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Using Stripe data across about 181,000 subscription businesses, Mack Grenfell argues the SaaS slowdown became visible in October, when median revenue growth turned negative across most peer groups. He suggests the bigger problem is fewer new signups, likely driven by AI-fueled competition rather than customer churn.

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Steve King builds a real order fulfilment flow to show how a workflow engine handles long-running processes in Laravel. The post covers steps, signals, retries, branching, human approval, compensation, and the surrounding tooling in one practical example.

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Seth Godin shares a compact set of pricing truths about value, story, and perception. It is especially good on why the right answer to "that's too expensive" is often a better story, not a lower price.

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A good reminder that trust matters more than ever when every week brings another AI-made product. The post argues that real faces, founder stories, and a visible reputation help both people and LLMs trust what you build.

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A Berkeley Haas study of 200 employees found that AI makes workers take on more, not less. The productivity gains are real, but exhausting.

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A simple scoring system for deciding what to build next. Score each idea on Strategic Heft, Income potential, and Perspiration (effort), then rank them to find your highest-ROI opportunities.

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The open question, then, is not whether industrial software will dominate, but what that dominance does to the surrounding ecosystem.

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Your company will stop growing sooner than you think. The “Max MRR” metric predicts revenue plateaus based on churn and new revenue.

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It’s the start of a new fiscal year. Strategy season. That time when all the grand ideas come out and everyone is still hopefull.

Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s enviroment, I thought I’d share it here.

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This article shares specific, actionable advice for early-stage startups building dev tools in particular.

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Playing software development on Nightmare difficulty

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Some good advice by Michele Hansen

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Sometimes the extreme is surprisingly appropriate. Unique business models emerge when at least one dimension is so extreme that it defies critics and competitors to even conceive of its possibility.

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Here's how Wes Bos goes about adding PPP for his courses.

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Here's the story behind JMac's efforts making Laravel Shift a success.

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Everybody makes fuckups. When you do, don't be ashamed, just try to learn from it.

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In this stream I share how Mattias Geniar and I started and are growing Oh Dear. Halfway the stream, Simon Bennet joins me to talk about Snapshooter.

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After more than 2 years of building Oh Dear, I still struggle with the most fundamental question: how are users finding our application and where should we focus our marketing efforts to maximize that?

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Ian Landsman, one of the organisers behind Laracon Online, shares how he and his team have been running the succesfull online conference these past few years.

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