AI
The Product of One
Most of the SaaS you pay for is a compromise you agreed to because building your own was too expensive. That’s the whole deal. You had a …
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What I'm thinking
and shipping.
Ideas, frameworks, and lessons from 18 years of building products. Not theory. Things I've learned by doing it.
AI
Product
Stop Scoring Your Backlog
Every prioritization framework I’ve ever used was a hedge against an expensive mistake. RICE, scoring, the quarterly roadmap argued over for two …
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AI
Building in the Token Economy
For about two years, building with AI felt free. It wasn’t. Someone was just paying for it. Now the bill is showing up. Uber capped how much its …
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Founder Life
Fifteen
I sold Ideaware in April. Fifteen years of one company. I started it with a stubborn idea about how good products should feel. By the end, I’d …
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AI
The 5 Levels of Agentic Engineering
I caught myself last week telling a founder he was at Level 2 of agentic engineering. He looked at me like I’d made up the levels on the spot. I …
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Design
Time to access: why fast products win
There’s an unspoken rule in product design that nobody writes down but every user enforces: the moment you came for needs to happen fast. Not …
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AI
The AI Orchestrator: How Software Engineering Is Becoming Something New
Most mornings I’m running four or five parallel workstreams before lunch. One agent is building a feature on a project, another is reviewing a …
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AI
What I Learned Building AI Agents: From OpenClaw to Claude Code
I was riding the wave like everyone else. Open source AI agents, personalities on Telegram, server integrations, multi-agent orchestration. The …
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AI
Coding Was Never the Job: Why AI Didn't Replace Developers
I shipped four products in the past year. tini.bio, lst.so, gratu, nod.so. All of them built with AI writing most of the code. Claude Code handles my …
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Design
Taste Is the New Moat
I’ve seen six Lovable prototypes this month. All of them worked. None of them felt like products. And that gap, between working and feeling like …
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AI
Your Team's AI Resistance Is Your Competitor's Edge
In the last two weeks I’ve had a handful of conversations with founders. Different industries, different stages, different products. But the …
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AI
Why Your AI Prototype Isn't a Product
You built it in a weekend. Cursor, Bolt, v0, maybe Replit. It runs on your laptop, it looks good in a demo, and investors leaned in when you showed …
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Software
AI Killed Product Estimation
I spent 18 years estimating how long products take to build. Story points. T-shirt sizing. Sprint planning. Quarterly roadmaps. Gantt charts that …
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Entrepreneurship
You Don't Need a Product Strategist. You Need a Right Hand.
Every founder I talk to has the same gap in their operation. They know their market. They can sell. They can raise. They can build relationships and …
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Entrepreneurship
How to Validate a Startup Idea in 2026 (The Old Playbook Is Dead)
Every startup blog will tell you the same thing about idea validation: validate before you build. Do 20 customer interviews. Run surveys. Create a …
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Software
The Old Rules of Building Software Are Dead
For 20 years, building a software product meant the same thing. Hire a team. Write a spec. Sit through standups. Wait months. Spend six figures. Hope …
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Software
AI Agents Helped Me Ship Five Products. Two Are Already Profitable.
I shipped five products recently. All within about six weeks. Different stacks, different users, totally different problems. Two of them are already …
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Software
Feature Prioritization When Everything Feels Urgent
The hardest part of product isn’t deciding what to build. It’s deciding what not to build. When your biggest customer threatens to churn …
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Software
Are Large Software Teams Still Relevant in the Age of AI?
A 5-person team in 2026 can ship what a 50-person team shipped in 2016. AI has compressed the development curve dramatically. The question every …
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Software
How to Validate an AI Product Idea (Before You Spend $50K)
Most AI products fail twice: once when the technology doesn’t work, and again when nobody wants it anyway. Traditional validation focuses on …
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Software
Why AI Broke Product Management (And How to Fix It)
Everything you learned about product management is wrong for AI products. Roadmaps? Useless when underlying capabilities change every few weeks. …
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Software
Everyone Has an AI Problem (Most Are Solving the Wrong One)
Your startup doesn’t have an AI problem. It has a product problem that might be solved with AI. This distinction is everything. Get it wrong, …
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Software
Product Strategy for Early-Stage Startups: A Founder's Framework
The best product strategy isn’t a list of features to build. It’s a clear answer to one question: what change are you creating in your …
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AI
Why 95% of AI Projects Fail (And the 30-Day Fix)
The main reason AI projects fail is simple: companies start with the technology instead of the problem. 42% of companies scrapped their AI initiatives …
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Software
The Lean MVP Playbook: Build & Validate in 6 Weeks
The fastest way to build a lean MVP is to build the smallest experiment that tests your riskiest assumption—not a scaled-down version of your vision. …
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AI
The PodPlaybook: Ship AI Products in 12 Weeks Without Hiring
The fastest way to ship AI products is with a pod—a small, complete team that owns outcomes—not traditional hiring. A 3-4 person pod (ML engineer + …
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Software
How to Build Your First Product Team: A Founder's Hiring Guide
Your first product hire should complement your weaknesses, not duplicate your strengths. If you’re a technical founder, hire a product designer …
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Design
Dribbble Broke UX Design: Why Pretty Portfolios Fail in Production
Dribbble broke UX design by rewarding beautiful screenshots over functional user experiences. The platform created a generation of …
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Thoughts
How to Spot Fake Gurus: Trust Builders, Not Sellers
Trusth those who have walked the path, not those who sell you hard on a promise.
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Productivity
Outcome-Based Management: Why Goals Beat Office Hours
When was the last time you were productive for 8 hours a day sitting in front of your computer?
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Software
North Star Metrics: The One Metric That Actually Matters
Having “on-time” as your team’s (or project) success metric is a dangerous endeavor.
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Software
Why Product Roadmaps Fail: Use RICE Prioritization Instead
For over 12 years I’ve worked with SaaS product teams. Many have been successful in launching and generating revenue, others failed to ship. It …
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Entrepreneurship
Why I Ignore My Competitors (And You Should Too)
The best competitive strategy is to ignore your competitors and obsess over your customers instead. After 18 years and 5 startups, I’ve watched …
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