Building Connections
Hey, Niklas here.
Just wanted to brain dump a few things I’ve been working on or thinking about lately. It highlights my latest experiments, essays, and curiosities.
Last time I mentioned event season was in full swing. We met a ton of people, made plenty of connections. Now we’re shifting from building connections in real life to building connections in Compelling.
Integrations are becoming the core of what we’re building. Connecting data sources, automating outreach, making everything flow together. We just shipped integrations with HubSpot, OMR Reviews, and a few others. Watching customers connect their entire stack through Compelling has been really satisfying.
We’ve been grinding hard. Shipping consistently. Locked in until mid-December when B2B SaaS basically shuts down for the holidays. Consistency is key. My GitHub contribution graph is looking solid lately. There’s something satisfying about seeing those green squares stack up.
Oh, and we hit 10 billion tokens on OpenAI’s API. They sent us this clean little trophy. Feels good to see the usage grow like that. Expensive trophy though, but worth it.
On my blog
Published a couple more short essays since last time. One on scraping and search operators. I’m genuinely fascinated by how powerful search operators are for finding exactly what you need. Also wrote about being a “Chief Bookmark Officer” and how curation is becoming its own skill.
Picks
Got back into reading books. Struggled with it for a while, then realized the only format that really works for me is biographies. Currently reading Working Backwards by Bill Carr and Colin Bryar. Also been printing more long-form blogs and newsletters. There’s something about reading on paper that just hits different.
I’m increasingly convinced that a CLI makes more sense than an IDE from a productivity standpoint. You can control everything with your keyboard. So played a bit around with Claude Code and Ghostty.
Which leads me to my next pick: Script Commands in Raycast. Highly recommend the WIMR episode with Tobi Lütke. His Raycast setup is pure inspiration.
Discovered wtx.dev through Dominik’s post. Kicking myself for not thinking of something like this earlier. Don’t have the bandwidth right now, but would love to build an extension for Compelling or bskysrch with it at some point.
That’s all for now. I’ll send another one when I’ve got something worth sharing.
Best,
Niklas