If you've tried registering a domain anytime recently, you know how rare this is. Usually every decent idea is either parked for thousands or forces you into compromises. Finding a clean, 6-letter .com sitting right there felt like winning a tiny lottery.
It got me thinking about how much energy goes into naming in the early stages.
Question for the founders and creators here: How do you usually go about finding domains or experimenting with names?
Do you use AI tools, churn through registry searches, look for expired domains, or just stick to standard TLDs like .com or .ai no matter what?

Yesterday I read an article in Reuters that Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in developing his chips to reduce his dependence on NVIDIA.

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google want to make them too.

I spent most of last year replacing my own team's manual work. The one that changed everything: a daily pipeline that generates the videos, converts them to GIF with FFmpeg, burns in the logo, watermark and caption, then publishes across 36 client channels. Nobody touches it now. It used to take three people a full morning.

The strange part is that I miss the morning. There was a rhythm to it.

What did you automate, and did you miss any of it?

A few years ago, shipping constantly was almost a marketing strategy. Pieter Levels, Jennifer Dewalt, Marc Lou building fast gave people a reason to follow the journey. Every launch created another story and more momentum.

But AI changed the equation. Now anyone can ship an app every week, and a lot of them are buggy, generic, and make $0. Shipping itself is no longer impressive.

For those who don't know:

• The EU has proposed a law intended to protect children from online abuse.

• But the draft includes a highly controversial measure: mandatory scanning (client-side scanning) of private communications, including encrypted ones, for child sexual abuse material.

• Experts and authorities (such as the EDPB and EDPS) warn that this kind of mandatory scanning could lead to mass surveillance through automated tools, posing a serious threat to fundamental rights like privacy and data protection.

• According to reports, 15 member states support the proposal, 6 are against it, and 6 remain undecided. The law would not apply to political officials, but it would affect the reading of communication of ordinary citizens.

Last week I attended Tech Week for the first time in my city and had a great time!

I was surprised by how much value came from conversations that weren't planned.
It feels that in a world accelerated and misconstrued by technology, the best way to establish trust is often to meet face-to-face.

For those who regularly attend Tech Weeks, startup events, or hackathons:

Spent the last stretch wiring MCP servers into an agent product instead of hand-building every integration. The pitch is great in theory: paste a URL, click connect, tools show up as a checklist.

In practice it's been a mixed bag. Some servers are exactly as plug-and-play as advertised. Others expose tools that don't match how the underlying API actually behaves, so the agent confidently calls something that returns garbage, and you don't find out until you're debugging why a real user got a wrong answer.

Ended up hand-building the connectors that really matter (the ones where getting the semantics wrong costs someone money) and using MCP purely for the long tail where "mostly works" is good enough.

Anyone else gone deep on MCP servers? Curious if others found the same gap between the demo and production, or if I just hit unlucky servers.

Building and launching products, testing them in real markets and building a business are like mini-MBAs. It teaches you a lot of things about human behavior, finance, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, management and more.

We become wiser; and wish someone had given us the right advice at the right time.

Been thinking a lot about how fast original content disappears. It seems news footage, eyewitness video, documentary clips and other original video gets buried under noise within a week. Something goes viral on Monday and by Friday the original is gone, replaced by reposts, edited versions, and debates on what actually happened until it's just... not findable anymore.

Curious if anyone has tackled this problem, what approach you took, and what you think about the tension between platform distribution (reach) and platform dependency (your content disappearing under noise). Specifically interested in eyewitness footage, journalism, and documentary work but any category where permanence matters.

What approach works? What doesn't?