GRIP - Gym Revenue Intelligence Platform GRIP uses gym attendance data to detect members likely to drop-off weeks before they cancel their membership.

Decided to build something last week and came up with GRIP -- Gym Revenue Intelligence Platform to detect gym membership churns, weeks before members cancel.

www.gaiaco.io/grip

Is it me, or does ChatGPT recently seemed like pushing for never ending conversations and sounded almost a little click-baity?

Just spent 2 hours debugging with Composer 1. It wrote a bunch of custom JS handlers to fix a bug.

When I asked why we needed the JS, it told me it was to compensate for the Preline CSS import I deleted 2 hours ago.

I need a drink. 🤦‍♂️

At 2am, a client informed me they are postponing their project kickoff due to internal rescheduling. As a bootstrapper, this means I need to stretch my current resources.

Q4 is ending soon. It’s been a tough year.

Oh well, keep moving forward.

#solopreneur

And Saturdays. Basically showing up 7 days a week.

Straight to the point dashboard from Flow for solopreneurs and small agencies. Dashboards need not be flashy and filled with insights of everything. It needs just the right amount of information to get work done.

Spent half a day rethinking Flow's dashboard. Turns out removing 80% gets you working 2x faster. Declutter to move faster.

#soloprepreneur #smallbusiness #uiux

A little reflection/reminder: “When you build solo, you often question if your ideas matter. Many times, I tried to seek self-validation. I’ve learned they do, especially when they come from real frustrations. Flow started with mine.”

Payday had moved on, but not in the sense that I'm dropping it completely. I'm pivoting Payday as part of Flow.

Takeaway: A USP that relies on general info/real-time data to create its value proposition requires a lot of convincing messaging. It's a long haul game. Know when to pivot if you have to

Building Flow: my goal isn’t to replace ClickUp, Asana, or the likes. It’s to help #solopreneur and small teams feel in control again.

Invoicing app is dime a dozen out there. Getting past the first impression that it’s just another invoicing app takes various messaging techniques. It’s common that one judges from first impression

Last year I built Payday, an invoicing app. Learned a hard lesson on marketing the product differentiation. This year I’m building Flow, a #productivity app designed for #solopreneur and small teams who want calm, to be in control, and not to be controlled by tools.

#ChatGPTAtlas first 20min impression
- It's fast, Chromium fast
- I miss Apple Passkey in Safari
- Asked agent mode to book a room on Agoda with permission to use Agoda with my logged in account. But nothing happened in the end.

I wonder what did I miss. Try again tomorrow. It's 3am & I'm excited!

As they said, if you tell a lie enough times, it eventually becomes the truth

Build fast and right — with the right balance of both

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I now help founders turn ideas into working MVPs — fast and ready to ship.

✅ 3 features
✅ 2–4 weeks
✅ With source code

Not no-code hacks. Production ready for market validation & revenue focused

If you’re building but not yet moving — DM me.

#founderjourney #buildinpublic #startups #productdev

Some founders build solo. Some stare at an idea for months, stuck.

I’ve been both.

Learned through experience, to build fast means to scope it tight — only what matters for validation or revenue generating

I “watch” tonnes of movies while I work. There’s something about having the movie as the background noise.

Good thing about this is, I don’t remember half of the movie I had “watched”, and I can always watch them again — in the background. And every time, there’s something new about it

26 Years in Code: A Personal Reflection on How Software — and the Role of the Coder — Has Changed I’ve spent the last 26 years building software — from writing raw code into the night, to managing teams, to watching AI rewrite the rules of development.

Full story here

The tools change. The essence remains: creation, clarity, contribution.

#FutureOfWork

Looking ahead: The coder’s role is transforming — less about typing, more about thinking clearly and asking the right questions.

#FutureOfWork #TechCareer

Years 20+: AI enters the room. Software almost builds itself. You’re guiding, not grinding.

#AIInTech #AIDevelopment

Years 16–20: Coding becomes less about speed, more about clarity. Your value shifts to decisions, not keystrokes.

#DevJourney #TechReflection

Years 11–15: The next generation arrives. They move faster. But you now see systems, not just syntax.

#DevJourney #TechReflection

Years 6–10: You lead teams, still build. You start translating between worlds — business and tech.

#DevJourney #TechFounder

Years 0–5: Pure creation. Long hours, deep focus. Code was craft, and we were craftsmen.

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareCraftmanship

26 years in software engineering. Looking back, it feels like this:

#IndieDevs #FutureOfWork

Liquid Glass looks beautiful, then it struck me why it looked kind of familiar.

Did KDE used to look something like that too?

#WWDC25

#iPadOS26

Windowing finally makes sense after #StageManager

#WWDC25

#macOSTahoe -- #Spotlight is on steroids!