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Substack is done and dusted September 8 ·

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Sep 7th 2025 September 7

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How to pick a software product (e.g. blogging platform) August 31

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Preferences and revealed preferences August 19 ·

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Ka-ching! I launched a product on product hunt and within 3 days got my first ka-ching!!! July 5 ·

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Time in the market Time in the market is greater than timing the market. This is true for investing. It should be truer for products. May 19 ·

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Marketing chronicles I also think marketing is an umbrella term like business. Just like there is no skill as business, there is no skill as marketing. May 17 ·

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Get rid of external packages Now that LLMs are here, I suggest getting rid of most third-party packages. Let LLM generate precisely the code we want. It can do ...

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Seems like you can sell CRUD operations

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How to Think

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Procrastination is a feature. Not a bug

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On reaching $1000/month in side projects My side projects just crossed $1000/month. 95% passive. 95% profit. March 2, 2024 ·

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All I know about building side projects that can make money How to build side projects, find ideas worth building, and make money off of them. January 5, 2024 ·

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Perfectionism is not the problem. It's a symptom

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How to live without estimates From my experience and by observing other companies, I've concluded that the companies who do estimates and set deadlines reg...

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Memories are made in hindsight Memories are made in hindsight and memories pick themselves for us. We don't get to pick them. It's beautiful. June 17,...

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Testing Before you mark your PR ready for review, always test it manually as well. It is not the QA’s job. QA's job is to assure quality. Not to test your ...

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Code Reviews We should define a software engineer as someone who does rock-solid code reviews and writes code in their spare time. Not the other way around. Jun...

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Releasing Think of release as a train that features/PRs/developers have to catch. Not as a tool to ship a fix or features. Set a cadence and release. Do not wai...

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Security & Compliance A local gym membership management system has very different security requirements than Twitter. Analyze the game you are playing and a...

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