Episode 5 — Why multi-stack matters

Episode 5 explains why dotmap is built for multi-stack professionals — and why visibility shouldn’t depend on which ecosystem you belong to.

Two products, one theme: clarity

Two SaaS products. No launch dates. One shared idea: designing for clarity instead of noise. A short reflection on building Expensio and dotmap — and why calm interfaces matter more than features.

Episode 2: Designing a straight-line UX

Most software becomes complex by accident. Expensio was designed as a straight-line experience: add expenses, bundle them, export a clean PDF. No setup, no onboarding, no clutter — just clarity.

Episode 4 — Building the MVP

Episode 4 tells the story of building the MVP: the small breakthroughs, the unexpected challenges and the decisions that shaped dotmap’s first usable version.

Episode 3 — A map-first way to explore tech

Episode 3 explores why dotmap is built around a map-first experience. A simple, visual way to discover professionals and events without feeds, complexity or algorithms — just intuitive exploration.

Episode 2 — Designing the concept

dotmap began with one principle: keep it simple. A map-first way to discover tech professionals and events, built around clarity instead of noise. Episode 2 explores how the core concept took shape and why simplicity became the hardest design choice.

I built Expensio — A simple expense tool I needed myself

I built Expensio because I needed a simple way to create clean expense claims without heavy bookkeeping tools. A lightweight, multilingual app for quick, no-nonsense declarations.

Episode 1: Why I started building dotmap

Discovering tech professionals shouldn’t be this difficult. Episode 1 explores the fragmentation across ecosystems, the inspiration from Laramap, and why dotmap began as a simple attempt to rethink visibility.

Building dotmap · Episode 0

Before the Beginning For a long time, I’ve been thinking about something that feels strangely unsolved in our industry. Finding people in tech should be simple. But it isn’t. Whether you’re looking for a backend engineer, a .NET consultant, a JavaScript freelancer, a UX designer, a data

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