I’m a noob programmer. I designed my company’s MVP, but it was built by my cofounder. Him and his team did a kick ass job, and we have what I think is the best audio messenger in the market. For…
After a prolonged absence from writing due to the joys and challenges of starting a family and a company, I have finally accepted that I need to start writing again. Writing is thinking for me. It captures, clarifies and prunes…
I’ve been blogging now for around 10 years. I lost the first five years hackers, and this current format has chugged along with inconsistent results for a few years now. I originally started writing the blog because I thought I…
If you’re interested in Artificial Intelligence there’s a great report released each year by the Applied AI group. I’m certainly finding the applications of AI increasingly relevant to what we’re building in the voice tech space. While the German landscape…
We’re entering the first fundraising for Boomering and it’s been a massive learning experience. I moved to Berlin without much of a network, and I’ve struggled to build it. This was partly due to Covid 19, when the general mood…
At Boomering we’re completely remote. One of my cofounders is in Berlin, the other in Pune. Our developers are in Pune, and our designers are in Nairobi. I’ve managed remote teams before, so this isn’t entirely new, but there have…
There are plenty of resources for machine learning in the image space. The recent launch of Dall-E, takes prompts and turns those prompts into images. Lots of AI is about analyzing images, think about Tesla and their self driving cars,…
The last couple months have been busy. I’ve set up a company and started building the product. I’ve recruited my cofounders and 3 developers to start building Boomering’s first product. I’ve got a list of 200 angel investors in Germany…
I strongly believe that text based chat apps and messaging services are locking out baby boomers from communicating with their kids and grandkids. I think there are some serious problems with how humans communicate now, which include the frequency, the…
The new Venture Capital book “The Power Law” is an excellent summary of the companies and people that made Silicon Valley and VC what it is today. The firm Sequoia comes out as most impressive in the book, particularly the…
At Boomering we’re getting ready to go into development. I’ve hired a group of 6 developers and were about to set off on building the product. Over the last three weeks I’ve been spending a lot of time writing user…
I’ve been reading about setting goals recently and there’s a lot of good literature out there. This year I am using a framework by Sahil Bloom. The link is above and worth a read. I like the simplicity of the…