Building fast feels great until something breaks and you realize you don't actually know how the underlying system works.

Asking if you could rebuild it yourself is a solid sanity check before sinking more time into a feature.

I usually treat AI code as a quick proof of concept and then re-read every generated line before moving it into a core branch.

Have you ever had to completely throw away a working AI prototype just because the code was too messy to scale?

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.

I have two bad habits that make this harder. I procrastinate, and I give up on things too easily. So I'll put off the boring task that matters, start something new and more fun instead, and then drop that one halfway through too.

I'm trying to fix it by deciding up front what I won't build, so there's less to wander off into. I haven't found a rule that sticks yet.

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.

For the past few months, there has been discussion in Europe about creating a concept like EU Inc. (the 28th regime) a single pan-European legal company structure with:

• 100% online incorporation

• extremely fast setup (target: ~48 hours)

• operation across the entire EU without needing to establish 27 separate companies

• a digital-first corporate lifecycle

So far, within Europe, people most often set up companies in Estonia, mainly due to its low tax burden and fully digital infrastructure, as well as in countries like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, or Hungary.

I spend a lot more time on PH at the moment to see what indepedent makers are spending their time on. I've noticed some patterns and also want to share a little bit about my journey at South Park Commons. Most startup stories begin at zero when there s already a team, an idea, maybe even a prototype. But at South Park Commons (SPC), the philosophy is different: people gather in the -1 to 0 stage. That liminal space where you don t yet know what you re building or even if you should build at all. It s a place for exploration, experimentation, and being brutally honest about what s working and what s not.

A hallmark of SPC is how often industry leaders drop by to share what they ve learned in the wild. Recently, I was in a small chat with Tyler Payne former Google and LinkedIn AI lead, startup builder, who has spent the last decade helping teams actually ship real-world ML systems. We're always talking about what's being launched at SPC.

Something I've been noticing: when people ask an AI assistant about a product, the answer often comes from old blog posts, third-party listicles, or a pricing page from 2 years ago, not from the current site.

For those of you running SaaS products: have you changed how you write your docs, changelog, or pricing page because of this? Things like structured FAQs, llms.txt, or a public changelog. Did any of it make a difference you could measure?

Hey everyone! I ve seen some people mention using Reddit groups to help launching their products, but I m a bit new to the platform. From what I ve noticed, many groups don t allow self-promotion or talking about your own business. I m curious, which subreddits do you participate in, and what s your strategy for engaging and launching your products there?

I d love to hear about your experiences and any tips for successfully navigating Reddit for product launches!

There are so many new AI agent platforms ( @Wordware @Lindy @CrewAI @zapier and so on) that I'm finding myself curious how everyone is using them.

What AI agents are you using in production? What do they do? Are they working and reliable? What would make them better? Are they replacing roles? Augmenting existing ones?