Arvid Kahl

@arvidkahl213k followers

Building at @audiohook in public. Raising all the boats with kindness. 🎙️ · ✍️

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1	Sep 1, '25	And it took YEARS for someone to find out. This is pragmatic engineering.	337×	11.5M	156k	2.9k	6.5k
2	Oct 9, '24	lol	101×	3.4M	86k	7.3k	2.3k
3	Jan 1, '24	The nuance here is important: people want to post their experiences, not re-live them. Projection, not reflection. Surface, not depth. It’s a strange trend that we have collectivel	33.2×	1.1M	8.2k	1.8k	1.3k
4	Jun 19, '24	Full-text search on 500GB+ of data is keeping me awake at night. MySQL's full-text index just can't handle this. Often takes minutes. And Meilisearch, as fast as it is, is hard to	27×	924k	1.8k	65	1.6k
5	Nov 4, '24	I want to run AI agents to scrape specific URLs and do some data extraction until they find a certain kind of information. Like an AI investigator. What’s the framework that allows	25.8×	884k	2.7k	148	5.3k
6	Jan 22, '24	If a tire company can publish a globally recognized restaurant guide, then you’re allowed to work on your completely unrelated side projects.	22×	754k	7k	898	519
7	Apr 10, '20	Genius. They wrote a script to make a PDF look like it's printed, signed, and then scanned again. Because digital signatures are still not accepted in many places while a signed an	17.6×	0	6.2k	2.1k	944
8	Nov 22, '23	Okay call me a noob, but I just had a life-changing experience with PHP. I installed Laravel, then Laravel Jetstream, and then Laravel Spark. After ~2 minutes of configuring, I hav	16.4×	560k	2.4k	152	1.5k
9	Dec 23, '22	Oh wow, the top post on Hacker News is about a disillusioned indie founder giving up due to mental health issues. “I am done. I give up” It’s a hard read, but an important one. Pro	15.2×	519k	1.1k	123	291
10	Oct 25, '23	When @levelsio looks at fresh-to-market software products and sees "beautiful design" — fancy gradients, animated borders, he gets suspicious. Why? You'll find out this week on The	14.2×	487k	621	34	332
11	Sep 1, '25	I don't think either of these are true, for the same technical reason. This is not a blow to engineering reputation; it's a pretty solid signal that an engineer found an (almost!)	13.3×	454k	1.1k	2	33
12	Feb 19, '23	A lot of "Twitter 2-factor authentication removal" outcry on my feed right now. Apparently, there are phone companies out there creating massive amounts of bot accounts to be able	13.1×	449k	740	119	123
13	Nov 15, '23	I'm still not over just how massive this is. 2.5h of audio transcribed in under 2 minutes. This means that for every single podcast episode, roughly an hour in length, we can have	11.9×	407k	1.2k	91	1.2k
14	Sep 1, '25	@capajj That is both true and kind of my point. People take a LOT of less controversial stuff to Twitter in a heartbeat :D	11.2×	384k	3.2k	2	11
15	Sep 13, '24	Okay, enough sitting in front of a computer, slowly atrophying. Dog walks aren't enough. I'm building a home gym. What should I start with?	9.2×	316k	900	7	157
16	Mar 19, '24	Interesting learning about MySQL: it's not very smart. These queries are semantically the same (skip is a non-nullable boolean column with an index) yet the raw count takes several	8.5×	290k	851	64	673
17	May 16, '22	The goal is to build a business. Not to play startup.	8.4×	0	4.2k	629	183
18	Feb 8, '23	The entrepreneurial life.	7.7×	262k	2.3k	278	165
19	Jan 14, '23	Why are you an entrepreneur?	7.5×	255k	526	42	65
20	Apr 25, '24	Apple’s on-device LLMs are out. And we get to play with them. I am so excited to jump into this and see just how well they perform and what we can expect from iOS devices to come.	7.2×	246k	906	72	630
21	Jan 1, '25	So, what’s the most cost-effective yet reliable AND affordable way to run a 4TB+ MySQL database for a production app that is expected to scale to 10TB+ in 2025? ;) Totally asking f	7.2×	245k	811	26	583
22	May 12, '25	This is why you don't roll your own security, even for an MVP. Security researcher investigates app that only has magic sign-in, and immediately finds that instead of checking the	7.1×	243k	1.5k	67	657
23	Sep 9, '25	When someone signs up to your SaaS, grab their email domain, get a summary from Firecrawl, have an LLM generate you the best starting keywords/configuration / demo project settings	6.3×	214k	2.6k	107	3.5k
24	Jul 21, '25	There’s this amazing physician that uses Podscan to get all transcript of 100 or so expert medical podcasts in one field, puts them into o3, generates super-accurate newsletters, a	6.2×	213k	1.6k	56	2k
25	Oct 9, '24	Excuse me what? Never has behind-the-scenes drama been so public-facing. And so destructive to the community that has nothing to do with it.	5.8×	199k	1.1k	41	93
26	Apr 6, '23	This is probably the most impressive video I have seen this year. "Ice Ice Baby" sung and acted(!) by the cast of Matrix (1999). And Wilford Brimley for some reason. Generative AI	5.8×	197k	596	156	263
27	Apr 11, '25	Let's say I have a 1GB+ JSON file on AWS S3 for a day's worth of data. I want to combine these files into per-week, per-month, and per-year files, but I don't want to download, com	5.7×	193k	864	32	632
28	Jun 8, '23	That price is a bit “high.”	5.2×	178k	1.6k	172	44
29	Jul 10, '25	Okay this is pretty wild: "When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and exper	5.0×	173k	830	59	427
30	May 19, '21	I just launched my second book, The Embedded Entrepreneur. 📚🚀🥳 In this book, you will learn how to: 🔎 Find your audience 🗺 Explore their communities 🩺 Discover their problems	4.7×	0	1.6k	243	368
31	Jul 14, '24	Notion posted an amazing blog about their data lake and the tech behind their massive database(s). One thing stands out for me, as I am growing the database behind Podscan: For the	4.7×	160k	946	62	1k
32	Feb 24, '24	Cancelled my Midjourney account today, not using it enough. I was very pleasantly surprised when they offered me a choice: cancel at the end of the subscription or right now and ge	4.5×	155k	2.8k	64	88
33	Oct 11, '25	If you get triggered by „call for price“ or „request a demo“, you are not the target customer for that service. Their best prospects WANT to request and call. Inversely, if YOU tar	4.4×	150k	829	25	95
34	Oct 2, '23	Hey there, thanks for stopping by! New here? Let me introduce myself, my work, and what you can expect from me on this platform.	4.3×	147k	481	23	100
35	Oct 20, '25	Every AWS outage…	4.0×	137k	1.5k	131	141
36	May 28, '24	This is a good insight (from that article). It's reducing platform risk at a pretty critical layer. The article has solid technical insights from that perspective. Talking about pe	3.8×	132k	525	25	345
37	Jan 4, '23	The best tech stack is the one you already know.	3.8×	129k	806	61	21
38	Jan 8, '23	If it's not making money, it's not a business.	3.8×	129k	703	62	27
39	Oct 3, '24	OpenAI just released a new transcription model called "whisper-large-v3-turbo" — which is 8 times as fast(!!!) as their most recent highest-quality model. 🤯 I am currently deployi	3.4×	118k	609	19	447
40	Jun 29, '20	I have just released my book Zero to Sold! 🎉🎉🎉 It's now available on Amazon and Gumroad, in Print, eBook, and ePDF. It's everything I know about bootstrapping, every learning, s	3.3×	0	1.2k	147	330
41	May 31, '22	Here are 50 bite-sized Twitter growth tips that I have used to build a following of over 66k followers. Every day for the last 50 days, I made a short video explaining one key conc	3.2×	0	507	55	795
42	Jan 29, '20	Fellow bootstrappers! I just published "Zero to Sold", a 25.000-word guide to starting, running, and selling a sustainable bootstrapped business.	2.8×	0	939	155	322
43	Sep 11, '25	I’m getting a lot of “I just got a new job, please de-list my podcast from Podscan.” People are very actively scrubbing their online presence for work. Interesting.	2.6×	90k	553	6	124
44	Oct 19, '25	As a founder, do you have time for hobbies?	2.6×	87k	617	18	51
45	May 3, '21	Showing up every day is the growth hack.	2.5×	0	1.3k	142	65
46	Dec 21, '22	Making money is a consequence of making a difference in people's lives.	2.5×	86k	678	91	48
47	Nov 4, '23	Indie hackers after focusing on marketing for 30 minutes.	2.5×	86k	635	24	25
48	Jun 30, '25	Relatable.	2.3×	78k	1.8k	71	85
49	May 5, '23	@levelsio As a language model, I can't comment on philosophical questions like this. However, here are a few ideas:	2.2×	76k	758	17	7
50	Mar 17, '21	I think more people would take up entrepreneurship if they understood that making money is a direct consequence of helping people.	2.2×	0	1k	163	70
51	May 11, '23	Productivity hack: get a dog. Your day will never start later than 6:30.	2.2×	75k	742	26	6
52	Oct 25, '21	I believe we are incredibly lucky that email is free.	2.2×	0	1.3k	59	17
53	Aug 6, '22	Without revenue, it's a project, not a business.	2.0×	0	1k	117	46
54	Jun 4, '20	Your first business doesn't need to change the world. It just needs to change yours.	1.9×	0	882	124	70
55	Dec 1, '19	Systems you should never build yourself when bootstrapping a SaaS: Authentication, Payment, Invoices, Tax Calculations. Bite the bullet and pay others, it will save you so much pai	1.9×	0	749	85	146
56	Jan 31, '22	My Twitter course "Find your Following is" now available! Grow an authentic Twitter presence with intentional relationships and a following that trusts and respects you. Find your	1.8×	0	562	82	183
57	Dec 15, '19	People will be willing to pay good money for something that: - ⌛️saves them time - 🏦saves them money - 💸makes them money Find a problem where a solution does one or more of these	1.7×	0	603	68	224
58	Sep 4, '23	The goal is to build a business. Not to "play startup."	1.7×	59k	839	129	40
59	Oct 12, '24	@WordPress @lauraelizdunn This is the least professional and most community-destroying behavior I ever seen on our software world. You’re destroying a legacy that took dozens of ye	1.7×	59k	981	16	13
60	Sep 16, '21	If you're woken up by an alarm clock, are you really free?	1.7×	0	720	52	26
61	Apr 5, '21	I regularly get asked by founders what tech stack I recommend. My answer? “The one you used for your last project.” When you start a new business, it’s the worst time to choose new	1.7×	0	685	98	103
62	Jun 19	Stats update! Since Podscan tracks the entire podcasting ecosystem, we can reliably project growth. 2026 will get very close to the pandemic anomaly levels. New podcasts are releas	1.7×	58k	128	3	18
63	Jan 20, '23	Showing up every day is the growth hack.	1.6×	56k	611	80	25
64	Sep 13, '22	Hey there, thanks for stopping by! New here? Let me introduce myself, my work, and what you can expect from me on Twitter.	1.5×	0	715	82	92
65	Sep 18, '22	When you miss an obvious marketing opportunity…	1.5×	0	829	80	21
66	Apr 24, '21	Being an entrepreneur is hard. Not being an entrepreneur is worse.	1.5×	0	746	75	31
67	Oct 8, '21	You don't need more features. You need more customers.	1.4×	0	733	73	28
68	Oct 12, '24	@WordPress @wp_acf You’re aware that all of these tweets are public and for the whole world to see, right? Just asking for a friend.	1.4×	48k	1.2k	7	4
69	Dec 27, '22	You don't need to be perfect to have success, you just need to not quit when everyone else does.	1.4×	47k	466	57	20
70	Apr 9, '21	It's not a Real Business™ until you implement CSV import or export.	1.3×	0	692	53	29
71	Jun 4, '20	Employees work towards their vacations. Freelancers work towards being able to take vacations whenever they want. Founders work towards a life they don't want to take a vacation fr	1.3×	0	627	78	56
72	Mar 28, '21	Entrepreneurship is 20% acting on advice, 80% making it up as you go, and 5% breaking the rules.	1.3×	0	649	77	32
73	Aug 6, '22	Building software is the easy part. The hard part is making money from it. Coding is fun. Finding customers less so. But without them, you have a hobby project.	1.3×	0	643	72	41
74	Oct 4, '20	I've come to understand consistency being at the core of growth. I've been writing a blog post, sending a newsletter, and recording a podcast every week for a year now. I didn't ha	1.3×	0	592	50	83
75	Sep 23, '20	As an entrepreneur, you have to completely unlearn all the things that schools and universities have taught you about failing. Trial and error includes mistakes. You’re supposed to	1.3×	0	559	77	46
76	Oct 2, '21	Remember Clubhouse?	1.3×	0	610	40	12
77	Aug 31, '21	I'm writing a book about Building in Public. I'll write it… in public! It will be an actionable and pragmatic book about building a business by sharing your journey. The journey of	1.3×	0	486	59	91
78	Jul 12, '22	To be an entrepreneur, you must get comfortable with a certain baseline amount of chaos.	1.3×	0	612	79	16
79	Nov 16, '21	🤔🙃	1.2×	0	770	47	4
80	Sep 4, '21	Making money is a consequence of making a difference in people's lives.	1.2×	0	554	61	72
81	Oct 23, '25	Whenever I see someone posting an AI-generated reply to one of my tweests, I immediately feel disappointed in them as a person.	1.2×	42k	513	8	10
82	Feb 2, '20	If you want to build a reliable SaaS product, use a traditional database like PostgreSQL. It won't be exciting, but you won't need to switch out your database when you grow and it	1.2×	0	517	39	65
83	Apr 19, '21	You want recurring revenue? Solve a recurring problem.	1.2×	0	533	66	75
84	Nov 20, '19	Whenever you choose a third-party service for your SaaS, you add risk. If you build the feature yourself, you add at least ten times the risk.	1.2×	0	588	71	28
85	Jun 30, '20	Surreal. Zero to Sold is now the #1 best selling book on in the Small Business category. What!?	1.1×	0	605	19	54
86	Jul 28, '22	To be an entrepreneur, you must get comfortable with a certain amount of chaos around you at all times.	1.1×	0	521	82	16
87	Apr 18, '22	If you're considering quitting your day job to pursue building a business, consider building it as a side project first. You'll feel much less pressure financially, and you will qu	1.1×	0	536	44	52
88	Jan 17, '20	Stay clear of perfectionism. Building a business from scratch means creating things that work just enough to be valuable. They don't need to be perfect. If you try and create the b	1.1×	0	470	62	57
89	Jun 29, '20	Usually, I am not of fan of notifications. Today, that’s a bit different.	1.1×	0	629	13	50
90	Mar 2, '21	Customer service shouldn’t be an afterthought. Customer service is the whole point of a business.	1.1×	0	484	81	28
91	Sep 20, '22	Not everyone will end up being an entrepreneur, but everyone should try at least once. Just learning how much work goes into establishing a business is a lesson in humility.	1.1×	0	510	67	30
92	Apr 29, '22	If you can have fun when things get hard, you’ll make a great entrepreneur.	1.1×	0	541	60	19
93	Jan 19, '22	The secret is showing up every day and not looking for secrets.	1.1×	0	507	59	35
94	May 20, '21	To become an expert in any field, you have to be an ambitious learner first. Every expert started out as a curious novice once.	1.1×	0	486	80	31
95	Feb 17, '22	Your mental health is what ultimately decides if you will be successful or not. Don't neglect it.	1.0×	0	479	54	29
96	Jul 23, '20	A few people have been asking me why I sell a 500-page book for $9.99 when it could sell for 4x that. I want Zero to Sold to be affordable AND contain everything I know about build	1.0×	0	507	28	51
97	Aug 3, '22	Building a business as a side project while having a day job is a legitimate way of validating your entrepreneurial efforts. You don't need to go full-time on an idea immediately.	1.0×	0	492	43	34
98	Apr 26, '24	My SaaS is now officially a 4-figure business 🥰 Alright. Back to work! LET'S GO! 🚀	1.0×	34k	605	8	33
99	Mar 2, '24	I have a solid 3-figure business on my hands, folks. 🥳	0.9×	32k	485	4	8
100	May 19, '21	Selling one book every five minutes. I kinda like it 🥰	0.9×	0	493	4	34
101	Apr 4, '25	Took a year, thousands of tiny experiments, a lot of pivots, but I got there in March. Podscan is now a profitable business. 🎉 And with that, the first goal — "survive while runwa	0.6×	21k	506	5	43

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