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Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
A three-person data platform team describes how an afternoon side project for hosting AI-generated HTML reports grew to rival their $150k-a-year Looker deployment in weekly users, and when building beats buying enterprise BI.
12 min · 2,796 words
I let an AI run my startup for a week
A solo founder writes up a week of running parts of his business with a team of always-on AI agent bots (support over Gmail, an engineer bot, a security bot): how they worked together to fix a customer bug, working from his phone on a hike, experiments he tried, the downsides, and his conclusions.
3 min · 756 words
We kept renting GPUs after getting 7 quotes to buy them
Agora's Param Jaggi walks through seven vendor quotes from Madrid resellers, colocation providers and a carrier for buying GPU servers, and the cost model showing that $354,100 of hardware would take until year nine to beat renting two servers for $7,200 a month, plus advice for teams weighing the same decision.
18 min · 4,160 words
I let an AI agent run my side project's growth loop: intent.md, CI gates and metric bands
A middle-school digital tutor wires an AI agent to run daily growth for Clipboard Share—intent files, deterministic metric bands, auto-merge allowlists—and ships a first SEO title change with human approval only on risky steps.
6 min · 1,356 wordsagent-assisted
The Placeholder Is DeadAn honest estimate beats fake precision
VEXIS shipped a pricing tool that literally labeled unfinished rates as placeholders, then replaced them with negotiated card rates—and caught a stale summary label the green tests missed.
2 min · 444 words
Three Lessons from the Startup Journey
David Cummings shares three practical lessons from speaking with YPO Next Generation Atlanta about startups: focus, customer obsession, and persistence through ambiguity.
2 min · 473 words
Snap Wants to be a State Actor??–Kansas v. Snap
Eric Goldman analyzes Kansas v. Snap, where Snap argues it should be treated as a state actor—an unusual posture for a private internet service normally fighting that characterization.
5 min · 1,143 words
Geocodio explains how a two-person company moved from bash scripts to maintainable internal apps, the system that keeps those tools from rotting, and where they draw the line between building and buying.
10 min · 2,238 words
Not Enough Usage vs Price: How to Diagnose Subscription Churn
RevenueCat's Daphne Tideman lays out a four-part habit-loop framework to diagnose 'not enough usage' subscription churn before touching pricing—trigger, action, reward, and value.
15 min · 3,463 words
Trying the Software Factory Pattern
One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more. The adoption cycle for Imprint this year has been something like: - April: local development is bottlenecked on checkout and worktree model, instead create ~10 local workspaces which each have an independent checkout of every repository, and operate at the workspace level, not at the repository level, so it can generate cross-repository pull requests across…
4 min · 871 words
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
Convai Innovations’ Nandakishor recounts building Laya—a ~33ms multilingual non-autoregressive decision engine with calibrated probabilities—via RLCD a year before frontier labs framed similar System One models as breakthroughs.
8 min · 1,852 words
Natasha Murashev argues that with AI making feature work cheaper, the exciting frontier is hyperpersonalized product experiences—building solutions and UI for the long tail of individual user needs.
2 min · 346 words
Meet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By connecting employees to over 1,000 internal tools and skills, it enables secure, enterprise-scale productivity across the organization.
8 min · 1,870 words