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Building
Obsidian has 7 full-time employees. Around $25M ARR. A $350M valuation. No VC, no scheduled meetings, no stand-ups. About a million users per person on staff. And they built all of …
Building
I have been a product designer for twenty years. UI, UX, branding, everything in between. I have spent thousands of hours in Photoshop, Sketch, InVision, Figma. I have shipped a …
Building
I wrote something on andresmax.com today about taste being the new competitive moat. The argument came from watching six different Lovable prototypes that technically worked but …
AI
I was losing tasks across five products, three AI agents, and my own head. Something had to give. I had already built ClawDeck, an open-source kanban board for AI agents. It …
AI
I’m building, shipping, and running five products and a staff augmentation company. At any given moment there are 15 things competing for attention and I’ll have three …
AI
A few weeks ago I shipped ClawDeck as a weekend project. A kanban board where your OpenClaw AI agent can pick up tasks, move cards, and work through your boards on its own. I …
Product
I was paying around $250/month for email services I barely used. Kit for one product. Mailchimp for another. Separate accounts for Gratu, tini.bio, mx.works, ClawDeck, …
AI
Over the weekend I built ClawDeck, with the assistance of my bot, Maxie. It’s a kanban mission control for your OpenClaw bot. The idea is simple. Take the simplicity of a …
Product
This week I started posting TikTok slideshows for Gratu. The format is simple: 5-slide photo carousels. Emotional hook on slide 1, story in the middle, app screenshots and CTA at …
Product
We shipped tini.bio 2.0 this week. Complete rebuild from the ground up. The old version worked. But watching how people used it, I realized the CMS-style interface was too …
Product
Something shifted with tini.bio over the past few weeks. Signups are up around 150% from normal. About 20 new users a day now, which for a quiet little product is a lot. The …
Process
I keep seeing the same pattern play out in the startup ecosystem. Founders spend two months in “discovery.” Workshops. User interviews. Competitor analysis. Stakeholder …
Design
I used to spend days in Figma. Pixel-perfect prototypes. Auto-layout nightmares. Obsessing over spacing and hover states before I even knew if the idea worked. The process felt …
Updates
For those of you who know me, you know I’ve been building products and teams for over 18 years. Design, engineering, strategy. Startups, agencies, big companies. I’ve …
Development
I just shipped this site. Built it myself, as one person, in about a week of focused work. Here’s how. The Stack Figma for design. I started there because I think visually …
Updates
This idea has been forming for a while. For years I’ve watched the same pattern play out. I help someone build a product. It ships. It grows. They own it, I move on. Repeat. …