From the workshop.
An indie music app, by design.
The financial, structural, and stubborn case for staying small. Why Vibes won't take growth funding, won't add advertising, and won't try to be everyone's homepage.
Read post →Why I built Vibes.
The shortest answer is that I missed sending songs to people. The longer answer is about what social media did to music and why a smaller, slower channel is worth building.
Read post →Why no algorithm.
A focused argument against algorithmic feeds in social music. Algorithms are strangers, friendship is a graph, and the feed is the wrong unit.
Read post →18 months in the workshop.
A long, honest build log — what I shipped, what I cut, what broke me, and what I learned along the way. The kind of write-up nobody publishes anymore.
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More posts when there's something worth saying. Drop your email and I'll send a note when I publish.