We cover everything from interview prep and data quality struggles to the eternal "just a small schema change".

Each question gets four different perspectives from @seattledataguy.bsky.social, @hachej.bsky.social, @mehdio.com, and me, with practical wisdom that goes beyond the hype.

I think it will change the fundamentals of the business long term. Short term, a lot of noise and spikes.

You are right; I've seen, for instance, Supabase putting some rules to set projects on pause, close inactive projects pretty aggressively after 7 days.

Ok, the third point may be a bit far-fetched. Or not. You’ll never know. 😈

3. Build an agent based on that content — digitally clone myself and go on holiday for the next 6 months

WAIT, first time in NL while living in UK ? You do know that Tokyo is kinda of a detour right ?

Right, that’s a fair take. And it’s definitely true — I’ve seen several solopreneurs willing to drop a product because it wasn’t worth their time anymore, and looking to sell.

Thanks for the feedback — you’re right, I could’ve added a bit more framing to better match the title. My thinking was that startups are nimble, giants have capital and reach, and it’s the middle that ends up getting squeezed.

Do you actually need to scale? I get it if you’re a VC-backed company—but if you’re bootstrapped, sometimes enough is enough. I know people who intentionally don’t scale because they feel it would mean dealing with too many people—and more problems.

Just basic typescript/react/nextjs and some python pipeline to fetch the content

mehdio.com

For now, you can search through all my past YouTube videos.

Still polishing a few edges, but once it’s ready, I’ll open source everything and share the process in a new blog and video.