Val Sopi 👋
@valsopi.com
💻 AMSDeck.com founder 💻 BlogMaker.app founder 🎙 podcasting https://bootstrapping-saas.transistor.fm 🤔 thinking at valsopi.com 👾 bullish on AI
Don’t get caught up in chasing a goal that might not be your actual goal any longer… constantly reevaluate your goal’s goals 👇
Benedikt Deicke@benediktdeicke.com · 3mo agoVal's (@valsopi.com) recent post resonated with me. I've noticed my own goal posts shifting over the years. You have to be aware of it, though. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Don't burn yourself chasing the current goal, because it likely isn't the actual goal 😅 valsopi.com/never-make-it
Blogmaker is 5 years this April. These are some of the key lessons I could think of that I picked up along the way: valsopi.com/saas-5-year-...
9 Lessons from 5 Years of Building a SaaS
Lessons from building Blogmaker.
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Earlier I launched the updated /showcase section in Blogmaker 90+ customer blogs ranging from business, to products, services, culture, news, hobbies, journals... It's wild to me that I made something others are making their own thing with it 🤯 Check it out: blogmaker.app/showcase
Bsky content is so much better than twitter lately / but still engagement is so low. There’s literally zero to 1 comments on posts. Maybe removing them altogether is not a bad idea. People post, people see, and that’s that. Maybe it’s also a result of people posting and not coming back to engage 🤔
Every seasoned dev I am speaking to, they’re still coding their code and using AI incrementally. Unless they are forced to by their FOMO leads at their job. Is my sample what is happening across the board?
While reading a really bad Hemingway short story, I had a quick business thought about the importance of “who” is behind a product.
The “who” behind the product
How in business it matters who is behind a product.
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Things I tell myself — Nothing is promised. Hard work guarantees nothing, but it puts you in the best position possible. Getting lucky makes a few things easier. Distribution and momentum are king. Keep chasing the belief and put your best foot forward. One solid step at a time. ✊
Hey friends. I want to be more active on here. How do I do it? I know you’re going to say “well, be more active!” / but I have tried and not many people reply. Has it changed?
I am not as active on here as I want to, but peeking through the curtain once in a while and I like 🌊
It’s so refreshing to be on bsky compared to anything else. No one on my feed is pushing anything, just thoughts and takes, experiences, lessons. Not sure how long this will last, but I like.
Having my coffee turkish style is such a game changer for me. Love the texture of the actual coffee. Highly recommend it, if you want to give it a try. A quick yt short / and you can use your espresso coffee to make it. www.youtube.com/shorts/jrbH7...
How I make Turkish Coffee at home #homecafevlog #homecafe #coffeerecipe #turkishcoffee #coffeevlog
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Man @justinjackson.ca @jonbuda.com it was great hearing you guys talk shop. Inspiring me to record an episode on my pod. Prob the reason I started podcasting was because of yous.
There are literally zero comments on +95% on the posts of the people I follow. Are people only cross posting here or just posting regardless of zero interactions to their posts?
Btw I think the reason I haven’t been active as much on here is because somehow others don’t reply. They lurk and like but that’s that. There’s not much convo. Also I get a ton of followers, but my follower count is stuck at 2K. On twitter there’s immediacy. Why this disconnect/difference?
Val Sopi 👋@valsopi.com · last yr.Oof I have not been active on here in a while. How’s everyone doing?
Oof I have not been active on here in a while. How’s everyone doing?
Sometimes I think the Universe created us to see itself, through us. To give itself meaning. We’re merely vehicles to enjoy this beauty and process it for the Universe. Make it better if we can. That is basically our purpose. Anything else that doesn’t serve that purpose is human made hell.
I find it super odd running into a "podcast" with its main channel being YT. Zero audio link (spotify, overcast, etc...) In my book a podcast is an audio–only (think radio) medium — once you add video on top of it, it's a something else. Curious what your take is @justinjackson.ca Am I nuts?
Duped time and again from replying to ghost cross–posting accounts 🤦♂️ Not sure how to ask them kindly, since they’re not here, to not keep doing this because it ruins bsky for the rest of us. 🙏
What if “everything is predetermined” but not in a religious way, only in a way that our processing is delayed and something we have already done we didn’t get to experience it yet. And deja vu is when we experience it slightly earlier. Exploring neuroscience a bit and this came to mind.
Got to use my iPhone 16 as a webcam today, and just wow! The out–of–focus background, the colors, all of it. Phenomenal.
** if anyone sees my liking my own posts it’s because I use the like button as a bookmark. And yes I bookmark my posts because i want to keep up with something I have said ** @bsky.app pls bookmarks
A BlogMaker.app client posted this on their Linkedin and I'm way over the moon 🚀🌕🥳 There are times when I've asked a happy client to write a testimonial for BlogMaker, this was not one of those times. What a wonderful surprise 🏆
Super excited about leaning into the mission that has been there waiting for me this entire time. It's been a nerve racking few months, with price changes and positioning. Back to the roots: The reason behind it all and back at the initial price of $39/year, for 5 blogs! PS: Yes, that's my hand!
BlogMaker: A Community Driven Business
Back to our original $39/year pricing and what BlogMaker stands for ✊
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The irony on this post 🥹 It asks for blogs without paywall, yet you can't comment on it 🤷♂️ We've over engineered products / looking at you @bsky.app
dan@danabra.mov · last yr.who up there writing their blog? i want to see yalls blogs! criteria: - you wrote at least a post in 2025 - it doesn't force a paywall so we can actually read it
There's something about the ocean that wakes me up, helps me believe, and makes me realize how small I am so I don't get tangled up in my ego. Sadly I don't live close to an ocean any longer. I hope to soon get back to it. But, for the moment, this playlist is getting me through it all.
Sounds of the Ocean
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