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A $350K golf app gets 24% of its traffic from "what is a calcutta." Rank for the question, not the product.

I tested whether agents leak secrets without being asked — and whether my scanner catches it when they do

Side-hustling for three years before going all-in and hitting $6.4k MRR

Is the Frontier Really Closed?

The structural case for specialized AI inference providers

The Story You Tell About Your AI Product Should Feel Like the Product Itself

We're debating the next feature for StateGuard. Would you trust this?

7 weeks solo: a CLI that deploys your Express/NestJS app to your own AWS or Azure — no IaC

The Problem With AI Agents That Solve Things "Cleverly"

Leveraging a marketplace and existing user bases to hit a 5-figure MRR in two years

Your Product Doesn't Need More Features. It Needs More Questions.

The startup idea everyone's overlooking is the one right in front of us

Shipped: 5 critical bugs fixed on JewelViz this week.

I shipped v2 with zero paying customers. Here's the honest version.

The Annoying Little Thing About AI Agents

Exiting his agency and hitting $10k MRR within 60 days of launching his SaaS

Why the Deep Questions Get Less Funding Than the Trivial Ones

I Studied SaaS Websites That Struggle to Convert. The Problem Was Usually Hidden in Plain Sight.

I scored my own startup with my own product. It gave me a 34/100 AI Leverage Score™. I shipped the 34.

The Founder Who's Drowning in Slack and the One Who's Not