An investor told a founder their business wasn't venture scale. The founder agreed — and didn't care. That framing shift is worth examining.
An investor told a founder their business wasn’t venture scale. The founder agreed. Then they went home and kept running their profitable business.
The most viral developer tools aren't the most useful ones. They're the most enjoyable to encounter. There's a lesson in that.
The most viral developer tools aren’t the most useful ones.
Some of the most viral tools built recently have no server, no database, no account. Everything runs in the browser. The absence of infrastructure is the feature.
Some of the most-shared tools being built right now have no server.
The counterintuitive truth about narrowing your focus: everything gets faster, cheaper, and more referrable when you serve fewer types of people.
At some point, almost every person running a service business realizes they’re managing too many different problems at once.
A post published today is still bringing people to your product in eighteen months. A paid ad stops the moment the budget stops. The math is different.
The paid ad stops working the moment the budget does.
The most effective outreach question isn't 'want to buy this?' — it's a gentler ask that almost always produces a useful answer.
There’s a question that outperforms almost every cold pitch.
Building the product is the easy part. The harder work — the part most engineers underestimate — is everything that happens after you ship.
Most engineers think building is the hard part. It isn’t.
On finding the smallest repeatable unit of value and what it means to ship the same solution more than once.
Some products work. Others work and can be repeated.
Building feels like progress. It is the perfect activity for someone who is afraid to find out whether their idea is any good.
There is a version of building that is actually hiding.
The product you threw together as an afterthought is often the one the market actually wants. This is uncomfortable. It's also useful information.
The product you’re most proud of is rarely the one that sells.