A robotics engineer reflects on leaving humanoid robotics company 1X, discussing the company's growth and the 'magical objects' driving AI progress.
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A software engineer reflects on their 2025 professional journey, focusing on joining a startup, scaling codebases, and personal project development.
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A product leader reflects on their tenure at Float, sharing lessons learned about technical leadership, scaling mobile apps, and company culture.
A podcast host shares insights on building a lean engineering culture in early-stage startups, based on interviews with tech leaders.
A tech founder shares his journey through burnout after selling his company and how rediscovering his passion for building led him back to software development, inspired by AI.
A developer shares lessons from two failed CI/CD products and how they led to creating CI Insights, an observability tool for CI pipelines.
A startup's story of building and then killing a CI/CD cost optimization tool after realizing they were solving the wrong problem.
A SaaS founder shares lessons on evolving pricing models, focusing on fairness and value, from per-organization to per-active-user billing.
A tech professional reflects on the nonlinear nature of tech careers, arguing that moving away from management back to an IC role can be a form of success.
A founder shares practical lessons learned from selling his bootstrapped hardware company, TinyPilot, for $598k.
Mergify founders share lessons on avoiding common tech startup pitfalls by focusing on customer needs over just building features.
Author announces moving their technical blog to a new platform focused on AI agent systems and Gradient Labs' work.
A tech founder shares hard-earned lessons on hiring for a startup, covering pitfalls with interns, candidate assessment, and recruitment strategies.
A technical deep-dive into the architecture and launch strategy behind the initial version of the Puzzmo puzzle game platform.
How a small team organized a 250-person tech conference in just two months, focusing on community and embracing serendipity.
A founder reflects on the first year of full-time work on Preceden, a SaaS timeline tool, focusing on AI feature integration, marketing, and business growth.
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.
Interview with Emanuel Zgraggen, CEO of Einblick, on his career journey and building a visual computing platform for accessible data analysis.
