My public journal where I think aloud and share everything I learn in exploring the question: Can I make a living building things I love?https://www.roadtoramen.com/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-792-road-to-shredded-3-month-update/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-792-road-to-shredded-3-month-update/It’s finished! Three months after deciding to get shredded, my first serious cut is officially over. The morning of my final body scan, I woke up and…Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:14:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-791-february-2022-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-791-february-2022-review/I didn’t make as much progress on Browserflow this past month as I would’ve liked, but it was certainly much better than January. I’m starting to get into…Sun, 06 Mar 2022 09:10:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-768-road-to-shredded-2-month-update/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-768-road-to-shredded-2-month-update/Two months after starting my cut at 16.8% body fat, I’m now at 11.2%! Changes compared to previous month: Lean tissue: +2.5 lbs Fat tissue: -3.7 lbs Body…Sat, 12 Feb 2022 00:40:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-765-january-2022-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-765-january-2022-review/January was a very focused month: I got super into fitness. Since I have so many fitness goals for 2022, I decided to dive in deep and set up habits and…Wed, 09 Feb 2022 00:23:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-763-forced/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-763-forced/writing here every day is now starting to feel a bit forced, especially on days like today where i don’t have anything in mind to write strategy 1: write…Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:58:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-762-supreme-grace/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-762-supreme-grace/while i sat i heard the words “supreme grace” how fortunate it is to be incarnated how fortunate it is to recognize myself i am thatSun, 06 Feb 2022 08:03:00 GMTmeditationhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-761-binging/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-761-binging/i invited my sister over for dinner last night and she asked me why i felt motivated to accomplish my fitness goals for the year. why exactly did i want to…Sat, 05 Feb 2022 09:07:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-760-the-simple-life/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-760-the-simple-life/i find myself happiest when i’m tending to my most basic needs: sleeping well eating well drinking lots of water exercising the joys of living simply being…Fri, 04 Feb 2022 06:47:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-759-browserflow-priorities/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-759-browserflow-priorities/i still haven’t fully solved the problem of feeling pulled in all directions when working on browserflow, but i’m getting better at saying no. i’m still…Thu, 03 Feb 2022 07:14:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-758-loving-yourself/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-758-loving-yourself/a friend recently shared this self-compassion test with me: https://self-compassion.org/self-compassion-test/ my results: after sharing the quiz with other…Wed, 02 Feb 2022 05:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-757-lil-thoughts/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-757-lil-thoughts/haven’t been feeling a lot of motivation to take my time journaling. feels like i’m putting in the minimal effort to just get something out and not break…Tue, 01 Feb 2022 07:04:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-756-ecstatic-dance/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-756-ecstatic-dance/went to my first ecstatic dance session today and loved it take one of the best part about edc — the ability to express yourself however you want, as weird…Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:48:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-755-float/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-755-float/caught up with a friend from google can’t believe it’s been over 4 years since i left i’ve been “doing my own thing” for twice as long as i’ve held a real…Sun, 30 Jan 2022 08:14:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-754-my-lil-biz/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-754-my-lil-biz/i’ve started working on features + bug fixes in browserflow in earnest once again looking back on this past month, i spent most of it obsessing over fitness…Sat, 29 Jan 2022 08:47:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-753-sadboi/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-753-sadboi/current status: INJURED the recent forearm splint ended up being the initial domino that has led to several other injuries: sprained the A2 pulley in my…Fri, 28 Jan 2022 06:20:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-752-flooooow/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-752-flooooow/walked my butt over to philz coffee brought out my obnoxious laptop stand + external monitor setup and entered flow state for the first time in probably…Thu, 27 Jan 2022 07:32:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-751-breaking-down/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-751-breaking-down/so this happened yesterday: the interesting bit happens at 0:16, when i can no longer support the hold and my knees collapse. my head boops the wall due to…Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:22:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-750-low-energy/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-750-low-energy/going through a period of low energy these days not only am i having trouble mustering up enough motivation to work on browserflow, but it’s also harder…Tue, 25 Jan 2022 07:22:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-749-week-108-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-749-week-108-plan/Browserflow ❌ Launch webhooks support for Browserflow Cloud ✅ Send product update email Personal ❌ Finish 2021 reflections post oops totally forgot about…Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:52:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-748-nuna/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-748-nuna/in this strange and mysterious journey called life, there are few things more precious than having a companion right by your side every step of the way…Sun, 23 Jan 2022 09:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-747-direction-vs-goals/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-747-direction-vs-goals/while doing my front lever training at the climbing gym, this absolutely jacked guy walked into the room i had seen him climbing with a weighted vest, so i…Sat, 22 Jan 2022 09:09:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-746-heart-pressure/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-746-heart-pressure/when i sit and close my eyes it appears a pressure in the heart three years after its initial appearance, i still have no idea what it is sometimes i wonder…Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:30:00 GMTmeditationhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-745-donuts/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-745-donuts/i recently found out about a weekly vegan night market in la, and shiva, sam, and natasja were down to go so i started planning on how i was going to FEAST.…Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:37:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-744-the-gift-of-journaling/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-744-the-gift-of-journaling/Today, I went back and read some of my old Road to Ramen posts, and it was so interesting peering into the day-to-day chronicles of my thoughts and…Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:40:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-743-morning-routine/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-743-morning-routine/My current morning routine, which I’ve been enjoying immensely: Wake up Shower, brush teeth, wash face Weigh myself and log into MyFitnessPal Meditate for…Tue, 18 Jan 2022 04:24:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-742-week-107-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-742-week-107-plan/Browserflow ❌ Launch webhooks support for Browserflow Cloud Personal ❌ Finish 2021 reflections post I wrote a 2021 life snapshot post yesterday but that’s…Mon, 17 Jan 2022 05:42:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-741-life-snapshot/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-741-life-snapshot/In past years, I went through the 8,760 hours guide to do a comprehensive review of the past year and to plan out the upcoming year. This year, spending a…Sun, 16 Jan 2022 01:19:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-740/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-740/browserflow just passed $3000 in monthly recurring revenue, which is enough to cover my living expenses in most places in the world after 740 days, the…Sat, 15 Jan 2022 06:05:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-739-obsessed/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-739-obsessed/my personality is wired in such a way that when i get into something, i go 100% into it when i decided to jump into making videos, i left my job at google…Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:51:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-738-cursed-night/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-738-cursed-night/11pm: go to bed, feeling good about going to sleep before midnight 1:30am: wake up 1:30am - 3am: lie in bed, waiting for sleep to take me. it does not. 3am:…Thu, 13 Jan 2022 01:02:00 GMThealthhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-737-slow-goals/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-737-slow-goals/looking at all my fitness goals for the year, i thought “wow, that’s a lot. am i trying to do too much?” climbing, planche, front lever, muscle ups, splits,…Wed, 12 Jan 2022 03:45:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-736-body-fat-1-month-update/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-736-body-fat-1-month-update/Last month, I started cutting and got my initial DEXA scan, which showed that I was at 16.8% body fat. My goal is to get to 10%. After a month of counting…Mon, 10 Jan 2022 21:40:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-735-week-106-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-735-week-106-plan/Browserflow ❌ Send out December update email to users It’s almost the middle of January so I’m just going to save this for the end of the January instead…Mon, 10 Jan 2022 06:55:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-734-stoney-point/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-734-stoney-point/first time climb outside rocks feel harsh, hard to hold on weak now strong laterSun, 09 Jan 2022 08:05:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-733-2022-goals/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-733-2022-goals/Before I get into my goals for 2022, I want to make a very, very important caveat to put all of this into context. The goals that I’ve come up with below…Sat, 08 Jan 2022 01:51:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-732-the-year-of-consistency/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-732-the-year-of-consistency/After seeing how helpful setting an intention/theme for the year was last year, I’ve decided to do it again. My intention for 2022: consistency. Moving to…Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:06:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-731-opposites/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-731-opposites/When things feel hard When the going gets tough When you wish it were easier Remember No crest without the trough No positive without negative No light…Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-730-overwhelmed/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-730-overwhelmed/I feel overwhelmed. On every single messaging service I use, there’s currently someone who wants my help with Browserflow: Discord N ran into an issue…Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:03:00 GMTsupporthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-729-elders/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-729-elders/i arrive in fullerton after an hour and a half on my motorcycle. these trips are getting easier but they’ve lost their novelty so the ease is offset by the…Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-728-week-105-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-728-week-105-plan/This past week was kind of a blur — didn’t plan to do much, but didn’t even do that. I think this was due to the sleep issues. Oh well! Now we’re headed…Mon, 03 Jan 2022 02:45:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-727-last-year-this-year/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-727-last-year-this-year/there’s a line from ryokan, a japanese zen poet, that i love because it holds so much wisdom and humility: last year, a foolish monk; this year, no change!…Sun, 02 Jan 2022 08:21:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-726-unfinished-2021-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-726-unfinished-2021-review/Note: i never ended up finishing this post oops It’s the end of the year. It felt like not much happened this past year but I scrolled through my calendar…Sat, 01 Jan 2022 02:34:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-725-dad/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-725-dad/Before I start writing today’s journal entry, I feel a need to give a warning. In Road to Ramen, I’ve made “personal” posts where I write about things in my…Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:29:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-724-sleep-where-r-u/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-724-sleep-where-r-u/it’s almost laughable how much of a zombie i become when i sleep poorly (yup, still haven’t figured out why my sleep quality in this apartment has been so…Thu, 30 Dec 2021 03:51:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-723-1k-in-1-day/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-723-1k-in-1-day/Today, this happened: Despite not working today, I made over a thousand dollars! First, a huge caveat: This is definitely an anomaly as a whole bunch of…Wed, 29 Dec 2021 09:02:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-722-meditation/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-722-meditation/i sit thoughts arise contraction aversion judgment tightness you, too, are welcome here i love youTue, 28 Dec 2021 08:37:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-721-week-104-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-721-week-104-plan/Uh oh, somehow a week has already passed and I DON’T LIKE IT. Time is zoom zooming again. Browserflow ✅ Finish changes to sheet handling logic Fitness ❌…Mon, 27 Dec 2021 07:49:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-720-merry-merry/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-720-merry-merry/today: rode 1.5 hours on my tiny motorcycle from la to fullerton. the cold weather made me brr and the driver who pulled out in front of me made me grr but…Sun, 26 Dec 2021 03:30:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-719-goal-brainstorming/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-719-goal-brainstorming/Right after I turned 27, I wrote about how setting goals felt unnatural and there was a strong resistance to it because it felt like reverting back to a…Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:02:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-718-bots/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-718-bots/When I meet people and they ask me about my work and what Browserflow does, I’ve been saying something like “it’s a browser automation platform that lets…Fri, 24 Dec 2021 07:39:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-717-artificial-scarcity/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-717-artificial-scarcity/Last night, some friends visiting from out of town asked me how much I’d explored LA in the almost two months that I’ve lived here. While I’d ventured to a…Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:52:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-716-ramblings/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-716-ramblings/I spent today continuing to work on the spreadsheet handling changes. And by work, I mean struggle. What I’m trying to do can be described by this question:…Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:08:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-715-stuck/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-715-stuck/i’ve been working on improving the way that browserflow handles spreadsheets for the last three days and unfortunately it’s one of those problems where…Tue, 21 Dec 2021 08:37:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-714-week-103-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-714-week-103-plan/Haven’t done one of these in a while, eh? Keeping it simple to start with Browserflow Finish changes to sheet handling logic Oh god, I thought this would…Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:46:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-713-automation-academy/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-713-automation-academy/A project I’m really excited to start working on as soon as possible: The Browserflow Automation Academy. Currently, there isn’t a great way for people to…Sun, 19 Dec 2021 09:08:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-712-browserflow-freelancers/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-712-browserflow-freelancers/Yesterday, I wrote about how I’ll be turning down requests for custom flows because I want to focus on scalable support (product improvements, better…Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:06:00 GMTsupporthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-711-small-vs-big-customers/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-711-small-vs-big-customers/Had a call today with a company that was interested in using Browserflow to automate some core workflows for their team. I don’t get nervous for these calls…Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:04:00 GMTsupporthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-710-a-quiet-home/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-710-a-quiet-home/I've been in this apartment in LA for about a month and a half now, so I thought I'd write out some thoughts on my experience so far: I miss living in a…Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:45:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-709-the-ideal-lifestyle-part-3/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-709-the-ideal-lifestyle-part-3/(Continued from Part 2) Here's where I'm at: So far, I've enjoyed working solo, but working with other people sounds like fun, too. At this point, if I were…Wed, 15 Dec 2021 06:54:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-708-sleeping-poorly/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-708-sleeping-poorly/So it wouldn't be Road to Ramen without two things: Me pushing off writing until the very end of the day before I sleep Me talking about my sleep I want to…Tue, 14 Dec 2021 08:46:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-707-the-ideal-lifestyle-part-2/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-707-the-ideal-lifestyle-part-2/(Continued from Part 1) I told them that I'm interested in building a business that supports my lifestyle and gives me autonomy. In other words, I want to…Mon, 13 Dec 2021 04:57:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-706-the-ideal-lifestyle-part-1/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-706-the-ideal-lifestyle-part-1/Back when I was making videos on Facebook, a fellow creator with a much larger audience asked me what my process was for making videos. I told him that I…Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:47:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-705-community-revenue/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-705-community-revenue/Whenever someone asks me "how's Browserflow going?", I usually tell them about how nice it's been getting so many more users and customers from the Hacker…Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:09:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-704-body-fat-goals/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-704-body-fat-goals/So apparently, unless I've (1) committed to writing every day and (2) am doing it publicly, I don't write at all, so I'm going to go back to daily…Fri, 10 Dec 2021 04:09:00 GMTfitnesshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-694-hacker-news-launch-retrospective/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-694-hacker-news-launch-retrospective/It's been a week and a half since the Browserflow launch on HN, so let's do a retroooooooo! I posted on Hacker News with pretty high hopes because I felt…Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:31:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-691-grateful/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-691-grateful/i was leaving my house at night on my motorcycle to make the drive back to la and i was suddenly enveloped in the warm glow of gratitude then i realized…Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:14:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-661-electric-daisy-carnival/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-661-electric-daisy-carnival/Just came back from EDC 2021 and it was an absolute blast. The reason why it's so much fun is because it's the kind of place where: You can sit down next to…Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:10:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-652-money-fear/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-652-money-fear/okee dokee artichokee. i still haven't decided how stringent i want to be in writing daily vs. whenever i feel like it but i know i want to start feeling…Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:39:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-648-first-gear/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-648-first-gear/Before going on the ayahuasca retreat, my intention was to spend a week or two max after it ended to integrate and ease back into my "normal life". Then I'd…Fri, 15 Oct 2021 04:22:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-585-reflections-on-the-road/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-585-reflections-on-the-road/At the beginning of last year, I started this daily journal with a core theme: Authentically share my journey building a bootstrapped business from scratch.…Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:15:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-584-transition/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-584-transition/so it's been clear to me for a while now that i've run out of creative juice when it comes to writing here. if you look at the posts at the beginning of…Thu, 12 Aug 2021 03:46:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-583-customer-advice/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-583-customer-advice/had a call with F, a customer who's using browserflow for scraping linkedin. he gave some great advice for browserflow so wanted to log it here: have a…Wed, 11 Aug 2021 03:26:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-582-packing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-582-packing/i will know that i've matured when i no longer pull all nighters just to pack a single bag destroying my immune system through lack of sleep before i'm…Mon, 09 Aug 2021 15:20:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-581-week-85-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-581-week-85-plan/Routines ❌ Workout 2 times Browserflow ✅ Set up flows for customers (automation consultant-type work) ❌ Build auto-retry for cloud flows Sometimes flows…Mon, 09 Aug 2021 15:11:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-580-health/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-580-health/another day of: waking up feeling like i only got 5 hours of sleep even though i got 7-8 having a mild to strong headache depending on the time having no…Sun, 08 Aug 2021 04:53:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-579-slippin/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-579-slippin/so i’ve been slipping on a lot of routines/habits/commitments recently: first time that i missed so many days in my sleep log that i don’t even have guesses…Sat, 07 Aug 2021 02:58:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-578-accountability/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-578-accountability/having customers is great because it’s very easy to fabricate urgency now: just tell them you’ll have something done by a certain time the downside is that…Sat, 07 Aug 2021 00:53:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-577-braindump/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-577-braindump/random assortment of thoughts: my friend david sent me an 8 minute recording of him talking through his thoughts on how to market browserflow and i was…Thu, 05 Aug 2021 04:36:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-576-target-audience/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-576-target-audience/i think the biggest question for me to figure out with browserflow in the next few months is who my target audience is i discovered (yet another) browser…Wed, 04 Aug 2021 05:03:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-575-learning-to-push/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-575-learning-to-push/had a call with someone last week who was super excited about automating a bunch of the processes at his company in his words, it would free up an entirely…Tue, 03 Aug 2021 03:30:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-574-week-83-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-574-week-83-plan/i was ready to write today's week plan but i'm dying from allergies even though i have no idea where i went that could've triggered it (i did go jogging…Mon, 02 Aug 2021 05:03:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-573-the-disappearing-act/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-573-the-disappearing-act/so here's the situation browserflow currently has 5 customers (two are monthly plans on the lowest paid tier so i think they just wanted to check it out)…Sun, 01 Aug 2021 08:16:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-572-automation-consultant/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-572-automation-consultant/yesterday i talked about how i was hesitant about building custom solutions for customers because i'm trying to build a saas company, not an agency talked…Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:16:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-571-first-customer/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-571-first-customer/yay browserflow is officially a business!!!! 🎉 only took 14 months to get here lmao while i'm excited about this, it's a bit concerning that the way i got…Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:22:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-570-conscious-plants/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-570-conscious-plants/talked with one of the facilitators of the 2-week ayahuasca retreat i was looking at and it's all good so it looks like i'm going to be communing with…Thu, 29 Jul 2021 05:16:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-569-mrr-goals/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-569-mrr-goals/22 weeks left in 2021 i wrote this post a few months ago thinking through what'd be required to get browserflow to $5k MRR by the end of the year — that was…Wed, 28 Jul 2021 07:01:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-568-pho/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-568-pho/met up with capella and jake today, which was fantastic because i love them both and i hadn't seen them in years we talked about all sorts of interesting…Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:16:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-567-week-82-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-567-week-82-plan/Routines ✅ Work out at least 3 times Being surrounded by people who are also into working out is the best Also went bouldering for the first time in forever…Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:17:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-566-unmotivated/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-566-unmotivated/hello motivation where have you gone i sit and try to start working, hoping that you'll pay me a visit but you don't show up and 5 minutes later i'm rolling…Sun, 25 Jul 2021 08:06:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-565-retreat/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-565-retreat/been slipping on writing every day — ended up writing the last few posts the day after, which i'd like to avoid making into a habit my friend jake, who i…Sat, 24 Jul 2021 06:58:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-564-29/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-564-29/29 years of being the universe experiencing itselfSat, 24 Jul 2021 05:28:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-563-scraper-for-engineers/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-563-scraper-for-engineers/I met a friend in SF who leads a team that focuses on ingesting their clients' data to power their product. Much of that work requires web scraping since…Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:46:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-562-anyone-can-do-it/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-562-anyone-can-do-it/when i see the thousands of random businesses on sites like indie hackers, failory, and starter story that have succeeded, i feel like: anyone can start…Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:34:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-561-friends/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-561-friends/how fortunate it is to have friends who will listen who will believe who will empathize who will hug who will cry on your behalf friends who see the best in…Tue, 20 Jul 2021 07:13:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-560-week-81-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-560-week-81-plan/Routines ✅ Go jogging at least 2 times Jogged so hard my calves started hurting again take it ez dk ❌ Go swimming at least 2 times Only went once ❌ Sleep…Mon, 19 Jul 2021 07:22:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-559-anger/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-559-anger/the downside of this being public is that i can't exactly write with detail about difficult events that occur that involve other people i know because i'm…Sun, 18 Jul 2021 07:08:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-558-improving-web-performance/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-558-improving-web-performance/Spent all day writing this mega thread on improving the performance of https://browserflow.app so that's my R2R post for the day! DK ✌🏽 on Twitter:…Sat, 17 Jul 2021 01:21:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-557-fabricating-urgency/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-557-fabricating-urgency/One downside of having a ton of runway is that there isn't much of a sense of urgency to make money. I'm happy with where I'm at (in fact, I know I'm…Fri, 16 Jul 2021 03:51:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-556-stories/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-556-stories/we trap ourselves with the stories we tell enclosed in walls that feel real and solid until one day we reach out to touch them and realize they are mere…Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-555-lil-demos/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-555-lil-demos/today i went to work in a cafe and it was the first focused session i had in a looooooong time. yay for knowing what works for me! i spent today recording…Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:27:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-554-flight/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-554-flight/i board the plane, excited to pass out asap i lean against the window and drift off i wake up to a tap on my shoulder "it's my daughter's first flight.…Tue, 13 Jul 2021 05:47:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-553-week-80-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-553-week-80-plan/Routine ❌ Sleep before 11pm at least 3 times ❌ No eating after 8pm at least 3 times ✅ Go jogging at least 2 times ❌ Exercise at least 2 times Exercised once…Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:04:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-552-coach/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-552-coach/a friend of mine told me about how his life has been changed by finding coaches/mentors for everything he's interested in relationship coach singing coach…Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:08:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-551-floating/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-551-floating/questions that have come up in conversations lately: "what are you looking for?" "do you ever feel unsettled?" "what's bringing you joy in life right now?"…Sat, 10 Jul 2021 08:30:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-550-browserflow-zapier/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-550-browserflow-zapier/the questions i've been struggling with over the past few months (i mean, basically ever since i started thinking about how to make a business out of…Fri, 09 Jul 2021 06:50:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-549-failing-to-prioritize/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-549-failing-to-prioritize/my current process for deciding what to work on is largely have other people decide for me. someone comes in asking for a change that will only impact 0.1%…Thu, 08 Jul 2021 09:09:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-548-on-choosing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-548-on-choosing/falling back in love with sf feeling pulled by korea to stay or to go? how long will you be around, they ask i don't know, i say i don't know how i would…Wed, 07 Jul 2021 06:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-547-esta-bien/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-547-esta-bien/I pull up at the coin-operated car wash, wanting to return my friend's car nicer than it was as thanks for letting me borrow it. All the employee-operated…Tue, 06 Jul 2021 07:17:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-546-week-79-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-546-week-79-plan/Routine ❌ Sleep before 11pm at least 3 times All my routines have basically gone down the drain this week (sleeping, working out, etc.) I know this is the…Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:53:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-545-codezone/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-545-codezone/fixing bugs here and there is this the Most Important Thing? nope but it's something and that's good enough for meSun, 04 Jul 2021 10:41:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-544-love-fear/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-544-love-fear/college: the designer for a side project i was working on shares some assets with another student building something completely different. i get upset and…Sat, 03 Jul 2021 04:12:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-543-korea/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-543-korea/i found out that if (a) you're vaccinated and (b) you're visiting family (parents, grandparents, or children), you can go to korea and be exempt from the…Fri, 02 Jul 2021 07:08:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-542-rethinking-pricing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-542-rethinking-pricing/A month and a half ago (oh geez, has it really been that long), I designed Browserflow's pricing plan over two days: Day 491: pricing and Day 492: Pricing…Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:51:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-541-browserflow-friends-and-sf/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-541-browserflow-friends-and-sf/after spending so many months living with friends, staying in an apartment by myself is pretty meh. definitely prefer a community living situation where i…Wed, 30 Jun 2021 07:53:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-540-ocean-of-uncertainty/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-540-ocean-of-uncertainty/Talked to the co-founder of a now-defunct startup that built a popular web scraping service. The conversation was sobering. He said that one of their major…Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:14:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-539-week-78-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-539-week-78-plan/Routine ✅ Sleep before 11pm at least 3 times ❌ Jog at least 3 times Jogged once or twice ✅ Work out at least 2 times ❌ Surf at least 2 times Surfed once…Mon, 28 Jun 2021 05:23:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-538-stupid-simple/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-538-stupid-simple/Last week, Chris gave me great advice for improving Browserflow's onboarding: "Give the user only one thing to do." He had told me that after intentionally…Sun, 27 Jun 2021 06:00:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-537-first-wedding/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-537-first-wedding/congrats susan and eric!!! luv u both thoughts from my first wedding: a small, intimate gathering with close friends and family is super lovely having the…Sat, 26 Jun 2021 08:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-536-brain-dump/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-536-brain-dump/how long has it been since i've actually put effort into a post instead of vomiting my stream of consciousness? who knows left hawaii and flew into sf today…Fri, 25 Jun 2021 06:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-535-bye-hawaii/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-535-bye-hawaii/last day in hawaii. vicky asks me: what did you learn about yourself here? give yourself freely, but be selective about who you choose ego death is amazing.…Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:24:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-534-slug-lyfe/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-534-slug-lyfe/current status: being a slug i sit in front of my computer think of all the Important things to do and then i don't do them instead i make small tweaks a…Wed, 23 Jun 2021 09:23:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-533-the-next-step/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-533-the-next-step/so i've been thinking more about bringing on a partner for browserflow no firm decisions yet, but i think it'd be more fun working with a close friend than…Tue, 22 Jun 2021 08:56:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-532-week-77-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-532-week-77-plan/Routine ✅ Sleep before 11pm at least 3 times This has been the most consistent I've been with my sleep schedule and it is GREAT ❌ Jog at least 3 times Went…Mon, 21 Jun 2021 06:14:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-531-on-creative-confidence/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-531-on-creative-confidence/does a bird work up the confidence to sing?Sun, 20 Jun 2021 06:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-530-just-this/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-530-just-this/where do i end and you begin? the eternal now the phone rings it wasn't to be trust and surrenderSat, 19 Jun 2021 01:00:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-529-finding-a-niche/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-529-finding-a-niche/Even with all of 5 users or so in the Discord telling me about the things they're trying to do with Browserflow, I'm realizing that the breadth is simply…Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:42:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-528-i-did-it/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-528-i-did-it/got up at 2am, tweaked the landing page, fixed some last-minute bugs, then i did the thing https://twitter.com/dkthehuman/status/1405272186567348227 turns…Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:27:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-527-unlike-tweets-tutorial/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-527-unlike-tweets-tutorial/This post serves two purposes: Write instructions to help Shiva set up flows for unliking tweets Help me identify product areas where things can be improved…Wed, 16 Jun 2021 06:01:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-526-why-developers/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-526-why-developers/if you read through my mega stream of consciousness brain dump from yesterday, you know that i'm initially going to be targeting developers/builders who are…Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:01:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-525-week-76-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-525-week-76-plan/Routine ✅ Sleep before 11pm at least 3 times Yay! But... despite going to sleep early, my sleep quality's been pretty poor due to a massive bird orgy that…Mon, 14 Jun 2021 05:31:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-524-prioritizing-feedback/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-524-prioritizing-feedback/Two weeks after I started working on Browserflow, I put together this demo that showed off the core functionality. Crazy that it only took me 2 weeks to…Sun, 13 Jun 2021 08:05:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-523-hawaii-pics/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-523-hawaii-pics/yesterday was super rough due to extremely poor sleep — so much so that i completely forgot about road to ramen despite writing here every day for over 500…Sat, 12 Jun 2021 22:35:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-522-the-launch-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-522-the-launch-plan/AC kicked my butt today about not wanting to share Browserflow with the audience I've built up from my days making videos on Facebook. I have no problem…Fri, 11 Jun 2021 08:25:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-521-onboarding-flow/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-521-onboarding-flow/okee, quick notes about the onboarding flow that i (finally!) started working on goals of the onboarding flow: walk everyone through how to run a flow show…Thu, 10 Jun 2021 06:45:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-520-productive-procrastination/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-520-productive-procrastination/Had my first productive day since coming to Hawaii! Heck yeah, it's about time. Well... it wasn't quite productive because I worked on stuff completely…Wed, 09 Jun 2021 08:58:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-519-10x-engineers/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-519-10x-engineers/Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc. | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421408 One guy, in 7 weeks, built a…Tue, 08 Jun 2021 06:06:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-518-week-75-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-518-week-75-plan/Routine ✅ Sleep before 11pm at least 3 times Oh my god, it finally happened. I slept before 11pm four times this week and woke up at at 6:30am or earlier…Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:02:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-517-chickens/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-517-chickens/The chicken roam free around our feet as we look for a place to sit. They are unafraid, protected by Hawaii's state law. We spot a hen guarding her tiny…Sun, 06 Jun 2021 09:11:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-516-browserflow-creators/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-516-browserflow-creators/I've talked before about how Browserflow has two distinct classes of users: Creators: Developers / low-coders who will build custom flows Consumers: People…Sat, 05 Jun 2021 07:40:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-515-startup-osmosis/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-515-startup-osmosis/Today, I banished myself to the basement in the hopes that a more quiet environment will help me get out of the super unproductive slump I've been in since…Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:55:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-514-two-week-deadline/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-514-two-week-deadline/Okay, I really want to launch Browserflow while I'm in Hawaii because: (1) I want to take advantage of the fact that I'm surrounded by people who can dish…Wed, 02 Jun 2021 23:16:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-513-may-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-513-may-review/Clearly, Hawaii has invigorated your boy with some special energy because I'm writing the monthly review on the morning of the first day of the following…Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:48:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-512-browserflow-advice/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-512-browserflow-advice/During dinner, Chris asked me what my goal was for MRR by the end of the month. I didn't have one so he decided $1000 MRR for me which sounds as good as any…Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:11:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-511-week-74-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-511-week-74-plan/This past week is best captured by a phrase that T uses quite often: My heart felt full. Going to Omegamart (again), watching everyone be blown away by the…Mon, 31 May 2021 07:18:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-510-hawaii/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-510-hawaii/so this is the first time in 510 days that i just straight up forgot to post — had a super fun day flying to hawaii, meeting everyone, and walking around…Sun, 30 May 2021 17:27:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-509-generations/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-509-generations/He pinches my arm and stares at his own. "What are you thinking, Grandpa?" "Your arms have meat in them. Mine's just skin." I pull on his skin. It…Sat, 29 May 2021 12:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-508-family/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-508-family/flew back to LA today to see family for a few days before flying to hawaii my parents just talked at me for several hours straight as we drove home and then…Fri, 28 May 2021 05:41:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-507-travel-plans/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-507-travel-plans/it’s 4:30am and i’m about to pass out so here’s a quick note upcoming plans: fly to la tomorrow fly to hawaii on saturday fly to sf near the end of june for…Thu, 27 May 2021 11:25:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-506-acceptance/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-506-acceptance/accepting others exactly as they are being accepted exactly as you are accepting yourself exactly as you are peaceWed, 26 May 2021 08:50:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-505-the-anatomy-of-a-full-day/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-505-the-anatomy-of-a-full-day/Enjoyed today very much. Didn't do any work, but I had a blast with with T, Tiffany, and Marco. What the day looked like: Woke up Yoga First time in…Tue, 25 May 2021 08:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-504-week-73-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-504-week-73-plan/Foundation ❌ Go to sleep before 11pm at least 3 times Browserflow ❌ Onboard 3 people Onboarded 2! ✅ Build support for virtual lists on Browserflow Cloud so…Mon, 24 May 2021 07:27:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-503-april-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-503-april-review/It's almost a week until the end of May so.... let's do the April review! 😅 I've clearly not been prioritizing Road to Ramen as much as I have in the past,…Sun, 23 May 2021 03:26:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-502-the-fourth-option/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-502-the-fourth-option/Yesterday, I described three major use cases for browser automation that I can dive into for Browserflow: Test automation Growth marketing Web scraping Even…Fri, 21 May 2021 17:17:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-501-marketing-mode/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-501-marketing-mode/okay, now that browserflow is ridiculously feature complete and i have payments set up, it really is time to switch into marketing mode 100% as in, it's…Fri, 21 May 2021 09:40:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-500-500-1000/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-500-500-1000/Day 500. 500 days of building things I love and journaling daily. Coincidentally, I created the 1000th issue for Browserflow today: Still can't believe I…Thu, 20 May 2021 11:09:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-499-goals/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-499-goals/Had a deep conversation with Ben, Mai, Tiffany, and Marco about life tonight that made me feel quite grateful to have such great company. One of the…Wed, 19 May 2021 08:25:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-498-b2b/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-498-b2b/came across this case study today where a bootstrapped company got to $54k MRR in the first week of launching their product by working with a top affiliate…Tue, 18 May 2021 04:25:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-497-week-72-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-497-week-72-plan/Foundation ❌ Go to sleep before 11pm at least 3 times The one time that I went to sleep at 11pm also happened to be the night that my brain decided to…Mon, 17 May 2021 07:40:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-496-love-of-the-craft/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-496-love-of-the-craft/gave a bunch of people a demo of browserflow today at ben’s behest because he’s the best hypeman and it was really nice seeing how amazed people were i’ve…Sun, 16 May 2021 10:12:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-495-after-the-launch/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-495-after-the-launch/after the launch, i’ll invest more energy into my hobbies after the launch, i’ll work on little projects just for fun after the launch, i’ll relax and spend…Sat, 15 May 2021 07:17:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-494-backfired/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-494-backfired/me last night: wait i should just leave my computer at marco's place so that i can prevent myself from staying up forever burning the 3am oil trying to…Fri, 14 May 2021 07:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-493-living-in-community/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-493-living-in-community/I'm currently staying with Ben and Mai, and they live a 3-minute walk from Marco, who's put together a collective of creatives called Red Door TV. Some…Thu, 13 May 2021 03:22:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-492-pricing-plans/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-492-pricing-plans/I'm consistently surprised by how much easier things get once you get started. I've been putting off working on billing plans forever, but once I wrote the…Wed, 12 May 2021 09:13:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-491-pricing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-491-pricing/so the thing about browserflow cloud is that it costs money to run it not a lot because there's like no one using it rn, but the fact that it's running on a…Tue, 11 May 2021 05:30:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-490-week-71-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-490-week-71-plan/Foundation ❌ Go to sleep before 11pm at least 3 times l m a o Browserflow ✅ Add "Update Spreadsheet Row" in cloud ✅ Add "Loop Spreadsheet Rows" in cloud ✅…Mon, 10 May 2021 05:56:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-489-broken-robot/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-489-broken-robot/because i've been working nonstop on browserflow and having it take up 100% of my attention all the time, i find myself not having the mental capacity to do…Sun, 09 May 2021 10:45:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-488-simple/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-488-simple/i found my spirit animal: it's this farmer in wales who's lived in the same place all his life and has eaten the same supper for 10 years Experience: I've…Sat, 08 May 2021 10:47:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-487-deleting-code/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-487-deleting-code/hello to another quick blurb summarizing hours and hours of agonizing coding guess who spent basically an entire week making it possible to use google…Fri, 07 May 2021 08:32:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-486-values/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-486-values/things i used to value in people: intelligence ambition success now: kindness humility integrityThu, 06 May 2021 05:16:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-485-rip/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-485-rip/a whole day and many hours of trying every possible configuration to get my monorepo working with vercel, i'm not able to come up with a working solution…Wed, 05 May 2021 08:52:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-484-sneezefest/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-484-sneezefest/made the mistake of doing pike pushups in the garage without a mask which led to me inhaling a lifetime of dust and being straight up debilitated even with…Tue, 04 May 2021 06:17:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-483-week-70-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-483-week-70-plan/Foundation ❌ Go to sleep before 12am at least 3 times My sleep deprivation hit a new level with me failing to go to sleep before 3am on any day of this week…Mon, 03 May 2021 03:42:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-482-lucky/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-482-lucky/while packing this morning, i was surprised by how sad i was to say goodbye to the friends i've been living with these past two months you'd think that i'd…Sun, 02 May 2021 04:04:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-481-sleep/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-481-sleep/tonight our last night at this airbnb and i want to write about how wonderful this time has been and the things i'll miss the most but i've been sleep…Sat, 01 May 2021 06:36:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-480-oh-my-build/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-480-oh-my-build/programmer log: 1619783251200 milliseconds since epoch (4:47am) the build does not deploy. firebase shows me an error message: 31;1mERROR: [0mfailed to…Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:04:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-479-features-do-not-win/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-479-features-do-not-win/Founded in 2011 in Columbia, Missouri Revenue: $100 million annually The Information describes $4 billion as "at least 40 times [Zapier's] annualized…Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:19:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-478-enough/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-478-enough/the key to being happy for others instead of comparing and feeling less than is to realize that you are enoughWed, 28 Apr 2021 11:27:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-477-brain-dump/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-477-brain-dump/our airbnb ends in 4 days!! gonna miss this crew we've been playing a lot of poker and my frugal side dies every time i get rekt raj came up with this…Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:43:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-476-week-69-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-476-week-69-plan/Foundation ❌ Go to sleep before 12am at least 3 times 2 out of 3. Close but no cigar. Browserflow ❌ Organize gallery ❌ Add more flows to gallery ❌ Invite…Mon, 26 Apr 2021 08:13:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-475-sry-body/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-475-sry-body/dear body, i know sleeping at 5am wrecks you but i couldn't leave the c0d3 z0n3 srySun, 25 Apr 2021 12:18:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-474-the-joy-of-side-quests/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-474-the-joy-of-side-quests/As much as I make fun of myself for spending a bunch of time going on side quests and building things that aren't directly in the service of building a…Fri, 23 Apr 2021 19:54:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-473-side-quests/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-473-side-quests/I came up with a way to describe my biggest weakness when it comes to building products: I get lost in side quests. For the past several days, I've been…Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:56:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-472-spreadsheets-browserflow/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-472-spreadsheets-browserflow/This post is for thinking through Browserflow's system design when it comes to interfacing with spreadsheets. (This is a warning that this post is…Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:45:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-471-onboarding-brainstorm/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-471-onboarding-brainstorm/I'm having a hard time figuring out how to design the onboarding experience. I keep trying to think of the "optimal" thing to do, but that's leading me into…Wed, 21 Apr 2021 05:49:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-470-ease/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-470-ease/not sure what changed, but i felt incredibly relaxed about work (and things in general) today maybe it was re-visiting one of adyashanti's books maybe it…Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:09:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-469-week-68-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-469-week-68-plan/Foundation ❌ Go to sleep before 11pm at least 3 times I went to sleep at 2am or later every single day this week except for a single day. dk pls Browserflow…Mon, 19 Apr 2021 05:33:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-468-stories/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-468-stories/One of the most important things I've learned from meditations + psychedelics + life is that all stories are simply stories. They're narratives that help us…Sat, 17 Apr 2021 23:11:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-467-questions/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-467-questions/Some questions that came up during a lil heart-to-heart with Shiva tonight that I'd like to explore more: Motivation Why do I work so hard on Browserflow?…Fri, 16 Apr 2021 23:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-466-feature-creep/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-466-feature-creep/features i'd really like to work on but i know i should wait until after i actually have customers and people ask for it because otherwise it'll mean many…Fri, 16 Apr 2021 07:34:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-465-thinking-out-loud/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-465-thinking-out-loud/realized that one of the side effects of starting these journal entries at 12am when i'm tired and my brain is processing 1 bit per minute is that i haven't…Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:37:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-464-march-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-464-march-review/On March 20th, I decided that running things in the cloud would provide a lot more value than running things locally and started exploring what it'd take to…Wed, 14 Apr 2021 07:13:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-463-the-hard-part/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-463-the-hard-part/The hard part is not in figuring out what to do, but in actually doing it. Things I want to do but fail to do: Write my journal entries during the day…Tue, 13 Apr 2021 05:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-462-week-67-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-462-week-67-plan/Foundation ❌ Go to sleep before 11pm at least 3 times Womp Browserflow ✅ Move to a monorepo I thought this would take a day or two, but this migration ended…Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:03:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-461-grill-and-chill/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-461-grill-and-chill/Today was one of the most fun days I've had in a long time. Feeling so lucky and grateful to be surrounded by such wonderful people :') What made today so…Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:02:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-460-road-to-launching-browserflow/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-460-road-to-launching-browserflow/Several weeks ago, I told Shiva that by the end of my stay in Vegas (end of April), I want to hit one of two milestones: Launch Browserflow Get at least one…Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:19:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-459-working-hard-working-dumb/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-459-working-hard-working-dumb/every piece of advice i've come across on building a business: identify an audience, solve a problem, and sell your solution. don't be an idiot by reversing…Fri, 09 Apr 2021 09:21:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-458-mental-space/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-458-mental-space/The most important resource we have isn't time; it's attention. For the past year, much of my attention has been directed towards building Browserflow. I…Thu, 08 Apr 2021 05:34:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-457-hell/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-457-hell/of course i spent 13 hours today trying every way under the sun to deploy my next.js website on vercel as a monorepo but it kept not working so i devolved…Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:17:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-456-late/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-456-late/4am coding away everything is breaking heavy eyes and fuzzy thinking i miss my grandmaTue, 06 Apr 2021 10:58:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-455-week-66-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-455-week-66-plan/i am getting rekt by allergies even though i'm popping antihistamine pills because i decided to ventilate my room by opening my bedroom window yesterday but…Mon, 05 Apr 2021 05:35:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-454-the-code-zone/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-454-the-code-zone/things that happen when i enter the code zone: i stop checking my messages and social media for days at a time if you've messaged me recently and i haven't…Sun, 04 Apr 2021 09:27:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-453-brainmush/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-453-brainmush/13 hours of coding today and my brain is oatmeal so why this is gonna be me babbling about browserflow's data architecture so if you're not me, it's gonna…Sat, 03 Apr 2021 08:27:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-452-browserflow-cloud/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-452-browserflow-cloud/holy crap, i finally did it. browserflow cloud is up and running!!!!!!! there's still a lot left to do in terms of getting to feature parity with the…Fri, 02 Apr 2021 06:53:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-451-brain-pls/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-451-brain-pls/dear brain, being excited about browserflow is cool and all but can you please not keep us up all night because then we enter zombie mode where we devolve…Thu, 01 Apr 2021 02:40:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-450-birthing-the-cloud/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-450-birthing-the-cloud/Worked my butt off today and Browserflow Cloud is coming along really nicely! I'm stoked to see this finally come to life. in da zone bby Initial use case…Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:03:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-449-schlep-hunting/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-449-schlep-hunting/Paul Graham has a great essay called Schlep Blindness where he describes the reason why people often miss working on great ideas: they unconsciously shirk…Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:42:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-448-week-65-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-448-week-65-plan/Foundation ✅ Go to sleep before 12am at least 3 times Browserflow ❌ Support basic web scraping with Get Element Text in the cloud ❌ Support web scraping…Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:05:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-447-filtering/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-447-filtering/i'm noticing that i'm filtering again. when i wrote the post about my chrome extension being taken down by google, i knew that there was a good chance that…Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:49:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-446-unread/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-446-unread/i opened my facebook page from when i posted videos a mountain of unread messages people still send messages years after i stopped posting telling me that…Sat, 27 Mar 2021 08:22:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-445-possessed/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-445-possessed/Sometimes, I find myself possessed. My eyes open at 3am, unable to return to dreamland because my brain has already sunk its teeth back into the great, deep…Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:39:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-444-stuck-in-oauth-hell/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-444-stuck-in-oauth-hell/at the beginning of the week, i said i would do some fun coding and work on browserflow cloud that was the plan and then i figured i should integrate with…Thu, 25 Mar 2021 07:37:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-443-environment-design/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-443-environment-design/i'm a huge fan of designing my environment to support my goals. when the default action is the right one, you don't need to rely on willpower so much things…Wed, 24 Mar 2021 06:04:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-442-asian-eyes/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-442-asian-eyes/i've been reading more literature around race, and much of it seems to fall into the tragedy of believing those identities as Truth, of viewing all of life…Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:22:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-441-week-64-plans/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-441-week-64-plans/The big thing that happened this week was getting on the front page of Hacker News with my post about having Intention removed from the Chrome Web Store.…Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:04:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-440-random-things/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-440-random-things/some random things i've wanted to do for a while now: work a bunch of different jobs for like 3 months each i especially want to try working customer-facing…Sun, 21 Mar 2021 08:12:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-439-the-road-to-cloud/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-439-the-road-to-cloud/when i think about where browserflow's functionality would be most useful — and by useful, i mean providing business value (aka things people would pay for)…Sat, 20 Mar 2021 08:48:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-438-on-following-up/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-438-on-following-up/when i was frantically trying to learn as much as i could about b2b sales yesterday, i watched tyler bosmeny's startup school talk called "how to sell".…Fri, 19 Mar 2021 04:58:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-437-b2b-q-s/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-437-b2b-q-s/currently in the process of talking with a company about getting a team plan for browserflow and here are some of the questions that have been jostling…Thu, 18 Mar 2021 05:25:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-436-my-own-rules/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-436-my-own-rules/The silver lining of Intention being taken down is that my post about it went viral. It shot up to the #1 spot on Hacker News within minutes of me…Wed, 17 Mar 2021 04:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-435-google-took-down-my-chrome-extension-for-using-lodash/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-435-google-took-down-my-chrome-extension-for-using-lodash/So there I was, happily closing out some tabs before heading to bed, when I noticed a new email from the Chrome Web Store at 12:30am: I went to Intention's…Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:48:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-434-week-63-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-434-week-63-plan/Foundation ✅ Wake up before 9am at least 3 times Still getting up at 7am — not by choice but because my body just wakes up around that time now I've never…Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:48:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-433-headlights/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-433-headlights/loved this passage from bird by bird: E. L. Doctorow once said that "writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your…Sun, 14 Mar 2021 06:28:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-432-moments-of-doubt/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-432-moments-of-doubt/sometimes, on nights like tonight, i wonder if browserflow has a future i'm extremely proud of it as a product and it's by far my finest engineering…Sat, 13 Mar 2021 03:10:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-431-landing-page-brainstorm/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-431-landing-page-brainstorm/going to use today's post to brainstorm what to put on browserflow's landing page right now, the page is clean but a bit... bare the goal of the landing…Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:31:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-430-i-miss-the-old-internet/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-430-i-miss-the-old-internet/i miss when you could log onto AIM and talk with your friends for hours and put up a lil status saying that you're eating dinner so that people would know…Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-429-february-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-429-february-review/I finally opened up Browserflow to people other than my friends! This has been a long time coming. (If I had known that it would've taken me 9 months to get…Wed, 10 Mar 2021 06:07:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-428-you-wouldn-t-subscribe-to-a-hammer/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-428-you-wouldn-t-subscribe-to-a-hammer/Shiva made a suggestion the other day about making Browserflow a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, and I instinctively recoiled because in the…Tue, 09 Mar 2021 06:04:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-427-week-62-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-427-week-62-plan/Foundation ✅ Wake up before 9am at least 3 times Woke up before 9am every single day this past week. This wasn't quite intentional — I've been waking up at…Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:00:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-426-saturday/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-426-saturday/waking up at 5am, fixing some browserflow bugs while listening to a dope electronic mix, assembling the dip station and working out with the housemates,…Sun, 07 Mar 2021 09:25:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-425-farewell-dinner-retrospective/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-425-farewell-dinner-retrospective/last saturday, i had a really gr8 farewell dinner gathering where i got to spend my final night in taiwan with many of the lovely people i'd met during my 3…Sat, 06 Mar 2021 06:39:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-424-monthly-challenges/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-424-monthly-challenges/I consistently have my best ideas after working out. In the warm glow of the post-exercise endorphin high, anything feels possible. Ideas that previously…Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:07:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-423-brain-dump-11/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-423-brain-dump-11/it's time 2 dump da brain onto my little corner of da interwebz i'm officially moved into my vegas house with 4 others (last person is coming in two weeks)…Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:19:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-422-how-to-run-a-giveaway-on-twitter-using-browserflow/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-422-how-to-run-a-giveaway-on-twitter-using-browserflow/My friend and maker extraordinaire Jen recently hit a well-deserved milestone of 1000 paying customers for her personal finance app Lunch Money (which she…Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:47:00 GMTguidehttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-421-being-a-regular/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-421-being-a-regular/one of the things i'll miss about living in taiwan is being a regular. since (1) i'm vegan which limits my choice of eateries and (2) i don't mind eating…Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:08:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-420-week-61-plans/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-420-week-61-plans/i'm jet lagged and sleepy and so this is a short one Foundation ✅ Wake up before 9am at least 3 times ✅ Work out 3 times Road to Ramen ❌ Write the rest of…Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:08:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-419-preflight-thoughts/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-419-preflight-thoughts/currently on the plane about to fly back to the states after 3 months in taiwan. when i first arrived, people asked me how long i was planning to say. i…Sun, 28 Feb 2021 03:46:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-418-thanks-taiwan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-418-thanks-taiwan/Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:50:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-417-how-to-take-a-covid-test-in-taiwan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-417-how-to-take-a-covid-test-in-taiwan/okay getting a covid test here in order to fly back to the states was unnecessarily complex and confusing so ur boi is back at it with another quick guide.…Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:47:00 GMTguidehttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-416-so-many-requests/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-416-so-many-requests/even though i only took in 10 people off the waitlist for browserflow's private beta and even though only 2-3 of those people have been actively sending…Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:07:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-415-writing-more-good/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-415-writing-more-good/stumbled upon ava's substack today and was blown away the quality of her writing. the ideas, her expression of those ideas, the seamless way she connects…Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:10:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-414-2021-the-year-of-fear/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-414-2021-the-year-of-fear/During my workout two days ago, I realized the intention that I want to set for this year. I want to follow my fear. Despite the world being turned upside…Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-413-things-i-m-grateful-for/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-413-things-i-m-grateful-for/that i can take a day off pretty much any time and it's perfectly okay that i can not make any money for a while and be perfectly fine that i am surrounded…Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:34:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-412-week-60-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-412-week-60-plan/Foundation ✅ Wake up before 10am at least 3 times It's happening!!! Just in time for me to get jet lag and have to reset my sleep schedule all over…Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:08:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-411-taroko/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-411-taroko/my legs feel heavy but my heart is light sharing stories about discovering our inner child i will miss taiwanSat, 20 Feb 2021 13:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-410-2021-explorations/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-410-2021-explorations/things i'm excited to explore more in 2021: music in 2019, i started the "one year challenge" where i committed to practicing guitar and singing and making…Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-409-browerflow-beta-launch/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-409-browerflow-beta-launch/Finally did it! After talking about inviting people to the Browserflow beta for ages now, I actually pulled the trigger and made it happen. Here's what I…Thu, 18 Feb 2021 05:32:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-408-sell-solutions-not-technology/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-408-sell-solutions-not-technology/Something I've been trying to get through my thick skull: People don't pay for cool technology. They pay for solutions. During the last 9 months of building…Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:57:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-407-blood-test-results/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-407-blood-test-results/So I have no idea whether this is a terrible idea or not, but I got my blood test results back a little over two weeks ago and thought I'd share them here…Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:19:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-406-working-dumb/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-406-working-dumb/me, after spending 4+ hours writing a browserflow tutorial and still not being done with it: wait, why am i creating this using text and screenshots? i can…Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:59:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-405-week-59-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-405-week-59-plan/I'm ridiculously tired so going to keep this short! Foundation ❌ Wake up before 10am at least 3 times Did this twice, but not three times. I like the…Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:14:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-404-choosing-my-users/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-404-choosing-my-users/Several days ago, I wrote about how if I wanted to make Browserflow into a sustainable business, I should focus on B2B rather than B2C. My plan was to…Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:12:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-403-ceo-vs-coder/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-403-ceo-vs-coder/inspired by alice's post on her different selves the cast: ceo dk: wants to make money from products like browserflow for financial independence and be able…Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:19:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-402-on-meditation/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-402-on-meditation/meditation is not about having a particular experience but about changing your relationship to experience itself what if you accepted reality exactly as it is?Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:22:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-401-but-will-it-make-money/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-401-but-will-it-make-money/Earlier today, I chatted with some friends about Browserflow and brainstormed possible business models: Charge for running flows in the cloud Charge for…Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:02:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-400-free-freelancing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-400-free-freelancing/today at my co-working space, we had a special chinese new year lunch where we all sat around big tables and ate some amazing vegan mediterranean food i was…Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:57:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-399-accountability/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-399-accountability/for me, the hardest part about working alone is the lack of accountability because i have a pretty secure financial base, that means there's little external…Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:18:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-398-week-58-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-398-week-58-plan/My sleep schedule is still whack and I'm getting out of bed past like 2pm on most days, which means that the rest of the day feels pretty lame. By the time…Sun, 07 Feb 2021 12:41:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-397-dancing-to-dance/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-397-dancing-to-dance/i really like going out dancing with my roommate tina when she dances, you know that she's dancing because she genuinely enjoys it not dancing to be seen…Sat, 06 Feb 2021 20:25:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-396-4am-thoughts/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-396-4am-thoughts/ok this is a brain dump but it's from my 4am brain which means that i'm basically delirious and you should take everything i write here with a boulder of…Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:55:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-395-organizing-browserflow-commands/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-395-organizing-browserflow-commands/For the past few months, Road to Ramen has mostly been a dumping ground of my personal life and me rambling about life and whatever's happening in my corner…Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:37:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-394-documenting-browserflow/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-394-documenting-browserflow/(first, a lil update on yesterday's post where i described feeling kinda crummy: my allergies hit me with full force today (nonstop sneezing, sniffling, the…Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:10:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-393-this-too/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-393-this-too/there's a spiritual teacher named adyashanti whose talks i enjoy listening to while walking around outside in one talk i listened to recently, he describes…Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:01:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-392-january-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-392-january-review/I'm actually doing a monthly review at the start of the new month instead of a few weeks in. Unbelievable, I know. I continued socializing a ton this month.…Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:53:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-391-week-57-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-391-week-57-plan/Foundation ❌ Sleep before 12am at least 3 times this week ❌ Swim 3+ times Swam only once ❌ Work out 3+ times Worked out only twice Road to Ramen ❌ Write a…Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:45:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-390-i-love-you/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-390-i-love-you/yesterday during my trip i peeled back the layers of my psyche and found a little boy a boy who desperately craved love a boy crushed under the weight of…Sat, 30 Jan 2021 13:07:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-389-to-me-from-me/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-389-to-me-from-me/i love you.Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:43:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-388-oh-the-places-you-ll-maybe-go/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-388-oh-the-places-you-ll-maybe-go/got my blood work done here (seems pretty useful to check for major deficiencies, especially if you're vegetarian/vegan) and my doctor (super cool guy;…Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:01:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-387-2020-review-well-being-spirituality/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-387-2020-review-well-being-spirituality/I'm finding it really hard to do a 2020 review all in one go, so I'm going to split it up into six posts, one for each major life area: Health & Fitness…Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:52:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-386-if-i-hired-people/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-386-if-i-hired-people/There are many things I want to work on, like mobile versions for Intention and Hide Likes, that simply don't happen because I'm a solo developer and I only…Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:29:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-385-surfing-life/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-385-surfing-life/spend enough time with me, and eventually you'll probably hear me talk about how we don't have free will i find that this is easily the most controversial…Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:02:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-384-week-56-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-384-week-56-plan/This week was kind of a loss productivity-wise because of tumultuous relationship stuffs but it's all good! That's life, yo. Foundation ❌ Sleep before 12am…Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:05:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-383-braindump/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-383-braindump/stream of consciousness let's gooooooo actually got some work done today which is shocking given how much i cycled between opening notion to write in my…Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:55:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-382-dumpling-queen/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-382-dumpling-queen/We broke up. The feeling was mutual, and we sat and talked about the relationship over dumplings, her favorite. She asked for personal feedback from our…Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-381-sometimes-you-leap/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-381-sometimes-you-leap/Sometimes you leap And find yourself in troubled waters But to never leap again You’d miss the treasures belowThu, 21 Jan 2021 13:30:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-380-the-great-way/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-380-the-great-way/Tried to work (unsuccessfully), tried to write (unsuccessfully), and now I'm trying yet again to get something down in my journal. There's fatigue here, but…Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:12:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-379-reasons-why-browserflow-might-fail/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-379-reasons-why-browserflow-might-fail/There's an exercise I've come across that goes something like: "Imagine a year from now, your business has completely failed. What went wrong?" This is…Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:55:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-378-keep-the-lights-on-then-scale/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-378-keep-the-lights-on-then-scale/I see two potential avenues for releasing Browserflow: Limited release Slowly onboard people by charging them to join the private beta Open release Make…Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:34:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-377-week-55-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-377-week-55-plan/Yay, slowly getting back into working. Although I didn't get much done, I made a point of at least going to The Hive (the co-working space I go to) nearly…Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:48:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-376-being-right/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-376-being-right/A misunderstanding. In short, my friend had shown up somewhere thinking that I'd known that she was coming. I hadn't, which meant that she had come without…Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:37:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-375-answering-every-email/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-375-answering-every-email/Last year, I wasn't great at staying on top of email, and there were many messages that went unanswered. I finally worked through all of them yesterday, and…Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:34:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-374-sharing-online-living-offline/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-374-sharing-online-living-offline/The Internet is straight magic. You press some square buttons with your fingertips, some squiggly lines appear on a box of light, and voilà! Anyone in the…Thu, 14 Jan 2021 05:04:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-373-one-year-predictions/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-373-one-year-predictions/One year ago, I was living in a community house with 40+ people. Two friends and I wrote down predictions for where we'd be and what we'd be doing a year…Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:05:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-372-the-greatest-gift/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-372-the-greatest-gift/The greatest gift you can give someone is to accept them exactly as they are. You expect nothing of them, ask nothing of them, and simply embrace their…Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:46:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-371-removing-the-boulder/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-371-removing-the-boulder/Today was another instance in which I wrote in my private journal rather than Road to Ramen because it involves the girl I've been seeing, and while talking…Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:16:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-370-week-54-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-370-week-54-plan/Didn't set any goals for the last two weeks. In fact, didn't even do a weekly plan last week. Once again, this past week was filled with socializing:…Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:00:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-369-housewarming/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-369-housewarming/housewarming with tina and kelly messenger group chat with way too many people snacks and cups and hot cocoa and more snacks people arrive sunset group…Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:54:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-368-saying-no/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-368-saying-no/I'm thinking about saying no to everyone I don't already know who want to meet over video chat. I don't like video chatting and strongly prefer in-person…Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:58:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-367-sad/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-367-sad/so taipei is great and all EXCEPT the weather here blows dark. gloomy. cold. i had forgotten just how much my mood is affected by the color of the sky and…Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:30:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-366-december-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-366-december-review/It doesn't feel right doing a 2020 review without first reviewing December so here goes! Once I got out of quarantine after the first week of December, I…Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:49:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-365-one-year-of-journaling/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-365-one-year-of-journaling/As of today, I've written a journal entry every single day for the past 365 days! I want to write down my thoughts on this process (why I did it, the…Tue, 05 Jan 2021 08:30:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-364-green-lake/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-364-green-lake/a date on a lake stop the pedal boat and kiss "you need some chapstick"Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:48:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-363-the-time-traveling-journal/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-363-the-time-traveling-journal/There's an ongoing situation that's felt challenging lately, and I ended up writing about it in a private journal outside of Road to Ramen. I would love to…Sun, 03 Jan 2021 10:50:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-362-unanswered-messages/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-362-unanswered-messages/Some days, like today, I barely use my computer. (This has only started happening since I started having a social life again after moving to Taipei — for…Sat, 02 Jan 2021 16:32:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-361-reminder/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-361-reminder/A reminder as we enter the new year. Things that are easy to focus on but don't ultimately matter: How much money do you make? How many followers do you…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-360-maker-community-2020-reviews/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-360-maker-community-2020-reviews/I collected 2020 reviews by some of my favorite makers. I noticed a common theme: resilience. When 2020 set fire to their plans, they planted new seeds and…Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:19:00 GMTcommunityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-359-old-men-at-the-pool/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-359-old-men-at-the-pool/In the locker room of the community pool I am surrounded by old men Men who cautiously waddle and drag their feet Men who slip into underwear with brown…Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:16:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-358-browserflow-stability/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-358-browserflow-stability/First work-related post in a very long time! I've basically only made personal posts this entire month: I onboarded my friend Taylor to Browserflow today,…Tue, 29 Dec 2020 13:31:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-357-how-to-thrive-in-quarantine/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-357-how-to-thrive-in-quarantine/When people ask me how my time in quarantine when I entered Taiwan was, they're almost always surprised when I tell them it was dope. Most people who've…Mon, 28 Dec 2020 07:31:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-356-week-52-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-356-week-52-plan/As expected, this was a super social week where I basically didn't do any work. ❌ Sleep before 12am at least 3 times yeah okay lmao ✅ Swim at least 3 times…Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:30:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-355-q-a/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-355-q-a/answers to questions i get asked on a daily basis: why did you come to taiwan? for fun. also coronavirus. how long are you planning to stay? no idea. when…Sat, 26 Dec 2020 14:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-354-christmas-in-taipei/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-354-christmas-in-taipei/Posting photos isn’t really the type of journaling I want to do with R2R, but I’m eager to go to sleep so here it is. (Note to anyone who might be reading…Fri, 25 Dec 2020 15:32:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-353-bystander/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-353-bystander/I heard the sound of glass shattering first. When I turned toward the source, I saw a woman walking quickly. She had clearly been crying. Behind her was a…Thu, 24 Dec 2020 11:08:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-352-universe/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-352-universe/getting to know someone — their past, their stories, their beliefs, their likes and dislikes, their fears, their hopes, the way they view life — is like…Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:31:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-351-interconnectedness/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-351-interconnectedness/The greatest discovery you can make in life is recognizing your true nature. You are everything and everything is you. Every interaction — conversations,…Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:15:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-350-quality-of-attention/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-350-quality-of-attention/Sometimes talking works a lot like writing where you hear yourself express an idea and it helps you understand how you feel about it. Whenever this happens,…Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:52:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-349-week-51-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-349-week-51-plan/Goals from last week: Browserflow ❌ Email 5 people from the waitlist about joining the beta Browserflow Cloud ❌ Allow saving files ❌ Allow taking…Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:12:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-348-communicating-better/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-348-communicating-better/I've been thinking about what focus I'd like to set going into 2021, and one direction stands out: becoming a better communicator. There are multiple facets…Sat, 19 Dec 2020 13:44:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-347-public/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-347-public/journaling feels harder these days because most of my time and energy is spent on social interactions these days, and it’s harder to write about since…Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:27:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-346/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-346/호떡 ("hodduk") is a sweet Korean pancake made with fried dough and filled with oozing brown sugar. I found it at a stall while exploring a Christmasland…Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:45:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-345-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-345-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves/A little while back, a friend introduced me to his co-worker over email, asking if I'd be open to including him in the Browserflow private beta. I said…Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:23:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-344-brain-dump/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-344-brain-dump/had this journal entry open for the last few hours, wondering what to write in it, and realized that i'm starting to set some kind of standard again for…Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-343-november-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-343-november-review/These monthly reviews are useful for two purposes: Reflecting on the past month Planning the upcoming month They become less useful for those purposes the…Mon, 14 Dec 2020 06:32:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-342-week-50-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-342-week-50-plan/Life ✅ Attend a BJJ class Went to two BJJ classes this week and got a bruised rib from someone kneeing me so it's off to a great start ❌ Hike Elephant…Sun, 13 Dec 2020 17:10:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-341-spectator-mode/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-341-spectator-mode/Prerequisites: A place with lots of activity (e.g. a night market) Not standing out (e.g. being a medium-sized Asian person wearing a mask among many…Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:23:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-340-all-nighter/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-340-all-nighter/Stayed up hanging out with people from my hostel. First time pulling a social all nighter in a long time. We went to some bars and came back to the hostel…Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-339-how-taiwan-quarantines-foreigners/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-339-how-taiwan-quarantines-foreigners/I ended my two-week quarantine in Taiwan several days ago and thought it'd be interesting to share what the process was like. This is how Taiwan has managed…Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:32:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-338-skillz/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-338-skillz/i'm having trouble dedicating the time to write two posts that i've had in mind for several days now: (1) how to thrive in quarantine (2) how taiwan does…Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:23:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-337-on-living-differently/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-337-on-living-differently/i went from spending all day coding in my quarantine cocoon to spending all day meeting new people and hanging out with them so much fun! now that in-person…Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:35:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-336-first-day-in-taipei/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-336-first-day-in-taipei/Freedom. Honestly though, I had a hard time leaving my cocoon this morning. You'd think that after two weeks of being isolated in a room all by myself that…Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-335-week-49-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-335-week-49-plan/Woah, this week flew by. It's probably because I did my week 48 planning late, but I've also gotten used to #quarantinelife. So, uh, I know exactly what…Sun, 06 Dec 2020 17:37:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-334-things/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-334-things/things i am excited to do once i am out of quarantine: meet people work from a cafe get my ass kicked in bjj bouldering run outside (my achilles is all…Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:52:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-333-feasting-in-quarantine/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-333-feasting-in-quarantine/You wake up and look at your watch. It's 7:30am. Darn, you're not waking up at 5am like you wanted to, but you did go to sleep at 12am yesterday trying to…Fri, 04 Dec 2020 11:20:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-332-eternal-dance/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-332-eternal-dance/Worked over 13 hours today and my brain is absolutely fried so it's going to be another weird post. Why do I push myself so hard? Well, it doesn't really…Thu, 03 Dec 2020 15:41:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-331-death-by-iframes/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-331-death-by-iframes/tl;dr some days of indie hacking are fun, and some days are hard and frustrating. today was the latter. and so it is. yesterday, i wrote down goals for…Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:24:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-330-week-48-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-330-week-48-plan/My first week of quarantine! Even though being confined to a small, windowless room in complete isolation for days on end sounds absolutely terrible, it's…Tue, 01 Dec 2020 03:42:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-329-focus-mode/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-329-focus-mode/woops, second day in a row where i planned to write my weekly plan and then suddenly it's bed time and i'm quickly dashing off a post before going to sleep…Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:21:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-328-browserflow-master-plan-cont/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-328-browserflow-master-plan-cont/On Day 193, I wrote down my master plan for Browserflow: Create the best tool for creating flows and use that to allow people to run flows in the cloud.…Sun, 29 Nov 2020 13:12:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-327-learning-chinese/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-327-learning-chinese/i'm trying to decide whether to learn chinese while i'm in taiwan. i don't know how long i'm going to ultimately be here, but it almost seems like a waste…Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:12:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-326-preparing-for-your-move-to-taiwan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-326-preparing-for-your-move-to-taiwan/You got your Gold Card. Now what? When you arrive in Taiwan, you'll need to quarantine for 15 days. Sometimes it's described as a 14-day quarantine, but the…Thu, 26 Nov 2020 23:03:00 GMTguidehttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-325-automating-all-the-things/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-325-automating-all-the-things/Today's post was supposed to be the second part to my post about moving to Taiwan where I explain how to prepare and what to expect when you come here, but…Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:45:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-324-living-quietly/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-324-living-quietly/After spending all day Monday working on my post about moving to Taiwan (seriously, that took an ungodly amount of time — I'd forgotten how much harder it…Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:16:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-323-week-47-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-323-week-47-plan/Life ❌ Be in bed by 12am at least 3 times ✅ No device usage in bed at all Very happy with this change. Using your phone/tablet in bed has got to be one of…Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:47:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-322-how-to-move-to-taiwan-during-a-pandemic/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-322-how-to-move-to-taiwan-during-a-pandemic/Last night, I landed in Taiwan, which recently set a record of 200 days with no local coronavirus cases. While many countries are now struggling to contain…Mon, 23 Nov 2020 02:09:00 GMTguidehttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-321-landing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-321-landing/I MADE IT there's a ton i want to write about but it's 1am and i want to try to set a decent schedule here (although there's absolutely no sense of night or…Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:20:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-320-packing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-320-packing/to no one's surprise, least of all my own, i left packing until the very last minute so i'm coming up with a list of things to take with me to taiwan 4…Sat, 21 Nov 2020 08:32:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-319-every-minute/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-319-every-minute/I've decided: I'm going to focus on Browserflow. Much thanks to David for sharing his thoughts with me, which made the decision easier. His reasoning in a…Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:20:00 GMTanalyticshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-318-browserflow-or-intention/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-318-browserflow-or-intention/I was thinking about what I'd like to focus on during the two weeks I'll be quarantined inside my windowless hotel room in Taiwan, and the idea of doing a…Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:37:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-317-fatigue/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-317-fatigue/had a pretty weird episode earlier. after spending a few hours struggling to fix some minor but long-standing bugs with browserflow (boy, getting back into…Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:21:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-316-things-i-m-good-at/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-316-things-i-m-good-at/things i'm good at: making the same goals every week to sleep early, exercise, and meditate and failing at them consistently telling myself that i'm going…Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-315-week-46-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-315-week-46-plan/Life ❌ Be in bed by 12am at least 3 times Got 2 nights but that's not 3 so nope. You know that iPad I got a while back to get better at drawing? Well,…Mon, 16 Nov 2020 05:28:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-314-niches/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-314-niches/while hanging out with kevin and lucas today, kevin showed us his sub-9 hour final fantasy 7 speedrun that he spent months practicing for. i love how…Sun, 15 Nov 2020 07:33:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-313-time/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-313-time/is it friday already? time is zooming by. i write a weekly plan, then suddenly it's time to write another one. i write a monthly review, then suddenly it's…Sat, 14 Nov 2020 05:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-312-unlearning-helplessness/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-312-unlearning-helplessness/Last year, I purchased my first car: a used 2007 Honda Civic with 145,000 miles. I wasn't sure how long I'd be in Austin or how long I'd want to own a car,…Fri, 13 Nov 2020 06:17:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-311-october-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-311-october-review/Let's do it, fam. Intention was featured on addons.mozilla.com as part of their Promoted Add-ons Pilot, and it led to doubling the number of users on…Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:35:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-310-family/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-310-family/i'm still not sure what family means to me especially with my dad and stepmom, since they didn't raise me and only really showed up in my life in the last…Wed, 11 Nov 2020 07:29:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-309-week-45-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-309-week-45-plan/Life ❌ Be in bed by 12am at least 3 times ❌ Work out at least 2 times, do yoga at least once ❌ Meditate for 20+ minutes at least 3 times House ❌ Fix or…Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:55:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-308-cleaning-the-bathroom/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-308-cleaning-the-bathroom/today's regularly scheduled weekly plan post is interrupted for a special edition of: cleaning the bathroom content warning: gross as hell; if you’re…Mon, 09 Nov 2020 02:37:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-307-i-m-going-to-taiwan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-307-i-m-going-to-taiwan/oh boy i decided to melatonin again and it's hitting hard and wow i can barely keep my eyes open first off, what a day. there's still a ton of problems with…Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:50:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-306-features-vs-bugs/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-306-features-vs-bugs/Yesterday, I made the following commitment: I can't ship a new version of Browserflow until I've collected payments from four people paying $50 to join the…Sat, 07 Nov 2020 07:04:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-305-reality-check/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-305-reality-check/Good friends support you in your endeavors. Great friends support you in your endeavors, but they also dish out tough love when you're clearly doing…Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:06:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-304-the-case-for-taiwan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-304-the-case-for-taiwan/A while back, I told a friend about the Taiwan Gold Card (a special visa that lets you enter Taiwan during the pandemic — I'll write more about this in a…Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:54:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-303-red/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-303-red/i knew my grandpa was proud to bleed red when i found the picture of trump he hung in our kitchen, but tonight, he took it to the next level by tripping on…Wed, 04 Nov 2020 10:15:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-302-brain-dump/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-302-brain-dump/Today's post is going to be more stream of consciousness because I took a tiny bit of melatonin (I don't know why they're sold in 3mg doses — I smash each…Tue, 03 Nov 2020 04:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-301-week-44-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-301-week-44-plan/Got an extra hour and still managed to stay up way too late. ANYWAY. Life ✅ Be in bed by 12am at least 2 times On Thursday, I went to sleep at 11:30PM but I…Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:16:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-300-happy/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-300-happy/300 days. I feel incredibly grateful that I get to do whatever it is that I'm doing. Exploring, playing, sharing and connecting with wonderful people along…Sun, 01 Nov 2020 05:43:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-299-post-truth/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-299-post-truth/It happened so casually. I was eating an unholy burger built with two quite dissimilar patties — one crispy chik'n, the other sweet potato and sunflower…Sat, 31 Oct 2020 05:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-298-you-are-not/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-298-you-are-not/You are not your race. You are not your gender. You are not your sexual identity. You are not your body. You are not your skills. You are not your job. You…Fri, 30 Oct 2020 03:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-297-useful-creative-marketing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-297-useful-creative-marketing/Man, there's just one thing left to do before submitting Browserflow to the Chrome Web Store for review — creating a privacy policy — but I've been putting…Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:10:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-296-gratitude-and-magic/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-296-gratitude-and-magic/I've been focusing on personal challenges a lot these past several days so let's change things up by practicing gratitude! Always helpful to zoom out and…Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-295-cluttered-space-cluttered-mind/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-295-cluttered-space-cluttered-mind/Ah yes, the brain fog and lack of energy that I experienced when I stayed here is back again. I don't know the cause (insofar as we can actually know the…Tue, 27 Oct 2020 05:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-294-week-43-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-294-week-43-plan/Oops, spent all day playing Starcraft and now it's 4:30AM, cool cool cool cool, so this is going to be a bit short because I should sleep like 5 hours ago.…Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:55:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-293-mission-fix-it-up/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-293-mission-fix-it-up/Left Oregon today and came back to my parents' place in Orange County. Not sure how long I'll be here. My Taiwan visa got approved but there's a bit of a…Sun, 25 Oct 2020 09:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-292-dying-on-the-bleeding-edge/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-292-dying-on-the-bleeding-edge/A story. Okay, Twitter updated their code a while back so the verified badge and the number of 'Quote Tweets' isn't hidden even though I have Hide Likes on.…Sat, 24 Oct 2020 03:45:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-291-rambling-about-money-and-hiring/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-291-rambling-about-money-and-hiring/Oh my god. In a few days, it'll have been five months since I started working on Browserflow. I've definitely mentioned this in previous posts, but this is…Fri, 23 Oct 2020 07:48:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-290-random-slump/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-290-random-slump/Two days ago, I felt allergies for the first time in a loooong time and spent all day alternating between sneezing and trying to work before giving up…Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-289-browserflow-gallery-initial-set/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-289-browserflow-gallery-initial-set/The Browserflow gallery. I started talking about building it over 9 weeks ago (!!!) but didn't make meaningful progress towards building it until very…Tue, 20 Oct 2020 17:30:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-288-celebrating-others-publicly/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-288-celebrating-others-publicly/I spent a few hours today writing a little love letter to uBlock Origin: https://twitter.com/dkthehuman/status/1318259672034414592 (Even though it never…Mon, 19 Oct 2020 22:13:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-287-week-42-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-287-week-42-plan/Life ❌ Be in bed by 12am at least 3 times Err, once again, this only happened once. But! My average bedtime went from around 3:30am to 1:30am so that's…Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:09:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-286-shortcuts-for-everything/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-286-shortcuts-for-everything/When I describe Browserflow to people, I usually tell them it's a tool that helps you automate anything in the browser. Or sometimes I'll use the cheesy,…Sat, 17 Oct 2020 22:17:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-285-debugging-my-morning-routine/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-285-debugging-my-morning-routine/My dream morning routine: Wake up. Get out of bed. Wash up. Meditate. Drink water. Work out. Write in my journal. Write down the 3 -5 things I want to do…Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:27:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-284-minimalist-running/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-284-minimalist-running/Junior high. I'm pretty chubby. I start running at the park up the hill from my house which I'd dubbed "dog poop park" because there was so much of it…Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:17:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-283-featured-by-mozilla/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-283-featured-by-mozilla/Back in September, I saw a blog post about Mozilla's Promoted Add-ons Pilot, a new program to help developers mark their extension as trusted as make their…Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:40:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-282-just-one-more-thing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-282-just-one-more-thing/Every time I get close to actually doing the thing I've been telling myself to do for weeks, a little voice shows up in my head. "Wouldn't it be so much…Wed, 14 Oct 2020 05:18:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-281-charging-for-a-private-beta/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-281-charging-for-a-private-beta/If you go to Browserflow's website, all you get today is a link to join the waitlist: Thanks to some of the demos that I and others have shared on Twiitter…Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:20:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-280-week-41-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-280-week-41-plan/Life ❌ Be in bed by 12am at least 3 times Nope. Only happened once. ❌ Work out at least 3 times, do yoga at least twice Worked out twice, did yoga once, and…Mon, 12 Oct 2020 03:42:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-279-fruity/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-279-fruity/When I was looking through my journal entries from 2017 to prepare my talk for Kapwing, I came across this post: --- June 24, 2017 An idea that I’m really…Sun, 11 Oct 2020 04:12:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-278-improving-browserflow-s-editing-experience/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-278-improving-browserflow-s-editing-experience/I'm thinking of swallowing the "just make the product dope" pill and focusing on improving the editing experience in Browserflow. Because there's a lot that…Fri, 09 Oct 2020 18:23:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-277-writing-for-me/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-277-writing-for-me/I gave a presentation to the team at Kapwing today for their creator speaker series about my experience creating videos on Facebook and going viral back in…Fri, 09 Oct 2020 06:30:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-276-september-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-276-september-review/I started off September hanging out with Shiva and his friends in San Diego (making new friends IRL was such a treat), spent a week with Kevin and Michael…Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:38:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-275-types-of-automation/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-275-types-of-automation/i still haven't explicitly decided what kind of automation to target for browserflow, and this feels important as it guides what i prioritize and how i…Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:02:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-274-judge-jury-and-executioner/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-274-judge-jury-and-executioner/If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. - supposedly an african proverb but who really knows on some days, when i've been…Tue, 06 Oct 2020 08:45:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-273-week-40-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-273-week-40-plan/Life ❌ Sleep before 12am at least 3 times Waaaay too many nights where I stayed up until 4am I got close to sleeping at 12am only once where I went to sleep…Mon, 05 Oct 2020 06:04:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-272-how-to-be-decent/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-272-how-to-be-decent/when evaluating others' actions, focus on the intention when evaluating your own actions, focus on the impactSun, 04 Oct 2020 10:12:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-271-sharing-code/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-271-sharing-code/I started writing about the final piece that I need to complete The Ultimate Browser Extension Setup (read: get Firebase syncing with my Redux store so that…Sat, 03 Oct 2020 06:26:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-270-patience-marketing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-270-patience-marketing/a little less than a month ago, i was staying with my friend kevin and he told me about a little game called "among us". you've probably seen some of the…Fri, 02 Oct 2020 07:45:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-269-git-revert/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-269-git-revert/spent a big chunk of time implementing a "break" command inside browserflow to let people break out of loops after i got it working, i smiled and felt proud…Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:22:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-268-good-bad-ugly/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-268-good-bad-ugly/good: really feeling browserflow bad: i'm up again at 4am good: but i'm working and not being a gold-league starcraft scrub bad: i told my friend i'd…Wed, 30 Sep 2020 11:18:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-267-500-13/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-267-500-13/oops i've somehow gone back to being nocturnal although right now, it's due to me being HYPED to work so it's much better than the reasons before where i…Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:34:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-266-week-39-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-266-week-39-plan/Pillars 🆗 Sleep before 12am at least 3 times Slept before 12am twice and 12:30am last night. Good enough for me but didn't want to put a checkmark since it…Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:32:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-265-the-magic-of-shortcuts/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-265-the-magic-of-shortcuts/Once in a while, you come across a product so good that it sets your brain on fire. That's what's happened this morning as I played with Shortcuts on iOS.…Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:03:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-264-where-i-tell-myself-to-build-more-demos/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-264-where-i-tell-myself-to-build-more-demos/It's unclear to me what I should be focusing on right now. One option is to focus on getting more users by creating demos, a gallery, and opening up the…Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:57:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-263-if-i-ruled-myself-imagine-that/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-263-if-i-ruled-myself-imagine-that/If I could plan out the next 6 months of work and have limitless motivation and discipline (or if I had a clone of myself that would do my bidding), here…Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:24:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-262-oregon/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-262-oregon/Talk to my dad in the morning. Tell him I won't sponsor him for his green card. He tells me not to worry. Uncle might be able to help after all and if not,…Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:02:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-261-designing-browserflow-s-editor/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-261-designing-browserflow-s-editor/It's been a while since I've used R2R to think out loud about product design, but I want to start doing that again. Today I'm going to look at the editing…Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:34:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-260-small-things/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-260-small-things/i met up with a friend from high school today, and he told me a story of how during school, i had once borrowed his calculator and a cable. but when i…Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:29:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-259-week-38-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-259-week-38-plan/Goals from last week: Sleep before 12am at least 3 times Exercise at least 3 times Meditate for 20+ minutes at least 3 times Results: Sleeping before 12am:…Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:20:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-258-i-don-t-know/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-258-i-don-t-know/my dad previously asked me to be his financial sponsor for his green card, and i looked into what i'd be signing myself up for if i agreed. the government…Sun, 20 Sep 2020 09:55:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-257-money-money-money/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-257-money-money-money/I run into him at the top of the stairs as he's about to go to bed. I wish him good night, ready to head downstairs, when I see the plastic container he's…Sat, 19 Sep 2020 05:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-256-intention-todo-list/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-256-intention-todo-list/Even though I haven't touched it in several months, I still get messages and emails about Intention several times a week. Since I'm kind of in a lull with…Fri, 18 Sep 2020 06:59:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-255-parents/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-255-parents/i'm leaving my parents' place a week from today. i'm going to stay in oregon for a month with my friend david and his girlfriend before heading to taiwan,…Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:49:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-254-outsider-fallacy/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-254-outsider-fallacy/i first noticed it on my first visits back home from college. "omg you go to princeton? you must be soooo smart" i would tell them no, i'm not scribbling…Wed, 16 Sep 2020 06:32:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-253-august-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-253-august-review/We're almost closer to the end of September than to the end of August so I better get cracking on this review! Format: What went well? What didn't go well?…Tue, 15 Sep 2020 05:43:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-252-week-37-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-252-week-37-plan/I got nothing done this week. I'm having a hard time doing anything these days — I know what I want to do, but I can't muster the energy to do it.…Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:29:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-251-boats/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-251-boats/We notice it while carrying Kevin's kayak out to the water. Big Trump 2020 flags flutter from many of the boats. "I told you there are a lot of Trump…Sun, 13 Sep 2020 03:39:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-250-browser-automation-tools/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-250-browser-automation-tools/As I've been working on Browserflow, I've been compiling a list of tools in the automation and scraping space. Here they are: phantombuster.com browseai.com…Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:47:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-249-10-000-hours/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-249-10-000-hours/Gonna keep today’s post short because I came back home just now and realized that I didn’t bring my house keys. It’s 1:30am and I don’t feel like waking up…Fri, 11 Sep 2020 08:23:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-248-teaching-what-i-know/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-248-teaching-what-i-know/Today I saw a post on HN on a Chrome extension educational product, and of course, I shared the extension starter kit I made a way back. People in the…Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:02:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-247-work-as-means/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-247-work-as-means/Talked with a friend today about doing meaningful work and a question came up: If you see your work as a means to an end rather than an end in itself,…Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:03:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-246-feedback-panda-snap/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-246-feedback-panda-snap/First time doing one of these in a while. I came across a newly released Chrome extension on Twitter and Scotty, the maker behind it, was open to me…Tue, 08 Sep 2020 07:35:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-245-week-36-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-245-week-36-plan/Last week, I said I'd "finish up the iframe stuff" and then get to working on the Browserflow gallery. Things didn't go exactly as planned. The…Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:29:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-244-how-to-guest/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-244-how-to-guest/things that are nice to do when you stay with people: take out the trash wash dishes empty dishwasher vacuum and clean their apartment basically any chore…Sun, 06 Sep 2020 11:12:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-243-receiving-kindness/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-243-receiving-kindness/Some acts of kindness and generosity that I've received over the last several days: Shiva and his friends graciously accepting me at their baller Airbnb…Sat, 05 Sep 2020 08:13:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-242-garden/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-242-garden/bamboo and turtles "i freaking love dragon trees" grateful for monkeyFri, 04 Sep 2020 09:52:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-241-self-control/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-241-self-control/Problem: Binge snacking late at night Solutions that don't work: More self-control Solutions that work: Not buying the snacks in the first place Going to…Thu, 03 Sep 2020 08:09:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-240-moment/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-240-moment/A lovely quote I recently came across: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard My corollary: How we spend each moment…Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:56:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-239-build-vs-share/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-239-build-vs-share/For a while now, I've been heads down and building Browserflow without spending much time on sharing what I'm learning. Doing that was one of the…Tue, 01 Sep 2020 06:42:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-238-week-35-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-238-week-35-plan/Last week I set two goals: Work out Make Browserflow improvements I went on a 15 minute run where I learned that cardio does not come for free from strength…Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:59:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-237-the-calm-descent/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-237-the-calm-descent/i'm now in the habit of pulling an all-nighter every night and then waking up past noon for some reason, i don't get the "where has the day gone" sense that…Sun, 30 Aug 2020 11:01:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-236-brainbarf/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-236-brainbarf/i'm sleepy but it's way too hot in my room like at least 15 degrees hotter in here than in the rest of the house and i have no idea why maybe it's because…Sat, 29 Aug 2020 07:52:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-235-iframes-and-priorities/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-235-iframes-and-priorities/I haven't made any significant progress on Browserflow since coming down to my parents' place, and this is probably the longest stretch of time that I…Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:00:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-234-gamer/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-234-gamer/I'm about 10 years late, but my sister and I recently started playing Starcraft 2, and I've gotten completely sucked in. The last time this happened was…Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:05:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-233-the-frugal-king/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-233-the-frugal-king/It's my last visit to the hospital because my grandpa's coming home. When I arrive, he's gobbling up his final dinner of turkey breast, rice, and salad.…Wed, 26 Aug 2020 05:06:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-232-you-must-construct-additional-pylons/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-232-you-must-construct-additional-pylons/me, yesterday: i should wake up early and go on a run me, today: wait it's bright outside i've literally been playing starcraft all night i dun goofed my…Tue, 25 Aug 2020 15:34:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-231-week-34-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-231-week-34-plan/Wow, what a week. Fire in Santa Cruz → Evacuation → Came back to LA → Took my grandpa to the ER → Kept him company before his operation tomorrow where he'll…Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:51:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-230-nothing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-230-nothing/don't feel like doing blob mode all day long today time passes awaySun, 23 Aug 2020 07:16:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-229-ow-my-head/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-229-ow-my-head/Hospital. Beeping. Mask. Exhausted. Splitting headache. I miss creating.Sat, 22 Aug 2020 04:44:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-228-emergency-room/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-228-emergency-room/My sister calls, waking me from a nap in Alaric's car. We're still a few hours away from LA. "Hey, grandpa just called to ask me to take him to the…Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-227-skyhouse/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-227-skyhouse/You make plans, and then life happens. Yesterday was a repeat of Day 69, where one unexpected thing leads to another and suddenly I'm saying goodbye and…Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:20:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-226-evacuation/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-226-evacuation/The sky’s on fire. Breathe in smoke. We’ll be fine. Evacuation area is 5 miles away. Wait, isn’t that super close? Burnt leaves fall from nowhere. Snowing…Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:19:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-225-cloud-browser/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-225-cloud-browser/Onboarded one of my close friends who works at Google, and after wasting an hour on major shenanigans where we struggled to get Browserflow working on his…Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:23:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-224-week-33-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-224-week-33-plan/This week felt incredibly restful, and I got more done than I expected! I intended to see what happens if I gave myself no agenda or weekly goals, and…Mon, 17 Aug 2020 07:10:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-223-43-lines-in-7-hours/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-223-43-lines-in-7-hours/Today, I worked for 6 hours, 52 minutes, and 39 seconds and over that time, wrote 43 lines of code. In another situation, taking 10 minutes on average to…Sun, 16 Aug 2020 07:34:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-222-housemate-onboarding/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-222-housemate-onboarding/I onboarded my housemates to Browserflow today and they enthusiastically participated for an hour and a half — on a Friday evening no less! They're the…Sat, 15 Aug 2020 05:26:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-221-the-comparison-fallacy/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-221-the-comparison-fallacy/I worked on account creation and logging in today — the boring bits of building a product that I've been avoiding for too long. I often look to other…Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:58:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-220-becoming/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-220-becoming/don't be a nobody becoming becoming becoming am i somebody yet? becoming becoming becoming what happens if i stop? being ohThu, 13 Aug 2020 07:37:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-219-the-power-of-fiction/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-219-the-power-of-fiction/I'm rediscovering my love of short stories. Last night, I stayed up reading Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, and when I read the short story…Wed, 12 Aug 2020 05:13:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-218-july-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-218-july-review/We're almost halfway into August, which means it's time for my overdue July review! Format: What went well? What didn't go well? Metrics Overall reflections…Tue, 11 Aug 2020 02:50:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-217-week-32-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-217-week-32-plan/Three years ago, I left my job at Google and backpacked down Latin American while making videos. On one part of that trip, I went from mainland Honduras to…Mon, 10 Aug 2020 03:31:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-216-tired/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-216-tired/I started writing a planned post earlier today, but I got distracted and now it's 10pm. The cycle continues. This past month has felt like a slump, and it's…Sat, 08 Aug 2020 17:11:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-215-procrastinating/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-215-procrastinating/Something I've experienced many times over the past several weeks: Think of a topic I'm excited to write about for Road to Ramen Brainstorm sections of the…Sat, 08 Aug 2020 06:08:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-214-20-work/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-214-20-work/Spent 14 hours coding today (been a while since I've done a mega coding session) mostly because I woke up at 2am, couldn't fall back asleep, said "ok, fine"…Fri, 07 Aug 2020 08:11:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-213-browserflow-money-plans/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-213-browserflow-money-plans/So let's, uh, talk about money. The question that this journal supposedly explores, as formulated when I started Road to Ramen, is "Can I make a living…Thu, 06 Aug 2020 04:15:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-212-the-unsurprising-surprise/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-212-the-unsurprising-surprise/The one thing that will never cease to surprise me: How surprised I am to rediscover the foundational importance of physical health. Thanks to my body's…Wed, 05 Aug 2020 06:07:00 GMThealthhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-211-browserflow-everywhere/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-211-browserflow-everywhere/Of course, on the one day that I finally managed to get my butt outside and exercise before lunch, I end up poisoning my body with pollen and end up a…Tue, 04 Aug 2020 03:09:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-210-week-31-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-210-week-31-plan/Summary of this past week: LOW ENERGY I had a hard time focusing on work, felt little motivation to exercise and felt drained when I did, played League of…Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:54:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-209-kindness-to-others-as-kindness-to-self/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-209-kindness-to-others-as-kindness-to-self/Talked with my sister on the phone today, and we got to talking about my dad. Specifically, how we haven't really been staying in touch with him during…Sun, 02 Aug 2020 03:34:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-208-when-in-doubt-ship/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-208-when-in-doubt-ship/Back when I was getting back into programming and teaching myself React, I built a ton of music apps that no one asked for. My apps became more complex as I…Sat, 01 Aug 2020 06:51:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-207-zing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-207-zing/11 hour coding day. Haven't had one of these in a while. 3:30am. Body tired and mind numb. Feeling hungry and I recall the amazing Zing bars that were…Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:27:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-206-the-plague/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-206-the-plague/Crickets chirp. The fan whirs. "An ally has been slain." After months of resistance, the plague has finally come to our doorstep. League of Legends. I've…Thu, 30 Jul 2020 03:50:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-205-it-s-ready-pt-2/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-205-it-s-ready-pt-2/Day 157: I write a post called "It's ready!" and talk about how I'm going to start sharing Browserflow with people Day 158 - Day 199: I share it with no one…Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:18:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-204-the-quarantine-fifteen/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-204-the-quarantine-fifteen/Today's post has nothing to do with being an indie maker. For the last several months, I've periodically mentioned how I'll go through periods where my…Tue, 28 Jul 2020 03:41:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-203-week-30-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-203-week-30-plan/I planned to take things a bit easy this past week, and I succeeded! Spent a lot of time hanging out with my housemates doing things like Celebrating my…Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:36:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-202-first-browserflow-feedback/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-202-first-browserflow-feedback/After I onboarded my friend Shiva to Browserflow, he sent along this doc with feedback: 📄 Untitled It's. Amazing. Usually, when people make suggestions,…Sun, 26 Jul 2020 05:42:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-201-time-blur/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-201-time-blur/My first commit for Browserflow: That's nearly exactly 2 months ago now. Wow, it's hard to believe that I've just been building this one project for so long…Sat, 25 Jul 2020 06:59:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-200-grateful/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-200-grateful/When Cathy texted me "chocolate or vanilla?" two days ago, I had no idea. When I saw two pie-looking things baking in the oven, I still had no idea. It was…Fri, 24 Jul 2020 04:15:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-199-behind-the-demo/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-199-behind-the-demo/I turned 28 today and will dedicate tomorrow's post to the friends who made today really special because it'll also be day 200 of Road to Ramen and it seems…Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:53:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-198-the-illusion-of-separation/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-198-the-illusion-of-separation/There was a moment today, in the middle of coding, when I looked past my monitor into the room, and the separation between me and everyone disappeared. To…Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:00:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-197-same-same-but-different/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-197-same-same-but-different/Came across two test automation platforms today and I'm so, so impressed by the solutions out there. It's relevant because although I'm explicitly not…Tue, 21 Jul 2020 05:51:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-196-week-29-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-196-week-29-plan/The past few days have felt challenging. There was the surprise of having a small Chrome change significantly detract from Browserflow's usability, but…Mon, 20 Jul 2020 06:20:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-195-gatsby-vs-next-js/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-195-gatsby-vs-next-js/For the past year, I've been using Gatsby to build all of my websites. My personal site, the marketing sites of Intention, Hide Feed, Hide Likes, and other…Sat, 18 Jul 2020 19:10:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-194-crippled-by-chrome/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-194-crippled-by-chrome/While working on Browserflow today, I noticed this banner: It's not new — it normally shows up when I simulate a mouse click or a keyboard event and…Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:35:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-193-browserflow-master-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-193-browserflow-master-plan/Alright, I'm gonna lay it all out here. I might've written about this before, but I feel like I've been on a treadmill so this is a good exercise to remind…Fri, 17 Jul 2020 06:34:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-192-offline-by-default/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-192-offline-by-default/Given that I've spent so much time building tools like Intention, Hide Feed, and Hide Likes to curate my experience online, it probably won't come as a…Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:23:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-191-how-to-side-project/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-191-how-to-side-project/I've done basically no work on Browserflow in the last two days because I was preparing a talk for my good friend Jake's intern speaker series (yesterday)…Wed, 15 Jul 2020 02:52:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-190-dead-tech/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-190-dead-tech/I'm currently working on a presentation called "how to side project" for a friend's speaker series, and I was looking through my old git repos. I saw that…Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:18:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-189-week-28-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-189-week-28-plan/I thought last week would be an easy week because I'd just complete the Redux migration. I completed the migration, but it didn't feel easy! Glad to be…Mon, 13 Jul 2020 06:29:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-188-what-really-matters/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-188-what-really-matters/Since this journal is primarily focused around the question "Can I make a living building things I love?" the content here tends to revolve around themes…Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:56:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-187-undo-to-undo/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-187-undo-to-undo/I was going to write yet another lengthy technical post about normalizing data and why it's not always such a good idea, but I exercised outside a few hours…Sat, 11 Jul 2020 01:23:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-186-looking-busy/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-186-looking-busy/A conversation that I had this morning: Friend: Yup, I usually get up around 6am for work. Me: Woah, that's super early. Friend: It's not too bad. I usually…Fri, 10 Jul 2020 06:51:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-185-june-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-185-june-review/It's funny — I always do these monthly reviews late (this time, I got sucked into writing about the fun (read: NOT FUN) technical details of moving…Wed, 08 Jul 2020 19:30:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-184-refactoring-hell/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-184-refactoring-hell/A fun thought popped into my head earlier today: "Maybe migrating everything to Redux was a huge mistake." Not for technical reasons, mind you. I mean, I'll…Wed, 08 Jul 2020 04:56:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-183-two-steps-back/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-183-two-steps-back/Oof, migrating is such a slog. I've found it difficult to do the transition in chunks because everything is affected with state management, so I've been…Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:08:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-182-week-27-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-182-week-27-plan/Last week, I set the goal of getting a build of Browserflow available so I can onboard some friends. So yeah... about that... I've basically turned a fairly…Mon, 06 Jul 2020 05:18:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-181-swallowing-the-redux-pill/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-181-swallowing-the-redux-pill/Yesterday, I wrote an in-depth post explaining the challenges of sharing state between different contexts in a browser extension. The conclusion there was…Sun, 05 Jul 2020 03:14:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-180-managing-shared-state-in-chrome-extensions/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-180-managing-shared-state-in-chrome-extensions/So I went ahead and did the analysis that I talked about in yesterday's post. This will likely be interesting to no one but me, myself, and I, but since I…Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:15:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-179-the-unhappy-purist/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-179-the-unhappy-purist/I spent all of today relearning how Redux works (I used it for building SlowTube 9 months ago but haven't touched it since) and adding it to Browserflow to…Fri, 03 Jul 2020 04:45:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-178-the-silliness-of-sustained-sprinting/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-178-the-silliness-of-sustained-sprinting/It's been over a month since I started thinking about Browserflow, the idea to end all ideas. One of my current housemates joined our house around the same…Thu, 02 Jul 2020 03:18:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-177-making-browserflow-24x-faster/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-177-making-browserflow-24x-faster/About a week ago, I noticed that Browserflow was feeling quite sluggish. I mean, there's a lot involved in automating a browser, but it just seemed way too…Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:30:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-176-browserflow-twitter-demo/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-176-browserflow-twitter-demo/I'm stuck in the middle of a major refactor, and I want to cry because everyone's breaking.... 😢 In other news, we held a demo night at my house where…Tue, 30 Jun 2020 05:06:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-175-week-26-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-175-week-26-plan/This past week, I focused on making Browserflow more reliable and made significant progress. There are still quite a few bugs, some major architecture…Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:03:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-174-inspired/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-174-inspired/A few days ago, my housemate showed me a project a ClickDiv that her friend built that reminded her of Browserflow. Go check out the landing page and watch…Sun, 28 Jun 2020 04:39:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-173-crash/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-173-crash/I woke up at 5:30am, and immediately, my mind latched onto figuring out how to implement automatic request rate limiting for Browserflow so that people…Fri, 26 Jun 2020 23:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-172-working-myself-to-death/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-172-working-myself-to-death/You know things are bad when you can see the sky brightening with the early rays of sunlight when you decide to head to bed. You know things are really bad…Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:54:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-171-slaying-the-beast/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-171-slaying-the-beast/Today was definitely one of the most challenging coding days I've had. I worked on the problem I described yesterday: How do you reliably parse a page when…Thu, 25 Jun 2020 06:59:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-170-sailing-in-space/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-170-sailing-in-space/Coding sometimes feels building a ship, expect during the construction process, I keep on discovering leaks. I roll up my sleeves and patch the hole, only…Wed, 24 Jun 2020 07:01:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-169-nomad-or-settle/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-169-nomad-or-settle/I've been thinking more about where I want to go after Santa Cruz (can't put my finger on it, but there's a sense that it's about time to move on), and I…Tue, 23 Jun 2020 06:54:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-168-week-25-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-168-week-25-plan/Feeling normal again! Yippee. I added some powerful functionality to Browserflow this week, namely the ability to run multiple flows at the same time and…Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:21:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-167-bleh/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-167-bleh/Woke up feeling super tired today, and the whole day's felt pretty bleh. Tried to work but my mind wouldn't engage. Played Counter-Strike for a bit but even…Sun, 21 Jun 2020 03:51:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-166-choosing-a-niche/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-166-choosing-a-niche/About a week ago, I asked myself some questions about the direction of Browserflow: What will be the predominant use case? (task automation vs. UI testing…Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:35:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-165-my-brother/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-165-my-brother/Last night, I dreamed about my brother. In the dream, he had become ridiculously wealthy and invited my sister and me up to his penthouse suite in a luxury…Fri, 19 Jun 2020 05:19:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-164-snail-s-pace/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-164-snail-s-pace/Compared to the two-week sprint during which Browserflow went from an idea to a fully-working prototype, I feel like I'm working ridiculously slowly. During…Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:45:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-163-browserflow-api-considerations/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-163-browserflow-api-considerations/When I think about what's required to launch Browserflow (I'm quite far from doing that, but it's useful to consider early), three major considerations come…Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:40:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-162-week-24-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-162-week-24-plan/Geez, I was so hooked on Counter-Strike that I totally forgot about doing my weekly planning yesterday. Alternative title for Road to Ramen: "Man commits to…Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:43:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-161-headshot/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-161-headshot/Yesterday, I learned that you can play Counter-Strike 1.6 in the browser. This game is fairly special because it was one of the first computer games I ever…Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:27:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-160-browserflow-direction/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-160-browserflow-direction/Woah, I almost went to bed without writing a post today, but I remembered just as I was brushing my teeth! I'm freaking tired (it's 3AM) so I'm going to…Sun, 14 Jun 2020 10:01:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-159-browserflow-sneak-preview/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-159-browserflow-sneak-preview/IT'S HERESat, 13 Jun 2020 00:33:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-158-i-sit-on-a-throne-of-lies/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-158-i-sit-on-a-throne-of-lies/I was feeling so amped yesterday about finally sharing the secret-even-though-it-wasn't-really-meant-to-be-secret project today, but I woke up today feeling…Fri, 12 Jun 2020 04:52:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-157-it-s-ready/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-157-it-s-ready/After two weeks of feverish, non-stop coding, my new project is finally ready to share. How do I know? For the first time in recent memory, I was able to…Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:24:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-156-caring-about-racism/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-156-caring-about-racism/Once in a while, you have a conversation that shines a light on your unexamined beliefs in such a way that you change your mind. It happened in my call with…Wed, 10 Jun 2020 04:09:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-155-listening-to-users/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-155-listening-to-users/Sometimes people will ask for features that I don't agree with or seem misguided. In those cases, I've wondered how much to listen to users vs. rely on my…Tue, 09 Jun 2020 04:26:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-154-may-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-154-may-review/Note: By talking about my projects here, I don't mean to trivialize current events and the discussion around racial injustice and police violence. These are…Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:54:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-153-where-to-next/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-153-where-to-next/Today I went to the beach with my housemates and remembered how nice it is to be outside and be around other people. I miss traveling! Some friends have…Sun, 07 Jun 2020 07:43:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-152-microcommits/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-152-microcommits/I've been writing mostly personal posts for the past several days? weeks? man, how long have I been in this super obsessive coding phase? so I'm going to…Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:54:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-151-100-hours/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-151-100-hours/I hit my 100th hour working on the new project today, and since I started last Tuesday, that means I've spent an average of 10 hours a day for the past 10…Fri, 05 Jun 2020 05:07:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-150-rebuilding-habits/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-150-rebuilding-habits/One of the reasons why I often compare the way I get sucked into working to playing an addictive video game is it becomes all-consuming. For the past week,…Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:46:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-149-my-little-corner/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-149-my-little-corner/Finding it really difficult to write today as well. I initially wrote up a post talking about motivation and why I've been working on the things I've been…Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-148-untitled/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-148-untitled/One consequence of me going into hermit mode and coding nonstop for the past week has been that I haven't really been communicating with the outside world.…Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:53:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-147-week-22-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-147-week-22-plan/Man, I really haven't been showing much love to Road to Ramen the past week. It's become a thing I quickly do at the very end of the day simply because I…Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:16:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-146-working-dumb/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-146-working-dumb/I've definitely entered the working hard but not working smart leg of my ridiculous grind. Holy smokes, I worked more than 13 hours today, but I don't have…Sun, 31 May 2020 07:04:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-145-dominion/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-145-dominion/Today, my housemates and I watched Dominion, a documentary revealing the workings of the animal industry. I've started it twice before — once with my…Sat, 30 May 2020 06:43:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-144-running-on-fumes/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-144-running-on-fumes/I was only able to sleep 3 hours last night before my mind went back into overdrive and obsessed over the project I'm working on. It's only been three days,…Thu, 28 May 2020 21:06:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-143-the-idea-to-end-all-ideas/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-143-the-idea-to-end-all-ideas/So this week was supposed to be a rest week of sorts, where I recover from weeks of nonstop work and give myself a break. Well... turns out that I'm bad at…Thu, 28 May 2020 06:49:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-142-profitable-chrome-extensions/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-142-profitable-chrome-extensions/"You can make money from Chrome extensions?" Yup. There aren't many of us, but here are some indie makers who have made profitable extensions 👇🏽 Reader…Tue, 26 May 2020 17:25:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-141-signs-of-a-browser-extension-craftsman/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-141-signs-of-a-browser-extension-craftsman/I want to try focusing more on teaching and giving value through my writing and content creation. Here's an unrolled version of a Twitter thread that I…Tue, 26 May 2020 00:49:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-140-week-21-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-140-week-21-plan/Launched Intention 1.3.0 I launched Intention 1.3.0 which featured a significant rewrite that dropped load times by 50%. Very happy that there haven't been…Mon, 25 May 2020 06:03:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-139-the-paths-ahead/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-139-the-paths-ahead/When I think about major areas for improvement in Intention, here's what comes to mind: Focus mode Stats Syncing Focus mode Focus mode would allow users to…Sun, 24 May 2020 06:58:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-138-the-novelty-effect/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-138-the-novelty-effect/There's a class of feature requests that I get pretty frequently for Intention, and they're things like the following: Require solving a math problem to…Sat, 23 May 2020 06:54:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-137-the-plank-in-my-eye/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-137-the-plank-in-my-eye/Yesterday, I wrote about the difference between living from "should" and "could". If you read it before I updated it today, you would've found a much more…Thu, 21 May 2020 21:22:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-136-the-danger-of-should/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-136-the-danger-of-should/We've all experienced the voice of "should". You know the one. This is how things should work. This is how the world should be. This is how people should…Wed, 20 May 2020 23:48:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-135-having-fun/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-135-having-fun/Today was another Hermit Mode day where I didn't check any social media, emails, messages, etc. and coded all day. When people asked me why I decided to go…Wed, 20 May 2020 05:14:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-134-hermit-destiny/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-134-hermit-destiny/Work that feels enjoyable: Building things Learning better ways to build things Work that doesn't feel enjoyable: Most everything else Even though I know…Tue, 19 May 2020 05:00:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-133-week-20-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-133-week-20-plan/Intention Community I (finally!) set up the Intention community, which 59 people have joined so far. Since I have a tendency to not check Slack (or other…Mon, 18 May 2020 05:19:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-132-virtues/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-132-virtues/In the beginning of his book The Road to Character, David Brooks draws a distinction between two sets of virtues. The first set contain the qualities and…Sun, 17 May 2020 06:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-131-airplane-mode/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-131-airplane-mode/For a long time, I wondered if I'd ever get to a point where I felt happy with my relationship with technology. I lamented how modern tech endowed us with…Sat, 16 May 2020 05:10:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-130-commitment-bankruptcy/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-130-commitment-bankruptcy/Over the last several weeks, I've gotten a lot of inbound requests. Some people want advice. Some people want me on their podcast. Their YouTube channel.…Thu, 14 May 2020 17:40:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-129-guide-to-hosting-your-community-on-slack/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-129-guide-to-hosting-your-community-on-slack/This is a purely nuts-and-bolts kind of post where I'll walk you through how I set up the Intention Community on Slack today. I collected 190 signups for…Wed, 13 May 2020 23:19:00 GMTcommunityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-128-playing-games/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-128-playing-games/Today, I went into hermit mode and just coded. (Sorry to friends and users who have sent me emails and messages. I'll eventually get back to you!) It's been…Wed, 13 May 2020 05:57:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-127-phone-calls/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-127-phone-calls/Dear me, You know how sometimes video chats feel like interruptions because they always show up when you're in the middle of doing something? And then…Tue, 12 May 2020 05:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-126-the-magic-of-week-plans/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-126-the-magic-of-week-plans/So it turns out that getting things done basically boils down to two things: Write down important things to do Do them Yeah. This might sound like I'm…Mon, 11 May 2020 04:11:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-124-telling-users-no/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-124-telling-users-no/Recently, I launched a version of Intention that blurs the background so that you can't sneak a peek behind the lock. Before: After: This was a good change.…Sat, 09 May 2020 06:27:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-123-intention-community/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-123-intention-community/I'm putting together a community for Intention. Here's how I'm thinking about it. Building a product like Intention requires making hundreds of design…Thu, 07 May 2020 22:22:00 GMTcommunityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-122-surrender/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-122-surrender/I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.…Thu, 07 May 2020 01:07:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-121-unmasking-users/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-121-unmasking-users/I recently started using a friend's product, and they mentioned in passing that I was their number one user in terms of some metric they tracked. I didn't…Tue, 05 May 2020 20:45:00 GMTprivacyhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-120-lists/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-120-lists/I'm already reaping the benefits of the weekly planning that I started yesterday. I put the list of tasks in my TODO page in Notion and have been looking at…Tue, 05 May 2020 04:00:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-119-planning-better/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-119-planning-better/Once in a while, I wake up and think, "Holy crap, there's so much to do." Today was one of those days. Normally, it's easy to fall into the trap of…Sun, 03 May 2020 21:42:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-118-predicting-the-future/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-118-predicting-the-future/Woah, today flew by. I spent some time reworking the in-app messages so that showing what's new after an update won't be so disruptive (I think people would…Sun, 03 May 2020 04:46:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-117-pet-chickens/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-117-pet-chickens/Oops, I started writing the April Review and then forgot about it and now it's 11:33pm and I'm feeling quite tired and I don't want to stay up to finish the…Sat, 02 May 2020 06:32:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-125-april-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-125-april-review/Started this on May 1, put it off, and now it's suddenly May 9th. Would like to get better at completing these in a timely manner, heh. In typical fashion,…Fri, 01 May 2020 18:49:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-116-calculating-time-saved/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-116-calculating-time-saved/Say you're me. You're working on Intention. You also may or may not have Lyme disease, but that's not important right now. Back to Intention. You want to…Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:19:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-115-ask-and-ye-shall-receive/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-115-ask-and-ye-shall-receive/Several days ago, Intention had 25 reviews on Firefox Add-ons: Today, Intention has 111: How did I get so many reviews so quickly? Especially when I don't…Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:32:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-114-important-urgent/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-114-important-urgent/I've been getting a lot more emails and inbound messages lately due to having a lot more Intention users. Normally, I'm used to opening my email inbox,…Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:52:00 GMTproductivityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-113-why-intention-is-closed-source/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-113-why-intention-is-closed-source/One recurring request I get is to publish the source code for Intention. It came up on my HN launch and frequently shows up in Intention's feedback form.…Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:37:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-112-how-i-collect-and-process-feedback/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-112-how-i-collect-and-process-feedback/Three days ago, I listed the flurry of requests that had come in from the recent influx of new Intention users from the Hacker News launch. It was a bit…Sun, 26 Apr 2020 21:30:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-111-i-don-t-feel-so-good/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-111-i-don-t-feel-so-good/Not sure what's happening, but I haven't been feeling so great the last several days. Unlike my usual M.O. where I transform into a robot that churns out…Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:15:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-110-feedback-friday-allotone/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-110-feedback-friday-allotone/Did a Feedback Friday for the first time in a while. Today's product is Allotone by Andrew Stromme. Unfortunately, my feedback won't be helpful because I…Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:29:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-109-intention-feature-requests/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-109-intention-feature-requests/(Started this yesterday, finished it today.) After launching Intention on Hacker News two days ago, I received a ton of feature requests from the thread,…Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:41:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-108-hacker-news-aftermath/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-108-hacker-news-aftermath/Let's take a look at what being on the front page of HN yesterday did in terms of stats: 7,262 visitors I'd guess the actual number of visitors is probably…Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:08:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-107-winning-the-hn-lottery/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-107-winning-the-hn-lottery/Sometimes, the Internet is nice to you and sends you a truckload of traffic. Today was one of those days. In the morning, I posted Intention on Hacker News,…Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:34:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-106-the-future-of-show-tell/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-106-the-future-of-show-tell/About a month ago, I sent out this email to the initial cohort of seven people who'd join me in starting Show & Tell: The day of reckoning is here. I'm…Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:52:00 GMTcommunityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-105-binging-netflix/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-105-binging-netflix/Yesterday, I climbed into bed at 10pm and thought that maybe I'd watch something on Netflix. I had started a trial in order to support it for Hide Feed, but…Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:53:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-104-marketing-week-retrospective/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-104-marketing-week-retrospective/Five days ago, I declared that this would be Marketing Week: I'd stop feature work on my products and focus entirely on marketing. I set out to accomplish…Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:43:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-103-the-price-of-product-hunt/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-103-the-price-of-product-hunt/Yesterday, I launched on Product Hunt. I was happy with how it did! (I wasn't sure if it'd stay on the front page so this was a nice surprise.) It got to #6…Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:56:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-102-the-product-hunt-riddle/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-102-the-product-hunt-riddle/Holy balls, I'm tired. Going to keep today's post short and go to sleep super early (body, please stay asleep) so that I can be a new man tomorrow. I…Fri, 17 Apr 2020 02:35:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-101-improving-intention-s-landing-page/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-101-improving-intention-s-landing-page/It's Wednesday now, which means that according to my plans, I should have launched on Hacker News, Reddit, and Product Hunt and that today, I'd focus on…Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:24:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-100-reflections/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-100-reflections/It's day 100! I didn't realize it until I made today's entry and started typing in the day. I had planned to write about the changes that I made to…Wed, 15 Apr 2020 03:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-99-marketing-week/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-99-marketing-week/One of the best parts about writing a log like Road to Ramen is that it's very easy to spot areas where my intentions are incongruent with my actions. For…Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:24:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-98-making-intention-social/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-98-making-intention-social/Intention's groups feature isn't working. I mean, it works in a technical sense, but the feature just isn't compelling. Here's how it's currently designed:…Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:18:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-97-privacy-principles/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-97-privacy-principles/As someone who makes browser extensions (Hide Feed and Intention) that people trust with their data, I try to be thoughtful about the way I safeguard my…Sun, 12 Apr 2020 03:39:00 GMTprivacyhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-96-rapid-fire-thoughts/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-96-rapid-fire-thoughts/Holy smokes, can't believe it's already Friday. When I first moved to this house in Santa Cruz, the first week felt super long but now that I'm used to it,…Sat, 11 Apr 2020 05:10:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-95-hide-feed-s-leaky-bucket/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-95-hide-feed-s-leaky-bucket/One of the questions I'm working through is one that every maker asks themselves with dread after spending weeks or months building a product : How do I get…Thu, 09 Apr 2020 23:25:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-94-march-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-94-march-review/For my monthly review, I'm using the following template: What went well? What didn't go well? What would I like to do differently? Metrics Overall…Wed, 08 Apr 2020 21:44:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-93-writing-gooder/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-93-writing-gooder/My thoughts aren't quite coherent these days, and I'm having a hard time stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. So today, I will ramble! My body…Wed, 08 Apr 2020 03:08:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-92-prioritizing-is-hard/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-92-prioritizing-is-hard/I had this exchange in a group message today: It's difficult to know what to prioritize right now. In terms of product, I think the most important…Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:12:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-91-why-people-uninstall-hide-feed/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-91-why-people-uninstall-hide-feed/Note: This post is currently being written! Like right now! About a month ago, I added a hook into Hide Feed so that when someone uninstalls Hide Feed, they…Sun, 05 Apr 2020 18:43:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-90-open-questions-for-intention/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-90-open-questions-for-intention/My mind is swirling with questions for the direction of Intention so I'm going to vomit all of them out here: Should I combine Hide Feed and Intention or…Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:25:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-89-quiet-trust/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-89-quiet-trust/I talked on the phone with one of my closest friends for several hours today. I haven't done that in a while, and it was extremely enjoyable. Living in a…Sat, 04 Apr 2020 03:52:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-88-do-things-tell-people/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-88-do-things-tell-people/In Intern Playbook, an online course I created last year to help tech interns get the most out of their internships, one piece of advice I give is to make…Fri, 03 Apr 2020 03:50:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-87-intention-privacy-policy/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-87-intention-privacy-policy/As much I love Firefox and their privacy-first focus, developing extensions on Chrome currently provides a better developer experience than on Firefox. I…Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:34:00 GMTprivacyhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-86-privacy-gut-checks/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-86-privacy-gut-checks/I'm currently working on adding a groups feature to Intention so that people can share their browsing usage with their friends and get some fun…Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:26:00 GMTprivacyhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-85-good-night-sweet-kitty/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-85-good-night-sweet-kitty/I try to keep my journal entries here somewhat related to my projects and the question I'm exploring of "Can I make a living building things I love?", but…Tue, 31 Mar 2020 05:51:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-84-marketing-money-and-morality-part-2/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-84-marketing-money-and-morality-part-2/It's amazing how helpful it can be to talk to supportive friends and step outside of my head. I spent all of yesterday stewing on the ethics of marketing…Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:12:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-83-marketing-money-and-morality-part-1/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-83-marketing-money-and-morality-part-1/A few weeks ago, a friend introduced me a friend of hers who runs a popular newsletter about productivity, and we got a chance to video chat today. (This is…Sat, 28 Mar 2020 21:07:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-82-feedback-friday-portfolio-rebalancer-by-michael-lynch/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-82-feedback-friday-portfolio-rebalancer-by-michael-lynch/I user tested Portfolio Rebalancer by Michael Lynch today, and it's awesome. This is a great SLC (simple, lovable, complete) product that I can see easily…Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:25:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-81-the-mystery-of-creating-delight/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-81-the-mystery-of-creating-delight/I found it extremely difficult to focus today and didn't really get anything done. Although days like this never feel good, I'm trying to remember that…Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:09:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-80-the-sleep-goblin-returns/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-80-the-sleep-goblin-returns/The sleep goblin made its appearance for the first time since I moved to this new place in Santa Cruz a week and a half ago. Of course, this was bound to…Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:08:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-79-off-by-one/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-79-off-by-one/While implementing group streaks today, I discovered that my implementation for individual streaks is wrong. None of my friends using it have mentioned it…Wed, 25 Mar 2020 05:45:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-78-nipples-needles-and-friends/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-78-nipples-needles-and-friends/Content warning: Pictures that look like nipples but aren't nipples. I woke up today, put on my workout clothes to exercise outside, and then felt the weird…Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-77-the-engineer-s-temptation/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-77-the-engineer-s-temptation/I spent 44 minutes trying to write a post about following the news, the value of staying informed, coronavirus stuff, etc. and then just scrapped it all…Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:01:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-76-intention-roadmap/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-76-intention-roadmap/I'm currently working on adding a major social feature into Intention, but after that, I'm going to start working toward building a mobile version of…Sun, 22 Mar 2020 03:27:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-75-feedback-friday-relephant/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-75-feedback-friday-relephant/Finally trying out my housemates' product, Relephant! Onboarding There's a ton of content on the welcome page and it feels a bit overwhelming Simplifying…Fri, 20 Mar 2020 22:36:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-74-building-intention-on-mobile/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-74-building-intention-on-mobile/The most frequent question I've received while building tools like Hide Feed and Intention has been "Does it work on mobile?" I've talked about this before…Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:05:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-73-maintaining-hide-likes/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-73-maintaining-hide-likes/Before Hide Feed and Intention, I built an extension called Hide Likes that hides likes, followers, and other vanity metrics across the Web. (Aren't I so…Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:32:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-72-show-tell-community/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-72-show-tell-community/I was reflecting on my post from yesterday and how much I've enjoyed having a community of people who care about my work and can give me useful feedback in…Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:08:00 GMTcommunityhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-71-easing-in/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-71-easing-in/Lots of personal posts these past several days because there have been a lot of personal changes! Today I sat down and coded for a long stretch of time…Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:14:00 GMTwritinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-70-making-sense-of-a-world-on-fire/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-70-making-sense-of-a-world-on-fire/It's been a bit hard to think about Hide Feed and Intention when it seems like the world is catching fire. Today, I called my grandpa and asked him if he…Mon, 16 Mar 2020 04:20:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-69-one-thing-after-another/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-69-one-thing-after-another/My sister has this hanging in her apartment, and the it kept coming to mind over the last 36 hours. 4:26pm I call my parents to ask them how they're doing.…Sun, 15 Mar 2020 06:38:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-68-feedback-friday-zwiki-by-matthew-bunday/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-68-feedback-friday-zwiki-by-matthew-bunday/My friend Matthew Bunday built his own wiki software called Zwiki! Gave it a try today.Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:52:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-67-thanks-for-existing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-67-thanks-for-existing/Sometimes you have days You get thanked for existing Warm and fuzzy feelsThu, 12 Mar 2020 23:44:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-66-on-feeling-down/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-66-on-feeling-down/I've been feeling a bit more down than usual the last several days: This past weekend, I took psychedelics after a two-year hiatus and had my very first bad…Wed, 11 Mar 2020 20:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-65-hide-feed-vs-intention/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-65-hide-feed-vs-intention/I'm at an interesting point with Hide Feed — I've launched, but there hasn't been much traction. I've had a hard time spreading it on different channels,…Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:53:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-64-debugging-my-chrome-web-store-rejection/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-64-debugging-my-chrome-web-store-rejection/A little over a week ago, Hide Feed was rejected for the first time since I started publishing it back in December: I was surprised, but in a pleasant way —…Mon, 09 Mar 2020 17:01:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-63-social-skills/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-63-social-skills/I spent this past weekend at an offsite in upstate New York for the Hacker Fellowship program. Most of it was unstructured time where we ate way too many…Sun, 08 Mar 2020 22:18:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-62-hide-feed-launch-results/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-62-hide-feed-launch-results/I launched Hide Feed on Product Hunt two days ago, and I guessed that with it being in 11th/10th place for the day, that Hide Feed got 1000 visitors and 100…Sun, 08 Mar 2020 04:36:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-61-feedback-friday-push-pull/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-61-feedback-friday-push-pull/Recorded this week's Feedback Friday video on Loom! Much easier than my normal flow of recording on ScreenFlow and then uploading to YouTube. Today's…Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:07:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-60-hide-feed-launch-pt-2/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-60-hide-feed-launch-pt-2/I launched Hide Feed on Hacker News two weeks ago (wow, I can't believe it's already been that long), and today, I finally posted it to Product Hunt. I…Thu, 05 Mar 2020 22:50:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-59-hide-feed-wishlist/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-59-hide-feed-wishlist/I'm launching Hide Feed on Product Hunt tomorrow! I spent quite a bit of time creating the assets for the post today so I'm hoping it'll pay off. On a side…Thu, 05 Mar 2020 02:56:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-58-the-indie-collective/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-58-the-indie-collective/As mentioned in several of my posts, I'm currently spending 10 weeks at a hacker residency in NYC. The explicit purpose of this program is to find…Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:14:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-57-wall-time-vs-active-time/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-57-wall-time-vs-active-time/Imagine you're a user of the h0t f1r3 browser extension taking the world by storm, Intention. You've added Reddit as a distracting site that you'd like to…Mon, 02 Mar 2020 18:08:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-56-february-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-56-february-review/For this month's review, I'm using the following template: What went well? What didn't go well? What would I like to do differently? Overall reflections I…Sun, 01 Mar 2020 17:10:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-55-january-review/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-55-january-review/My Casio F91W (best watch ever) doesn't know about leap years, so when I checked the date this morning, it told me it was March 1. Then I realized that I…Sat, 29 Feb 2020 11:43:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-54-team-vs-solo/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-54-team-vs-solo/On Monday and Tuesday, Erica, Matt, and I made Just One Earth, a collection of visualizations and games to show the impact we have as a species on the earth…Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:14:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-53-perpetual-blob-state/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-53-perpetual-blob-state/I feel like I've entered this self-perpetuating state where I'm not making clear decisions. For example, I'm tired because I'm not sleeping enough, and in…Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:02:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-52-crushed-by-coding/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-52-crushed-by-coding/Sometimes, coding is a fun game that you want to play all day and all night long. Other times, coding makes you want to curl up into a ball and cry yourself…Thu, 27 Feb 2020 04:02:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-51-hackathon/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-51-hackathon/This post is going to be a bit loopy because I'm extremely exhausted from not getting enough sleep. I'm currently in the middle of doing a 2-day hackathon…Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:29:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-50-reflections-on-writing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-50-reflections-on-writing/Note: This post is currently being written! Like right now! Today is day 50 of writing Road to Ramen, and since it's a nice, round number, I figured it'd be…Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:33:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-49-i-want-to-be-more-open/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-49-i-want-to-be-more-open/My normal routine when I sit down to work: Put in my earbuds, drown out my environment, and enter a flow state where I concentrate uninterrupted for many…Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:22:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-48-no-one-s-upgrading-to-hide-feed-pro/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-48-no-one-s-upgrading-to-hide-feed-pro/On February 6th, I pushed Hide Feed v1.4.8, which started the 14-day Trial for all existing beta users (before then, everyone was on the Trial plan with no…Sat, 22 Feb 2020 17:26:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-47-two-posts-two-duds/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-47-two-posts-two-duds/I posted Hide Feed to Hacker News twice (once yesterday and once today) and they both never left the /new page. I'm still convinced that if Hide Feed would…Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:24:00 GMTmarketinghttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-46-i-m-launching-hide-feed-today/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-46-i-m-launching-hide-feed-today/On Day 33 - Update all screenshots to reflect latest product changes - Better assets (logo, demo video, open graph images, etc.) so my stuff doesnt look…Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:16:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-45-should-i-include-analytics/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-45-should-i-include-analytics/I'm having a hard time deciding where to draw the line in terms of adding analytics into my products. Let's take Hide Feed as an example. Currently, I don't…Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:58:00 GMTprivacyhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-44-on-competition-and-fear/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-44-on-competition-and-fear/Motion has been getting a lot of attention lately, and someone in my residency mentioned it to me today after seeing it on Hacker News. It's a strange…Wed, 19 Feb 2020 03:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-43-are-you-mission-driven-or-mission-agnostic/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-43-are-you-mission-driven-or-mission-agnostic/Yesterday, we had a full kick-off day for the 10-week hacker residency that I'm doing in NYC. During the presentations, I sometimes felt out-of-place…Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:48:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-42-intention-is-almost-done/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-42-intention-is-almost-done/Me yesterday: "I'm excited to finish Intention, but first, I gotta finish Hide Feed!" Also me yesterday: "Why don't I replace a lot of the old code in…Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:30:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-41-i-m-going-to-finish-intention/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-41-i-m-going-to-finish-intention/Okay, I'm going to finish Intention. It should be pretty clear by now that I'm constantly changing my mind. It's only been a little over a month since I…Sat, 15 Feb 2020 17:30:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-40-feedback-friday-subscription-score/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-40-feedback-friday-subscription-score/Today's product for Feedback Friday is Subscription Score made by Danielle and James. I went on longer than the intended 10 minutes (how in the world did I…Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:15:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-39-should-i-work-on-intention/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-39-should-i-work-on-intention/Today, I learned about three different tools that address the need for defending against distractions: Nudge An extension that places a barrier before…Fri, 14 Feb 2020 03:54:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-38-building-in-public/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-38-building-in-public/When I say "building in public", you might think of companies and indie makers that have popularized the practice of publicly documenting their process of…Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:40:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-37-learning-to-be-patient/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-37-learning-to-be-patient/I did absolutely no work on Hide Feed today, and it feels... surprisingly okay. I hung out with my close friend Shiva today, and he gave me the sage advice…Wed, 12 Feb 2020 03:10:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-36-carrot-vs-stick/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-36-carrot-vs-stick/I'm kind of having a hard time adjusting to my new life in NYC. My mood is significantly affected by the weather and the gloomy sky + rain here saps my…Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:23:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-35-why-i-m-spending-10-weeks-in-nyc/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-35-why-i-m-spending-10-weeks-in-nyc/Around two months ago, I got a text message from my friend Dave, who had recently started a venture capital fund called Backend Capital: Hey DK, have a…Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-34-on-living-with-40-people/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-34-on-living-with-40-people/I'm currently on a layover on my way to NYC where I'll be spending the next 10 weeks, but before I write about why I'm moving there and what I'll be doing,…Sat, 08 Feb 2020 19:57:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-33-open-beta/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-33-open-beta/No Feedback Friday today because I only have a little bit of time in a random cafe in Venice Beach and my Internet connection would be faster if I…Fri, 07 Feb 2020 21:34:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-32-setting-a-goal-kinda/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-32-setting-a-goal-kinda/I initially wrote the piece below as part of yesterday's post, but it felt more appropriate as its own thing. It also gives me more time to work on Hide…Thu, 06 Feb 2020 20:45:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-31-choosing-a-price-for-hide-feed/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-31-choosing-a-price-for-hide-feed/Since I wrote the post about getting my first paid customer, I got two more of these bad boys in my inbox: Thanks Jake and Shiva!!! Getting their…Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:50:00 GMTsaleshttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-30-got-my-first-paid-user/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-30-got-my-first-paid-user/This email was waiting for me this morning: This is really special for me, and to explain why, I'll take you on a little tour of The Ways DK Has Made Money…Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:51:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-29-rip-intention/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-29-rip-intention/I'm doing it. (Look top right of the screenshot.) In some of my previous posts, I bemoaned my struggle around trying to decide whether to incorporate…Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:08:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-28-designing-an-impossible-business/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-28-designing-an-impossible-business/There's a conference talk about bootstrapping that's been making the rounds (I discovered it through Patrick McKenzie's comment on Michael Lynch's Hacker…Sun, 02 Feb 2020 20:26:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-27-something-or-nothing/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-27-something-or-nothing/Today, I worked out of my local Starbucks and built support for being able to add as many custom photos as you want to integrate with Hide Feed. I'm really…Sun, 02 Feb 2020 04:25:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-26-feedback-friday-mailbrew/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-26-feedback-friday-mailbrew/Holy smokes, I just recorded a user test of Mailbrew by Francesco and Fabrizio and when I finished, it was 30 minutes long. I think some makers would…Sat, 01 Feb 2020 03:04:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-25-i-m-working-on-the-wrong-solution/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-25-i-m-working-on-the-wrong-solution/When I first started showing people Intention back in October, the most frequent question I got was: "Can you make this work on my phone?" It's been the…Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:48:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-24-i-can-t-decide-what-i-want-hide-feed-to-be/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-24-i-can-t-decide-what-i-want-hide-feed-to-be/I feel like the last several days of writing have been pretty bleh and I wanted to make up for it starting today, but I'm completely pooped after making the…Thu, 30 Jan 2020 05:41:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-23-the-three-pillars/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-23-the-three-pillars/Short post today because I, of course, left all my packing until the last minute for my flight tomorrow from Austin to LA. I don't remember where I learned…Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:23:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-22-how-hide-feed-hides-feeds/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-22-how-hide-feed-hides-feeds/I haven't been able to work much these past few days (and won't be able to for the next few days) due to moving out of my place in Austin, so I'm going to…Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:43:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-21-sleepy-reflections/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-21-sleepy-reflections/It's 10:40 PM and it's the latest I've written one of these posts. I'm on the verge of falling asleep due to sleep deprivation (I very rarely drink caffeine…Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:37:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-20-why-decent-people-build-addictive-products/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-20-why-decent-people-build-addictive-products/A friend asked me yesterday why I'm building Hide Feed instead of the million other things I could be working on, so I thought I'd take a step back and…Sat, 25 Jan 2020 22:23:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-19-feedback-friday-what-got-done/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-19-feedback-friday-what-got-done/For this week's Feedback Friday, I tried a suggestion from Michael to do a product breakdown by talking over a video rather than taking screenshots and…Fri, 24 Jan 2020 22:42:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-18-maker-log-is-now-road-to-ramen/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-18-maker-log-is-now-road-to-ramen/Back in July, I purchased the domain roadtoramen.com with the goal of keeping a public log of my journey as an indie maker. As with most domains that I…Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:59:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-17-what-i-got-wrong-about-hide-feed/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-17-what-i-got-wrong-about-hide-feed/You're reading part 3 of my User Testing for Indie Makers series: Part 1: User Test or Die (Why User Testing Matters) Part 2: Bribing Strangers with Protein…Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:04:00 GMTuxhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-16-i-don-t-know-how-to-prevent-fraud/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-16-i-don-t-know-how-to-prevent-fraud/A week ago on Day 9, I assessed the different paid plans that I could adopt for Hide Feed and decided to go with a feature-based model. Here's how it would…Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:23:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-15-junkie/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-15-junkie/I'm leaving Austin at the end of this month, and that means taking care of some big errands like selling my car. I've been spending a lot of time responding…Mon, 20 Jan 2020 20:08:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-14-why-do-i-write-as-if-i-m-giving-advice/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-14-why-do-i-write-as-if-i-m-giving-advice/I've noticed that there an interesting tendency that I often fall into when I write. Take the post yesterday where I talked about recruiting people for user…Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-13-bribing-strangers-with-protein-bars/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-13-bribing-strangers-with-protein-bars/You're reading part 2 of my User Testing for Indie Makers series: Part 1: User Test or Die (Why User Testing Matters) Part 2: Bribing Strangers with Protein…Sat, 18 Jan 2020 15:37:00 GMTuxhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-12-feedback-friday-pigeon/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-12-feedback-friday-pigeon/Every Friday, I'm going to dedicate my Maker Log to a weekly series I'm calling Feedback Fridays. As I mentioned on Day 5, I was blown away when Michael…Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:11:00 GMTfeedback fridayhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-11-user-test-or-die/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-11-user-test-or-die/I'm hesitating to write the post on user testing because there's a part of me that wants to take my sweet time to get it just right so that it will be a…Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:12:00 GMTuxhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-10-launching-feels-so-far-away/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-10-launching-feels-so-far-away/Oh, boy. This morning, I started writing about how I ran some guerrilla user tests yesterday, but I stopped to drop off my friend Jake at the airport (miss…Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:03:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-9-designing-a-paid-plan/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-9-designing-a-paid-plan/I want to systematically think through the different ways that I can create a paid plan for Hide Feed with the goal of having it be a source of recurring…Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:34:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-8-cursed-by-excitement/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-8-cursed-by-excitement/It's 10PM, and I lay down to sleep. I'm excited to go to sleep early so I can finally correct my sleep schedule and get back to waking up early. "Hey," the…Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:27:00 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-7-how-i-track-my-work/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-7-how-i-track-my-work/As I've developed various projects, I've found that it really helps to have a record of the things I've done and why. I'll occasionally encounter an older…Sun, 12 Jan 2020 20:19:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-6-the-joy-of-coding/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-6-the-joy-of-coding/Man, I'm really, really loving coding these days. When I joined Google as a product manager back in 2015, I pretty much stopped coding, with the exception…Sat, 11 Jan 2020 21:41:00 GMTengineeringhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-5-the-road-to-launch/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-5-the-road-to-launch/Hide Feed is currently in private beta with around 25 people currently using the extension. What are the things I need to complete before launching? (I'm…Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:21:00 GMTstatushttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-4-the-dangers-of-chrome-extensions/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-4-the-dangers-of-chrome-extensions/Today's post is going to go into the details of how permissions work for Chrome extensions and the dilemma about trading off real security vs. perceived…Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:36:00 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-1-hello-world/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-1-hello-world/Oh boy, writing is hard. I've already had a few false starts in trying to get this thing going so I'm just going to stream-of-consciousness this baby and…Thu, 09 Jan 2020 01:16:26 GMTpersonalhttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-2-open-vs-private-beta/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-2-open-vs-private-beta/I've been working on Hide Feed for a bit over a month now (first commit was on 11/27/2019), and I'm extremely proud of how far it's come. Out of all the…Thu, 09 Jan 2020 01:16:26 GMTproducthttps://www.roadtoramen.com/day-3-how-i-collected-signups-for-my-private-beta/https://www.roadtoramen.com/day-3-how-i-collected-signups-for-my-private-beta/Here's how I went about announcing the Hide Feed private beta: Changed the call-to-action on my landing page from "Install" to "Get Early Access": Set up a…Thu, 09 Jan 2020 01:16:26 GMTproduct