# Val Sopi

> Musings around the journey of life.

https://valsopi.com/

_Last updated:_ 2026-08-25

## Core Pages
- [About](https://valsopi.com/about): More about me

## Topics
- [Blogmaker](https://valsopi.com/blogstatic): All about Blogmaker: building, marketing, and lessons.
- [Financial Freedom](https://valsopi.com/financial-freedom): A series of articles documenting my journey ahead to financial freedom. Read the first article in the series for more context.
- [Ideas](https://valsopi.com/ideas): Thoughts and musings around the web.
- [Life](https://valsopi.com/life): Bits and pieces that make up my daily existence.
- [SaaS](https://valsopi.com/saas): Software-as-a-Service related posts.
- [Subsection](https://valsopi.com/subsection): Articles about Subsection.io. The support docs maker.
- [Work](https://valsopi.com/work): Posts relating to productivity and well-being.

## Blog Posts
- [It's all in the Name](https://valsopi.com/its-all-in-the-name): How the brand name of a business can affect its success.
- [Never make it](https://valsopi.com/never-make-it): Hear me out. It's a good one.
- [9 Lessons from 5 Years of Building a SaaS](https://valsopi.com/saas-5-year-lessons): Lessons from building Blogmaker.
- [The “who” behind the product](https://valsopi.com/the-who-behind-the-product): How in business it matters who is behind a product.
- [On quitting](https://valsopi.com/quitting): Quitting is one way of getting rid of distractions and hindrances in our journey.
- [You Probably Can!](https://valsopi.com/you-probably-can): Checking with yourself when feeling like you can't do something and actually doing something about it.
- [Goals are Deceptive](https://valsopi.com/goals-are-deceptive): They eat you alive.
- [Messy is Perfect](https://valsopi.com/messy-is-perfect): The chaotic beauty of it all.
- [Year 2300](https://valsopi.com/year-2300): Predicting better things for our species.
- [The Waiting Room](https://valsopi.com/the-waiting-room): Not the place you want to be in.
- [The incredible March 2024](https://valsopi.com/the-incredible-march-2024): March broke all records to date. This is a quick recap of what happened.
- [Things I love about blogstatic](https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-love): It's a dream come true on so many levels.
- [AI will make humans better](https://valsopi.com/ai): A reaction to Nick Cave's letter.
- [An update on how I share my open finances and a new self–imposed public challenge](https://valsopi.com/challenge): House cleaning and some goal–setting.
- [One year since "setting sail"](https://valsopi.com/one-year): A quick update on how the first year went by.
- [On using time](https://valsopi.com/time): Slowing it down.
- [Summer 2023 finances](https://valsopi.com/summer-2023-finances): A quick recap of June and July
- [Focusing on progress, not the goal](https://valsopi.com/progress): A revelation as I was giving my son a pep talk after a match.
- [Where is blogstatic now?](https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-may-2023): Things are slow, but they're heading in the right direction.
- [The downsides of building in public](https://valsopi.com/the-downsides-of-building-in-public): Occasionally, I experience the downsides of building and sharing in public, and then I realize why I keep doing it.
- [Marching into March](https://valsopi.com/marching-into-march): Growing pains.
- [Financial Update: February 2023](https://valsopi.com/financial-update-february-2023): A quick look at where things stand since October 2022.
- [What a year!](https://valsopi.com/what-a-year): Explicitly speaking, Q4 of 2022 has been excellent.
- [Launching on Product Hunt](https://valsopi.com/launching-on-product-hunt): A diary of blogstatic's launch on Product Hunt. Updated daily from December 7th through the 15th, 2022.
- [blogstatic numbers for November](https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-november-2022): Details from November 1st through the 30th, 2022.
- [blogstatic numbers for October](https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022): Details from October 11th to October 31st, 2022.
- [Giving blogstatic a real chance](https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-chance): I've been treating blogstatic unfairly by looking at it from the sidelines and not giving it the chance it deserves.
- [Runway extended by an Angel](https://valsopi.com/angel): I have received funding from an angel investor, making my runway ahead 15 months long from this point on.
- [On the first page of Hacker News with Subsection](https://valsopi.com/subsection-first-page-hacker-news): What was supposed to be a routine day ended up with Subsection making it to the first page of Hacker News.
- [A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and business finances publicly!](https://valsopi.com/setting-sail): A financial and operational risk that I've been wanting to take on for quite some time and finally had the guts to do it.
- [Going steady](https://valsopi.com/going-steady): It's fun running an app that people seem to want and need.
- [High productivity in a workday](https://valsopi.com/productivity): Note: Exploring writing an article with as few words as possible, while getting the core message across.
- [Year in review: 2021](https://valsopi.com/year-in-review-2021): Things in and around my life that made 2021.
- [The Word that guides my year](https://valsopi.com/the-word): Each year, in December, I come up with the Word that guides my entire upcoming year.
- [Quitting when I sense “the grind”](https://valsopi.com/quitting-when-i-sense-the-grind): I used to push through. Now I stop at the slightest difficulty. Just to come back stronger. Fully rested and aware.
- [Work less](https://valsopi.com/work-less): How in the hot hell hustle culture is still a thing.
- [My 2 lessons when it comes to pricing a Saas product](https://valsopi.com/2-lessons): After selling my previous product, I learned two lessons from a few mistakes I made during that journey.
- [What is leadership?](https://valsopi.com/what-is-leadership): Our world is constantly changing. Today's ways are old already. What's needed to lead others into progress and prosperity.
- [Quitting is for the naive](https://valsopi.com/quitting-is-for-the-naive): Smarter ways to navigate towards your financial freedom.
- [What it's like to make and launch a product, for me.](https://valsopi.com/making-products): A few details about what I go through when making something for others to use.
- [The Benefits of NOT Being Online](https://valsopi.com/the-benefits-of-not-being-online): Lessons and revelations
- [Get Lucky](https://valsopi.com/get-lucky): How luck plays a part in all we do
- [I'm done making](https://valsopi.com/play): What is making if you're not having fun with it.
- [Punctuality Above All](https://valsopi.com/punctuality-above-all): To smile or to solve a problem, quick. Or maybe both?
- [Hello world](https://valsopi.com/hello-world): My very first post