Quickfire

I’ve got a lot of stuff I wanna talk about today so we’re gonna keep each section short and sweet!

Let’s go! 🏃🏾‍♀️

5 Million

On January 29th we passed 5 million registered users. 🥳

It’s especially cool when you realise that we haven’t spent a dime on marketing. 😎

Product Roadmap Update

The focus on Giveaways proved to be a success. The platform could have launched this month but we would have been rushing. Authors and publishers: stay tuned for a great deal on credits pre launch in early March. 👀

Scaling Postgres

Has anybody in my audience had success scaling Postgres to tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent users without needing to go towards distributed architecture? If so, please hit “Reply” and let me know how! 🙏🏾

Side Quest: Friend’s Fitness Bizz

We’re a week into beta testing the 4-week programme PDF. We’ve done a round of customer interviews and synthesis.

In the meantime, we’ve launched a second product: a fitness consultation and personalised training programme service!

If anybody is wanting to kickstart their fitness this year, or take it to the next level, or you know somebody for whom this would make a perfect gift, check it out.

Oprah Knows About Us?!

YouTube

I’ve released a few videos since last time:

My Bottom 5 Reads of 2025

The Work Report #1

What I Read In January 2026

Paid Newsletter Subs

I currently have ten of you — thank you! 🙏🏾

I’m thinking of offering something more to people who pay: an extra newsletter in the weeks I don’t email the wider group and a monthly readalong?

Is that something you’d be interested in?

Links to purchase a “pay-what-you-want” sub at the bottom of this email.

Realising The Mission

I loved this article by Beatrix Häger from a few weeks back. It was so thoughtful and well-researched and helped me to see I’m realising the mission I set out to achieve with the company.

A DOT BURR

I got to star as Aaron Burr in a scrappy Hamilton reenactment in celebration of a friend’s birthday. It was a wonderful and fulfilling experience to pretend to be a working musical theatre actor and study my favourite musical so closely. 🤩

If you have Instagram, you can catch some highlights of my performance there.

A Wedding

I love a wedding as an excuse to get all glammed up. Here’s me and my aforementioned fellow Hamilton obsessor friend about to go to a dance teacher’s wedding on Saturday in the English countryside.

What I'm Reading

I’ll be diving into Indigo by Beverly Jenkins this week for The Stacks Podcast Book Club’s second pick of 2026!

Have a great week,

Nadia