Peter Steinberger @ YC — Fun is Velocity
One sentence from Peter Steinberger's YC sharing stayed with me: fun is velocity. Daoile runs its own company accounts on SnapLedger, and Snappy is starting to handle our real customer conversations — so the line between building the product and using the product keeps getting blurrier. Every little friction I hit becomes a product improvement almost immediately. Fun creates curiosity, curiosity creates iteration, and iteration creates velocity.
I recently watched Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, sharing his experience at YC.
One sentence stayed with me:
Fun is velocity.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized this is also how I have been building SnapLedger.
Daoile itself uses SnapLedger to manage our company accounts. We upload our own documents, reconcile our own transactions, review our own accounting, and experience the same little frictions that our customers experience.
At the same time, we are also starting to use Snappy in our own daily business — helping potential customers reach us, answering questions, and gradually taking on more customer service work.
For me, these are not just product tests.
They are genuinely fun experiences.
I enjoy seeing a document understood correctly. I enjoy watching Snappy answer a customer well. I enjoy discovering that something which used to require several manual steps can suddenly disappear into the background.
And because I am using the product myself, I notice things very quickly.
Why did Snappy answer this way?
Why does this accounting flow still require one extra click?
Why couldn't SnapLedger understand this document automatically?
Why can't this entire process simply happen by itself?
Very often, those questions turn into product improvements almost immediately.
There are many AI accounting products appearing now. With today's models, it is becoming surprisingly easy to build an impressive first demo.
But building something that you genuinely want to use every day is different.
Peter talked about building OpenClaw around his own curiosity and use. I strongly relate to that.
SnapLedger is becoming part of how we actually run Daoile. Snappy is becoming part of how we actually work with customers.
So the line between building the product and using the product is becoming increasingly blurry.
And I think that is a very healthy place for a founder to be.
Because every time I find something useful, I want to make it better.
Every time I find something annoying, I want to fix it.
Every time something suddenly works, I want to see what else is possible.
That is the kind of loop that can keep going for a very long time.
Fun creates curiosity. Curiosity creates iteration. And iteration creates velocity.
You can watch Peter's YC talk here: Peter Steinberger @ YC.
Building a demo is easy now; building something you genuinely want to use every day is not. When you run your own company on your own product, every friction turns into an improvement almost immediately — that loop is the velocity.
If you are building a product: when was the last time you relied on it for something that actually mattered to your own business — and what did it teach you?
Fun creates curiosity. Curiosity creates iteration. And iteration creates velocity.
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