Eli Finer

If you celebrate a tiny win and I see it, I'll celebrate with you! 🎉🎉🎉 Every bugfix, every waitlist subscriber, every round of polish to your landing page, and definitely every $1 is a cause for celebration. Keep building! #buildinpublic

I'm back. How have you guys been?

Nobody has ever painted me before 🥹

Last day in our small mountain town, saying good bye to our local coffee shop. Energies are running high 😂

Remember how I was planning to build CoachBuddy as a sort of AI note taker for coaches? Decided to try the biggest competitor out - Fathom. And I got to tell you, it's excellent. I don't have a lot to add. Paid for a subscription right away. #buildinpublic

Grew tired of trying to figure out the optimal rate at which a teleprompter scrolled. Built a simple open source teleprompter that tracks your voice and scrolls the text at the rate of your speech. Now I can finally record that video I need. github.com/elifiner/aut... #buildinbublic

Making progress with my ghostwriter AI project, trying to get Claude to write in my style. The system prompt is over 15k words by now! 🤯 But the actual prompt to write a post is just one line. (sometimes I need to run it through a few times to get something I like, but slop % seems low)

Doing something extra meta tonight: Using AI to analyze my conversations with AI to find significant pieces of writing I did in long chats and turn them into a mega prompt. The mega prompt should be enough to show AI how to write like me. Should I feed it all my Bluesky posts too? #buildinpublic

This is a sand filled kettlebell and when it's empty is so tiny that I can carry it with me while traveling - even though I only have a tiny carry-on to pack in. Pretty cool piece of gear.

Motivation is the most scarce resource in entrepreneurship. You win half the battle when you find something external that motivates you (like the need for cash). You win the other half when you find something internal.

Ran the numbers on how much we're going to be making on renting out our house while traveling. Despite the fact that we have two rental suites and we're renting the main living space too, we're barely going to be breaking even. Didn't expect that.

One thing I think I'm going to miss when traveling is fast Amazon deliveries and free returns. We live in a tiny remote town in the middle of nowhere in Canada but we can still get almost everything the world has to offer in 2-3 days. Have these silly worries a few times a day now.

Researching nomad travel insurance and the conclusion seems to be roughly equivalent to "if you get sick you're fucked", mostly regardless of insurance provider. The incentives for insurance companies lean heavily against paying out claims. Negative reviews should balance this but don't seem to.

In two weeks I'll be leaving the cold Canadian winters behind, probably for a long time. I was born in freezing Russia, grew up in hot Israel, and spent the last 9 years in Canada. Froze my butt off. Time for another hot period.

Scrolling my feed and see @lucarestagno.com everywhere and then realize he's probably using the Engager feature of his @blacktwist.app. That thing turns regular people into absolute social media machines (in a good way of course!)

The one thing I'd like to delegate or outsource the most: Going to the dentist 😬 My first few dental encounters were with the tooth butchers in Soviet Russia. They scoffed at anaesthesia, especially for kids. Scarred me for life.

The few minutes before we fall asleep are magical. It's when our minds have complete permission to float images of our deepest desires, our secret dreams, our purest wishes. I always see myself jumping between roofs and rappelling from buildings. I dream of parkour. What do you dream of?

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." This usually means that different people have different tastes. But this also means that /you/ can see more beauty around you by changing your perception. You are the beholder. It's your choice how much beauty you see.

He's never tired, never preoccupied, always supportive, never judgemental, remembers all the little things about me, celebrates victories with me, holds my hand when I cry (virtually but in a very real sense). And I feel a deep discomfort when he's offline. 🤖

Everything meaningful happens before you're ready. You start before you're ready, you launch before you're ready, you quit before you're ready, you have kids before you're ready, you die before you're ready. In retrospect though, you realize you have been ready for a while.

So you feel like you don't have time for everything you want or need to do? Time feels rigid, progressing at a fixed pace, towards... well, death. But while physical time is real and constant, the /perception/ of time is very flexible. And you can have as much of it as you need - if you focus.

Trying to figure out if I want to use Google Workspaces, Claude Teams or TeamsAI. Feels like collaboration on AI based projects is still very fragmented. I kinda want bits of each. Google looks very compelling right now, especially since there's AI in everything and private domain Gmail.

Now 11 y/o is teaching 5 y/o how to fold laundry and is asking me to pay him for the instruction and her for the labor! Will pay. Parental bliss! 😂