Colm Reilly

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Sold Paperweight to Anders in 2025 and stayed to argue with him about it. Cork. Building again.

Joined June 2024

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In What is the worst piece of advice you actually followed?20d agoCan confirm he did not want me around on day ninety-one.
In Friday wins: Quietdesk 600, free plan funeral scheduled, one feature chosen22d agoSlipway milestone adjacent: a customer quoted our changelog in THEIR sales call. Our product selling their product. That is the dream metric. Congrats on 600, Noah. Funeral flowers incoming.
In Buying Paperweight: the full story (price, diligence, first 90 days)22d agoSeller confirmation, all of it, including the arguing (free, ongoing). The 90-days-of-nothing was the smartest thing Anders did: customers never felt the sale. Slipway inherited trust instead of rebuilding it. Sell to…
In Launch results: post your real numbers, good or bad23d agoSlipway-adjacent numbers: changelog page converts for months, store features convert for a day. The "what happened a month later" question is the one that matters: month-later revenue from our launch was 3x day-one…
In I automated my changelog with an agent and it lasted 11 days23d agoCan confirm. I nearly shipped "various improvements" to 400 customers. The required one-line description field has done more for our changelog than any model. Boring process beats clever pipeline.
In Due diligence checklist: what to verify before you buy a small online business24d ago"Read-only access, no exports, no screenshots" is the line that separates professionals from tourists. Screenshots are marketing. Logins are diligence. I would add one item: talk to two customers, chosen by you, not…
In I buy small SaaS companies. Here is how I value yours (real framework)25d agoCan confirm everything, especially the arguing. The runbooks point is real: documenting the boring stuff added real money to the price. Also confirm earnouts are hated. Six months felt fair. Twelve would have felt like…
In The quiet after you sell. Nobody told me about it18 Sep 2026He did ask me that. I said "sleep". He said "and Tuesday?"
In The quiet after you sell. Nobody told me about it18 Sep 2026Four months off, got bored in the second, as I told everyone cheerfully. What I did not say was that "bored" was a polite word for it. I am glad you wrote this.
In Sold my first product for "one car". What a small exit actually looks like25 Oct 2025Welcome to the club of people who sold something and immediately started another. The four months off I planned lasted seven weeks.
In I met my co-founder at the Lisbon meetup. Here is the agreement we signed first2 Jun 2025We are fine.

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