I feel like Im using Youtube more than anything else every single day. I want to learn some "hidden gems" channels, cause I feel I seen it all. Ideally channels around solopreneurship/indiehackers, 0$ marketing strategies, how-to-sell stuff fast, philosophy and economics. Here are my GO-TO channels that I watch almost daily:
@Raoul Pal the Journey man (Macro investing in crypto)
@Money ZG (macro investing in crypto)
@Pursuit of Wonder (interesting concepts around societal psychology & philosophy)
@Fireship - Tech edgelord (lol)
@Greg Isenberg (Solopreneurship)
@Starter Story (Solopreneurship, How to build and market apps)
LinkedIn, their site, their pricing page, their careers page, a podcast they were on, Crunchbase, two competitor tabs, my notes doc, and four tabs I genuinely don't remember opening.
Then I write three sentences.
I stopped working this way a while ago and I want to know if everyone else did too.
Production-ready code with minimal oversight, and it can verify its own outputs More control over reasoning effort 3x better vision (now up to 3.75MP images) Improved instruction following and overall reliability New xhigh reasoning mode for finer control between speed and depth
Same pricing as Opus 4.6 ($5 and $25 per million input and output tokens). The new tokenizer can use around 1.0 to 1.35x more tokens depending on content, though this can be managed through effort settings and task budgets.
Sometimes you spend weeks fixing backlogs clearing debt or narrowing focus without shipping a single new feature. Visible progress looks like zero on the dashboard, but the underlying product gets way stronger.
It's easy to feel guilty when there's nothing new to announce or post in a changelog even though that cleanup work was totally necessary.
How do you measure progress during periods where you're fixing internal stuff instead of launching new features?
One thing I've been learning while building a software company is that choosing a technology stack isn't just a technical decision. It's also a financial one.
There are tools for hosting, databases, authentication, analytics, testing, security, and AI development. Many have free tiers that make it possible to get started without significant upfront costs.
But as a product grows, those choices can introduce unexpected expenses, limitations, or migration challenges.
I keep coming back to the same question with AI phone and operations agents: what should be disclosed before the agent is allowed to do anything that affects another person or system?
I do work in this area, so I am biased toward over-communicating. My current instinct is that the minimum should be explicit identity, whether the conversation is being recorded or summarized, what actions the agent is allowed to take, when a human can step in, and some kind of receipt after the fact if it changed a booking, sent a message, or updated a record.
I have seen people with various different approaches of launching their saas. Some do their distribution via paid channels, some via launch directories and some others via their network etc. I always wonder whether any of those launch methods have consistently bring results for everyone even if small.
I understand the paid channel strategy. You just have to be visible to a wider audience and people would pick you accordingly. But, I have tried these directories and they are almost meaningless or I had a bad launch there. I don't currently have any network of people who would be my first users, so I am clueless about this.
Used to be an obvious call, hire a junior dev, let them grow into it over time, review their code, build them up. Now with AI handling a lot of basic implementation well, curious if that math still holds.
Is anyone still bringing on interns or junior developers for entry level coding work, or has AI quietly replaced that hiring category for a lot of teams already.
Genuinely trying to understand if this is still a real starting point for someone entering the field, or if that entry point has basically disappeared.
Thought getting people to reply to outreach emails was going to be the hardest part but site owners actually respond pretty fast.
The real bottleneck turned out to be managing hundreds of back-and-forth threads checking link placement and negotiating terms. Plus going direct ended up way cheaper than agency marketplace rates.
How do you guys manage high-volume email replies when a small team gets flooded?
