# Nikolai Skavinskii — Product Lead & Founder

Canonical: https://nikska.com/

Technical Product Lead at MyHealthspan. Founder of Extrabite (25,000+ paying customers) and Factory. I love building products that people love.

15 years building. 4 companies co-founded. Toronto, Canada.

## Sections

- [About](https://nikska.com/about) ([markdown](https://nikska.com/about.md)): 15 years building products people love — Extrabite (25,000+ paying customers), Factory, and a decade of creative tools. Now Technical Product Lead at MyHealthspan.
- [Projects](https://nikska.com/projects) ([markdown](https://nikska.com/projects.md)): Factory, Snap That Piece, GifGun and BG Renderer Max — AI platforms and creative tools I've built and shipped.
- [Startup Graveyard](https://nikska.com/graveyard) ([markdown](https://nikska.com/graveyard.md)): Four founded companies, four honest post-mortems. Override AI, Memetic.ink, TalkScan.ai and Toongoose — what killed them and what I learned.
- [Blog](https://nikska.com/blog) ([markdown](https://nikska.com/blog.md)): Notes on building products that people love — AI, creative tools, and the occasional graveyard story.

## Latest writing

- [How I write with LLMs (it's not faster, it's just different)](https://nikska.com/blog/writing-with-llms) ([markdown](https://nikska.com/blog/writing-with-llms.md), 2025-08-15): Voice-dump your ideas, let the LLM build a table of contents, then delete it and write the thing yourself. A process that produces more meaningful texts, not less.
- [AI-generated content on social media](https://nikska.com/blog/ai-generated-content-on-social-media) ([markdown](https://nikska.com/blog/ai-generated-content-on-social-media.md), 2025-04-09): After running 3000+ AI agents on X, an inconvenient truth: if you need AI to communicate your ideas, your ideas are not worthy to communicate.
- [Proof of Humanity](https://nikska.com/blog/proof-of-humanity) ([markdown](https://nikska.com/blog/proof-of-humanity.md), 2024-10-28): I showed a Bongard problem to my five-year-old daughter. Her answer was better than mine — and a reminder of what unfettered human intelligence looks like.

## Elsewhere

- Site guide for agents: https://nikska.com/llms.txt
- RSS feed: https://nikska.com/feed.xml
- Email: dokluch@gmail.com