Ivan Vanderbyl
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Ivan Vanderbyl
@ivan.dev
Artisanal software craftsman and adventure seeker 🧑‍💻🌏 spent 12 years as a digital nomad, built 6 companies, sold 2, 3 still active.

🏔️Based in Queenstown NZ.
🛠️ Building intelligent automation for private client firms https://alcova.ai
🔗 https://ivan.dev
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Almost no one who is "famous" for writing online was an expert first.

They became an expert (or at least seen as one), from writing.

So, you don't have to wait.

You do have to write.
January 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
2024 review:
🤝Found an incredible business partner and:
💻Started my 6th company: alcova.ai
🏃‍♂️Ran my first marathon: Queenstown Marathon
🔋Recovered from a long-term toxic relationship
👫Moved in with my incredibly supportive and constantly optimistic girlfriend
☃️Started a new life in Queenstown, NZ
January 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
We’ve been using Gemini for the past 2 months and the pace of innovation is astonishing. It is truly the underdog that outperforms GPT 4o in every way that matters. I’m honestly surprised that more companies aren’t using it 🤔
December 17, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Having mostly worked in startups my whole career, something that blows my mind is that at big companies like Google and Apple, PMs are responsible for individual buttons or interactions within a single app 🤯

Versus at a startup where you have purview over the entire platform, or most of it.
December 15, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Bluesky reminds me of using twitter in 2008-09, with better ergonomics, less noise.
December 10, 2024 at 7:34 PM
1 month ago I swapped my Apple Watch Ultra for a Garmin Forerunner while training for a marathon, here's how they compare:

Forerunner:
- 3 weeks battery life with continuous health monitoring!
- Highly customisable for any type of training
- Feels like it was built and tested it in real conditions
November 20, 2024 at 8:21 PM