Everyone is very worried and I get it, but genuinely. But...what do you mean I design a website and then I just build it myself?!! Without knowing code.
This to me has opened a whole new world of possibilities..
A customer told me my product was too expensive. Said they loved it but couldn't justify the price. I immediately started thinking about lowering it.
Then I looked at how they were using the product. They'd logged in twice in three months. Barely touched the core feature. Were essentially paying for something they weren't using.
They weren't saying it was too expensive. They were saying they weren't getting enough value. Those are completely different problems.
I didn't lower my price. I reached out and asked what they were actually trying to do. Turns out they'd misunderstood the whole point of the product. I spent 20 minutes on a call with them. They're still a customer.
Hard decisions at the start of the week. A few years ago, the hard thing for me was "to start". Today, it is "to stop". What makes you stop? (besides bankruptcy and running your funds... hh)
What amount of time is needed to know if it makes sense to try to run that business? *God, give me a sign.
Yesterday, I saw this report: Meta employees consumed 73.7 trillion AI tokens in a single month. This costs roughly $221 million a month and around $2.65 billion a year. That s the salary of about 9,000 engineers.
In addition, the consumption of tokens (energy and electricity related to it) also has its limits.
Many people are starting to boycott AI. Today I read in a private message from a company profile: "Was about to sign up and noticed you use AI images, so decided not to"
I don t doubt that AI makes our lives easier and creates opportunities in many ways.
But don t you notice the fact that at a certain point it becomes unsustainable and disadvantageous?...
I recently installed @Augment Code based on an ad somewhere, and I'm super impressed, but haven't heard a peep about it in most channels. But it got me wondering what else I'm missing. This is a crowded field with a few frontrunners and a lot of more esoteric newcomers, but I want to know about the ones that blow your mind but hardly get any coverage.
I decided to do an experiment. For 90 days, I logged every hour of work in a spreadsheet. Not just "worked on product" but exactly what I did. Every task, every meeting, every rabbit hole.
Here's the breakdown:
Product development: 31% (I thought it was way more)
The number that gutted me was the 18% I spent on "research." I was consuming content about building instead of actually building. I was reading threads like this one instead of talking to users.
In other words, what's that one topic that you would really like to understand more about, but can't find anything that covers it in depth? Think team collaboration, time-off management, workplace cultures... literally anything you're interested in. I'm trying to understand what people want to read but can't find, rather than add to the same beaten topics while writing for Pause. Thanks in advance for the help
I want to share something counterintuitive that took me two years to figure out.
Like most founders, I was obsessed with user happiness. Did they like the product? Were they satisfied? Did they leave a good review? I'd send NPS surveys, add "how are you feeling?" prompts, respond to every bit of feedback with gratitude.
But churn stayed stubbornly high. People weren't unhappy they just weren't using the product. They'd sign up, poke around, and drift away.
Then I accidentally noticed something. The users who stuck around weren't the ones who said they loved the product. They were the ones who had figured out the one specific thing the product was actually good at. They weren't confused anymore. They had clicked with the core value.
