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I'm Karsten, a passionate flower smelling champion with high integrity (normally, remember to not trust people that emphasize how honest they are).
I'm the founder of Relentlessly, a place where we inspire people to do side projects and help those that want to turn them into startups. Because most things start "on the side"!
I've been intense all my life. When I was 16, I sort of swindled a grants program for young bands wanting to make music, by applying with three fictional bands that were perfectly gender balanced. I got the grant and bought a Mac to record music. I kinda felt it was ok because it was aimed towards music. My parents forced me to report it to the grants people. Embarrassing, but probably important! (Fun fact: I just got 1k USD from them to record my new single, now that I'm 37. So I'm not banned in the system.)
Since then my compass has been adjusted a bit. Although I think it's important to play up towards the edge to get max effect in things.
The music thing continued though! When I was younger I sort of forced the radio to play three of my songs. Well, it was soft forcing, by nagging and "anonymous tipping". I honestly do think I could make some generational art if I nerded harder on this. Which I do from time to time.
I spent ten years (!) in the military! Life is random. They recruited people by asking 17 year old me if I was into communications and cell phones. I was into cell phones, especially the iPhone, so I joined.
The last years I've gone too intense into startups. I was 34 when I realized they existed! Like what, you can create companies?! Now it feels like the ultimate challenge. It's hard to do anything else.
I had Relentlessly as a side project for two years, because I wanted to find people to do side projects with, before going full time from Christmas 2025. During my time in R I went viral on Instagram, built hardvibe.dev to serve the demand, sold 8 kits, but didn't want to focus more on it.
I am sure great things come to the nice curious ones!