For the past year I’ve been building SPEEM mostly in private. Now that it’s shipping publicly and I’m trying to make a living from it, I want to write about it more openly: what I’m working on, what I’m learning, what’s working, what isn’t.
But I’d rather keep that conversation in one place, with the people who actually use the app, students, parents, other indie devs interested in study tools. So I started a journal section on the SPEEM website itself.
From now on, anything related to SPEEM (releases, post-mortems, feature decisions, monthly numbers) goes there:
This blog stays alive for everything else: career stuff, burnout posts, programming I find interesting unrelated to my apps, life, geopolitics, the occasional rant. The kind of writing that doesn’t really fit inside a product context.
Two reasons for the split:
- People who come to SPEEM to learn about studying habits don’t need to read about my hacking experiments or family stuff.
- People who come here for off-topic thinking shouldn’t have to scroll past SPEEM changelog entries.
So if you want to follow the indie journey of the app, that’s now at speem.app/journal. If you want to follow whatever I’m thinking about more broadly, that’s still here.
See you in both places.