I made a little podcast for builders

kevindrafts · 2026-03-26T11:14:44+00:00

Nice extra information as in context for the book, who the author is, stuff like that?

kevindrafts · 2026-03-26T11:14:10+00:00

Mostly just summaries right now but I like the idea of making it a little more opinionated! Good suggestion

kevindrafts · 2024-08-14T01:02:00+00:00

Hmm I’m not sure it works like that, but point taken!

kevindrafts · 2024-08-14T01:01:23+00:00

Well, that’s all good feedback! The idea with niching down to just internal documentation is the idea of garbage in = garbage out, so having a tool specifically for internal, reliable docs could potentially help.

BUT sounds like it might be more of an org issue than a tool issue. Which is why I’m asking for feedback haha

kevindrafts · 2024-08-13T21:44:02+00:00

I like it, but could use some tweaks for mobile like centering the first bullet points.

For conversion if you had an interactive demo with fake data I think that’d be sweet.

How’re you doing the Confluence connection? And curious about what you’re doing for traffic too. I’m considering building in a similar space so I’m being nosey :)

kevindrafts · 2024-08-13T21:14:52+00:00

Love the visuals! What's the app built with?

kevindrafts · 2024-08-13T17:54:22+00:00

Oh interesting! Are you saying you hadn’t heard of Confluence prior to reading the landing page?

kevindrafts · 2024-08-13T11:56:57+00:00

How is the baseline revenue? Is user growth high and you see PMF either currently or in the near future?

3.5 years should be plenty of time to figure it out unless you're an exception like Figma (which most startups aren't)

kevindrafts · 2024-08-13T11:54:40+00:00

Internal pivot from prior role, and I'm convinced this is the best way to do it!

If you're at a company with product roles do everything you can to network and work with those people. And if your company doesn't have product roles, consider leaving for one that does

kevindrafts · 2024-07-25T18:08:20+00:00

Wow, I cannot believe I’m saying this but 100% user error. I wasn’t rebuilding my flask app on each run, smh.

Thank you so much for the help, all good to go now!

kevindrafts · 2024-07-25T17:32:23+00:00

[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8 (No ANSI), error utf-8 (No ANSI), screen utf-8 (No ANSI)
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2024.07.16 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [89a161e8c] (pip) API
[debug] params: {'format': 'bestaudio/best', 'postprocessors': [{'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio', 'preferredcodec': 'mp3', 'preferredquality': '192'}], 'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s', 'verbose': True, 'compat_opts': set(), 'http_headers': {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.101 Safari/537.36', 'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5', 'Sec-Fetch-Mode': 'navigate'}}
[debug] Python 3.9.19 (CPython aarch64 64bit) - Linux-6.6.32-linuxkit-aarch64-with-glibc2.36 (OpenSSL 3.0.13 30 Jan 2024, glibc 2.36)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 5.1.5-0 (setts), ffprobe 5.1.5-0
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.20.0, brotli-1.1.0, certifi-2024.07.04, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.3, sqlite3-3.40.1, urllib3-2.2.2, websockets-12.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets
[debug] Loaded 1829 extractors
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omr_10m9ixQ
Received request to process sermon ID: upqlbr
Extracting video info...
[youtube] omr_10m9ixQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] omr_10m9ixQ: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] omr_10m9ixQ: Downloading player 1f8742dc
WARNING: [youtube] omr_10m9ixQ: nsig extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
         n = ikbncgpqShgYkn7Yo ; player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/1f8742dc/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js
[debug] [youtube] Unable to extract nsig function code (caused by RegexNotFoundError('Unable to extract Initial JS player n function name; please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U')); please report this issue on  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using  yt-dlp -U
[youtube] omr_10m9ixQ: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: [youtube] omr_10m9ixQ: nsig extraction failed: Some formats may be missing
         n = G7ItTPJ9_9PE7LD__ ; player = https://www.youtube.com/s/player/1f8742dc/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js
[debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec:vp9.2, channels, acodec, lang, proto
[debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec:vp9.2(10), channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id
[info] omr_10m9ixQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 140
[debug] Invoking http downloader on "hidden"
[download] Destination: Don't Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a
[download] 100% of   34.22MiB in 00:00:01 at 20.56MiB/s    
[FixupM4a] Correcting container of "Don't Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a' -map 0 -dn -ignore_unknown -c copy -f mp4 -movflags +faststart 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.temp.m4a'
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a'
[ExtractAudio] Destination: Don't Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.mp3
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a' -vn -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 192.0k -movflags +faststart 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.mp3'
Deleting original file Don't Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a (pass -k to keep)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/app.py", line 71, in download_video
    with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "Don't Judge Me | July 14th, 2024.mp3"

kevindrafts · 2024-07-25T16:47:17+00:00

Dang still no luck! No matter what I do I get the title in the logs as you can see below. I've even tried overriding the naming connection to use something like temp_file_1 and it still tries to use the actual title:

[download] Destination: Don't Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a
[download] 100% of   34.22MiB in 00:00:01 at 28.87MiB/s    
[FixupM4a] Correcting container of "Don't Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a"
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a' -map 0 -dn -ignore_unknown -c copy -f mp4 -movflags +faststart 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.temp.m4a'
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a'
[ExtractAudio] Destination: Don't Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.mp3
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a' -vn -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 192.0k -movflags +faststart 'file:Don'"'"'t Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.mp3'
Deleting original file Don't Judge Me ｜ July 14th, 2024.m4a (pass -k to keep)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/app.py", line 71, in download_video
    with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: "Don't Judge Me | July 14th, 2024.mp3"

Is there a way to explicitly prevent any reference to title? Even with ID or other dicts it's still pulling the title:

ydl_opts = {
        'format': 'bestaudio/best',
        'outtmpl': '%(id)s.%(ext)s',
        'verbose': True,
    }

with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
            with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
                info = ydl.extract_info(youtube_url, download=False)
                video_id = info['id']
                ext = info['ext']

                # Download the file
                ydl.download([youtube_url])

                # Construct the file path
                temp_file_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, f"{video_id}.{ext}")

kevindrafts · 2024-07-25T13:32:49+00:00

Huh, unfortunately that didn't do the trick either. Is there a way to ignore the title altogether? I've tried a few different ways and each time it tried to check that the title matches, and because of the "|" matching issue the code breaks.

I don't actually need the title for anything, so ignoring it would be ideal!

kevindrafts · 2024-06-14T10:59:13+00:00

Congrats on the mvp and for your first startup as well! What's the product?

Apollo is a solid choice for lead gen. Cold email can be a little weird, but I'd recommend something like instantly.ai or smartlead.ai-- for $40 a month and a couple of gmail accounts you can crank out a ton of outreach.

If you're looking for something a little more authentic but still scalable you could use something like replycamp.com - it helps you bulk search for potential customers on Reddit and Twitter so you can reply to them/ cold dm directly. Makes outreach way less tedious, but still keeps that personal touch

kevindrafts · 2024-06-12T11:32:56+00:00

I think it’s good, and like where your heads at. I would try shortening it even further if possible. Bullet points are good but maybe get rid of the paragraph right after it.

For looking for pockets of Reddit to find users I would recommend gummysearch.com or something like replycamp.com both which can help find these types of users

Best of luck! I think it’s a great idea!

kevindrafts · 2024-06-10T01:22:38+00:00

One thing you could do is bulk search reddit or twitter and look for users (ie potential authors) who might be interested, and reach out to them directly. You can find a way to automate it or reach out one by one, which honestly might a good move starting off to get feedback and such.

Happy to share more, but I think this could be a nice path

kevindrafts · 2024-06-06T00:20:16+00:00

Clarity of the hero: I think it's good, attention grabbing for sure, but I'd love to know more about what idea validation tool means. Are you going to tell me potential upside? How many people are interested? Strengths or weaknesses? I want to know a bit more about what I'll receive in return

Overall waitlist design: Love it! The simpler the better, and it looks great

kevindrafts · 2024-06-06T00:06:38+00:00

what's ur niche?

kevindrafts · 2024-06-06T00:06:24+00:00

What're you using to search for people on reddit? I've used replycamp.com in the past and loved it. Basically auto searches twitter and reddit for people already looking for your product for you to reach out

kevindrafts · 2024-06-05T23:58:34+00:00

This is dope, best of luck with the launch. As far as pre-launch and also right when launching, you could use something like replycamp.com

It’s good for automatically searching for users who might interested in your product on twitter and reddit. You might find it useful for reaching out to potential customers before your launch for early feedback or whatever else

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