Building in Public Series - Update from July 4th, 2025
Status update since Monday: Holy shit, we're making progress! 🚀
What happened since my "17 Apps" post
Friday:First post about my failed app experiments Tuesday-Wednesday: Refined concept and planned landing page Thursday: Built and designed landing page Today:pyngup.com is live! 🎸
June 30, 2025 - Day 2 of my public PYNGUP journey | 10 min read
You asked which 17 apps drove me to madness. Here's the complete list of my productivity app hell. With honest reviews, estimated costs, and the reason why each one failed.
Spoiler: It wasn't the apps. It was the system behind them.
The "Clean & Simple" Phase (Apps 1-4)
1. Todoist - €48/year The seduction: "Finally, a clean, professional to-do list!"
June 27, 2025 - Day 1 of my public PYNGUP journey | 8 min read
I'm an entrepreneur. I've been running a software company since 2007. You might think: "This guy has his life together."
Bullshit.
I had tried 17 different to-do apps, journaled my goals every morning, and planned each day as optimistically as if I were a robot without bad days. I read everything from Tim Ferriss to Tony Robbins, meditated 20 minutes daily, and tracked my habits like a scientist.
You think Google Analytics helps your SEO? Think again. Google uses completely different, much more sophisticated methods to evaluate whether your website delights or frustrates users. And most website owners don't know about it.
The Widespread Google Analytics Myth
Millions of website owners install Google Analytics hoping to improve their SEO rankings. The logic seems simple: "If Google sees that users like my site, I'll rank better."
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After 18 years in tech and countless "sprint retrospectives" that changed nothing, I'm done pretending Agile works. It's time we admit what everyone's thinking: Agile has become the very bureaucratic nightmare it promised to solve.
