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Claude helped me reduce my AWS bill by about $1000 / mo. Just by tightening up a lambda which kept timing out, adding in better exception handling etc. Very pleasant surprise when I went to pay the bill today.
AI should have enabled infinitely more April Fools gags. But we saw basically the same amount we always saw. April Fools is a good abstraction for why conventional SaaS is not going anywhere and why companies aren’t going to build...
X is seemingly full of business experts who don’t know the difference between MRR and ARR.
Something I legit wrestle with… is it worth keeping a public changelog anymore for your SaaS business? Any competitor can basically now automatically ingest the updates and get Claude to make PRs. It only gets them a scrappy level of parity...
Cherry blossom road trip in Japan. Everywhere I go in this country, I am reminded that Japan is peak society. It’s quiet, beautiful, respectful, people are polite, food is amazing, service culture is top notch, people take pride in what...
Just handed off a Claude session to my phone for the first time and had a genuine “what a time to be alive” moment 👍🙏
If you haven't already, tail your server logs and filter by requests that take longer than 500ms. Copy paste it all into Claude and say "pls fix". Instantly faster app.
The “if the Canggu gym bros are talking about it, it’s probably bullshit” filter has not failed me so far. Web3, NFT, MCP, DAO… All noise.
It takes about 20 seconds of convo to gauge if the passion is there in a founder who has an early stage product. The passion / curiosity about the problem space is what you need to grind through the early...
As a B2B SaaS this terrifies me: I have basically stopped clicking on google results. The AI summary is good enough, and for other things I just ask ChatGPT. My business relies on SEO, so my own actions are filling me...
Since upgrading my phone I notice myself using it more (“doomscrolling”) and I think it’s down to the 120hz screen. Everything is just faster and more fluid which activates my lizard brain and makes me go mmm just one more...
Some hyper-growth stories are believable. Others are not. Claude / Anthropic is doing crazy revenue numbers and it checks out, literally everyone I know is using it. Other startups claiming “$1 million MRR in 90 days” and nobody I know...
PSA check your domain expirations. Had a non-critical but one I want to keep, almost expire. Easy to miss since I only check email very infrequently, and I'm probably not the only one.
Business gurus on X be like “building is easy, distribution is the hard part now” I have news for you: it’s all fucking hard
IMO Claude pricing will eventually change. Consider these 3 users: 1) solo founder making $1 million per year, Claude helps fix a critical bug in minutes that allows the founder to spend more time with family 2) dev employee using Claude...
