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## Stop Building Your Product for Yourself: Why Most Early-Stage Startups Fail at Marketing
By @manukovska [ 10 Min read ]
I’ve watched 50 startups burn cash on marketing before talking to customers. Here’s what actually works: The Mum Test, founder brand building, and hiring doers Read More.
Agentic UX Over “Chat”: How to Design Multi-Agent Systems People Actually Trust 
By @designchurchill [ 9 Min read ]
Principles for designing agentic UX: verification, transparency, handoffs, and moving beyond chat interfaces. Read More.
How Search Engines Actually Answer Your Questions 
By @superorange0707 [ 12 Min read ]
Modern search Q&A explained: how knowledge graphs, DeepQA, and MRC turn messy web pages into direct, trustworthy answers. Read More.
Why AI Coding Agents Suck At Product Integrations And How Membrane Fixes This 
By @membrane [ 5 Min read ]
AI coding agents excel at building features but fail at production integrations. The issue isn’t AI capability—it’s lack of integration-specific infrastructure. Read More.
The Architect’s Handbook to Open Table Formats and Object Storage 
By @minio [ 9 Min read ]
Learn how Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi pair with object storage to build scalable, open, high-performance data lakehouse architectures. Read More.
ROI Can’t Save Us: Why Today’s Money Fails at Humanity’s Biggest Problems 
By @chris127 [ 4 Min read ]
Why the economy underfunds planet cleanup, and how programmable money could support large-scale air, water, and soil remediation. Read More.
Escaping AWS S3: How One Cybersecurity Firm Cut Costs With AIStor 
By @minio [ 5 Min read ]
A cybersecurity company slashed cloud costs and boosted performance by moving from AWS S3 to MinIO AIStor, gaining speed, resiliency, & scalable on-prem control Read More.
I Was Sick of the Crypto Off-Ramp Pain. So I Built My Own Crypto Card 
By @MichaelJerlis [ 4 Min read ]
A firsthand look at why crypto off-ramps are painful — and how the EMCD Payment Card turns spending USDT into a simple, instant, real-world experience. Read More.
What the Recent Amazon and Microsoft Cloud Outages Taught the UK Payments Industry 
By @noda [ 4 Min read ]
AWS and Azure outages in October 2025 exposed deep systemic risks in UK payments. This article examines cloud dependency and how firms can build true resilience Read More.
How To Get a First Name Domain for Less Than $101 
By @cv-domain [ 3 Min read ]
Missed out on FirstName.com? .cv domain could be your last real chance to own your name online. Secure it now. Read More.
Google Unveils Antigravity IDE, an AI-Driven Coding Environment Powered by Gemini 3 
By @proflead [ 2 Min read ]
Google’s new Antigravity IDE uses Gemini 3 to plan, code, and test applications automatically, offering developers a fast, AI-powered coding experience. Read More.
7 of the Best SOC 2 Compliance Software Platforms in 2025 
By @stevebeyatte [ 8 Min read ]
A 2025 guide to the best SOC 2 compliance software, comparing automation, integrations, usability, and pricing across seven leading platforms. Read More.
Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 17 
By @nathanbsmith729 [ 6 Min read ]
New max drawdown… Read More.
I Spent 30 Days “Vibe Coding” an MVP — Burned $127, Broke Everything, and Still Found Product-Market 
By @renjitphilip [ 15 Min read ]
I have recently been diving into the world of vibe coding and I thought of cataloging my experience for the benefit of others. Read More.
Inside My $1,000 Homelab: How I Rebuilt Big Tech Services in a Tiny Rack 
By @morpheuslord [ 15 Min read ]
A hands-on walkthrough of my homelab journey—from Pi-hole to a $1,000 mini rack—covering hardware, software, networking, and real-world ROI. Read More.
How to Build a Winning Proposal for a Data Quality Project 
By @melissaindia [ 5 Min read ]
Build a winning data quality project proposal with clear goals, strong justification, and proven strategies that secure leadership approval and drive success. Read More.
The New Era: AI Agents as Your 24/7 Growth Team 
By @rachelecarraro [ 3 Min read ]
This article explores how AI Agents can support your strategy, amplify engagement and accelerate business growth. Read More.
Important Caching Strategies: How to Create Resilient Caching in Symfony 
By @mattleads [ 14 Min read ]
This article explores important caching strategies that solve expensive architectural problems: latency, concurrency (thundering herds), and security (GDPR) Read More.
BIP-360: Bitcoin’s Quantum Wild West 
By @orphiceye [ 5 Min read ]
Bitcoin’s BIP-360 is both genius and cursed, and in whatever state it is at any time, it might become the only sane option we’ll have. Read More.
Think Like an AI PM 
By @suryakalipattapu [ 6 Min read ]
This article demystifies how AI‑first product development differs from traditional PM practices. Read More.
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