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A podcast

About building, shipping & staying human.

Two indie devs, no corporate playbook. Aivars Meijers and Pawel Karniej talk through building apps in public, scaling products, and staying useful while software keeps changing.

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Two builders, public receipts.

Fired by Robots follows Aivars Meijers and Pawel Karniej as they build in public, ship mobile apps, scale indie products, grow audiences, and compare notes on the parts of the journey people usually edit out.

Building in public
Shipping apps
Real talk on the journey
Aivars Meijers working on an iPad.

iOS solopreneur & community builder

Aivars Meijers

iOS creator and solopreneur scaling multiple mobile apps while running the Indie App Accelerator community on Skool, with a near-100K Instagram audience around app building and indie growth.

Website Skool Instagram YouTube X LinkedIn GitHub
Pawel Karniej at his desk with headphones, code, and microphone.

React Native solopreneur

Pawel Karniej

React Native solopreneur and founder of Silpho, a mobile app studio that builds and launches revenue-ready apps. Currently scaling VidNotes, an AI-powered tool for turning video into useful notes, while building multiple mobile apps in public.

Website Silpho X GitHub Instagram YouTube

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Starting over.

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Episode 01

Starting Over

What we are building now, what is working, and what it actually takes to keep shipping in public.

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