Last year, I shut down my venture backed startup after years of pivoting, trying to find product market fit for a venture scale company. We returned what was left of our seed round. It nearly broke me to be honest, but that’s a story for another day.

I was so excited when the calendar turned to 2025. A new start. A reset. I had time to think. To tinker. And with AI, what a year to have time to tinker.

I’ve been building products and companies since I was a teenager at university. My first product live streamed sports matches on the internet before live video on the internet was a thing.

More recently, I co-founded Velo, which used large language models for code automation, and Kernel, an AI design tool that was acquired in 2023. Before that, I worked with the founders of Entrepreneur First, helped launch Oyster, co-founded CharlieHR, and helped start Born Social.

Building products for myself was my first love. The most successful things I’ve built originally started that way. Over the last few years, I got lost. Very lost in fact. Pulled in many directions but mostly by my own mind playing tricks on me and making me doubt my intuition.

But now I’m getting back to my old self again. Making things I want and use. I’m calling it homebrewing software. I believe homebrewing your own tools is the future.

I’m going to keep building new ideas as well as evolving the ones I’ve already launched like Pocket to Podcast and Instant Replay.

I’m a little homebrewer in my backyard tinkering and making things I want to exist and use.

It feels small. Especially in today’s world. And at the same time it also feels like the future which feels very big.

So you’ll find me in my shed. Homebrewing. With my ever advancing friend AI and some fellow human homebrewer friends. And we will see where these brews take me.

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