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Michael Drogalis

@michaeldrogalis.bsky.social

1K followers 240 following 23 posts

Entrepreneur, software engineer, non-conformist. 🔥 Creator of shadowtraffic.io

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Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A few months ago, I stumbled into a customer service hack: respond with a custom, recorded video. People love a live, but async, explanation of their problem and its solution.

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Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If I was raising money, my pitch deck would have only 3 things: 1. The problem/market, with customer quotes 2. The solution, with customer quotes 3. My business metrics (income statement, profit/loss, KPIs related to customers) Investors don’t want to see your demo. They want to see traction.

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Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

😊 Wow, I think I just melted. So incredibly kind.

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Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🙃 Laughing a bit at how many companies are posting about last night's Tyson/Paul live stream buffering problem, as if their products are the solution Netflix's engineering team is obviously missing.

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Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Yikes, fellow US self-employed people. Healthcare premiums are up through the roof this year. 27% jump over here. :/

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Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Spent the last few days doing my favorite thing: performance engineering. ShadowTraffic is now 3x faster, > 20K messages/s on moderately complex data. For the Clojure geeks: I ripped out reflection, used transients, and dropped in clj-fast. 🚀

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Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Woah, 120+ followers overnight just after joining. I guess I should give a proper hello! 👋 Hi, my name is Michael. One year ago, I left my job in big tech to do something crazy: I attempted to start 4 startups in 4 quarters until one succeeded. What happened next surprised even me. 🧵

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Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Thoroughly ready to get off the blue bird. 🤩

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