I went two months without writing here and, to be really honest, I don’t even know exactly why. Maybe the rush: so much to study, projects to build, work. My last post was the one about NYC, and a lot has happened since then. So this post is to catch up on everything and share what the next steps are.
At Moises, I launched two amazing projects. The first one was the redesign of Play, the Moises app a lot of people already know, with tools to practice and play: separating vocals and instruments from any song, changing the key and the speed, detecting chords, a metronome, and so on. It got a new design, new features, and became much more modern and up to date.
The other one was the new Studio, a music studio that runs right in the browser, with nothing to install, where the whole band records, edits, and mixes in the same session, in real time, just by sharing a link. This one was a huge challenge, because building a DAW in the browser is not simple at all. On top of that, we built the audio engine from scratch, an extension system, and lots of extensions for everything you can imagine: voice, mastering, stem generation, stem separation, edit track.
Before launching to all users, we launched to beta users, and it was really cool to see the feedback coming in real time in our Slack, because we built an automation for that. We got everything: compliments, lots of constructive criticism that really helped us improve the experience, and even people just saying “I didn’t like it, I’m not ready for changes” hahaa, I have to admit that one made me laugh. It was a really cool experience to follow.
With the launch of these new products, I ended up having little time to dedicate to Savor. But I didn’t stop.
Another thing that happened in the meantime: I started posting on LinkedIn about career, product, and some technical content, and it’s going really well. I reached numbers I never imagined, almost 200k impressions on my posts and more than 2k new followers, but that’s not even the main point. What stuck with me the most was how many people I was able to help in two months, lots of people asking me for career advice, at very different stages, from interns to seniors. It’s really nice to be able to help people, and there’s actually a new project coming with that focus. Spoiler: it’s going to be a community project for people who want to work for companies abroad, and that’s all I can share for now 😜
I also traveled to SF for two weeks, and it was amazing. I talked to founders and met people who work at places like Vercel, Apple, Mintlify, among others. Being in a city that breathes technology really makes you feel inspired to build more things.
Especially Forward, the Resend event. I had never been to an event with so many people who love building, who have side projects outside of work, and who dream of building their own company. I left with a thousand project ideas, but I’ll only start them after I finish Savor.
The conversations with founders were really good, and each one had a different opinion about everything. Some told me to find something I’m passionate about doing. Others told me to focus on something that has a market and at least some level of barrier to entry, since AI can do so much these days. And there were also people who seem to be doing well, but whose company is actually running in the red and living on appearances. There was a bit of everything, and I got a lot of insights that I’ll bring in the next posts, the way I interpreted them.
It’s been a week since I got back, I’m suffering from jet lag 😅 and trying to get my routine back in order.
And the next steps? Finishing Savor in the next few days. I had some changes in the direction of the project, but I’ll bring more updates here soon. The thousand ideas from SF stay on hold until then.
In the next post I’ll share the insights from my conversations with founders in SF: passion or market, barriers to entry at a time when AI does so much, and how I interpreted each of those conversations.