Conquering the Fears of Online Presence 🎒
I'm Óscar, a founder-in-progress with an engineering background, a decade of software development experience, and a life-long passion for open-source software and helping people make the best out of their lives.
This, right now, is me throwing the bag over the fence; putting myself and my goals out here for a better chance of getting somewhere.
I'm working on building Railmap, a Service-as-a-Product oriented studio focused in delivering Agentic AI integrations through fixed-scope development sprints. Right now, I have nothing yet out there to promote my services.
By the end of this week, there'll be a website at https://railmap.systems with the offering and sprint-booking functionality. You can perfectly call me out if it isn't by then ;) it'd be a huge deal to me knowing that someone worried about it.
The reason for me to build Railmap is to have it as the income-making foundation for building products that empower people with healthy ambitions.
Leading the product backlog is Yaoki. The name comes from the japanese proverb "七転び八起き" (nanakorobi yaoki; fall seven times and stand up eight), which means that, regardless of what life throws at you, what matters it to get back up and keep going. The purpose of Yaoki is to serve as a cost-efficient executive coach (avg. hourly rate for an executive coach is about $350, which is prohibitely expensive to a lot of people, including me).
In the short-term (i.e. 2025 Q2 to me), my efforts will go into making Railmap a valuable, sustainable company. Sustainable enough to also launch Yaoki for the first time, and see for myself if it really is as useful as I believe, and helps people push towards their goals with confidence.
If I could (very selfishly) ask something from the people reading this, that'd be to share their impressions; whether you've found value in my message, or noticed there's something I could be doing better.
For those of you that also find having an online presence to be dreadful, know that I'm 100% supporting you, go for it. Share your stories with me, and rest assured that I know how big of an effort is to make yourself public.
As I'm finished redacting and about to submit, there's one more thing I've got to say - my fear and nervousness feel more like a thrill now.
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I'm excited for what you'll learn from putting these products out there, and happy that you took this step, the first of many!
initial thoughts:
1) I'm not sure I understand the whole service is a product trend. I'm a big believer that if it's a service, it should look like a service and be clearly a service.
2) I'm really intrigued by the Executive Coach app. I've benefited immensely from coaching, but also know it's cost-prohibitive for most people. The thing I'm most interested in is how you yourself are using it and what it's helping unlock for you!