I am heading to Asia to meet other makers
I am on the plane heading to Asia to meet other makers building online businesses. Working solo growing your online businesses leaves you spending many hours...
Recent posts
First year of self employment – a retrospective
About a year ago I left my high-paying software engineer job without having a set plan in mind or a profitable side project. I am documenting this journey, h...
What happens when you enter a sensory deprivation tank
A sensory deprivation tank or floatation tank is a big futuristic looking device. It is filled with highly concentrated Epsom salt water that will make it im...
I gave away my stuff to live off Airbnbs (again)
About two weeks ago, I donated, sold and threw away most of my stuff to live off Airbnbs. This is not the first time I am doing this.
Making sense of indie hacking (half a year review)
The first couple of months were painfully slow and full of self doubt. Looking back I did everything wrong.
🎙 I was on Code with the Italians talking about Indie hacking, happiness, money and more
I was on Code with the Italians talking about Indie hacking, happiness, money and more. This is the transcript of our chat.
✍️ How a tattoo is helping me achieve my goals
November 2016 was the first time I managed to get my body weight below 100kg for the first time in a long time. That was the first big milestone for my weigh...
✍️ Everything I learnt from losing and gaining weight multiple times
For those of you that have yet to visit Greece, I have to warn you that it is a food paradise. The land is filled with juicy vegetables and fruit. Our cuisin...
🚀 Post–launch Audiobites
On Monday, September 20th 2021, Audio Bites was launched on Product Hunt (PH). This is an overview of how it went.
✍️ First month working as an Indie Maker
Having to start from somewhere, I set the goal of shipping a product within a month’s time.
✍️ Level’s Tl;dr Mba
On July 21, 2017, Pieter Levels shared a thread on Twitter about what he learnt during his MBA degree.
Happiness over profit
Ever since I can remember myself I have been attracted to activities that let me create new things.
✍️ We Went To Google I O 2018, Here’s What We Are Excited About
As every year, a selection of Novoda team members headed to Shoreline Amphitheatre last week for Google I/O 2018. They attended sessions, talked to Googlers ...
✍️ Make It Better, For Everyone
Not so long ago, computing was a luxury for the selected few. Just a small number of people had access to a computer and less so, to the internet. This chang...
🗣 Inclusive Design In Action
I will be doing a workshop for the MUXL2017 conference in London on Friday, November 10, 2017. You can find more information on the official MUXL 2017 website
✍️ In Plain Words, Machine Learning
Voice recognition, face recognition, text recognition are only some possibilities that are enabled through Machine Learning. It is a technology that can allo...
🗣 The Journey Towards A Platform Agnostic Codebase
Let’s have a chat about platform-agnostic code. I’ll be giving a talk for the GDG Android Athens meetup in The Cube on Wednesday, October 11, 2017. (Meetup p...
🗣 Machine Learning For Designers
Machine learning is the new cool buzz word of the computer industry. You hear it being thrown to most new and existing products by the big companies such as ...
✍️ Building Natural Dialogues For Your Voice Assistant
My esteemed colleague Flo and I recently worked on a television guide bot using api.ai + Amazon’s AWS backend service to experiment with the capabilities of ...
📑 Sensebelt A Belt Worn Sensor To Support Cross Device interaction
SenseBelt was accepted in CHI ‘17 ‘s Late-Breaking Work, Denver, Colorado, US, May 6–11, 2017 [~39% acceptance; 537 submissions].
🗣 Improving Play Store Ratings Without Code Or Design
There are times that feels like even if you are working in a team with the best developers and designers out there, your users still don’t get it. Not many p...
✍️ Working With The Layout Preview
Isn’t it annoying when trying to create an Android layout, but the Layout Preview doesn’t seem to be working? Some times it is completely empty, or some weir...
✍️ Exposing The Searchbar
I have been receiving some user feedback for my app that the feature they are missing the most is search. For an app that contains information from different...