Today is all about shipping velocity. You can leave requests for the products launching today and they'll build and launch the features in real time!

Appropriately, given the speed theme, we've partnered with TypeSafe AI, makers of @Jev, a frontier model at real-time speed, and @Supabase.

I run a small blog where I write wishes, messages and quotes for birthdays, anniversaries and festivals. Over the last few months I've learned that traffic doesn't come from writing more posts. It comes from writing the right ones.

Three things that worked for me:

1. Answering one exact search per post. "Birthday wishes for a sister" ranks much better than a general "birthday wishes" page.

2. Pinterest over other social platforms. For quote and wishes content, pins keep bringing visitors for months.

3. Updating old posts instead of always publishing new ones. Refreshing 10 older posts did more than writing 10 new ones.

I'm curious what's working for other makers and bloggers here. Is there a tool (SEO, writing, design or analytics) that made a real difference for you, especially a free one?

I have started asking one thing before I give anyone advice about their product. Do you want me to help you think, or do you want me to tell you what I would do?

They are completely different conversations and most of the time people want one and receive the other.

There is a feature in my product that exactly one customer uses. It costs me infrastructure, maintenance, and a little attention every month. The numbers say I should have killed it two years ago.

I keep it because I remember the conversation when they asked for it. They were at a company with a real problem, and I was small enough to actually solve it for them. It was one of the first times I felt like I was building something that mattered to a specific human being.

I spent almost a year preparing. Reading, planning, sketching, learning. I told myself I was building the foundation for what would come next.

The thing I was actually doing was avoiding the start. Every week of preparation was a week I did not have to fail at something real. And preparation looks exactly like work from the outside, so nobody questioned it, and I did not have to either.

I cancelled something last week and I could not explain to the founder why. Not because the reason was complicated. Because it was embarrassing. The product worked fine. I just stopped opening it.

That is the most common kind of churn and almost none of it gets reported honestly. People say price or features or a competitor. The real answer is usually that a habit never formed. The product was fine and it was not quite the shape of my day.

Someone asked me for help with a problem last month. I gave them a solution. A good one. Thoughtful, detailed, exactly what they had described.

They did not use it. I could tell because the problem was still there weeks later.

We won t pretend that the world isn t tense, because relations between countries are increasingly strained. (Coming from a country that never had technological or numerical superiority, we ve mostly become just part of the regime.)

But not everyone is on the same page, and countries are investing in defence.