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Patrik Inzinger
@saismo.at
CEO appointmed.com — Practice management tools therapists love.

✍️ "Slow & Steady" newsletter on staying small on purpose: saismo.at/writing

☀️ Summerholic & pilot chasing perfect weather at 8,500 feet 🛫

🗺️ Remote-work life / 🇦🇹 Based in Austria
Me: I built a super cozy home office!
Also me: Working from the kitchen counter all day. 🫠
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Cyber attacks are no fun. There are so many better ways to spend our time and resources, but we’ve been fighting off attacks for the past few days and it’s getting reeeeeeeally annoying. 🫠
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Trying out a new activity with Kobe. Not bad for his third agility session. 🐾 💨

I need to work on my fitness level if I want to keep up with him, however. 🥵 🥲

#dogsofbluesky
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Tokyo Design Forum sounds like a GREAT excuse to finally plan a trip to Japan this Winter. 😏

www.tokyodesignforum.com
Tokyo Design Forum 2026
Where human creativity meets intelligent systems. Tokyo. February 2026.
www.tokyodesignforum.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🚫 Your app has 47 menu options.
✅ Your users need 3.

This is why software sucks. We ran entire space programs on computers less powerful than a pocket calculator.

Now, simple apps need lengthy tutorials. 🤯

www.saismo.at/writing/comp... 👇
Why Is Everything Harder Than It Needs to Be? – Slow & Steady by Patrik Inzinger
Modern apps take forever to load and need tutorials for basic features. Meanwhile, we built space programs on pocket calculator-level computers. What happened to simplicity?
www.saismo.at
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
After 4 years, I’ve upgraded my phone. First impression: Dynamic Island is such a fun feature from a UI perspective 👏

Other than that.. well it’s a new iPhone. Not revolutionary, but I’m really curious to give the improved camera a try!
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Weekend walkies in our „backyard“ 🧘‍♂️
#dogsofbluesky
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Patrik Inzinger
i am once again asking you to resist the urge to turn every navigation click into some horrendous inescapable view transition. they are cool, but i can only watch your shit fly, zoom and bounce so many times before i claim you as a sworn enemy before the elder gods.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Patrik Inzinger
Shout out to the products that use Cmd+K for adding a link to a text.

Even better if your product is smart enough to know that pasting a link when text is selected means you want to add a hyperlink and not replace the text!
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
One of my favorite workflows at appointmed is our monthly "Heartbeat." Each department posts a short essay (no bullet lists!) about what happened in the last few weeks.

Great way to keep everyone in the loop without micromanaging. October has been particularly successful for our little company 💪 🚀
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Doing exceptional work.
On my own schedule.
With a tiny, self-managing team.
That gives a shit about the work.
Without drama, egos, or politics.
While being highly profitable.

That’s the dream.
That’s my vision of a unicorn business, and it might be just as rare as the billion-dollar startup.
November 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Wild how “lifestyle business” became an insult. Making actual profit while enjoying your work and having freedom? That’s supposed to be the BAD outcome? 🤷‍♂️

Most companies aren’t even profitable. Building something sustainable that funds the life you want is literally the dream.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Spent a week in the mountains with the appointmed team. Super fun, despite the weather being „no great."

I love those shots, though. #photography
November 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The browser you use daily has more influence on your privacy than any other digital tool. Worth remembering despite all the hype.
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What's the best way to understand user behaviour at scale? I remember Mixpanel was great at that back in the day, but I'm sure there's a better solution by now.

Any tips?
October 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
😅
Ring deploy tear gas if they take more than one piece of candy
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Patrik Inzinger
If your only moat is speed, you aren't building something durable.
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We got integration requests from 6(!) different AI phone services in the past 3 weeks. They all are offering the same feature for an outrageous price and „questionable“ security at best.

I‘m willing to bet that at least 5 of them are dead within 12 months. Getting a bit tired of the AI hype, tbh 🫠
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
It’s my birthday. 🎁

So, I took the day off and grabbed my little family for a day trip. It was also Kobe’s very first flight and he really enjoyed it! 🥰
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I used to work 100-hour weeks and couldn't turn my brain off.

Now I work 40 hours tops (mostly) and make better decisions.

Wrote about why I need activities that demand total focus. Ones that won't let me think about work even if I tried.

👇

saismo.at/writing/off
Finding My OFF Switch – Slow & Steady by Patrik Inzinger
Your brain needs complete breaks, not just different work. I learned this the hard way. Now flying and motorcycles force me to disconnect, and I make better decisions because of it.
saismo.at
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Polestar 3 is such a solid upgrade from my Model S - the little design details are just *chef's kiss* 🤌
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Also, while I was gone @andreas-lehr.com published our podcast episode. 👏

Big fan of his show and honored to be invited as a guest 🙌

bsky.app/profile/andr...
Von 17.000€ (durch 4!) auf 7-stellig ohne Investoren.

appointmed verbrannte 75.000€ für eine Head of Sales, lebte 4 Jahre von anderen Projekten.

Heute: 2.500+ Therapeuten, 70% Weiterempfehlungen

Happy Bootstrapping #135 mit Gründer @saismo.at
September 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Seriously. Back from a short vacation, and that's the news I have to read first? Oh come on…

www.theverge.com/web/770947/b...

(good thing, there's still zen-browser.app)
The company behind the Dia and Arc browsers is being acquired
$610 million is a pretty big number for a web browser
www.theverge.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Competitor raised a huge round?
Good. Let them light it on fire. 🔥

While they burn cash, you can focus on what matters: making customers happy.

Notes from the Slow Lane: Hard-Learned Lessons on Bootstrapping
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www.saismo.at/writing/5les...
Notes from the Slow Lane: Hard-Learned Lessons on Bootstrapping – Slow & Steady by Patrik Inzinger
Most startup advice assumes you have funding. Here's what works when you don't: 5 lessons on building slowly, choosing simplicity, and letting well-funded competitors burn money while you focus on cus...
www.saismo.at
August 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
While market headwinds have many companies restructuring, cutting costs and people, and even closing down, we quietly grew MRR by 49% in the first half of the year.

No new hires.
No extra spend.
Just staying annoyingly focused on the basics.

📈
August 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM