Posts tagged #startups

9 posts

• The Involuntary Entrepreneur April 27, 2026

  I have a stupidity detector. It fires whether I want it to or not. Two market shapes set it off (larval and fossilized) and the tax shows up whether or not anyone credits the work.

• Distribution is Dead April 4, 2026

  I built a product that solves a real problem. The internet doesn't care. Here are my four options, all of them bad.

• Island of Misfit Startups: Part IV (SkyVida) February 16, 2026

  You can't file a flight plan for a million delivery drones.

• Island of Misfit Startups: Part III (Mini Cricket) January 19, 2026

  $100 helmet-mounted edge AI that buzzes 'INCOMING DRONE' before the human ear even registers the sound.

• Island of Misfit Startups: Part II (KesslerGym) January 15, 2026

  Train your satellite AI for Tuesday in LEO with bad data. A 'messy reality' simulation environment for autonomous space traffic management.

• 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.