Hey hunters! I wanted to ask you about any preferred news or blogs website, if any (preferably tech-startup-business related). Or do you prefer to just google the topic you want to read about and land on any website? Let me know!
I ve noticed two main narratives in how companies view their competitors.
Either it s a fight to the death approach exactly like what we see between Replit and Lovable (though it seems Replit does more of the provoking ) basically: We speak badly about our competition.
A few weeks post-launch here, and I've noticed a real gap between what I assumed would drive growth and what's actually happening. Cold outreach with genuine, specific research has worked better than expected. Directory listings have been mostly quiet. Community threads like this one, oddly, have produced some of the most genuine engagement.
Curious what this looked like for others further along than me. Not looking for generic "do content marketing" advice, more interested in the specific channel that surprised you, either working way better or worse than expected, or a moment you realized you'd been targeting the wrong kind of user entirely.
What actually moved the needle for you, versus what you thought would?
Basically all our code gets written by agents now, and so do the tests. Usually same session, same model. And I keep hitting the same loop:
Agent builds the feature
Agent writes the tests, everything green
Ship it
A user hits an edge, I dig in, and the tests were checking what the code does, not what the ticket asked for. Suite was green the whole time.
The annoying part is that if the model misread the ticket, its tests misread it the same way. It's basically marking its own homework. The model is just agreeing with itself.
Hey Makers! I've been running my Telegram channel about products and startups for over a year now. It already has 1,100+ subscribers. It's in my native language. I recently started the same channel but in English. I find answers to questions about startups and products from people with a lot of experience in that field and write summaries. Join the Startup Summary on Telegram if you're interested: https://t.me/startupsum
Everyone here has a primary skill or a field of knowledge they're versed in. What I'm interested in is are you working on sharpening any additional skills or are you committed to working on what you're confident with. In my case, development was where I started many years ago, but currently, I'm trying to improve my writing skills!
Hey makers, Marketing manager forcing me to implement KPIs, but I don't get along with metrics and staff. At this stage we can't even have this metrics. Are there any hacks we can set up for setting and tracking KPIs for early stage startup?
