Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Terribly late, but thanks for the mention. :) 030
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024🤯 Wowie. Upgrade to the latest—I've put a TON of work into perf lately! 050
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A 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. 170
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024If 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. 040
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024😊 Wow, I think I just melted. So incredibly kind. 050
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Aw, thanks for saying that! You're gonna do great! 020
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Cool! Almost sounds like micro-Antithesis. 020
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024They seem impressive for writing small apps from scratch, but I've yet to hear someone working on a mature, large codebase say it's mindblowing. 220
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024media.tenor.coma man wearing a t-shirt that says ptfm is sitting at a deskALT: a man wearing a t-shirt that says ptfm is sitting at a desk 010
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024If you see one of these posts, know it’s extremely unlikely the author actually knows the root cause of last night's problems—or the solutions to them. Netflix on-call team: 🫡 010
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. 260
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Yikes, fellow US self-employed people. Healthcare premiums are up through the roof this year. 27% jump over here. :/ 010
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Spent 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. 🚀 130
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Since it looks like things are booming on Bluesky (hooray!), I'll post here and there too. Even Secret things! 010
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I mostly write on LinkedIn, where I periodically share Private things, like customer count and revenue—because building in public is so much more fun keeping secrets. 100
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 13/11/2024One year after starting, it's now a Real Business. With actual customers and profit and stuff. I took $0 in outside investment and run the entire thing myself, besides my cat featured in the background of that first photo. 120
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 13/11/20248 weeks into my first attempt, I realized I got lucky (and I do mean Lucky) and wouldn't have to try another 3x. I now run shadowtraffic.io, where I make a product that helps companies simulate production traffic to Kafka (and Postgres, S3, yada yada yada).shadowtraffic.ioShadowTrafficRapidly simulate production traffic to your backend. 110
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Woah, 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. 🧵 380
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Thanks for putting together the starter pack! That was the clincher for me. 010
Michael Drogalis @michaeldrogalis.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Thoroughly ready to get off the blue bird. 🤩 7300
