Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane.
I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor. Better features, better positioning, better everything. I told it to be ruthless.
It did!
The output was polished. Confident. Structured like a real go-to-market plan. It named features we don t have. It positioned itself against us. It looked like a threat on paper.
I think about workflow optimization probably more than is healthy. Here's the batching approach I've seen work best for weekly podcast production.
The problem with "one episode at a time":
You context-switch constantly. Monday you're writing, Tuesday you're recording, Wednesday you're editing, Thursday you're publishing. Every day is a different tool, a different mindset. You never build momentum.
Over the past couple of weeks, we launched CodeYam CLI & Memory on both Show HN and Product Hunt. A bunch of founder and maker friends reached out asking how it went, what worked, and what we d do differently, so I wrote up a more honest reflection than I usually see shared.
We just shipped Krisp MCP as a connector in Claude, and it's changing how we think about this. Instead of treating meetings as isolated events, your AI assistant can now search transcripts, pull action items, and reference meeting context on the fly.
The bigger question I keep coming back to: what's your system for turning meeting context into actual work? Would love to hear what's working (or not) for others here.
Genuinely asking, because my experience has been mixed.
Last time I launched here I reached out to a few founders, ended up on some really good calls, swapped notes on what's working. That felt anything but luck.
But I also know people who prepped for weeks and felt like they were shouting into the void on launch day.
This community is one of the most responsive I've seen. People actually try your product and leave real feedback. That part I trust.
If you re still sitting on your launch, this is the push.
YC made a special exception for this community: one or more companies that launch tomorrow will get a YC interview and potentially funding. A YC partner will review every eligible launch.
I started the vibe coding journey being amazed at how fast and efficient it was to build new apps from scratch.
Experimenting and building the past few months have taught me that these agents are incredible tools, but as it stands they are still just tools. This means the user behind them bears the responsibility for the performance and quality of output.
We all have that one piece of content an article, a talk, a thread that genuinely changed how we think about something.
For me it was "1,000 True Fans" by Kevin Kelly. The idea that you don't need millions of followers to build a sustainable creative career completely shifted how I think about building audiences. It is also one of the core ideas behind Copus helping people build real, engaged communities around the content they care about.
I've been thinking about how the people who curate information are becoming more valuable than the people who create it. There is so much content now that finding the signal in the noise is the real skill.
Some of my favorite curators:
- Brain Pickings (Maria Popova) years of deep literary/philosophical curation
Thought experiment: if you had to delete all your bookmarks and could only keep 10, which ones would survive?
I think the answer reveals a lot about what we actually value vs what we mindlessly save. Most of us have hundreds or thousands of saved links we will never revisit.
According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, "hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance."
Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall
Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days?
Let me start from the creator s perspective: I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).
But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).
