Dear YouTube

Dear YouTube, You have done so much to enable creators to make and share exciting videos, whether that be mini series, cooking shows, films, music videos, news, podcasts, top 10s, documentaries, you name it. Many communities have spawned around channels and topics, with comment sections ranging from support, to fully-blown drama. And whilst there is […]

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Truncated Dreams

On the 9th of April 2014, I closed my business, packed my bags, and flew to Belgium, after struggling with my startup for roughly 2 years. This is a story about shortcomings, failures, and personal mistakes I made during those years. There are plenty of articles about failed startups, describing postmortems in detail, so with this story […]

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Building a web application for $5-10 per month

SAAS companies seem to fulfil almost every need lately; from VCS to mailing, from authentication to screen sharing, from image and video processing to caching and app hosting. Interestingly enough, a lot of these companies offer basic tiers for free, so it is becoming increasingly possible to launch a web application where most of the […]

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