... emails, transactional or marketing, you'll want to pay attention because this directly impacts your bottom line. What I've observed in the last 4 years isn't good and the frustration is real. Since 2022 I ve performed hundreds of audits and consultations for businesses wanting to stop landing in spam, and start landing in the inbox. Most of my clients come from a checklist I launched on Hacker News 4 years ago and Upwork, where I ve maintained ... ... considers himself an expert . I don't consider myself an expert. No one is. Because the landscape is constantly changing. I'm just a guy on the bleeding edge who's been in the trenches, having conversations with hundreds

... Most developers have the same problem. They know how to build things. They have spent hundreds of hours learning, practicing, shipping. But when it comes to actually showing that work to the people who matter, they fall back on a resume that says proficient in React and hope for the best. The people who get the interviews, the contracts, the interesting projects they have figured out something different. They do not describe their work. They show it. The Thirty-Second ... ... that code alone cannot. Employers need to see evidence of how you think, learn, and solve problems. A case study is the clearest possible demonstration of that. It does not need to be long. Three to four hundred

... spent 8 years as a VC. Invested in 47 companies, read thousands of decks, sat through hundreds of pitches. And the whole time, from my side of the table, I kept noticing the same thing. The founders struggling to raise usually didn't have worse ideas. They were the ones who couldn't get in front of the right investors, or were emailing the wrong ones with the wrong message. Then I started a newsletter. It grew to 18k founders ... ... sold them investor lists, about $75k worth. I watched what they actually did with them. Most either spammed hundreds

... have too) several products whose actual usefulness wasn t exactly impressive, but their creators still made a huge amount of money. For me, for example, it was: Fidget spinners (2017) . At the peak, the global market was estimated at hundreds of millions to over $1 billion. Metaverse land (2021) valuation could be for tens or even hundreds

... most important and challenging experiences you ll have as a founder is fundraising. I pitched VCs across London and San Francisco. Some spent 15 seconds on my deck. Some took the call just to diligence a competitor. One told me to ask for more money. Oh, and I found out your pitch is probably being recorded and run through AI. This is the high-impact version of all of those lessons to save you time, energy, and emotional damage. Please ... ... also a feedback loop. Practice the pitch. Notice when eyes light up. Notice when someone leans in. Pay attention to which anecdotes connect universally, and which ones don t. Sometimes VCs see patterns you don t. They ve seen hundreds

... Introducing Namegator an AI-powered business name and domain generator that takes the friction out of naming. You describe what you do. Namegator generates hundreds of creative, catchy, and available domain names in seconds. No more endless brainstorming cycles or heartbreak when your favorite domain is taken. What makes it different: Instant results Get hundreds

... Just think for a sec. You've told different chat agents your role, your tech stack, your client preferences, your project constraints - hundreds of times across hundreds

... Over the last 4 years I have spoken to hundreds of companies. Here is what I learned: #1 - Tech fatigue is real People are tired of trying to figure shit out all the time, they just want someone competent to tell them what to do. #2 - Your site design doesn't really matter I've used SaaS applications with crap UI and UX who are making millions a year. Stop obsessing about this. It means nothing. #3 - B2B sales happen ... ... tharun_kakirala  good insight. Can confirm 1 and 2. What changed for me is I now build solutions to personal problems. Solving a problem for yourself and being your own customer gives you a significant edge over your competitors

... actually win in AI search?" So I dug into our data. Rankfender has now tracked over 50,000 AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Google SGE, Perplexity, and Gemini. We've analyzed millions of citations, thousands of brands, and hundreds of industries. Here's what we learned and what it means for your business. Part 1: The state of AI search in 2026 AI answers are everywhere. We analyzed 10,000 random queries across 12 industries. The results: Metric Value Queries ... ... schema 71% 19% Cite data sources 68% 27% Part 3: What content wins AI citations? This is the question everyone asks. Here's the data: Top 5 content types by citation rate: Comparison pages (X vs

... Digital Marketers - Vasanth & Muthu - who struggled with the same challenges every team faces. Slow blog speed, outdated templates, complex SEO setup, too many plugins, and almost zero leads - we ran into these problems every day while publishing hundreds of blogs for our previous projects. Bringing a Better Blogging Experience to Life As marketers, we cared about speed, SEO, design, and conversions - but the tools we used never worked well together. So, we sat down and sketched the kind ... ... Blog CMS we wished existed - fast, modern, visual-first, SEO-ready, and built to convert . That vision became the foundation of Hyperblog . The seed 2022 The idea for Hyperblog was born while building PickMyCRM While writing hundreds

... officially entering the era of Automated Design Research. The product in the making is a Reference Automation Tool. Unlike curated libraries like Mobbin, this tool covers the live, breathing web. It turns a single link into hundreds of captured screens in under 1 minute. It fills the gaps static libraries can't reach. Now, I want to share the vision behind the automation Phase 1: Link to Figma. One URL, hundreds

... Performance can degrade as pages grow larger and more complex. And critically, the usefulness of a page often depends on the behavior of a community rather than on intentional editorial structure. Qeeebo takes a different path. A Static, Structured Alternative Qeeebo is built as a structured library of questions and answers rather than a collection of ongoing discussions. Each page is designed to deliver a clear answer quickly, without requiring users to scroll through debates, comments, or tangential replies. Instead ... ... changing threads, Qeeebo uses static pages generated ahead of time. These pages are organized around individual questions, grouped by topic, and delivered through a global content delivery network. This architectural choice influences nearly every aspect of the platform. Qeeebo vs

... start with structure: clarity, scope, flows, acceptance criteria then build. A whole services ecosystem will form around vibecoding. Two obvious categories: = Make it release-ready (engineers finishing the last 20%: architecture, edge cases, compliance etc) = GTM for the masses (hundreds of thousands of apps shipped and most builders won t know what to do next) Also: hackathons + internal workshops inside enterprises will become the new sexy way to learn AI. The best vibecoding companies will run these as growth loops ... ... more creative. Influencer-educators will become distribution. The value of an army of consultants/influencers who teach AI via workshops will compound. A strong professional ecosystem can 100 your reach. Micro-SaaS stories will explode. We ll hear hundreds

... Same 1,000 words. Wildly different outcomes. I've watched this experiment play out with hundreds of WordFlippin users. The sprinter learns 100 words daily for 10 days. Feels incredibly productive. Burns out on day 11. Three months later? They remember maybe 50-100 words. The marathon runner learns 10 words daily for 100 days. Never feels heroic. Just shows up. Result? They own 900+ words permanently. Here's the truth most vocabulary apps won't tell you: Your brain ...

... other day on LinkedIn, I came across a competitor in my space. The founder proudly wrote in their bio: "Built the tool from idea to launch in just 2 weeks." My first thought: wow that is really fast. My second thought: wait, how?? So naturally, I signed up to try it. And to be fair nice landing page, great copy, but the product itself was completely broken. Bad UX, broken features, basically not usable at all beyond demo purposes ... ... enterprise sales will expect this feature, better add it before launch. And what we are building is not lightweight. It's not simply a prompt calling GPT. It s a whole system: - Pulling in and scraping data from hundreds

... This was a real pain for me. Ended up having hundreds & hundreds

... Michael - co-founder of HipHub platform. We are based in Moscow and try to innovate our traditional ways to gain access to knowledge of the community. There are so many courses nowadays, and companies in Russia make hundreds of millions from it. But it's all so expensive and long, so it is hard to retain attention and interest to these courses. We've redesigned the approach and allowed anyone to create their own hub to share the knowledge they ...

... Michael - co-founder of HipHub platform. We are based in Moscow and try to innovate our traditional ways to gain access to knowledge of the community. There are so many courses nowadays, and companies in Russia make hundreds of millions from it. But it's all so expensive and long, so it is hard to retain attention and interest to these courses. We've redesigned the approach and allowed anyone to create their own hub to share the knowledge they ...

... good, I m more interested in what feels off, what doesn t land, or what s holding it back from being great. I m too close to it to see the cracks, and I know you ve seen hundreds of launches. Would really value your perspective. Comment from Holden Lewis(@cholden_lewis): Hi Gabe! Appreciate the outreach here. Something I have been wondering about is how experienced testers demo out tools without really trying to incorporate them into their workflow ... ... jakecrump  oooo, great question. Most common elements that don't immediately click Little to no onboarding..or way too complicated Trying to do/explain too much at once Not great landing page (or launch!) Uses copycat language of a competitor

... leader of Supabase's growth team from our early days of just hundreds of users, I'm thrilled to say that we now have hundreds