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shipping thoughts on systems and building.
shipping a feature and shipping a campaign hit completely differently one tells you immediately if you're wrong
Most founders hate marketing because it gives instant feedback. Code lets you hide longer.
Real question for founders: What's the one thing in your business that only you can do? Everything else is a candidate for delegation or automation
true. also the system you spend 40 hours building sometimes solves a problem you only had twice. the math works in retrospect more often than in planning
what actually moves the needle in your business, and what just feels like it does?
no. and the question reveals the real problem. if one competitor makes you want to quit, the idea was never the thing you were attached to. execution, distribution, and obsession are what separate identical ideas. most markets have room for three players minimum. find out why
Hey devs, need your advice. If you’re building a SaaS and find someone building the exact same thing… Would you quit?
your next customer won't visit your website, they'll send an agent to use it. google and cloudflare both shipped infrastructure for that world this month and I haven't seen anyone talking about it yet.
taste : knowing what good output looks like before you can articulate why judgment : knowing when the model is confidently wrong context building : the engineer who feeds the model better wins every time the tool is equalizing. everything around the tool still isn't.
If everyone has AI… What becomes the real competitive advantage for engineers?
FTC is now investigating Microsoft. cloud, AI partnerships, enterprise software licensing, basically the whole stack. this is how it is when you own that much of the infrastructure
The tools are there but execution is still hard. Building is democratized but that means competition is 100x fiercer. Access isn't the same as advantage anymore
It sounds cringe as f*ck but you can literally build whatever you want online now. There’s no barrier to entry. You could build a unicorn business. You could help send humans to Mars. You could use AI to solve hunger in Africa. I could go on forever. You must wake up every day
microsoft has lost roughly $600B+ in market value YTD during AI repricing. investors aren’t blindly rewarding spend anymore.
can you show me the part that tells you the difference between the two and how do you actually get to stimulate your brain?
trade your brainrot addiction to an OpenClaw addiction, and watch your entire life change in 2026.
why do we still pretend working 80 hour weeks is a flex? burnout isn't a badge of honor
here's an example of an idea that is so common but so little people actually starts working towards executing it
build software that automates a thing people hate doing charge them $99 a month pay your rent
71% of americans worried AI will put people out of work permanently. january 2026 layoffs exceeded 2009 recession levels. MIT calculated AI could automate tasks for 20 million workers right now, so maybe start building already
Side project checklist: Can you build it in a weekend? Would you pay for it yourself? you explain it in one sentence? If 3/3 = ship it If 2/3 = rethink it if 1/3 = just pass
nobody buys what they don't know exists no matter how good it is
Cost of founder's tools in 2026: consistency - $0 focus - $0 passion - $0 attention - $0 speed of learning - $0 strategic thinking - $0 vision - $0 patience - $0
Building is predictable, marketing is chaos
linux kernel 7.0 just dropped linus decided the version numbers were getting ridiculous so he bumped from 6.x straight to 7.0 with no massive changes
As a founder, what kills you faster? 1- Bad product/market fit 2- Running out of money 3- Cofounder conflicts 4- Burnout 5- Competition For me it's usually 1 or 2
United States Tendenze
- 1. Xbox N/A
- 2. #savePunch N/A
- 3. Supreme Court N/A
- 4. SCOTUS N/A
- 5. Jack Hughes N/A
- 6. Slovakia N/A
- 7. Phil N/A
- 8. Congress N/A
- 9. Huckabee N/A
- 10. Tariffs N/A
- 11. Tucker N/A
- 12. Microsoft N/A
- 13. Constitution N/A
- 14. IEEPA N/A
- 15. Sarah Bond N/A
- 16. McConnell N/A
- 17. #Nimiversary N/A
- 18. Tage Thompson N/A
- 19. The $TRUMP Airdrop N/A
- 20. USA vs Canada N/A
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