Tech Is the Easy Part
A technical founder argues that building the technology is the easy part of a startup; the real challenge is business strategy, distribution, and market focus.
A technical founder argues that building the technology is the easy part of a startup; the real challenge is business strategy, distribution, and market focus.
A critique of the bureaucratic and low-agency culture hindering tech entrepreneurship in Europe, arguing for personal responsibility over resignation.
A developer shares lessons from an SEO mistake that impacted his SaaS timeline tool's revenue while discussing his pivot to an AI research aggregator.
A SaaS founder discusses how the channel used to acquire customers influences product pricing and target market strategy for his website monitoring tool.
A developer shares lessons learned from launching a SaaS website monitoring tool, focusing on debugging signup and false alert issues.
A developer shares the discouraging results of a soft launch for his SaaS website monitoring tool, SleepEasy, and his plan to gather feedback.
A bootstrapped SaaS founder discusses the 'build vs. buy' decision for core features, analyzing cost, time, and opportunity cost at the MVP stage.
A developer shares insights on defining a true MVP for a SaaS product by cutting non-essential features and focusing on core value.
Interview with AI researcher Curtis Northcutt on his journey from rural Kentucky to MIT, founding Cleanlab, and his work on confident learning and dataset improvement.
Author announces closing his data science training company after seven years and shares his new role as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer.
A developer reflects on the realities and challenges of running a solo tech business, contrasting it with traditional employment.
A monthly update on TinyPilot, a tech hardware business, covering sales, product development, and financial challenges.
Discusses building a sustainable business model first when creating free and open source software (FOSS) to ensure financial success.
A guide for developers on generating product ideas by identifying real-world problems, emphasizing problem-first thinking over solution-first approaches.
A solo founder shares key lessons from building a side-business, focusing on personal growth, skill development, and the realities of launching a product.
A guide for developers on overcoming idea paralysis and fear of failure when deciding what personal projects to build.
A developer shares how he unintentionally created a bootstrapped startup, Karani, while working a non-tech job and later realized he was an entrepreneur.
Mitchell Hashimoto explains how the APPLE customer service acronym from his Apple retail days shaped his approach to building successful tech projects like Vagrant.
A startup founder shares key lessons on building a successful tech startup, focusing on business models, hiring, and avoiding excessive VC funding.
A critique of common pitfalls that hinder success in Silicon Valley's tech startup scene, focusing on mindset and behavior.