University drop-out turned web developer, building Magic Pages, a Ghost CMS hosting service. On this blog I share insights from my entrepreneurial journey.
So, it happened. Magic Pages just hit the $1,000 MRR milestone! Or, for those of you who haven't been indoctrinated by the Twitter hustle culture: $1,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue. Naturally, I should be popping champagne and plastering this achievement all over social media. But instead
"Wow, you're getting rid of your last Apple device?" – that's what my wife asked me the other day, when I told her about my plan. Well, the word "plan" is maybe a bit much. It's more like a recurring theme
I have worked in start-ups in Berlin for nearly 6 years. One sentence I heard too many times was "Move fast and break things". Ughhh. I have really grown to hate that sentiment. It was Facebook's company motto for many, many years. And kind of like
Conferenc de Neville
Remember the good old days? When you wouldn't just buy an off-the-shelf MacBook, but carefully assembled your computer hardware? Waiting for all the components to arrive, to then sit on the floor and put them all into that huge desktop computer case. That magical beep when you press
Back in March and April, there were some severe outages on Magic Pages. Some led to a downtime of 2-3 hours. That was everything but good. Maybe you remember, I took some time to explore ways to avoid that in the future: Choosing your customers over profitToday I want to
A few days ago, I made a decision that will have a lasting impact on – at least – the next five years of my business. It's a decision that might not seem logical at first – something most online guides, business gurus, and "coaches" tell you to do
No, this will not be a book review. To be fair, I haven't even read (=listened to the audiobook) Douglas Adams's third book in the "trilogy of five". But, it was a very fitting title for a post where I just wanted to babble
…but can I replicate that on scale? (Spoiler: probably not – but it's been a fun experiment 😉) Lately, I have been working a lot on the Magic Pages infrastructure. The old server got too small. I needed a new one. And with that, many issues popped up. One side
Back in April, I started implementing BunnyCDN in Magic Pages. It took me over a month to jump through many different hoops and the development was quite nerve wracking. BunnyCDN is a content delivery network. The purpose is very simple: take a website – and make it faster. That wasn'
One and a half years ago, I would have never believed that I would be running a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business. In fact, I was quite annoyed with all the hype that was generated around them. "Reliable monthly income!" "Just follow this blueprint!" "Here is a
Yes. Tech is humbling. And a quick note before we start: this will be technical. The tl;dr: 🙃I spent a month figuring out a technical solution for Magic Pages and put it live for some of my customers today. Within an hour, it turned out that solution just didn&
Today I want to talk about the not-so-sexy part of running a business. The stuff that's often swept under the rug. Because it's not fun. And it actually eats up your revenue. I want to talk about the cost of scaling. About choosing your customers over