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Posting a collection of tweets I come across that can make good solo, indie or VC backed businesses. If you’ve run out of ideas...
Every few weeks I revisit Zed, the fastest code editor ever, and I'm pleasantly surprised by its newly released features. While it appears to be a fairly minimal IDE on the surface, the team has managed to implement powerful AI-assisted capabilities without compromising your ability to edit at full throttle.
A way find products is to look at markets, find a stream of recently acquired companies or in the past that typically get aqua-hired or acquired for their lean products to server enterprise clients. Then go build the 0 to 1 version of that to serve the prosumers and SMBs players. There will always be a lot of companies that require a few core features, and it's to fill those shoes. Resend did just that.
I’ve always wanted to be a writer. Not the the kind of writer who publishes a book, but rather someone who can think through writing.
I built a thing. As with most things starting 2022, I primarily build products I'm a consumer of myself. This project emerged from my need to manage a large volume of prints, including direct-to-consumer (DTC) non-fungible token (NFT) artwork prints for premium apparel, caps, packaging, clothing and shipping labels, and anything else that required automation for Outpaint. First things first, figma plugins are essentially sandboxed mini applications. They have a main thread that can spin off a...
I have used ChatGPT for much of the past year, so I have some credibility. I've built mostly from-scratch applications, using AI...
"Happiness is appreciation of the journey. Not obsession of the ends.""Flaws in communication style are a feature not a bug." — Lex Fried...
"Popular products make prominent founders.""Your initial deal flow might come from founders, but in order to continue getting deals, co-i...
Given early stage teams ought to gravitate towards hires that have a bias towards action and can follow through independently...
I recently attended as a speaker on a panel talk with HustleFund on “How to Decide If Passive Or Active Angel Investing Is Best For you”....
It’s been over 2 years since I started angel investing and while I’ve always had a deep knack and enjoyment from trying new products and ...