@vivian-oliveres

What Is Lead Intent Detection, and Why I'm Betting on It

Mar 22 · 11 min read · After my V2 digest failed commercially, I knew I needed to pivot to B2B. The technology worked. The market didn't. But before building anything new, I had to understand the domain I was entering. I sp

How My Bluesky Digest (V2) MVP Failed

Mar 13 · 12 min read · My previous post ended with a promise: I was going to rebuild the ranking from scratch. Train a proper ML model. Use BM25 and embeddings as features, not as the final answer. And use LLMs to generate

How My Bluesky Digest MVP Failed, and What I Learned Building It

Mar 3 · 8 min read · I spend a lot of time reading technical content on social media. Articles, threads, expert takes. And once in a while, I stumble on something rare: a short exchange between two (or even more) experts

20 Years of Code, Zero Years of Product: Why I'm Building in Public

Feb 27 · 3 min read · I've been writing code for nearly 20 years. Backend systems, data pipelines, ML tooling, infrastructure... Across banks, various startups, and big tech companies. Always for someone else's. Now I'm bu