I've been away for a while, but I'm back.
I burned out early April and really needed a break.
I had an extremely stressful assignment last year that ended in Feb. I told myself I would take most of Feb off to figure out what I wanted to do next.
But then OpenClaw happened...
I fully dove onto the new AI movement, hoping it would be my way out and "AI" would become my 2nd startup success, after I sold my first startup 20 years ago at age 25. Obviously that didn't happen overnight, and I crashed. Frustrated with my life, my entrepreneurship, and my personality in general.
It took me a few weeks to realise Astrolescent would have been successful if Radix would not have collapsed after the passing of its founder. It also thought me lessons about what type of startup I'm good at.
I've been planning to write this post for weeks, because I feel I need to write it before I start posting again. Not really needed of course, but here we go. Get it out of the way and out in the open. Maybe also driven by the fact I started new projects this week. Yes, multiple!
Inspired by what
@jasonfried recently said, to build things you want to use yourself on a daily basis, and then find people similar to you, I'm building two mobile apps. Because I just really want to build mobile apps right now.
One is called Pact, an AI-assisted journaling app to help me decrease my drinking. I tried apps like Reframe, but logging my drinks daily wasn't working for me. So I created a workflow of daily journaling that seems to work. Having an app makes that easier. Having an LLM supporting me, works even better.
I'm also building Pacing Buddy, to help my partner manage her post-Covid. She's been battling it for 3 years now, and came up with a with a way to help her "pace" and preserve her energy. And again, a mobile app would really help her.
And of course I'm using OpenClaw to plan, design, brainstorm, and use Codex to build. Still figuring out the best way to do this (again), but I'm having fun again and it's giving me tons of energy.
For now, thatโs enough.
Less pretending. More building.
โI come back stronger than a โ90s trendโ,
as Taylor would sing ๐