The non-tactical music tech founder with Mickey Shiloh

About this episode

In this episode, Max Bernstein sits down with Michaela (Mickey) Shiloh a songwriter, entrepreneur, and founder of HRDRV , to unpack her journey from Grammy-winning songwriter to non-technical music tech founder. Mickey shares how she launched HRDRV (pronounced ‘hard drive’) on Wix in just a few hours, scaled it into a thriving artist community, and eventually rebuilt the platform using AI-powered no-code tools like Lovable and Claude. The conversation dives deep into the realities of building software without a technical background, including hiring developers, navigating expensive agency relationships, and learning product design, back-end infrastructure, and security along the way. Mickey…