AI is making it easier to write code, to build products. Just like the typewriter made it easier to write. But the hard part isn’t the writing. It’s having something to say. Same with products. Knowing what to build, who to build for, and how to sell. That's the hard part.

AI has thrown vanity metrics out of the window. No one cares about DAUs if they don’t pay, or engagement if it doesn’t convert. Everyone is demanding monetisation.. if value isn’t captured, then there's no value. This exposes fluff, forces clarity.

The ‘creators turning into a business’ trend is hitting a wall. As creators professionalise, they start resembling the same polished brands their audience was trying to escape. The edge now is in staying scrappy, not scaling up.

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Exactly! It’s not just good advice... it’s how the machine is built. My guess is that algos aren't made for creators.. they are made for readers. A reader follows you for 1 specific thing. When you post about 10, you are making them see 9 things they don't care about. The

In *very-early-stage* startups, I come across two types of founders. The marketing-focused, who treat the product as a marketing problem, and the product-focused, who see marketing as a product problem. The instinct of marketing founders is to shout louder, and chase

"Nepalis, blocked from social media and facing a potential Internet blackout, downloaded jack’s Bitchat over 48,000 times in a single day." Tech empowers people like nothing else can. The internet once felt open and full of promise until big tech took over. Web3 looked like

“The internet as we knew it is dying.” “When AI trains on AI-generated content, quality drops. It is like photocopying a photocopy. Rare ideas vanish. Everything starts to look the same. It's recursive. Today's AI slop becomes tomorrow's training data, producing worse output,

There are many ways to build startups. And as someone who has been building for 15 years, there’s one I’m currently leaning into. When I started, I would not even consider the unambitious ideas. The odds of success? That didn’t matter. I would get sold on the dream. All