Side Hustle SaaS Success Comes With Brutal Realities
I'm 40, I've built 7 SaaS products since 2022. Hivoe, Inboxs, Userdesk, Shipped, BlackTwist, and 2 that flopped hard. And I still have my 9-5. Here are 8 brutal truths about indie hacking on the side:
DevOps Success Depends on System Thinking, Not Tool Memorization
✨ Transitioning into DevOps isn’t about memorizing tools. ✨ 💡 It’s about understanding systems. Networking, CI/CD, cloud IAM, observability. Focus on how pieces connect, not just commands.
All‑in‑One vs Best‑in‑Class: Satisfaction Levels Similar
There's lots of discussion about the benefits of using fewer “all-in-one” software platforms that serve multiple functions (e.g., Advyzon, Orion) versus adopting a greater number of “best-in-class” tools for each individual function. https://t.co/5JYwewMmB2 In our research, we get at this by...
Flexport Unveils 2026 Winter AI for Global Trade
I just presented Flexport's latest AI for global trade in our 2026 Winter Release. Full video: https://t.co/0NmlfAwqFH
Nvidia Retracts New Drivers over Fan Detection Bug
Nvidia has pulled its new 595.59 WHQL drivers after releasing them earlier today. Some users have been reporting issues with fans not being detected if they use fan control software https://t.co/IY1l04JzLA
Inside NeuralFrames: AI-Generated Music Video Creation
Making AI music videos with @neuralframes. Get behind the scenes of the leading AI music video platform with its founder @nicolaiklemke. https://t.co/rU2dkqPSgI
Create a Whimsical Treehouse Tale with Nano Banana
To kick off your creativity, here are some Nano Banana 2 prompts to try out. We hope you find them fruitful 🍌🍌 Prompt: Create a funny 4-part story featuring 3 fluffy creatures building a treehouse. The story has emotional highs and...
AI SEO Hype Outpaces Real Results, Says Brand Leaders
SEO for AI—or AEO—is having a moment Profound just raised at $1B valuation But after talking to many brand leaders this week, most agree much of the hype in the space is outpacing results & no dashboard does the work for...
Code Review Bench Accelerates Agent Evaluation with Real PR Data
Measuring how well coding agents perform is often one of the biggest things that slows progress. Code Review Bench helps by using two checks: - A controlled offline benchmark - An online behavior test using results from 200,000 real pull requests
GPS Satellite Ready for Launch, Vehicle Still Undecided
The next GPS satellite is at Cape Canaveral, preparing for launch. Whether it flies on Vulcan or Falcon 9 is up in the air. https://t.co/XxmkgevJk3
Cancel Fees Are Hostage Tactics, Not Retention Solutions
$105 to cancel a SaaS subscription is a hostage negotiation and I guarantee nobody understood that when they signed up. The answer to churn is NOT entrapment. If you're not delivering on your promises and someone wants to stop using your service,...
Seamless Global Hiring: Infrastructure You Never Notice
The best infrastructure is the kind you can stop thinking about. That's how we measure what we build at Remote. The goal isn't applause (though it's nice). It's that you can just hire someone in another country, pay them and manage...
Enterprise OS Redefined by Goal‑Driven Agentic AI
AI is shifting from tools → autonomous systems. Traditional AI: Rules + static models. Agentic AI: Goals + real-time learning + adaptation. The enterprise OS is being rewritten. #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI https://t.co/TbyiwFlV6C
Amazon's $50B OpenAI Bet Depends on IPO or AGI
.@theInformation Exclusive: @Amazon’s potential $50B investment in @OpenAI may hinge on two triggers: an IPO or reaching AGI.
Blueprint for Interoperable Vaccine Records
An Interoperable Vaccine Record: A Roadmap to Realization https://t.co/H1yL7kXH8z #mdpivaccines via @Vaccines_MDPI @HardeepSinghMD @McWilliamsSBMI @HarvardDBMI https://t.co/UCP8IXdHve
Build Memory-Enabled Agents with Vertex AI and AlloyDB
Agents with memory. It's a thing. An important thing. @AbiS_Google has a good post that shows how to build an ADK agent that uses @googlecloud Vertex AI Memory Bank and AlloyDB. https://t.co/eyYWcvNhXd https://t.co/COQKoOqVHp
Get Kimi K2.5 Free for 48 Hours—No Credit Waste
Stop burning your own API credits just to prototype. Kilo is letting you use Kimi K2.5 for free for the next 48 hours.
Solar‑Battery Projects Cut Data Center Build Time to 18 Months
So many Solar/Battery projects have been in the queue for years and can get data centers online in 18+ months instead of 5 years.
OpenAI Should Acquire Open‑source Projects to Boost Community Innovation
openai should just acquire a ton of breakout open source projects they have a chance to really flip the community card for builders keeps momentum throughout the release cycles learn from community on the frontier, cherry pick bits for their own products default...
New Playbook Guides States Balancing Growth, Modernization, Affordability
A new whitepaper from @DeployAction focuses on a critical "trilemma" for state policymakers: managing load growth, modernizing the generation fleet, and protecting energy affordability for families. We should get more our of what we have already paid for. This new playbook...
Category Leaders Must Reach $5B Amid Sticky Infrastructure
every category leader in this list should be worth at least $5b btw because koding agents will be recommending them for the next 5 years + infra is stickier than agents (full disclosure am smol resend angel) https://t.co/NFW9zgLbI7
Third‑party Apps Often Bypass Consent Signals, Breaking Compliance
We’ve been running cookie compliance audits for our @Shopify retainer clients. A significant number of third-party apps and services either ignore consent signals or don’t properly integrate with Consent Mode. It's bad.
Hands‑on Projects, Not Certifications, Fast‑Track DevOps
🚨 The fastest way into DevOps is not another certification. 🚨 It’s building a real project with Infrastructure as Code, CI pipelines, monitoring, and incident recovery. I break this down in my free resources.
Effective Onboarding Fuels Customer Retention and Revenue
You cannot expect strong relationships with weak onboarding. A well structured digital process directly impacts retention and revenue. Download The Power of Customer Permissioned Data for free: https://t.co/0wah7wPuXN https://t.co/QvZQSHbMI8
Prompt Injection Attacks Are Already Surfacing in the Wild
"Prompt injection attacks in the wild" https://t.co/wXEOcvcpdX <- if you have coffee in your hand, set it down now. Snort attack likely :-)
AI-Native Tools Are Eroding Software Friction, Seize the Window
I was building a quiz last month using a tool I’ve used for years. Halfway through, I had a thought I’d never had before: This is way too much work. The tool hadn’t gotten worse. My expectations had changed. So...
Consistent Brand Threads Beat Outdated Mood Boards
the best brand accounts have a through line of familiarity. content woven together by a thread that makes people comment “my show is on”. the old mood board model does not work anymore.
Gemini Now Pulls Insights From Google Chat History
In the race to Jarvis, now Gemini can tap into Google Chat -> Google Chat is now a data source for Gemini, making your message history actually useful "In a new update on the Workspace blog, Google announced that Chat is...
Wind Tops Fossils, Powers Majority in Four States
In 2025, wind was the largest source of electricity, beating out fossils, in 4 states (SD, IA, KS, NM) Wind supplied 10.7% of all U.S. grid+Behind-the-Meter demand 4 states met 67-87.4% & 7 states met 40-87.4% of demand with wind https://t.co/nnjeXX6u8n https://t.co/KP3uii4BqI https://t.co/KuQDJr0EW3
AI Could Unlock $5T Healthcare Market and Drive Prevention
What is Infinite Healthcare Worth? As AI becomes a new site of care and automates administrative orchestration, it rapidly eats into $5T+ worth of traditional health care services spend, and potentially represents the biggest market opportunity in all of healthtech....
OrchidsApp 1.0 Enables Building Any App on Any Stack
Been testing the new @orchidsapp 1.0. It's unlike anything I've seen. → Build *ANY* app → Across *ANY* stack → Web, Mobile, Agents, Python, Chrome extensions, robotics.. ... you can even plug in your ChatGPT/Claude Code subs 🔥 8 wild use cases 🧵↓ https://t.co/VFNQWkHqiv
Defining Real Success Metrics for AI Product Launch
I was sketching out the launch plan for Data Techcon first AI product, and without even realizing it, I slipped back into my growth data scientist mindset — questioning metrics, success, AI features values & what “working” really means 1....
Cheap Experiments Outperform Expensive Guru Courses
I spent $10k on a Facebook ads course from a famous 'guru'. My ROAS went down. I spent $200 testing my own weird ad angles. Found a 5x ROAS winner in 48 hours. The market doesn't care about experts. Test...
Mid‑market AI Success: Small Teams, Tight Budgets, Mature BI
Most of my clients are mid-market organizations, and they're all approaching AI the right way. And it has nothing to do with ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude. Here's what these organizations all have in common: 1 - Small teams. 2 - Tight budgets. 3 - Mature BI infrastructure. 4 -...
Query CSVs Directly with DuckDB—No Load, Faster
Instead of loading CSVs into pandas just to run one query, you can use DuckDB to run SQL directly on files. No loading. No waiting. Just query the file and get results. It’s also 20x faster and uses way less memory. Here’s how...
EHealth Exchange Expands Beyond Treatment Exchange by 2026
As national networks mature, the strategy is shifting. Jay Nakashima shares how eHealth Exchange is expanding beyond treatment exchange in 2026. 👀 🔗 https://t.co/uK1RKnn15e @eHealthExchange #QHIN #HITSM https://t.co/7qKBmbZ6FY
Unified Email and SMS Boosts Retention Trust
The retention stack at most brands is three platforms pretending to be one. Email in one tool. SMS in another. A "customer journey" that's really just a guess stitched together from disconnected data. Attentive solves this by putting email and SMS in...
SambaNova Claims SN50 Outperforms Nvidia GPUs for AI
SambaNova says its SN50 systems can best the tokenomics of Nvidia GPUs for agentic AI $NVDA $AMD $GOOG $AWS https://t.co/Ut5ZXqsIqZ
California Leads with Smallest Electricity Price Rise
US state rank of % change in res electricity price 2024 to 2025 US avg price: 17.3 c/kWh & increase: 5% (0.83 c/kWh) 3 states (NV, HI, NC) had price decreases CA had lowest % price increase (1.8%) and lower absolute inc (0.58...
Roam Builds Virtual Office for Future Collaboration and Events
pretty wild what @howard + the @roam team have painstakingly built, iteration by iteration, to enable the virtual office of the future; now empowering modern companies to host virtual events, enable spontaneity, humans to work together (w/ agents, too), and...
NASA Announces Artemis II Next Steps in Tomorrow’s Conference
NASA will hold a news conference tomorrow, Friday, Feb 27, at 10:00 am ET at KSC to discuss next steps for the Artemis II campaign. Watch on YouTube. https://t.co/G97rjQNnsk
Lead AI‑Driven Role Shifts, Don't Just React
AI is reshaping entry-level roles in security, DevOps, marketing, and support - are you leading that change or reacting to it? Watch how Digital Trailblazers can turn this disruption into a leadership advantage. #DevOps #AI https://t.co/O0K0QkTUyt
Great Founders Avoid Over‑deferring to Senior Hires
New episode of Long Strange Trip with @bhorowitz of @a16z is now live. The first time I pitched Ben for @HubSpot, he passed on us. It stung. So naturally, it’s the first thing I brought up with him in this convo. He’s...
You Dictate What Customers Deem Important
You wonder why customers fixate on certain metrics, output, results, or even features when those aren't important. But you're the one putting those in front of them. And they think you know what you're doing. So they assume it's important.
Einride Secures $113M PIPE Ahead of IPO Debut
NEW: Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE ahead of public debut The fun thing about having covered so much of the tech landscape is jumping in on story coverage outside your beat for your colleagues when they're OOO https://t.co/YpkUAlfdhU via...
SambaNova Skips Intel Acquisition, Secures Funding and Partnership
.@SambaNovaAI cancelled plans to be acquired by Intel, instead raising an oversubscribed Series E. SN's CEO and chief architect told me about a new multi-year tech and go-to-market partnership with Intel, and SN's new silicon for multi-agent workflows: https://t.co/JLMl9PIUGk
Quantum Community Conversations Growing More Integrated
A shift I’ve noticed in the quantum ecosystem over the past few years is how much more integrated our conversations have become.
Immune Cells Drive Transition From Healthy Aging to Alzheimer’s
What accounts for the progression from healthy aging to Alzheimer's disease over an extended period of time? The critical role of the immune system, particularly T cells and microglia. A new, excellent review @ImmunityCP https://t.co/XqEBcptTuG https://t.co/Xt24BvkDWe
Protect Your Identity: Fraud Prevention in AI Era
Insights On Preventing Fraud and Identity Theft in The AI Era by @ChuckDBrooks https://t.co/Z1DoLfU6rP #CyberSecurity #identitytheft
Tech Pledge Sounds Loud, Impact Still Significant
Tech ratepayer pledge may be more bark than bite — but it still matters https://t.co/UFdvFIxZ3P via @axios