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daringfireball.net

Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino

Apple just said that Apple Intelligence features announced at WWDC would now be delayed until “the coming year”. It broke a contract of trust.

digitalfrontier.com

Y Combinator turns 20

How a startup school became Silicon Valley’s most influential badge of honor.

seangoedecke.com

Great software design looks underwhelming

Every software system has a lot of things that can go wrong. Sometimes these are called “failure modes” of the system.

antmurphy.me

Product strategy should be messy

Coming up with a product strategy should be messy. It’s not some clean fill in the box activity.

linear.app

The profitable startup

For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. But that thinking was always flawed.

andrewchen.substack.com

My product went viral but all I got were these shitty users

Looky-loos, quality vs quantity of traction, and easy come easy go users.

x.com

On design sprints

I lose so much business by keeping it real with startups with unreasonable deadlines.

hunterwalk.com

If you don’t like sales, don’t start a company

As a cofounder you are always selling. To customers, to investors, to press, to team members, to potential hires, to partners.

anderegg.ca

Maybe Bluesky has “won”

One upside of all this terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky.

mtlynch.io

Lessons from my first exit

My takeaways from selling TinyPilot.