Side Projects Overpromise Hours, End Up Endless Refactoring
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.
OpenClaw Sparks 80+ Global Meetups in Months
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...
Automate Support, Turn Issues Into Features, Ship Continuously
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....
U of T Startups Raise $10B, Disrupt Global Industries
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 Prices Protect Quality, Not Just Exclude
High-ticket pricing can create a major barrier—but in some cases, it’s the most effective way to preserve quality, not accessibility.
Premature Optimization Costs Time Across All Teams
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...
AP Becomes Third Major Publisher Partnering with Kalshi
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
Charge More for Quality: Best Profit and Pride
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...
First Round Capital Offers Year-End Funding Options
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?
Solve Paying Problems Repeatedly, Not Vision Boards
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.
Trust Becomes the Bottleneck for Autonomous Enterprise Apps
“….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… 💥
Transparency Turns Higher Prices Into Trust
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...
Earned $40K+ in Four Months After Leaving Google
$40k+ ‼️ 4 months later of leaving google and scaling my startup full time 💁🏽
Every Rejection Is a Step Closer to Funding
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.
Founder/Maker Coworking Day in Cape
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
MBAs Spot Digital Gap in 27‑Year HVAC Business
How MBAs look at a 27 year old HVAC business in Omaha with no website:
Raise Money Only When You Have a 10x Plan
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...
First-Year SaaS Success: 5 Essential Lessons Learned
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.
Founders Should Trust Their Gut Over Data
“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...
February Revenue Hits $88.2K, Adding MRR Amid Plateau
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...
Replit’s New Tools Will Redefine Vibe Coding
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.
Separate User and Buyer Personas: Tailor Message, Timing, Channel
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.
Build First, Overthink Later: Iterate Through PRs
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...
100 Real-World N8n Automations Shape Essential Guide
I created a n8n essential video only after building 100 automations/agents for our clients. No fluff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5xroxMp5o
Unresolved Technical Debt Undermines Product, Morale, and Business
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's UX Makes It Anything But a Commodity
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...
Run Coding AI Agents on Phone, No Typing Required
Anthropic’s latest “remote control” launch makes it possible to run coding AI agents from your phone without typing a single command....
Build Your Own Software: Unmatched Leverage in AI Era
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...
Don't Let Others' Success Stall Your Own Creation
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...
Passion Beats Perfect Reviews: Test Anything, Scale Fast
I lost $5k on a product with 'perfect' 5-star reviews. Market said no. I tested a product with mixed reviews but a passionate following. Scaled to $50k/month. The market doesn't care about perfection. It cares about passion. Test everything.
Hire Engineers Who Document, Automate, and Share SOPs
Final #buildinpublic thoughts on hiring an engineer Engineer will need to document as they go, like everyone else (including me). Updates might include: -> Reproduced the bug locally -> Found the issue: image resizer not handling SVGs correctly -> Tried a CSS fix first before...
Control AI Coding Sessions From Your Phone Anywhere
Anthropic’s latest “remote control” launch makes it possible to run coding AI agents from your phone without typing a single command.... This is absolutely game-changing for building a startup in 2026. Here's how it works: • Run “claude rc” in...
Build Assets for Predictable Revenue, Not Month‑to‑month Hustle
There’s nothing wrong with wanting more revenue. But if you’re only focused on this month, you’ll feel the pressure to start over next month. Predictable revenue comes from building assets. Courses. Memberships. Programs.
Avoid These 5 Common Mistakes Aspiring VCs Make
5 mistakes aspiring VCs keep making (and nobody tells them): 1. Leading with resume instead of edge 2. Thinking all VC firms are the same 3. Networking to find a job instead of to add value 4. Not translating operator experience into investment language 5....
Automate to Become an Autopreneur, Not a Solopreneur
Solopreneurs do everything themselves. Autopreneurs automate, build a high-performance team, and take vacations while their business grows on autopilot.
Pause, Patience, and Long‑Term Vision Prevent Burnout
Entrepreneur burnout starts when you demand output every day with no pause. Patience gives you space to rest, think, and avoid rushed decisions. When you pause before reacting, you choose strategy over emotion. Track small wins, schedule breaks, treat setbacks as data. If you...
Never Surprise Your Board with Bad News
good tips for leaders and their boards, from a leader who has weathered the ups and downs and been hardened tackling super hard problems. @cerebras is an incredible company that has endured and overcome all sorts of doubts along the...
Boost Leads 10x in 4 Weeks with AI
How I'd 10x leads in 4 weeks using AI, if I were starting my business from scratch.
Habit Retention Beats Occasional Relapse to Competitors
I wonder which of these is better: having people make using your app a habit or having people relapse into using your app even after they try the competition...
Sequoia Fast‑tracked $75M Series B After Deep Customer Vetting
A look inside @getserval's Series B, the #1 company on @harmonic_ai's Hot 25 list last quarter
Bootstrapped SaaS Thrives on Trust, Not Code
Gah such a great take. I don’t invest in large SaaS plays, but on the micro end, especially for bootstrapped founders, it’s still a fantastic place to build.
Small Wins Spark Momentum When You Feel Stuck
A mentor once told me this: When you feel stuck, shrink the goal. One finished task. One closed loop. One workout. One hard conversation. One thing that moves you forward. Momentum is just a byproduct of movement.
Followers Grow Fast, Revenue Grows Slow—Fix Pipeline First
The hidden cost of building attention that doesn’t convert It’s easier to add 50K followers than to fix inconsistent pipeline. That’s why so many B2B SaaS founders double down on visibility. Growth looks like traction. It feels like momentum. It...
Resilience in Crisis: Publishing Newsletter Amid Chaos
First. Thank you. Every single message yesterday meant so much to me. We are safe, exhausted, and so grateful. We have a shelter in our apartment which makes us luckier than most. And watching videos of people dancing and singing...
Embracing My Micromanagement Flaws While Building Uniform Team Culture
Yesterday was a horrible #buildinpublic day I got rinsed by 100s of engineers for being a micromanager I was defensive and overwhelmed, and trying to explain my own preferences for how Senja should be run I know I am not perfect and am...
Consistent Shipping Beats Quitting, Long Hours, and VC
You DON'T need to: • Quit your job • Work 80 hours/week • Raise VC funding You DO need to: • Ship consistently • Talk to users • Build in public 6 months of focused side-project work can change everything. You'll be ahead of most builders.
Toxic Culture Costs Firms Billions; Fix It Now
Toxic culture kills small businesses. Stress, gossip, and hostility cut output by 20% and drive turnover that cost U.S. firms $223B in five years. Leaders who ignore bad behavior fuel burnout, distrust, and exits. You set the tone through direct feedback, clear roles,...
Success Comes From Speed, Risk, and Hard Work
Most successful people I've met aren't that smart. They move fast, they take risk, they work a lot. That's it.
Avoid Single-Metric Focus: It Creates Blind Spots
Staying too focused on one metric creates blind spots. While it’s not necessarily a “balance” -- because they’re not equally important -- there isn’t “one metric to rule them all.” https://t.co/IwJzk6iCpu
Synthetic Testing Ensures AI Agents Survive Production
Ashr tests agents with synthetic sounds, images, texts, files, videos, and environments so they don’t fail in production. Congrats on the launch, @rohankulkz and @ShreyasKapavar1! https://t.co/szx2fXWHiT https://t.co/KvNKyz7CIB