Max Musing

There's a popular narrative on social media right now that AI can build software so quickly and cheaply that SaaS is dead (or will be soon). Why pay for Linear when AI can build a project tracker in an afternoon? Why pay Stripe $30k/year when you can vibe code your own billing system in a weekend? The cost of building software has collapsed to near zero, therefore the value of selling software...

After four long years of grinding, building, fundraising, and hiring, we decided to pivot. I wanted to write down my thought process and timeline because I wish I’d seen more honest pivot stories when we were stuck. Not just “we pivoted and everything was instantly great” but the real version where we kept trying to make the original idea work for way too long because we already put so much...

The funny thing about building an AI product right now is that the hard part keeps changing. A couple years ago, I was obsessed with offline evals. They felt clean. You write a test, you run it every time you change something, and you get a number you can trust. If the number goes up, you ship. If it goes down, you fix it. It’s the kind of engineering loop that makes you feel like you’re in...

We’ve been growing really fast (30%+ MoM ARR) at @Basedash since launching last year. Most of that growth has been the result of hard work, but we’ve also had a secret weapon: an AI agent that acts as both a data analyst and a PM, working 24/7 to optimize our product’s activation and conversion rates. For decades, companies have been making product decisions based on intuition and manual data...

We first launched @Basedash earlier this year as an AI-native chart builder. You just describe the chart you want, and Basedash uses AI to visualize your data, no SQL required. Now we're gearing up for our biggest update yet, launching here on Product Hunt tomorrow. Without spoiling anything, it should enable many more business users to finally get the data answers they need, without bugging...