Max Tatton-Brown
@maxtb.com
Really very VERY good takes.
🚀 15 years Product Market Strategy in startups & VCs: GoCardless, Pleo, Unbabel, Creandum ++.
Claude Coder: https://tradespurple.com
🤖 2023/24: new AI startup automating tedious work.
https://productmarketorbit.com
🚀 15 years Product Market Strategy in startups & VCs: GoCardless, Pleo, Unbabel, Creandum ++.
Claude Coder: https://tradespurple.com
🤖 2023/24: new AI startup automating tedious work.
https://productmarketorbit.com
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Max Tatton-Brown
@maxtb.com
· Aug 22
Here we go again
3 Years since #chatGPT - what really mattered?
3 years since ChatGPT: what really mattered?
Working on the Agentic era. Product, marketing, communication.
productmarketorbit.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
3 Years since #chatGPT - what really mattered?
If you don’t indicate on the motorway, I’m running you off the road. It’s for your own good.
August 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you don’t indicate on the motorway, I’m running you off the road. It’s for your own good.
But isn’t the point that it means something different for the majority to flaunt their icons and identity?
They give the example of Welsh flags being flown — a country subjugated and absorbed for centuries by its larger neighbour.
It’s like punching up vs punching down.
They give the example of Welsh flags being flown — a country subjugated and absorbed for centuries by its larger neighbour.
It’s like punching up vs punching down.
Reckon a decade ago the Telegraph reader would have recoiled at the thought of tying flags to lampposts; not for political reasons, but because it would lower the tone of the street, and house prices. Perhaps the British right is more open-minded and demotic now.
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025...
Flying the St George flag should not be controversial
Local authorities are preventing constituents from celebrating their national identities
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
But isn’t the point that it means something different for the majority to flaunt their icons and identity?
They give the example of Welsh flags being flown — a country subjugated and absorbed for centuries by its larger neighbour.
It’s like punching up vs punching down.
They give the example of Welsh flags being flown — a country subjugated and absorbed for centuries by its larger neighbour.
It’s like punching up vs punching down.
Reposted by Max Tatton-Brown
Ubiquitous high quality kids TV is probably the single greatest service the BBC provides
This is a great piece on how Youtube is wrecking kids media (and all other media too). I'm sure treating the attention of little kids as one more resource to exploit for ad dollars will be disastrous in even the medium term
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
A Cheat Code for Parents Isn’t Working Anymore
Deciding what’s enriching for children to watch requires more homework than ever.
www.theatlantic.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Ubiquitous high quality kids TV is probably the single greatest service the BBC provides
Reposted by Max Tatton-Brown
Just wondered what Nigel Farage's page on the Telegraph would look like if you used Javascript to pre-append the phrase "I'm not being racist but" to his every column
August 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Just wondered what Nigel Farage's page on the Telegraph would look like if you used Javascript to pre-append the phrase "I'm not being racist but" to his every column
Today: I cannot believe some coders are only just trying Claude Code.
Tomorrow: I cannot believe everyone isn’t trying Claude Code for all workflows.
Cc @bcherny.bsky.social
Tomorrow: I cannot believe everyone isn’t trying Claude Code for all workflows.
Cc @bcherny.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today: I cannot believe some coders are only just trying Claude Code.
Tomorrow: I cannot believe everyone isn’t trying Claude Code for all workflows.
Cc @bcherny.bsky.social
Tomorrow: I cannot believe everyone isn’t trying Claude Code for all workflows.
Cc @bcherny.bsky.social
Or my technique: screenshot and post from Webmaster tools to Claude Code until everything goes green
Want to build faster websites? Here's how:
- Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint
- Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!)
- Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times
- Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate
Then keep doing that.
- Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint
- Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!)
- Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times
- Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate
Then keep doing that.
August 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Or my technique: screenshot and post from Webmaster tools to Claude Code until everything goes green
If you want your AI to actually be useful and get to know you, you really have to start writing way way more (and not email.)
Writing is the only way for AI to get to know you
Helping founders differentiate in the AI age. Product, marketing, communication. Writing about what's next.
productmarketorbit.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you want your AI to actually be useful and get to know you, you really have to start writing way way more (and not email.)
Blonde chocolate: easily the innovation of my lifetime.
August 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Blonde chocolate: easily the innovation of my lifetime.
This is such a great experience
August 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is such a great experience
OK so I've gone mad and I'm building my consultancy business out of Claude Code #AI subagents. Ask me anything...
productmarketorbit.com/posts/250813...
productmarketorbit.com/posts/250813...
Building a business of Agents with Claude Code
Helping founders differentiate in the AI age. Product, marketing, communication. Writing about what's next.
productmarketorbit.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
OK so I've gone mad and I'm building my consultancy business out of Claude Code #AI subagents. Ask me anything...
productmarketorbit.com/posts/250813...
productmarketorbit.com/posts/250813...
Look, I bought a Van Moof and they went bankrupt. Then I bought a Cake bike and they went bankrupt. So the way I see it, I'm doing you all a favour by not buying a Maeving yet.
Maeving RM1 | Electric Motorcycle | Removable Batteries
Explore the Maeving RM1, a lightweight, fully electric motorcycle with an intuitive twist-and-go throttle—perfect for new riders and inner-city riding. With removable batteries that charge from any st...
maeving.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Look, I bought a Van Moof and they went bankrupt. Then I bought a Cake bike and they went bankrupt. So the way I see it, I'm doing you all a favour by not buying a Maeving yet.
Special day -- easy command to set up Option+Enter for new lines in Claude Code now.
August 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Special day -- easy command to set up Option+Enter for new lines in Claude Code now.
Do people have favourite #markdown tools for #writing ? Using iA Writer at the moment, just because I had it lying around.
Mostly organising my writing for productmarketorbit.com
Mostly organising my writing for productmarketorbit.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Do people have favourite #markdown tools for #writing ? Using iA Writer at the moment, just because I had it lying around.
Mostly organising my writing for productmarketorbit.com
Mostly organising my writing for productmarketorbit.com
Noticing a current of LLM luddite chat on here. I guess people just feel threatened and don't really know what to do about it?
August 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Noticing a current of LLM luddite chat on here. I guess people just feel threatened and don't really know what to do about it?
It’s one of the most amazing things about them, and quite brilliant that they are so valuable in spite of it.
August 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It’s one of the most amazing things about them, and quite brilliant that they are so valuable in spite of it.
Some (again) talk about a time where everyone will make their own software. I don't buy it, and actually I don't want it...
AI (and) building isn't for everyone
Helping founders differentiate in the AI age. Product, marketing, communication. Writing about what's next.
productmarketorbit.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Some (again) talk about a time where everyone will make their own software. I don't buy it, and actually I don't want it...
Following a big new batch of people as I plan to spend more time here. Hello, let’s be the good place eh!
August 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Following a big new batch of people as I plan to spend more time here. Hello, let’s be the good place eh!
An area you might expect to be set up more easily for AIgents like Claude Code to query is github repos. Be nice for it to go and "shop" for what it wants sometimes.
August 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
An area you might expect to be set up more easily for AIgents like Claude Code to query is github repos. Be nice for it to go and "shop" for what it wants sometimes.
New feature! You can now tell me how little you care about my writing on every article on productmarketorbit.com.
What could go wrong!!!
What could go wrong!!!
August 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New feature! You can now tell me how little you care about my writing on every article on productmarketorbit.com.
What could go wrong!!!
What could go wrong!!!
I wrote about making my new website with Lovable/ Claude Code. Might be interesting if you have little practice and thinking about doing the same:
productmarketorbit.com/posts/250811...
productmarketorbit.com/posts/250811...
How I built this (with AI)
Helping founders differentiate in the AI age. Product, marketing, communication. Writing about what's next.
productmarketorbit.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I wrote about making my new website with Lovable/ Claude Code. Might be interesting if you have little practice and thinking about doing the same:
productmarketorbit.com/posts/250811...
productmarketorbit.com/posts/250811...
New idea: habits app that integrates novelty.
I’m bad at habits because they are boring. I need novelty.
Every time the app reminds me to do something, it generates a new insight or reason or tweaks it slightly so it’s not the same thing.
Consistency + novelty is the dream…
I’m bad at habits because they are boring. I need novelty.
Every time the app reminds me to do something, it generates a new insight or reason or tweaks it slightly so it’s not the same thing.
Consistency + novelty is the dream…
August 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
New idea: habits app that integrates novelty.
I’m bad at habits because they are boring. I need novelty.
Every time the app reminds me to do something, it generates a new insight or reason or tweaks it slightly so it’s not the same thing.
Consistency + novelty is the dream…
I’m bad at habits because they are boring. I need novelty.
Every time the app reminds me to do something, it generates a new insight or reason or tweaks it slightly so it’s not the same thing.
Consistency + novelty is the dream…
Full marks to Tesco for believing the buyers of their cheapest cheese puffs are interested in a long history of skilled snack expertise.
July 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Full marks to Tesco for believing the buyers of their cheapest cheese puffs are interested in a long history of skilled snack expertise.
The Economist summer essays issue is just the best money you can spend this week. Somehow they contrast and hit harder alongside AI news elsewhere in the newspaper.
July 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Economist summer essays issue is just the best money you can spend this week. Somehow they contrast and hit harder alongside AI news elsewhere in the newspaper.
Trying Dia browser as my daily driver -- what are the recommended Chrome extensions these days?
July 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Trying Dia browser as my daily driver -- what are the recommended Chrome extensions these days?