Most people don't want their lives turned upside down by a “disruptive” product. They want solutions for their current problems, with tools and metaphors they already understand. “Disruption” is rarely a good strategy. https://t.co/qb8ekeCEDM

My Commercial Fiction Club newsletter, where I'm documenting the journey from $0 as a new fiction author, is about to hit $10,000/year. This isn't bad, but I'm still figuring out what readers want most from me. Drop a comment—what do you want...
As a college student, Peter Reinhardt (@reinpk) started a company that stumbled, pivoted, and nearly ran out of money before a small open-source library became Segment—the data layer behind thousands of software companies and was later acquired by Twilio. On the...
AI agents are acting, but your identity stack wasn’t built for that. @agenticfabriq is the identity and governance layer for the agentic era. Congrats on the launch, @paulinazhxu and @matthew_xu23! https://t.co/OVGYbWEZGo https://t.co/nHX5imQZFZ
AI agents are collapsing the traditional PM function. Here’s what that means for your SaaS over the next three years👇 For years, SaaS scaled with PMs translating customer input into documentation, and engineering turning that into a product. But now...
In February 2026, Figma released version 126.1.2. One line in the changelog caught nobody's attention. It should have. The update stripped --remote-debugging-port on startup, with no announcement and no deprecation warning. Just gone. Overnight, developers who'd spent months building automation...

I spent last week in the Belizean jungle, workshopping with some of my top agency owner students. Here’s what happened the day they got back to work yesterday. When you stop doing $50/hr tasks and start acting like the CEO you are,...
New episode of Uncapped with Y Combinator's leadership, @garrytan, @harjtaggar and @snowmaker. We talked about YC's core value prop, how AI is changing the process of finding product market fit and raising capital, San Francisco and California, the future of YC,...
Startups are a game of last man standing: the survivor who outlasts others often wins.

In this video, Nico, our video producer, runs a live experiment - he builds a fully functional mood-tracking app with no coding skills, just his Second Brain and Claude Cowork He pulls from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy notes he saved years ago,...
An excavator replaces 10 people with shovels. Give them spoons instead, then you need 100 people. What are you digging with a spoon right now? Where could you use an excavator? https://t.co/MutWDGF2D1
Working on building a Responsible AI Workforce Readiness solution designed specifically for California counties — helping public sector teams adopt AI safely, ethically, and in compliance with emerging state regulations. What are you working on?
This week on Lifers, I interviewed @othman about how he navigated @color through three massive pivots—from cancer genetics to national COVID infrastructure and now a virtual cancer clinic. Timestamps: (00:00) Preview (00:58) Intro (01:03) Lessons from Figma and betting on the tortoise over the...
How much of your business do you want to sell? Should you pursue a minority, majority, or full sale transaction? Founders looking to exit or raise capital have to decide which is the best path to achieve your goals, both...
A complete stack for my 30k/mo AI buisness - Perplexity - Claude $200 - 1000% worth it - Gamma - Calendly - Grain AI - n8n for workflows - Agno for agents - Postgres - Notion And brain🧠
Leveraging your expertise is wise, of course. You’ll be more efficient and make better decisions. Well, sometimes? Or “expertise” can be blinders. Knowing that, you can avoid the trap, and indeed leverage your expertise. https://t.co/19xHUGd9lC
Your customers are churning. But not for the reason you think. Most founders look at monthly churn, see 3-4%, and think "we're fine." But then they pull up their net revenue retention at 12 months and it's sitting at 70%....
Shipped my first SaaS at 36. Sold it at 38. Failed 3 projects at 39. Found product-market fit at 40. At 40 - I'm finally building something I love. You are NEVER too late to start.
Everyone at a conference: Collecting business cards. Ecom founders at a conference: Finding one person to build a real partnership with. Different mindset. Different network.
Are you a bootstrapped founder? Come work with me on @SenjaHQ for 3 months Run our engineering + learn how I scaled to $1,000,000 ARR by working alongside me Share how you get on with #buildinpublic Interested? Job description in the reply

AI is killing traditional moats. Process, capital, and information edges now vanish when anyone deploys a model in days through cheap APIs. The winners own proprietary data, embed AI into core workflows, and build feedback loops like Netflix, Tesla, and Amazon. Speed matters...
Having a day job while building is promising yourself you'll code for 2 focused hours after work, then opening your laptop and refactoring variable names for 90 minutes.

I don’t think enough people are appreciating the how insane this is. Over 80 @openclaw meetups scheduled around the world, and more popping up every day. For a product less than a few months old. I’ve never seen anything like this. Something very special...
People are shipping like crazy right? How do you not just sit on the customer support queue, copy paste their issue/request into Claude code, verify fix or mold into great feature, ship every single minute of the day. It’s crazy....
From AI to quantum chemistry to health tech, startups from my alma mater are scaling globally – raising over US$10B since 2020 and reshaping industries. I’m excited to spotlight six founders from the University of Toronto ecosystem building game-changing companies:...
High-ticket pricing can create a major barrier—but in some cases, it’s the most effective way to preserve quality, not accessibility.
Engineers know the phrase: "no premature optimization." And then they go and do it anyway. Not just in code performance, but in design, and in the entire rest of the company. And yet, the principle applies everywhere. You’re wasting time you can’t afford to...
By my count, AP is the third major news publsher to partner with Kalshi (CNN and CNBC also have deals with Kalshi). Polymarket has deals with WSJ and Barron's parent cmpany Dow Jones as well as Yahoo Finance. https://t.co/BN62xOIVjq
Three strategies: 1. More for more (i.e. pay more for the best) 2. More for less (i.e. cheaper, but we still have features, mostly) 3. Less for less (i.e. doesn’t do much, but affordable) All valid, but the first is best for both profit...
Chris, saw that First Round Capital is backing startups and helping them grow. Any chance your business could make use of some capital options towards the end of the year?
You don’t need a vision board to get rich. You need to solve real problems for people who can pay. Then do that 100 times.
“….every action will still need to be authenticated, authorized, and auditable. As intelligence becomes abundant and software becomes autonomous, trust becomes the constraint.” been amazing to watch @grinich and @WorkOS team make next gen apps and agents enterprise ready… 💥
Most small businesses lose trust before they lose sales. The cause is a lack of transparency. If your price is higher, explain why with clear facts like material cost or service time. When you state your motives in plain language, people trust you...

$40k+ ‼️ 4 months later of leaving google and scaling my startup full time 💁🏽
Don’t be discouraged by rejections. Every 'no' brings you closer to a 'yes'. Learn from feedback and refine your pitch, using each interaction as a stepping stone towards securing the right investment.

Who's in Cape Town? I'm organising a founder / maker coworking day We'll do intros, lunch, and share what we shipped https://t.co/j1gkyMLnOu

How MBAs look at a 27 year old HVAC business in Omaha with no website:
If you want to raise money because “This would be a lot easier with a little more money,” you are not ready to raise money. If you want to raise money because “I know how to use $X to 10x the...
I created a 6-figure SaaS in my first year hitting $200K ARR. And I've learned more about myself in 12 months than I have ever in my career. 5 lessons I wish someone told me before I started.
“Trust your gut.” That was Jason Fried answer when I asked him what advice he’d give every B2B SaaS founder. And it hit because it’s uncomfortable. We’ve built a whole business culture around justification: – data-supported decisions – evidence-based roadmaps...

I made $88,200 in February 2026 💜 Senja - $88,200 We added $1,380 net MRR Still at a revenue plateau, but working hard to increase activation rates and reduce churn rates. Also hiring a new engineer so we can ship some fundamental changes to...
Amjad showed me Replit's latest stuff. They're about to redefine vibe coding in a way that will seem obvious in retrospect. A lot of the biggest ideas have that quality.
If the user and the buyer are different people, what are you trying to convince each of? When? (Trials vs discovery) Where? (In-product vs sales material) Etc. Treat as specific, separate personas.
I’ve been having a lot of little dopey ideas lately and instead of overthinking it to death, I just build it. It takes roughly 150 PRs to get a nice version people can try I’ve noticed. Once it’s done I...
I created a n8n essential video only after building 100 automations/agents for our clients. No fluff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5xroxMp5o
Just like regular 0.8x developers, but this time much faster, unresolved technical debt will kill first any real improvements to the product, then morale, then the business.
Software is not a commodity, although some are closer or farther. To see why, imagine me forcing you to swap out your email client, or your IDE, or your spreadsheet or docs app, and tell me you won't care at all. UX...

Anthropic’s latest “remote control” launch makes it possible to run coding AI agents from your phone without typing a single command....
Adjacent to this: never has there been a time where making pure software for *yourself* been a greater point of leverage. You get to upgrade your own importance in the universe while many are barely aware of how to use...
If there’s something you want to create but you get demotivated when you find out a famous/impressive person is doing it too, I highly recommend you fight that feeling. I’ve seen too many instances of nothing getting shipped by said...