Tobi Hikari

So I looked at LinkedIn Talent solutions - it makes 7 billion revenue. Every job board founder cut get probably a bite of the cake by implementing:

Employer branding options
Job slots/listing/ads
Recruiter tools
Talent insights
Pipeline builder
Learning like courses etc.

After couple of days I can say that @vivaldibrowser is really a great EU-based alternative to any US browser.

Tesla’s sales continued to crash in Europe in February, with the first few markets reporting car sales data confirming the American automaker’s ongoing troubles in Europe 💕

Now replace Starlink as fast as posible!

So starting to replace US tech - checked out some browser alternatives to google chrome. Choose to go with Vivaldi...easy to set up and you can easily import all bookmarks you have on google chrome.

Doing the same - hard to replace some tech i am using, though like WhatsApp or Gmail.

This orange douche bag in the white house costs me a lot of money! What the hell is he doing?

Donate to Ukraine’s defenders The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

If you have not already...now is the time to support 🇺🇦!!!

war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Top 100 Most In-Demand Sports Industry Skills Explore the top 100 most in-demand skills in the sports industry. Find out which technical and professional skills are most valued by employers in sports tech. Updated regularly with real-time job mar...

Started using AI to analyze every job on Sportstechjobs[.]com

The most in-demand hard & soft skills in sports tech:

💻 Tech: Python, SQL, JavaScript, Data Analysis
🧠 Soft: Project Management, Communication, Problem-Solving

👇
sportstechjobs.com/skills

My second home 😍 my wife is Barbadian 🇧🇧. Enjoy!

Finished the skills subpages

Each new job gets analyzed with AI
Most important skills get saved into DB
Each page shows job openings for each skill
💸 salary
📈 growth rate
🏛️ top companies hiring

www.sportstechjobs.com/skills

Just read i funny comment under a YouTube video:

Leaving the US, the new "American dream". 😂

Just added some code to my job crawler - now every job description gets analyzed by AI (deepseek) and spills out the main skill required for the job. Works quite fine!

I will start to replace most of the software and tools I use (mostly us software like gmail etc.) with European alternatives - any suggestions? What are some cool tools coming from the EU?

I asked Perplexity for a good investment strategy as the world is going crazy:

Small-cap U.S. stocks
Dividend Stocks
Diversify with Bitcoin
Real estate investments
Financial stocks
Defense stocks

If you want a career change solopreneurship might be your best shot

My dividend payments over the last three years:

2023 - 3,12€
2024 - 8,66€
2025 - 27,13€

I know not much - but there is a 📈

I can’t keep up :-) - why is windsurf better? I am still at vs

I’m now 90% done with automating sponsor identification in newsletters. This will not only save me a lot of time but also allow me to add hundreds of new sponsors daily 🔥

I think job board owners are sleeping on
Sparkloop. Every job board collects emails and sends new job posts daily/weekly.

So just join Sparkloop, add their newsletter recommendations pop-up, and get paid some extra 💸.

I need to stop reading tweets from the "right tech crowd" about how messed up Europe is—free speech this, MAGA that—and just start watching Friends from the beginning.

I feel currently a bit overwhelmed to find a proper strategy keep growing. I have a product market fit and getting news users every month but feel like lacking a overall marketing and growth strategy

Finished the new
@sponsorgap
sponsor page!

Each brand has:

📅 Founded Year
👥 Est. Employees
📢 Ad Activity
🔗 Insights with similar sponsors
📊 Analytics with est. newsletter ad budget
📇 People to contact with necessary data

"Passive income" - at least the closest it can get.

Getting now dividend payouts* every month/year 💪

*not much in some months but still quite motivating

Took me 5 minutes with the help of chatGPT to replicate this make scenario and the outcome is even better!

Just built a script of 112 lines of code.

Finished the analytics part of the sponsor page - data is not yet 100% accurate but I like it. Creators can now see the annual revenue, marketing budget, and above all estimated newsletter ad spend.

Also added a Sponsorgap score calculated from the data I have.

Added new trending sponsor 📈 calculation to the dashboard view:

The calculation is based on:

30 days
Total mention
Appearance in different newsletters

Starting to enrich data on
@Sponsorgap
- adding to each brand the following fields

💸 annualRevenue
👩‍⚕️est. employees
📅 foundedYear
📈 growthStage
🫰 budget

Built little automation for it - make checks if a sponsor exists in brand db, if not creates the necessary data with AI.

Sponsors statistics 2024 is out - tracked 3907 ads:

👑 Most tracked overall: Hubspot
💻 Most tracked in Software: Vanta
🌍 in Remote Work: Surfshark
📢 in Marketing: Hubpot
💸 in Finances: Betterment
🏦 in Investing: Ryse

See more here: sponsorgap.com/newsletter-s...

Trying something new in 2025 - want to try out journaling.

YouTube video by Tim Stodz Turning Substack into a $60,000 a Year Business

Interesting to watch if you want to monetize your substack newsletter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGWX...