This week
- A 30-person startup called Nasha Tech translated The Software Engineer's Guidebook for the benefit of their company and the Mongolian tech ecosystem....
Last week
- For the last year or two, I’ve been giving a talk at conferences around Europe about free software. It’s called “open source, open mind: the cost of free software”, there’s a couple of recordings of it up on Youtube if you want to check it out, and, like a lot of my conference...
about 1 month ago
- Being a solo founder needs company...
- As companies grow, there is a stark shift from having a team of generalists to a team of specialists. A young startup might ask an engineer to play roles ranging from engineer to PM to interim manager to solution consultant and more. A young startup might ask a PM to be a PM and...
about 2 months ago
- The traditional advice for tech companies is that you should ignore your competitors. Just talk to customers and put your energy towards making yourself as great as you can be. Hit the gym, practice gratitude, focus on yourself king. At least in SaaS, I believe that this is...
- How to use piracy to your advantage....
2 months ago
- A Blue Ocean Turns Red in <18 Months If we look at the ecosystem of AI-powered products, there’s a clear pattern of how they emerge and roll out to the world: Initial POC: Someone throws together a software demo – not a robust product ready for public consumption – proving a...
3 months ago
- My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there....
- In my startup days, we often had these dead marches where we had to implement a massive new feature in time before some kind of trade show happened. We worked long hours and even weekends to make it happen so the boss and a project manager could go to Vegas for the trade show....
- Srijan Singh pinged me on LinkedIn earlier today with a question: I’m in my early career as a backend dev at IBM, and something I often wonder about is choosing the right path: whether to stick with a big company and learn deeply, or test myself in a startup environment (remote...
- “Open source maintenance fee” trialed by Wix Toolset, while the creator of uv offers paid, enterprise-only features for larger companies....
- One of the most consistent observations I’ve had in my time in startups, scale-ups, and public companies is that smart people with context on a tricky situation almost always know exactly what they need to do. Teams obsess about company strategy, about data, and about frameworks...
- One user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan. That’s from Anthropic’s own admission when they killed Claude Code’s unlimited tier. Not $200 worth of usage. Tens of thousands of dollars on a $200/month plan. TechCrunch said Cursor hit $500 million ARR....
- Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot....
- You know that feeling when you’re looking at your competitor’s pricing page and the math doesn’t add up? $9/month. Unlimited usage. Same features as your $900 enterprise plan. Your first thought: They’re burning VC money. Classic Silicon Valley playbook – grow at all costs,...
4 months ago
- My website was banned from Lobsters as 'startup slop' for using AI agents to help write blog posts. When does tool-assisted writing become slop, and why are we having the wrong conversation about AI in content creation?...
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. July 30, 2025 My neighbors at Oxide Computer just raised a bunch of money. Here is a company that did the coolest thing, which is also,...
- Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is....
5 months ago
- Fastly, you killed glitch.com and ruined your karma for 10,000 years. You have “betrayed yourself for nothing.” Glitch was an idealistic place where people gathered and made sites, were inspired by other people’s sites and remixed them, and generally enjoyed themselves. Of...
7 months ago
- One of your most important activities as an executive, especially at a startup, is to set policies: Sets of guardrails or rules for how company systems work, such as vacation policies, expense policies, WFH policies, or rules for how to get promoted. Companies are just groups of...
- if you’re trying to finish a project and need moral & emotional support over text and as many calls as you need, i will cheerlead the fuck out of your project for a 0.1% equity stake. my cheerleading is very honest and extreme. i will highlight everything astonishing about you....
- Every startup ponders over-scaling risks. Vibe code a dumb app and be OK with a fail whale? Or build 50 microservices auto scaled in Kubernetes with a full devops team load balancing every layer? You’re probably better off with the former as long as you can tolerate it. Same...
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