Building Pawloor dog beds with my wife. Lessons on physical products, EU shipping and running a business with AI. Ex-PM, dad, lifter. Prague.

Prague, Czech Republic
Joined June 2019
I came to Prague for my studies then found my wife here. Luka is 7 months old today and was born here. This is the day I became Czech. I owe this country a lot.
Find your person. Marry that person. Then make little person.
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.@Apple loves filming ads in Prague
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people who ship across europe, which country surprised you the most
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Dejan Lazeski retweeted
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Krásná rodina. Buďte tu s námi sťastni. ❤
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Dejan Lazeski retweeted
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likewise!!
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whats one tool you pay for that youd keep even if money got tight
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if you bought a physical product online, what made you trust the shop enough to pay
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my son Luka is 7 months tomorrow, just a few observations 👇 1. genetics play a huge role. every kid is different, and some are just harder than others from day one. we're told it's all about how you raise them, but a lot of it is just who they are 2. teething can get really noisy. you think you're ready for the crying and then you find out it can go on for days 3. they start to understand you and manipulate you, way earlier than you expect. 4. a baby sling is incredibly helpful. you get both hands back and he's happy when facing forward 5. you're nervous mostly because you don't sleep enough. 6. breastfeeding is a gift from nature. 7. buy almost everything used. he outgrows it in weeks and nobody cares 8. you don't need a gadget for every problem. most of the time the fix is a walk outside 9. 40 minutes of real focus beats a whole afternoon of half-working with a baby on you. 10. say yes when people offer help, and give them a specific job. "can you hold him while i eat" 11. stop tracking everything. 12. take him to cafes and restaurants early. the sooner it's normal, the less you stay home 13. a 20 minute walk together counts as a date night. 14. take the photos, you'll want them
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about to start meta ads for our dog beds and let ai run them. smart move or expensive lesson?
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anyone else building something from prague? feels like a small scene
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most of ecommerce happens after someone clicks buy
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This is staged, but I'm reposting anyway so more people realize there’s more to marketing than just paid ads.
Honestly, this guy lost his App Store apps and dropped to $0. He looked cool, so I hired him. But this is beyond anything I can comprehend. See you in court.
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timeline of indie hackers cloning each other 👇 jul 29: levels posts that wispr flow, granola and whoop all got cloned for free. rob replies someone should make a site for subscriptions you could vibe code yourself. levels goes "great idea, can you make it?" jul 30: rob launches it. $13.6k in a month by sept oct 9: marc lou vibe codes his own beehiiv, 83% cheaper oct 14-21: beehiiv's ceo and marc going back and forth in public oct 24: marc mentions datafast plateaued at $30k mrr. 2 hours later an 18 year old launches databull, $29 lifetime oct 26: now there's a 99x cheaper post bridge oct 26, same day: the 99x cheaper post bridge guy gets told in the replies that postiz is already open source. a few hours later nevo from postiz posts asking people to build postiz alternatives, since they all tag him. an open source one is out an hour after that all from one reply thread. so what's the play now, how do you even make money from here? levels says physical stuff is the moat that's left. i sell dog beds with my wife so ok i guess
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doubled my followers in few days, from 362 to 718 still don't know what's working. replies i think. but i also sell dog beds so maybe the algorithm just likes dogs :)
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We should see two models drop this week Fable and Grok.
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dog people, does your dog use its bed or just your sofa
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parents building something on the side, when do you get your work done? asking as a dad of a baby
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physical product people, where do your product photos come from? phone at home, a studio, or ai
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cant compare a physical product with saas head to head, the costs are totally different. but the buyer side is the same. our cheaper pawloor beds brought the most demanding customers. after we raised prices we sold less, but complaints went way down and support got so much easier
A lot of the reasoning behind a $50+ pricing floor is segmentation. People who will pay $50 would also pay $10. But not many who will pay $10 would also pay $50. And those “cheap” customers are often the most demanding. You CAN get to $50k MRR on $10 subs (I did with FeedbackPanda), but is SO much more work on the customer service side. And often, low-budget customers are extremely demanding and unreasonable. So, you segment them out. You set an entry price tier at $50 ( I did that initially with Podscan, later moved to $100 for even more filtering) and get rid of interest (and workload) from that segment. Also, very importantly, professional customers (who buy for their job) are much more likely to have a 3-4 figure budget for tooling. You can expand into existing teams much better than from one individual customer to another unrelated one. Reducing prices tends to hurt revenue and your sanity. Increasing prices does the opposite in most cases. (And for the extremely price-conscious customers, you can always lure them in with significant discounts.)
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let's connect if you're building something real. i sell dog beds from prague and automate everything around them with ai
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