Today, we’ll dive into the kinds of alternative solutions most founders miss when they attempt to validate their ideas. A quick word from our Sponsor, Paddle.com. I use Paddle as my Merchant of Record for all my SaaS businesses. They take care of all the taxes, the currencies, tracking declined transactions and updated credit cards … Continue reading The Missing Piece in Your Validation Strategy
Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit
We're living through a fascinating moment in software development. AI coding tools can build features faster than ever before. They can scan entire codebases, spot things we might miss, and implement changes across dozens of files in seconds. It's incredible. But there's something we need to talk about. Something that's quietly accumulating in our projects … Continue reading Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit
The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI
A couple of years ago, I tweeted that “the best tech stack is the one you already know.” To this day, this is one of my most resonating tweets. People keep bringing it back, and founders who've been around for a while seem to particularly agree with it. They've gone through the learning experience of … Continue reading The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI
The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?
As I'm building yet another software service business after having built and sold one back in 2019, I keep wrestling with a fundamental question that might sound simple but has profound implications: What do I actually own in this business? https://share.transistor.fm/s/b16feaa5 And before we get to that, a word from our Sponsor, Paddle.com. They’re a … Continue reading The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?
Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder
Let's talk about handling multiple ICPs as a solo founder. This is something I've been wrestling with at Podscan, and I know many of you face the same challenge: you're building a product that could serve two, three, maybe even five different ideal customer profiles. And you're trying to figure out how to keep them … Continue reading Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder
The Pure Amateur is Vanishing: Why Everyone’s a Performer Now
I was recently reading an article about The Great British Baking Show - or Bake Off, as we fans of this fun TV competition call it. It was written by someone who had been on the show, one of the competitors, and they were talking about how looking at the show from the inside made … Continue reading The Pure Amateur is Vanishing: Why Everyone’s a Performer Now
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat
You know that moment when you realize the ground has shifted beneath your feet? I had one of those moments recently. I was watching an AI agent build out a complex feature for Podscan in about twenty minutes – something that would have taken me days to code properly just a year ago. And it … Continue reading We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat
The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers
This week, I want to be as pragmatic as possible. Let's talk about not just “AI this and AI that”, but the actual applications of generative AI that I leverage within Podscan to get my customers to see the value of the product as quickly as possible. https://share.transistor.fm/s/0cdf38dd You know, it took me a long … Continue reading The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers
The Currents of a Founder
I was reading Brandon Sanderson's latest novel, Wind and Truth, when I came across a sentence that stopped me cold: "A stronger current makes for stronger fish." That's it. That's what entrepreneurship is. We're constantly encountering currents that either facilitate what we want to accomplish—the businesses we want to build, the lives we want to … Continue reading The Currents of a Founder
Building for the Age of AI Consumers
I think we're at the precipice of a pretty significant change in how we build software products. Obviously, the recent ascent of vibe coding and all the agentic coding tools that we find very useful and highly effective shows a difference in how we approach building products. But there's another change - not just in … Continue reading Building for the Age of AI Consumers