The most common advice I now give to founders is simply "know thyself".

You're about to build a web app in #React. What UI component library are you going to use?

I'm so excited for Maybe! I'm a big believer in the mission and invested very early on. Today they launched! 🚀 They're giving *you* control over your finances & wealth. No AUM or hidden advisory fees. Transparent, impactful tools to grow your wealth! maybe.co

This is where you’re going to end up whether you plan for it or not. You might as well plan for it.

As a startup founder, here's your TRUE competitive advantage against your larger competitors: You are 1000x more motivated than any of their employees

I did a thing yesterday. And you know what? I'm kind of liking it. So long, hair.

I don't think waking up early has any impact on success. I think to be really successful, you have to be really excited about what you're doing. And if you're really excited about what you're doing, you want to wake up and do it. Waking up early is an effect, not a cause.

10 months since I sold my company. Finally feeling the urge to tinker this week. I've been kicking around this idea and wanted to play w/Tailwind CSS. Is my design on-trend enough? Also, should I build this?

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Macbook Air M2 is just so good. Walk out of the house w/o checking battery or grabbing charger. It's at 30%? Great, that'll last all day.

I'm considering tRPC instead REST for the backend API of a new web app. My concern is... will tRPC still be a thing in 5 years?

Working on my first real TypeScript project.

Every piece of SaaS marketing advice I could think of after 6 years as a marketer: 1. Your "market" is not the people who *could* use your product. It's the people who are willing to *pay* for it.

Wrote down a few details that make a good web interface. Mostly generic, somewhat opinionated. rauno.me/interfaces

You can make a case that React is past its prime, but the ecosystem is just sooo massive. At worst, I think React's fate will be like that of PHP's... it'll become seemingly clunky and uncool, but will remain widespread for decades.

My TypeScript journey so far: 🥳 `strict: true` - Let's type all the things! 😑 80% of my dev time is now just googling... 😩 This is so slow and painful... `strict: false` 🤔 Ok, makes sense to add a couples types here Next phase TBD

Born too early to explore space Born too late to explore the earth Born just in time to sell B2b SaaS

It's a little ironic that for a decade we've been talking about how "AI will wipe out blue collar jobs but artists and intellectuals are safe" -- then AI (quasi) shows up and immediately starts doing art, writing papers + programming apps.