Posts tagged #startups

4 posts

• Island of Misfit Startups: Part I (LensReader) January 12, 2026

  Algorithmic feeds are bad for your brain. This startup is vitamins for your brain.

• Paul Graham Can Kiss My App November 4, 2025

  Why I'm intentionally building Taleway wrong (no accounts, no UI, no engagement metrics) and why that might be exactly right for 2025

• Build Bridges, Not Moats October 31, 2025

  Prognistication and contemplation of the nature of sustainable competition, circa 2025

• Against the Grain: How We Built the Next Generation Online Travel Agency using Amazon, Clojure, and a Comically Small Team May 2, 2012

  The story of how we fired everyone, rewrote everything in Clojure, moved to AWS, and built a scalable OTA platform with just four developers—then got acquired by the biggest hotel chains in the world.