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20 September
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
19 September
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
The life of a SaaS builder. I know it's my job to show you why this is better, but man it is so exhausting trying to get people to stop what their doing for a second to give your thing a look. SaaS Related
18 September
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
15 September
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
Products for devs are quite dead. SaaS for devs is dead. There are exceptions, though I think you have to extrapolate on variables that are not raw software. I have ideas and am implementing them. Mostly in private because building in public also can no longer be capitalized upon. Seemingly. Quoting @alex_holovach my WHOOP subscription expired so i had codex reverse engineer it and build my own app - telemetry goes to my prometheus server - grafana and the app visualize it - hermes monitors metrics and plans workouts next wanna build my own Zwift and Strava the era of personal software is here SaaS Related
14 September
Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.
Are we seeing an AI pacing rotation? 🧵 While mega-cap infrastructure digested capex today (ORCL -4.3%, NVDA -2.8%), software surged : • Median SaaS stock up +4.5% (avg +5.2%) • 12 companies gained >= 10% in a single day • 92% of the index closed green (80 of 87) SaaS Related
11 September
President of the European Commission since 2019; previously Germany's defence minister.
Today, we remember. We remember that 25 years ago, the world stood still. We remember the 3,000 people who left home that morning and never returned. Where the Twin Towers once stood, two columns of light now rise into the New York sky. They remind us that light triumphs even on the darkest of days. My statement on 25 years since 9/11. link.europa.eu
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9 September
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
1 September
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
Before AI: - hardware is hard - teams > solo founders - technical founders only - PhDs build tech in search of a problem - hot SaaS startups get 100x ARR multiples After AI: - hardware is the only thing AI can't build - solo founders are 100x engineers - anyone can build - PhDs building AI infra name their price - SaaSpocalypse Am I missing anything? SaaS startups Related
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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I think you have the real economic effects of AI companies sucking up entire industries now (a lot where indie hackers operate) I do think the SaaSpocalypse is at least partly real
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A regular boring but non-superficial SaaS app would do well 5 years ago but now it might not get anyone to sign up because it's so easy to vibe code by tens of thousands of other people
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31 August
Designer and technologist; author of The Laws of Simplicity; former president of the Rhode Island School of Design; formerly at the MIT Media Lab.
PDE BLEND CALCULATOR: If you’ve been feeling an identity reset in the AI era, this app https://t.co/2dYeejnkpJ is designed to give you clearer language for that transition. It uses the three letters P, D, and E along with lowercase and null ( - ) variants to map the many role “smoothies” emerging across product, design, and engineering. The classic ideal has been a balanced P-D-E, but that balance is getting harder as the shape of E changes rapidly in the age of coding agents. The good news: you can always raise your vitamin P! —JM --- This app https://t.co/2dYeejnkpJ from the 2026 designintech.report
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29 August
Founder and CEO of Social Capital, a venture firm; co-host of the All-In podcast and an early Facebook executive. Writes an annual letter and a weekly newsletter on markets and technology.
21 August
Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.
i have another saas to kill (will share results of Kill My SaaS 1 next week!!) Quoting @swyx btw if you havent set your {codex | claude | gemini | devin} automations to autoresearch how to improve your seo/aeo every week you are really truly missing out on free, should-be-commoditizing-but-weirdly-untapped alpha SaaS Related
18 August
Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.
Lots of password reset emails today across a wide variety of geeky publishing and payments-taking surfaces, so a) check your inboxes, other geeks and b) I don't have any fun new projects in works and so if someone gives you opportunity to pay "me" money it is not me saying that. Related
1 August
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
The S&P 500 was flat for the month and the 10-year treasury rose from 4.45% to 4.74%, as tech and AI came under selling pressure, and fears of war and a slowing economy resurfaced. The ERP for the index at the start of August 2026 stood at 4.23%, with expected return inching up to 8.97%. damodaran.com
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31 July
Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
26 July
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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I cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs
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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.
23 July
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
Used @claudeai Code for a while last night after my limit reset and morning woke up to see ~40% weekly limit being over. Is there a bug in the usage tracking? Related
2 July
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
The S&P 500 capped off a middling month in June 2026, but had a stunning 2nd quarter, up 14.87%. Rising earnings helped, and the equity risk premium for the index stood at 4.17% over the 10-year treasury rate. Related
15 June
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
6 June
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
Across the 241 SaaS companies I'm invested in, less than 5% had any notable social media audience when they started (or have built one since). As a data point, about 22% of them are doing 7 or 8-figures of ARR. If you want to do SaaS, build your network, not your audience. Quoting @Shpigford real talk: having a decent sized audience *helps* but is by absolutely zero means a guarantee that anything succeeds/works/makes money. have put out TONS of things that got all of about 3 people to actually sign up for. SaaS Related
3 June
Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.
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There have been countries that have gone through currency resets. This is not a nice experience because if you had a little bit of money, a currency reset can mean you have now no money. If you had no money, it may feel like it's impossible to ever get any more money. If you're retired, what do you do during a currency reset?
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30 May
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
Man oh man, it's hard to start a Saas from the ground up. I think my SEO efforts are paying off. I had users 2 & 3 sign up for @clearinghousehq yesterday out of nowhere. One cancelled pretty quickly... but good to know that _something_ is working. SaaS Related
24 May
Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.
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So, this is another good prediction. I would buy SAS stocks right now.
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When I run the agent on that website, I'm using my tokens. I'm not using the the vendor's tokens. I'm not using the app's tokens.
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And I think that what agents do is increase the number of users of SAS. Not get rid of it.
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19 May
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
11 May
Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.
Switching to Linux has been great. With Windows 10 (Pro): ❗️ Webcam's settings would always get reset semi-randomly ❗️ The date from the clock would frequently disappear ❗️ Mic's volume would often get lowered ❗️ Forced updates None of these issues exist with Arch Linux. Arch Linux Related
22 April
Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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software as a service businesses, for example the whole reason why they can charge a subscription is because they are able to essentially hold a gun to the customer's head and say, "Pay us at your subscription, otherwise we will delete all your data."
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14 April
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
.@TheCraigHewitt takes the stage to close out #MicroConf 2026 talking about how to run a SaaS in a post-software / agentic world. SaaS Related
13 April
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
.@einarvollset takes the stage to talk about how to know the right time to sell your SaaS at #MicroConf US, 2026. SaaS Related
27 March
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.
Nothing New to See Here A founder told me seasoned engineers keep saying AI-built software is not possible. I've heard this exact story before - about the Internet, the Web, SaaS, and mobile.
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20 March
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
26 October 2025
Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.
7 October 2025
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
17 September 2025
Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.
4 September 2025
Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.
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You're dominant in contests, particularly with conspecifics. If you're trying to win a territory or win mating rights, bigger things usually beat up smaller things. So there's going to be selection favoring them. But then big things don't usually do well in extinction events, so that tends to reset the clock by killing off the big stuff, and then smaller stuff does better again.
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18 August 2025
Co-founder of the AI agent company Sierra, and previously an eighteen-year Google executive who ran product for Workspace, virtual and augmented reality, and Google Labs.
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And in contrast to software as a service or software you'd buy off a shelf at, you know, Fry Electronics, you know, decades ago, which might help you be marginally more productive, help you get a job done. Agents, in contrast, are actually getting the job done for you. And so you're in essence hiring software to accomplish a task and get it done well.
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7 August 2025
Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.
6 July 2025
Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.
18 June 2025
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
24 May 2025
Historian of the Second World War; wrote Normandy '44 and Brothers in Arms, and co-hosts the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.
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Well, everyone always says, the few were the last line of defense against the Nazi hordes and all this kind of stuff, and it’s all rubbish. They’re the first line of defense.
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12 May 2025
Founder of what became Bloomberg New Energy Finance; writes and speaks on clean energy, hydrogen and the economics of the transition, and hosts the Cleaning Up podcast.
Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate reset Two weeks ago (timed to come out just before the UK local elections), Tony Blair released a report calling for the climate movement to change tack. He’s right – and also very, very wrong. The Climate Paradox: Why We Nee…
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23 March 2025
Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.
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And it struck me how the most well-known brands have stood for one clear thing. Like they have a clear position. And so in order for superhuman to be memorable, I believed that we needed to occupy a clear position that was unique and which was available and which reinforced our product strategy.
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13 March 2025
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
Excited to launch YoutubeMate, my first SaaS! 🎉 It summarizes YouTube videos so you can get the key points without wasting your time. 👉 youtube-mate.com
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3 February 2025
Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.
SaaS China
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But what happens when every company can just invent their own business logic really cheaply and quickly? You stop using platform SaaS, you start building custom tailored solutions, you change them really quickly.
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17 January 2025
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
OK, I'm actually here! I created an account a while back and then promptly lost the password. Also, bsky's password reset wasn't working for me. But I finally managed to find my password. <phew> I would hate to lose "munificent@" here. Related
8 November 2020
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
28 October 2020
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
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This book is a great overview of the keys to building a repeatable sales model for your SaaS business. It's a great mix of the best lessons from Jason Lemkin and his SaaStr blog and Aaron Ross's top tier consulting work. You can skip the last 50 pages which transitions to being a bad self-help book.
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Want to know the story behind how Salesforce was built? This is that story in founder Marc Benioff's own words. At times I found him overly prescriptive without an appreciation for his unfair advantages he had (getting to start it while having a big salary at Oracle, having $6Mn in "bootstrapped funding", etc). However, he also helped pioneer the cloud and SaaS as a business model, so there are many great lessons to glean if you're building a high-growth SaaS business.
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6 May 2018
Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.
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The “Iliad” really stood out for me, that was probably a couple of weeks ago.
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31 January 2018
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.
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So much to learn from this experience.
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5 January 2018
Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
On changing their mind
Five years ago, almost to this very day, I stood before you and offered an apology for my earlier anti-GMO activism.
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19 June 2015
Programmer and entrepreneur; co-founded GitHub and created Jekyll, Gravatar and the Semantic Versioning spec.
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