All writings tagged with "Founders"
I spent a week running Gemma locally, comparing it against Llama, Qwen and GPT-4o, trying to answer one question: Is Google's open model strategy finally good enough for real production workloads?
Software rarely dies from bad ideas. Bad ideas are easy to spot; they get laughed out of the room. Software dies from too many *good* ones
A founder’s app had glowing reviews and enthusiastic users, yet nobody was actually using it. The brutal truth only surfaced when he stopped asking for praise and started asking for a credit card, revealing the hidden danger of free validation
Every failed project is full of sincere people who promised to “do better next time.”
As long as the product was unfinished, it could still be perfect. It could still succeed in his head. The moment people saw it, they would decide if it mattered.
I was in a founder's kitchen last month. Whiteboard behind him, coffee going cold, three months of runway left. He walked me through his architecture: Kafka streaming between six microservices, a GraphQL federation layer, a vector database for "future AI features."