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aliases: ["June 2025"]
Is A: Month
Created at: "2025-06-28"
Belongs to: "[[25q2]]"
Rating: "🤩"
---
# June 2025

## Focus

- Hit [[25q2-reach-70k]] subscribers
- Ship [[25q2-laputa-v2]] with refined graph view and improved frontmatter editing
- Start planning [[25q2-dolomites-trip]] logistics for late June

## Highlights

- Hit [[25q2-reach-70k]] subscribers on June 12th — two weeks ahead of schedule, driven by two viral LinkedIn posts and the referral program
- Shipped [[25q2-laputa-v2]]: bidirectional linking, local graph view (neighborhood-based, not full graph), improved frontmatter editing — feels like a real product now
- Completed [[25q2-dolomites-trip]]: 4 days, 5 passes, 380 km with three friends — Passo Fedaia, Pordoi, Sella, Gardena, Campolongo
- [[25q2-podcast-season-3]] "Tactical Tuesday" format growing fast — 14k total downloads/month
- [[measure-sponsorship-mrr]] hit EUR 17.5k — two new enterprise sponsors signed
- Premium tier reached 680 paying subscribers — AMA calls now have 40+ attendees
- Two pillar articles syndicated by InfoQ and The New Stack — drove ~4k new subscribers

## Reflections

June was the peak of [[25q2]] — everything came together. Hitting 70k subscribers two weeks early felt effortless, which is a sign that the flywheel is genuinely spinning now. The LinkedIn posts that went viral weren't planned; they were honest reflections on engineering leadership challenges that resonated. Authenticity scales, apparently.

The Dolomites trip was the cycling highlight of the year so far. Four days of pure mountain riding with friends — the kind of trip where you forget about metrics and just pedal. Passo Fedaia at sunset, the Marmolada glacier turning orange overhead, was a moment I'll remember forever. My legs felt strong — the [[25q1-strength-program]] is paying dividends in climbing power and stability.

Shipping Laputa v2 with the local graph view was the right call. Instead of showing all 9,000 nodes (useless hairball), it shows the current note plus 2 degrees of connection. Clean, useful, navigable. Sometimes the best product decisions are about what you don't show. Heading into Q3 with serious momentum and slightly too much on my plate.
