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What Happens When Users Stop Looking for Apps?
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #iOS, #Product
Published: Mon, Sep 28 2026 @ 10:50:40
OpenAI is commoditizing successful AI startups unusually fast
#AI, #Startups, #Engineering, #Growth, #Operations
Published: Sun, Sep 27 2026 @ 16:41:20
AI-built product security worries usually land on the wrong layer
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Security, #Reading
Published: Sat, Sep 26 2026 @ 22:32:01
Your most exposed IP may be how your company knows what to do
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Operations, #Data
Published: Sat, Sep 26 2026 @ 4:22:41
App vs firmware is the most expensive decision in a connected product
#Engineering, #Product, #Reading
Published: Wed, Sep 23 2026 @ 21:54:42
Companies may be about to fire exactly the wrong people
#AI, #Startups, #Engineering, #Product, #Operations
Published: Wed, Sep 23 2026 @ 3:45:22
For a hardware company, the most expensive screen is the pairing screen
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Reading
Published: Tue, Sep 22 2026 @ 2:30:45
You cannot model a software build on the vendor's estimate
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Pricing, #Security
Published: Mon, Sep 21 2026 @ 1:16:07
When the development studio stops replying
#Engineering, #iOS, #Product
Published: Fri, Sep 18 2026 @ 22:46:52
When a roof needs replacing, nobody thinks it is strange to call a second roofer
#Engineering, #Product, #Reading
Published: Tue, Sep 15 2026 @ 19:02:59
The best recommendation I can give is sometimes "don't build anything"
#Engineering, #Product, #Reading, #Business
Published: Sat, Sep 12 2026 @ 15:19:07
"Our competitor is doing it" is the worst justification for a tech investment
#Engineering, #Product, #Reading, #Finance, #Business
Published: Fri, Sep 11 2026 @ 14:04:29
If a CEO sent me a $500k software proposal tomorrow, this is what I would review
#Engineering, #Product, #Operations, #Data, #Security
Published: Tue, Sep 8 2026 @ 10:20:36
When should a CEO get a second opinion on a technology decision
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Disruption, #Data
Published: Sat, Sep 5 2026 @ 6:36:44
Competent executives make surprisingly bad technology purchases
#Engineering, #Product, #Business
Published: Thu, Sep 3 2026 @ 4:07:29
You do not have a technology problem
#Engineering, #Product, #Reading
Published: Wed, Sep 2 2026 @ 2:52:51
The contract clauses that create the most lock-in get the least scrutiny
#Engineering, #Product, #Data, #Reading, #Business
Published: Mon, Aug 31 2026 @ 0:23:36
The software demo was fantastic
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Operations, #Data
Published: Thu, Aug 27 2026 @ 20:39:43
Changing ERP or CRM systems often recreates the old company's problems
#Engineering, #Product, #Operations, #Data
Published: Wed, Aug 26 2026 @ 19:25:06
In a SaaS agreement, the data exit clause matters more than liability
#SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Data, #Reading
Published: Tue, Aug 25 2026 @ 18:10:28
Before replacing your CRM or ERP, check whether the software is the problem
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Operations, #Data
Published: Mon, Aug 24 2026 @ 16:55:50
The most expensive sentence in a software project: "We'll figure that out later"
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Data
Published: Sun, Aug 23 2026 @ 15:41:13
Your development agency says the project is 80% complete
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Data
Published: Fri, Aug 21 2026 @ 13:11:58
Your CTO says the architecture needs to be rebuilt
#Engineering, #Product, #Business
Published: Thu, Aug 20 2026 @ 11:57:20
A CEO I advise canceled the company's hosting account
#Engineering, #Data, #Reading, #Business
Published: Wed, Aug 19 2026 @ 10:42:42
Software projects look green right until they fail
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Pricing, #Data
Published: Tue, Aug 18 2026 @ 9:28:05
A software project can be on time and already lost
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Operations, #Data
Published: Mon, Aug 17 2026 @ 8:13:27
Your software project is six months late
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Data, #Reading
Published: Sat, Aug 15 2026 @ 5:44:12
The first 10% of a software project usually determines whether the other 90%
#Engineering, #Product, #Data
Published: Fri, Aug 14 2026 @ 4:29:35
AI made software dramatically cheaper to create
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Leadership
Published: Thu, Aug 13 2026 @ 3:14:57
The prototype took three weeks
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Data
Published: Wed, Aug 12 2026 @ 2:00:19
Custom software should have to earn the right to exist
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Operations
Published: Sat, Aug 8 2026 @ 22:16:27
Build versus buy is an incomplete question
#SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Pricing
Published: Fri, Aug 7 2026 @ 21:01:49
The $180,000 dispatch system and the question about month five
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Reading
Published: Thu, Aug 6 2026 @ 19:47:12
"We need an AI strategy" is usually the wrong first sentence
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Operations, #Business
Published: Sat, Aug 1 2026 @ 13:34:04
The questions a CEO should ask in the approval meeting
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Data
Published: Fri, Jul 31 2026 @ 12:19:26
The last moment a replacement decision is still cheap to change
#Engineering, #Product, #Reading, #Finance, #Business
Published: Thu, Jul 30 2026 @ 11:04:49
Before spending $250k building software, spend a week trying to kill the idea
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Reading, #Finance
Published: Wed, Jul 29 2026 @ 9:50:11
Your vendor says you need a custom solution
#SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Pricing, #Operations
Published: Tue, Jul 28 2026 @ 8:35:33
The most useful question before approving a software project
#Engineering, #Leadership, #Reading, #Business
Published: Mon, Jul 27 2026 @ 7:20:56
The biggest App Store developers are the ones you've never heard of
#Engineering, #iOS, #Product, #Business
Published: Fri, Jul 24 2026 @ 3:37:03
AI changes the backlog
#AI, #Engineering, #Business
Published: Sun, Jul 19 2026 @ 22:38:33
The Startup Trap
#AI, #Startups, #SaaS, #Engineering, #iOS
Published: Sat, Jul 18 2026 @ 21:23:55
Beautiful software architecture historically mattered because humans needed
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Reading
Published: Fri, Jul 17 2026 @ 20:09:18
37signals let designers use agents to implement features
#AI, #Startups, #Engineering, #Product, #Disruption
Published: Thu, Jul 16 2026 @ 18:54:40
Universities are becoming very expensive places to buy time, friendships
#Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Reading
Published: Wed, Jul 15 2026 @ 17:40:03
A custom domain can hide the builder from your customers
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Security, #Reading
Published: Mon, Jul 13 2026 @ 15:10:47
NVIDIA buying Hugging Face could make open AI depend on a single vendor
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth
Published: Sun, Jul 12 2026 @ 13:56:10
Excellence pays only where it's visible
#AI, #Startups, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product
Published: Sat, Jul 11 2026 @ 12:41:32
Nobody hacked Hugging Face
#AI, #Engineering, #Security, #Reading, #Community
Published: Fri, Jul 10 2026 @ 11:26:55
It took me less than an hour to reach 200,000 people's private data
#Startups, #Engineering, #iOS, #Product, #Leadership
Published: Thu, Jul 9 2026 @ 10:12:17
I brought in Codex as an adversarial critic of my thinking with Claude
#AI, #Engineering, #Business
Published: Wed, Jul 8 2026 @ 8:57:40
"I can't put customer data into an AI tool." Correct
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Pricing
Published: Mon, Jun 29 2026 @ 23:00:39
A $150k employee no longer costs $150k
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Finance
Published: Sat, Jun 27 2026 @ 20:31:24
Building software is no longer the hard part of starting a company
#AI, #Startups, #Engineering, #Product, #Disruption
Published: Wed, Jun 24 2026 @ 16:47:31
The price of content is about to separate from the price of access
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth
Published: Thu, Jun 18 2026 @ 9:19:46
The website stopped being the scarce asset
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Pricing
Published: Wed, Jun 17 2026 @ 8:05:08
Owning your own e-commerce store has become cheaper than earning attention
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Leadership
Published: Tue, Jun 16 2026 @ 6:50:30
Entry-level jobs are becoming a less reliable way to predict future headcount
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Leadership
Published: Mon, Jun 15 2026 @ 5:35:53
People are confusing "can build" with "should own"
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Pricing
Published: Sun, Jun 14 2026 @ 4:21:15
Everyone talks about how AI makes startups easier to build
#AI, #Startups, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth
Published: Sat, Jun 13 2026 @ 3:06:38
I spend a lot of time helping business owners think through AI strategy
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Reading, #Business
Published: Thu, Jun 11 2026 @ 0:37:23
Everyone seems to be reading this chart from Financial Times
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Reading
Published: Tue, Jun 9 2026 @ 23:22:45
Many CEOs get blamed for decisions the incentive system was designed to produce
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Finance
Published: Sat, Jun 6 2026 @ 19:38:52
The next defensible advantage may come from process data, not customer data
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Pricing
Published: Fri, Jun 5 2026 @ 18:24:15
When intelligence becomes abundant, customers pay for outcomes
#Engineering, #Operations, #Data, #Security
Published: Thu, Jun 4 2026 @ 17:09:37
UI is the worst thing technologists built
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership
Published: Wed, Jun 3 2026 @ 15:55:00
Analytical SaaS is losing the right to charge for answers
#AI, #Startups, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product
Published: Tue, Jun 2 2026 @ 14:40:22
120 employees, 40 experimenting with AI, all trapped in private tabs
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Leadership
Published: Mon, Jun 1 2026 @ 13:25:44
“10x engineering” is a comforting story because it gives you a single lever
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Security
Published: Fri, May 29 2026 @ 9:41:52
In some companies you’ll see headcount traded for tokens
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Operations
Published: Thu, May 28 2026 @ 8:27:14
The most effective way to disrupt an incumbent is to remove the problem
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Disruption, #Security
Published: Tue, May 26 2026 @ 5:57:59
When AI Makes Features Cheap, What Becomes the Moat?
#AI, #Startups, #Engineering, #iOS, #Product
Published: Sun, May 24 2026 @ 3:28:44
Most people still think of Shopify as a website builder
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Pricing
Published: Tue, May 19 2026 @ 22:30:14
Coding and design keep getting cheaper
#Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Leadership, #Operations
Published: Sun, May 17 2026 @ 13:31:12
I’ve been in mobile since 2010
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Operations
Published: Sat, May 16 2026 @ 5:46:48
AI adoption fails when learning stays trapped inside individual workflows
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Operations
Published: Thu, May 14 2026 @ 22:02:24
Agentic code is free like a baby goat
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Data
Published: Wed, May 13 2026 @ 14:18:00
The next platform shift will not be won where users click
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth
Published: Tue, May 12 2026 @ 6:33:36
Freezing junior engineering hiring is not a cost move
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Security
Published: Sat, May 9 2026 @ 15:04:48
AI is being discussed as if the economy is mostly software, content
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Operations
Published: Mon, May 4 2026 @ 8:07:12
Vibe-coded apps usually deliver on the big features but they bleed out
#Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Business
Published: Sun, May 3 2026 @ 0:22:48
Engineering teams that went heaviest on AI coding tools are now the ones
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Data
Published: Thu, Apr 23 2026 @ 18:12:00
Agile fails when it optimizes the speed of building instead of the speed
#SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Pricing
Published: Wed, Apr 22 2026 @ 10:27:36
If your strategy requires you to fight for every deal
#Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Leadership, #Operations
Published: Sun, Apr 19 2026 @ 18:58:48
Most “disruption” is just a better interface on top of the same system
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Leadership
Published: Sat, Apr 18 2026 @ 11:14:24
People often ask if you still need to be in San Francisco to build something
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Finance
Published: Wed, Apr 15 2026 @ 19:45:36
I built a Python script that generates App Store screenshots in 1s
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #iOS, #Product
Published: Mon, Apr 13 2026 @ 4:16:48
If your ARPU did not go up by at least 50%
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Pricing
Published: Sat, Apr 11 2026 @ 20:32:24
AI boosted coding and now is moving to GTM
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth
Published: Fri, Apr 10 2026 @ 12:48:00
The AI job everyone is talking about does not exist
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Operations, #Reading
Published: Fri, Apr 3 2026 @ 22:06:00
I keep seeing the same mistake from vibecoders
#AI, #Engineering, #iOS, #Product
Published: Thu, Apr 2 2026 @ 14:21:36
One of the stranger patterns in AI adoption is emotional, not technical
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Growth, #Leadership
Published: Sun, Mar 29 2026 @ 15:08:24
Anthropic just changed how AI coding tools will be used
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Operations
Published: Thu, Mar 26 2026 @ 23:39:36
Most leaders are mispricing AI
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership
Published: Tue, Mar 24 2026 @ 8:10:48
Stripe is launching the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) open standard
#AI, #SaaS, #Engineering, #Growth, #Pricing
Published: Thu, Mar 19 2026 @ 1:13:12
Racing used to punish mediocrity
#AI, #Engineering, #Product, #Leadership, #Security
Published: Tue, Mar 17 2026 @ 17:28:48
AI in Engineering, Leadership, and Sales
#AI, #Engineering, #Leadership, #Sales
Published: Wed, Jan 14 2026 @ 10:16:25
Drone Delivery Is Easy. Getting Picked by AI Is Hard.
#AI, #Product, #Engineering, #Delivery, #Data
Published: Mon, Jan 12 2026 @ 10:16:24
Stop Wasting $100K on Dev Shops Without Strategy
#AI, #Strategy, #Product, #Growth, #Engineering
Published: Sun, Jan 11 2026 @ 10:16:27
Why You Should Use Plan Mode Before Writing AI Code
#AI, #Product, #Engineering, #Data
Published: Sun, Jan 11 2026 @ 10:16:24
Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the New Operating System
#AI, #Growth, #Engineering, #Sales, #Education
Published: Fri, Jan 9 2026 @ 10:16:37
Why Early-Stage Founders Don't Need a Full-Time CTO
#AI, #Operations, #Strategy, #Engineering, #eCommerce
Published: Fri, Jan 9 2026 @ 10:16:34
AI in Engineering, Pricing, and Data
#AI, #Engineering, #Pricing, #Data
Published: Fri, Jan 9 2026 @ 10:16:27
AI in Automation, Engineering, and Education
#AI, #Automation, #Engineering, #Education
Published: Fri, Jan 9 2026 @ 10:16:25
AI in Engineering, Hiring, and Data
#AI, #Engineering, #Hiring, #Data
Published: Fri, Jan 2 2026 @ 10:16:31
I have an old Cordova app for iOS I wanted to convert to native
#AI, #Product, #Engineering
Published: Fri, Jan 2 2026 @ 10:16:30
This year reinforced something I have seen over and over across products
#AI, #Strategy, #Product, #Engineering, #Leadership
Published: Fri, Jan 2 2026 @ 10:16:29
The 10x productivity claim with AI Is still mis
#AI, #Product, #Engineering, #Leadership, #Startups
Published: Fri, Jan 2 2026 @ 10:16:26
If I see one more person calling Generative AI a tool
#AI, #Product, #Engineering
Published: Fri, Jan 2 2026 @ 10:16:25
AI in Product, Engineering, and Data
#AI, #Product, #Engineering, #Data
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:56
AI, Engineering, and Startups
#AI, #Operations, #Growth, #Engineering, #Startups
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:45
AI in Operations, Growth, and Engineering
#AI, #Operations, #Growth, #Engineering, #Pricing
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:42
AI in Engineering, Delivery, and Data
#AI, #Engineering, #Delivery, #Data
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:39
AI in Growth, Engineering, and Leadership
#AI, #Growth, #Engineering, #Leadership, #Hiring
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:38
AI and Hiring
#AI, #Engineering, #Hiring
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:37
Big tech just missed the real story: satellites
#AI, #Engineering
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:35
AI and Enterprise
#AI, #Automation, #Operations, #Product, #Engineering
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:34
AI in Automation, Product, and Growth
#AI, #Automation, #Product, #Growth, #Engineering
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:31
Google just yeeted Antigravity into orbit
#AI, #Automation, #Product, #Growth, #Engineering
Published: Wed, Dec 17 2025 @ 10:16:24
There's a prevailing belief that AI, especially large language models
#AI, #Growth, #Engineering
Published: Mon, Nov 17 2025 @ 10:16:35
Engineering and Sales with AI
#AI, #Engineering, #Sales
Published: Mon, Nov 17 2025 @ 10:16:34
The arrogance test
#AI, #Engineering
Published: Mon, Nov 17 2025 @ 10:16:33
AI in Engineering, Startups, and Education
#AI, #Engineering, #Startups, #Education, #Data
Published: Mon, Nov 17 2025 @ 10:16:32
When Charles Schwab launched discount brokerage in the 1970s
#AI, #Strategy, #Growth, #Engineering
Published: Mon, Nov 17 2025 @ 10:16:29
AI in Operations, Product, and Engineering
#AI, #Operations, #Product, #Engineering, #Remote Work
Published: Sat, Oct 18 2025 @ 11:16:28
AI, Operations, and Startups
#AI, #Automation, #Operations, #Engineering, #Startups
Published: Sat, Oct 18 2025 @ 11:16:26
AI in Strategy, Engineering, and Hiring
#AI, #Strategy, #Engineering, #Hiring
Published: Sat, Oct 18 2025 @ 11:16:24
ChatGPT remembers everything about
#AI, #Product, #Growth, #Engineering
Published: Thu, Sep 18 2025 @ 11:16:29
Engineering and Digital Transformation with AI
#AI, #Engineering, #Digital Transformation
Published: Thu, Sep 18 2025 @ 11:16:24
💥 LAST MINUTE Workshop for Founders
#AI, #Product, #Engineering, #Leadership, #Sales
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:38
Most founders don't run out of ideas
#AI, #Product, #Engineering, #Leadership, #Startups
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:37
Most dev teams obsess over "doing it right
#AI, #Strategy, #Product, #Growth, #Engineering
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:35
AI, Strategy, and Engineering
#AI, #Strategy, #Engineering, #Leadership, #Data
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:34
Customer Support and Engineering with AI
#AI, #Customer Support, #Engineering
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:32
It's not the code that kills your vision, it's the unclear decisions
#AI, #Product, #Growth, #Engineering, #Leadership
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:30
AI doesn't raise the ceiling, it raises the floor
#AI, #Strategy, #Product, #Engineering, #Leadership
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:28
AI won't crush your industry
#AI, #Strategy, #Growth, #Engineering, #Enterprise
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:27
AI can generate code faster than ever, but if you're not steering
#AI, #Engineering
Published: Tue, Aug 19 2025 @ 11:16:24
The company known for baby photos (Meta) could end up more valuable than Apple
#AI, #Growth, #Engineering
Published: Sun, Jul 20 2025 @ 11:16:28
AI in Customer Support, Strategy, and Engineering
#AI, #Customer Support, #Strategy, #Engineering, #eCommerce
Published: Sun, Jul 20 2025 @ 11:16:27
Now is the time to (re)build
#AI, #Product, #Growth, #Engineering, #Hiring
Published: Sun, Jul 20 2025 @ 11:16:26
Your favorite AI unicorn just tripped over its own numbers
#AI, #Strategy, #Product, #Engineering, #eCommerce
Published: Fri, Jun 20 2025 @ 11:16:27
I'm increasingly hearing about these frustrations from Startup Founders who
#AI, #Product, #Engineering, #Leadership, #Startups
Published: Fri, Jun 20 2025 @ 11:16:25
Are you betting your business on tools that might mislead you?
#Engineering
Published: Wed, May 21 2025 @ 11:16:24