Looking back, written the day after we got home.
Arctic Sprint, part 3: Lovable, Soundboks and back in Berlin at 4 am
Two office visits, one product decision, and 17 days that end with cleaning a van.
We got back yesterday at 4 am. 17 days, nine countries. And Kobe is a different product today than when we left.
That’s because of Stockholm. We spent a day and a half there, worked, and got invited to Lovable’s office. We talked about Kobe, and the direction we’re taking now came out of that conversation: local-first. Users’ data stays with the users, on their own device, instead of with us in a pure web tool. The reason is privacy. The product works with people’s work data, after all. In the evening we went out in Stockholm, and René got a new shirt.
On to Malmö, where we picked up my brother and a friend of his. The two of them had cycled from Weimar to Malmö. Their bikes went on the rack, suddenly there were four of us in the van, and of course we went out together that night. Next morning, some fishing in Malmö.
Then over the Øresund Bridge to Copenhagen. Food via Too Good To Go, a walk through Christiania, and in the afternoon the second office visit of the trip: Soundboks, the Danish speaker company. We saw their space, talked about their speakers and got a look at the new Soundboks Mix. Small connection: I build subwoofers myself for our collective takeøff.
In the evening we drove back via Flensburg, over the bridges instead of the ferry. Arrival in Berlin: 4 am. The van had to be back by noon, cleaned, or there’s a service fee. So we unloaded everything at my place in Potsdam, cleaned the van, and René returned it.
Today the MVP is in the repository: the agent pipeline I wrote on the road, around 20,000 lines of Python. I drove half the distance and built during the other half.
Not much time to unpack. I’m already on the move again, this time to St. Gallen for START Hack.