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Founder advice

Plain-English guides on founder advice for non-technical founders building with AI tools.

founder · 7 min read

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The Framework Under Your App Just Got Bought. Here's Why It Was For Sale.

Tailwind CSS is installed 110 million times a week and sold itself to Shopify. AI made it ubiquitous and killed the business that paid for it.

open sourcedependencies
Sep 2026

founder · 8 min read

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Your AI Never Cleans Up After Itself. Here's the Bill.

Two large 2026 studies measured what AI-written code leaves behind. The number founders should care about isn't bugs — it's that nothing gets refactored.

technical debtmaintenance
Sep 2026

founder · 7 min read

Picking AI Tools That Will Last: A Founder's Guide to the Consolidating Builder Market

Cursor just raised at $50B. Google absorbed Windsurf's team. Cognition got the rest. Here's how to bet on tools that will still exist next year.

tool selectionvibe coding
Apr 2026

founder · 8 min read

Vibe Coding Is Maturing: What Smart Founders Should Do Differently Now

The naive era of pure vibe coding is over. Here's what the community is learning, and what it means for how you build.

vibe codingbest practices
Apr 2026
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