Startup Ops
I Used to Handle Marketing. Now I Manage Coding Agents Too.
Coding agents have changed my working day. I still have to decide who the products are for, and I want more than my own assumptions to work with.
Sep 29, 2026
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SaaS
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Startup Ops
AI UGC for $0? Seedance 2.5 Still Bills the Retakes
Seedance 2.5 made one AI UGC take cheap and folded voice and lip-sync into it. The $0 posts count one kept take, not the retakes, the script, or the face.
Sep 28, 2026
Startup Ops
AI Avatar Pricing Has No Common Unit. Here Is One.
One launch page lists four starting prices for the same AI avatar model. How to turn AI avatar pricing into one comparable number, and where you can't.
Sep 25, 2026
Startup Ops
What One Second of AI Video Costs Us, Layer by Layer
One clip passes through five paid layers. We measured one of them with a wallet. The rest are price lists and estimates, and that gap is the honest answer.
Sep 24, 2026
Engineering
The Bill Is Authorised by Delivery, Not by Your Spend
Paying a vendor feels like it should authorise charging the client. It does not, and the wording that says it does once billed 900 credits for a video that did not exist.
Sep 18, 2026
Startup Ops
Nobody Selling AI Video Will Tell You What a Video Costs
Three vendors, three pricing pages, and not one of them answers what a thirty-second video costs. The unit is credits, and what a credit buys is left undefined.
Sep 18, 2026
Startup Ops
The Cheapest Way to Run an AI Product Is to Not Pay for It
Three products now let the user's own Claude plan pay for inference. Anthropic's terms permit one shape of that and ban another, and you cannot tell which.
Sep 17, 2026
Engineering
We Charged 900 Credits for a Video That Didn't Exist
Our billing rule said: failed run after a paid vendor call means we charge. It sounded fair. On a run that only paid for speech, it was false, and it cost a customer.
Sep 3, 2026
AI & Automation
Project Glasswing: The Patch Window Is Dead
Project Glasswing found 10,000+ severe bugs with AI. Small SaaS teams need shorter patch loops, cleaner dependency inventory, and agent audit trails.
May 26, 2026
Startup Ops
The 3 Moats That Survive Vibe-Coding
Anyone can vibe-code your app in an afternoon. Three moats still hold: distribution, network effects, and data partnerships. Here's which ones we're betting on.
May 18, 2026
AI & Automation
AI SEO Agents Need Proof, Not More Posts
AI SEO is becoming an evidence operation, not a bulk publishing contest. Google says generative AI can help with research and structure, but scaled pages without added user value may violate its scaled content abuse policy (Google Search Central, 2025). The takeaway for founders is direct: feed your agent proof. That means Search Console patterns, real customer examples, source context, and a standing list of refresh tasks.
May 15, 2026
AI & Automation
Google Remy Is the Agent Test for Founders
Google Remy shows personal AI agents are moving from chat to action. Here is what solo founders should audit before trusting one with real work.
May 8, 2026