What's up everybody? This is Cortland from Indiehackers.com and you're listening to the

IndieHackers podcast. On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses,

and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes. How do they get to where they are today?

How did they make decisions, both of their companies and in their personal lives, and what exactly makes their businesses tick? And the goal here, as always, is so that the rest of us can learn from their examples and go on to build our own profitable internet businesses. Today, I am talking to Caesar Kuryama. Caesar, welcome to the chef. Thanks for having me.

I'm really excited to chat.

You are the creator of an app called One Second Every Day, or One SE for short.

And every day for the past eight years, I think, you've recorded...

I'm at eight, over eight and a half at this point.

Eight and a half years of every single day you record a one second video of what's going on in your life. And you stitch it all together. So every year you have basically a six minute video. So now I guess you're like something like 50 minutes of video for the last eight and a half years of your life. You can easily go back and watch everything you're doing. This is now recently my favorite app. So I've

got like eight seconds of video. I can see what's going on for the last week. But it's pretty

cool, man. I really love what you're doing. And now it's not just you. It's many millions of

people have used one second every day and recording one second videos of their life every single day.

Why did you start this?

What set you on this journey?

So, you know, my background is in like visual effects and animation.

I worked like agencies and advertising at the beginning of my career after I went to art

school.

I was always doing film stuff, video stuff, graphic design, stuff, photography.

I kind of dabbled in a lot of different mediums beyond animation. Animation was kind of like just how I ended up in art school accidentally. I was a computer science guy. I thought I was going to go do computer science stuff. And I started doing animations. I started winning these like local kind of animation things in high school. And I thought, oh, I want to be an animator because I want to tell stories.

And then I went to, that's how I ended up in art school. Took a little bit of time working in advertising to realize, oh, like, I'm not actually in control of the ideas that I wish I was working on. I'm just kind of like executing on other people's ideas. And so I kind of became disenfranchised with it pretty quickly. but that's kind of how I got started

and kind of didn't know what my exit

strategy was out of working in advertising.

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