260 stairs for this view. 🥵

It probably saves us one or two additional engineers, to be honest. Anything that keeps the team small is something I’ll jump on right away 😅

Ours 🙋‍♂️

Caveat: Not necessarily „better“ in the traditional sense, but overall speed, code quality and number of bugs improved significantly. Making the process smoother and the product better, faster.

Is “guy who takes pictures of boats” a valid career path if appointmed doesn’t work out? 😅

#photography #travel

Small steps… small steps 😅

Left my Macbook behind for the first time in ~16 years for this trip.

Feels weird, but deserved after grinding this long with only a few days off at a time. First multi-week break ever since going full-time on my own almost 20 years ago. 👴🫠

Embrace marketing.

Even a great product dies if no one knows about it.

10 Years of appointmed: What Patience Actually Buys You – Slow & Steady by Patrik Inzinger 10 years of building slowly: 7-figure revenue, 1% annual churn, 8-person team. What patience actually buys you when you have the patience to build right.

100% agree. 👏

That might resonate with you: www.saismo.at/writing/10y

Traffic and sunshine.
Bangkok in a single photo.😅

All packed and ready. Tomorrow I’m flying to Thailand for some sun before continuing to Japan for Tokyo Design Forum. Let’s goooooooo 💪

At scale, but even with a single team of 6, if you’re not completely aligned, then everyone is moving in different directions, so the group as a whole is moving slowly compared to what it could be.

Alignment is an accelerant.

Almost time for our session. I get to talk about two of my favorite things: Product Design and Aviation! 🥳

Want to join us? www.duda.co/webinars/b2s...

Simple, but that’s how I like it: saismo.at

10 Years of appointmed: What Patience Actually Buys You – Slow & Steady by Patrik Inzinger 10 years of building slowly: 7-figure revenue, 1% annual churn, 8-person team. What patience actually buys you when you have the patience to build right.

I sat down over the weekend, to write a bit about what 10 years of patience actually buys you.

The good, the messy, and the parts that surprised me.
It’s a longer read, but I’m proud of this one and maybe it helps other founders along the way.

www.saismo.at/writing/10y

"Rental Family" was a surprisingly good movie. Also, a great way to get in the mood for my trip to Tokyo! 🗼

Super gefährlich, wenn du das mit Regen kombinierst. Ich hab mein Macbook damals in Südtirol ruiniert. Rucksack war wasserdicht, aber Kondenswasser hab ich nicht einberechnet. 🙈 😅

Sonst: Neidisch! 🤩

Crazy, Right? 🫠

a young boy eating a chocolate cake with a netflix logo in the corner ALT: a young boy eating a chocolate cake with a netflix logo in the corner

🙌 🥳

thanks, Ermin! 🥂

Thanks Nicolas! 🙌
It’s been a wild ride ever since.

This week we hit 10 years. It’s been one hell of a journey, full of wins, devastating setbacks, and everything in between.

Hard to believe we made it here and excited for what’s next. 🍰 🍾

Two days at the spa with the entire company is great way to kick off the new year. 🧘‍♂️

10/10 highly recommend.

Nice - thanks for the input! I’ll check those out too 🙌