... blogs. About building product: having a co-founder drastically lowers your chances of failing, so I don't think that building in team is the way to go. Comment from Fabian Maume(@fabian_maume): Product and personal brand are interlinked. Building, launching, and selling my own product has helped a lot with my personal brand and consulting career. This is a nice credential on my CV, which allows me to discuss on equal terms with other startup founders ... ... makes pricing easier. Products from anonymous creators compete on price. Products from known practitioners with a track record compete on trust. That's a completely different conversation. Comment from Samir Asadov(@samir_asadov): For specialist/practitioner products this 'brand vs

... massive datasets, they can be expensive, complex to query, and act as complete black boxes. If a search returns a weird chunk, diagnosing it is often a nightmare. Lately, I've been experimenting with a dead-simple alternative for smaller projects, and I'd love to know if anyone else is doing this: Dump raw data into a local folder. Use a strict markdown schema (like a CLAUDE.md or similar instruction file) to tell the LLM how to summarize ... ... data. Let the AI build a flat, interlinked