We've all been here: a client with a vague brief, a "simple" project that balloons, an invoice that goes unpaid for months.
The freelance industry has spent 15 years building trust infrastructure pointing in exactly one direction — at us. Toptal's 5-step screening. Upwork's skill verification. Expert-vetted badges. All of it answers the client's question: "can I trust this freelancer?"
Nobody…

Here's a stat that changed everything for me: a single reply on someone else's tweet is worth 13.5x more than a like in the algorithm. Not 13.5% more. 13.5 times.

I discovered this by accident four months ago. At peak, I was pulling 332,000 weekly impressions on Twitter. Zero ad spend. Zero threads. Just replies. My best reply got 1,300+ likes. Most of my original posts couldn't crack 100…

My notebook has a running page I never meant to start. It is a list of things shipping alone has taken from me. Not skills I had to learn, the list of those is boring and endless, but things I used to have and gave up the day I decided to run a product by myself. I added five entries to it over the past few months. They are not complaints. Most of them I would give up again. But I had assumed…

The obvious counterargument to everything I'm building is this: Google already does it. You type "best AI tools for video editing" into Google and an AI Overview surfaces a curated list, synthesized from the same kind of data I maintain, without requiring a click. My three directory sites — Top AI Tools, Find Games Like, and Open Alternative To — are competing with a feature baked into the…

If you've ever tried to "submit your startup everywhere," you know the pain: you Google "startup directories", open a listicle from 2021, and half the links are dead, paywalled, or just gone. You waste an afternoon and still don't know which ones are actually worth it.

So I did the boring part: I went through hundreds of startup / SaaS / AI launch directories, opened each one, threw out the dead…

The best developer tools make you faster and make you look good. Resend does both - for email, of all things.

I'm a big fan of working in public. It's a great way to get feedback and improve your work... you just have to be ready to deal with The Internet™️