Week 2 Update – Aydan @ Olilo

Hey folks

Week 2’s been a little quieter on the surface — mostly because we’re in that lovely holding pattern waiting for bits and bobs to come back (you know the vibe: “soon” means 2–10 business years in telecoms).

But here’s what’s been going on:

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Progress This Week (aka “still moving, just slowly”)

• Website’s still baking – designs are shaping up nicely and we’re getting close to something we’d be proud to ship. It’s got that clean, “made-by-geeks-for-geeks” feel, without the usual clutter and marketing waffle.
• Back-end bits are bubbling – provisioning flow’s being sketched, and our internet monitoring system is starting to look real (more on that soon ).
• Social media rollout incoming next week – we’re getting ready to show our face a bit more. If you're into sharing cool internet stuff, or just want to boost a no-BS ISP doing things differently, we’d love the support.

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Small Wins

• Our stack is holding up nicely under early internal stress tests (aka us trying to break it at 2am).
• We didn’t have to redo any spreadsheets this week. That’s a win.
• A customer support flow diagram we made actually made sense on the first try. Unprecedented.

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Things We’re Thinking About

• How to explain “bring your own router” to normal humans without sounding like a smug subreddit thread.
• What our ASCII art theme should be.
• Whether we can convince anyone that “no traffic shaping, ever” is as exciting as we think it is.

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What’s Cooking Next Week

• Socials going live – follow, share, or roast us, we’re here for it all.
• Monitoring stack MVP build – from home routers to HQ, real-time alerts, less guesswork.
• More supplier integrations – fun with APIs and provisioning quirks.
• Possibly, finally, some real config writing.

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Appreciate everyone following along – this stuff’s messy, but it’s honest. If you’re into what we’re building, stick around. And if you’ve got ideas, feedback, or just want to talk nerdy, DMs are open.

Catch you next week.

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Aydan
Chief Chaos Orchestrator
(Officially “Chief Commercial Officer”, but let’s be real)