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37 from 18 Nov 2022 to 19 May 2026
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2026 4

  1. Building Wozhub - our internal tools platform
  2. Vibes is all you need
  3. Lessons from building AI Features
  4. 2026 AI Predictions

2025 8

  1. Things I learned at the Tanda Hackathon 2025
  2. The Vibe Engineer's Wife
  3. Lead Engineer Personas
  4. The LLM app layer
  5. AI coding: plateauing but also accelerating
  6. Nobody Codes Here Anymore
  7. Crossing the Chasm
  8. 30 years in Australia

2024 2

  1. How I use Claude
  2. The 3 Horizons for strategic planning

2023 22

  1. What to think about when making your first hire
  2. 11 years of SaaS product strategy
  3. AI utopians aren't optimistic enough
  4. Product management by walking around
  5. "BlackBerry" review and analysis
  6. Opening the codebase up to everyone
  7. 11 years of hosting a SaaS
  8. Finding Early Customers for Your Startup
  9. "The next Silicon Valley" will be in Northern California
  10. How you'll know when you have Product-Market Fit
  11. Product management is about instinct, not data
  12. Don't hire engineers until you have product market fit
  13. The cost of saying "yes" to feature ideas
  14. The magic of working with your mates
  15. "It's like ChatGPT, for Uber"
  16. A major competitor just raised a huge VC round. Now what?
  17. I scaled a B2B startup to hundreds of customers without using pull requests
  18. Terrible startup advice: Don't Hire Your Friends
  19. The Drive Home
  20. How to set your salary as a first time founder
  21. 1 thing for founders to learn about Business Systems
  22. Using realistic development & test data for B2B SaaS

2022 1

  1. Why companies don't hire juniors