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Often, when people say they "don't have time", what's really missing is the energy to get started, the will to say "no" to a lower-energy, usually dopamine-ridden alternative like watching Netflix or ...

Yesterday Mailbrew's launch was the most successful launch we ever had: * 1200+ signups * 8500+ new brews * 5000+ site visitors Most of what we planned for it succeeded: we got good press coverag...

We have usually given a ton of importance to launch day. Again and again, at the end of the development cycle for a new product, after a week of refinements and feedback from friends and colleagues, w...

An ultimatum was what we needed to change our paths.

A living note with simple guiding principles for founders.

We have developed a critical philosophy behind how we build software, and the tech stack we rely on. We call it Run Less Software.

Few companies understand their engineering strategy and vision. One consequence of this uncertainty is the industry belief that these documents are difficult to write. In some conversations it can feel like you’re talking about something mystical, but these are just mundane documents. The reality is that good engineering strategy is boring, and that it’s easier to write an effective strategy than a bad one.

This is a book summary of Linchpin by Seth Godin. Check out this Linchpin summary to learn about its key ideas and lessons.

In college I first heard Jason Fried from Basecamp talk about how making money is a skill—like playing the drums or piano—that you can get better at over time. That resonated with me immediately. I wouldn’t expect to be able to sit down at a piano for the first time an

Monitoring and observability are related but not the same. This blog explains the differences and why APM products can’t keep up with cloud native.

Resilient payments systems, large-scale data storage with OLTP and OLAP systems, platform team challenges, and more.

It’s something much more familiar

Building the first iPhone's touchscreen keyboard was a make-it-or-break-it moment for the iPhone. Succeed, and the iPhone was possible. Fail, and the iPhone would've been shelved. This is its story.

It may be an employer’s market because of all the layoffs, but employees are increasingly choosing to walk away from job offers they think aren’t the right fit

A distant third in the cloud race, GCP India is poaching from AWS, Microsoft at salaries that the industry thinks are ‘unsustainable’

Razorpay is doubling down on payroll management to grow RazorpayX. Its self-imposed limitations could prove to be counterproductive

Match Group, which owns Tinder, has filed an antitrust case against Apple with the competition regulator in India. But why? Read this edition online A paid 🔒 weekly emailer that explains fundamental shifts in business, technology and finance that happened over the last seven days in India.

As hyper-addictive as it is today, TikTok's success took longer than you might think.

This article is a guest post from Charlie Lougheed, CEO of Axuall.

There are few things more dangerous to startups than Big Deals. These are different from the deals that enterprise companies sign. They’re the deals upon which the entire life/death/success of the company rely. Founders lie to themselves by believing that catching a single Big Deal will automatically create a huge company. I’ve seen this belief kill a large number of startups. The possibility of a Big Deal helps founders avoid dealing with other, more pressing issues. When you convince yourself

As Web3 becomes a major new industry in the startup technology sector, the question is increasingly asked, as it has been with each prior cycle of digital innovation: How it will involve business and IT?

In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the tradeoff organisms make between quantity and quality of offspring. Some organisms choose K-selection, i.e., to have few offspring but offer them substantial parental investment (e.g., humans, whales, elephants). Others choose r-selection, having many offspring with low probabilities of reaching adulthood (dandelions, rodents, bacteria). By analogy, startups exhibit similar trade-offs. Some markets are nascent and rapidly changing. Others are crowd

Webhooks are the ultimate escape hatch to systems integration. Event publishing that doesn't require you to know much about who is listening on the other end. It's trivial to create a publisher or consumer (bring your own HTTP server/client). On the surface, Webhooks seem antithetical to the rise of the cloud native –  it's easier than ever to set up servers that long-poll, managed pub/sub infrastructure, or simple event queues. But the opposite might be happening. * Zero-trust architectures

Not the implementation. At my first job, I spent a lot of time digging into the fintech stack. I had become convinced that reverse engineering mobile banking APIs was the technically superior option to screen-scraping. I even took my unsolicited opinion to Hacker News, running into one of the Plaid founders (Plaid, like Yodlee before it, originally used screen-scraping). Plaid turned out to be wildly successful. I learned that the value is in the API, not the implementation. Sometimes a dirty i

A trick to learning a complicated topic is realizing how many complex details are a cousin of something simple.