A dream come true

I had a terrible FOMO reading industry Twitter where "coding is solved" and autonomous agents build an enitre browser without human input. So I spent 25+ hours this week building a useful tool for myself to get the intuition of what LLMs are *really* capable of. 1/n

Let me google this for you → let me deep research this for you

I wish my favourite apps and creators were supported by some magic pixie gold dust. But the reality is usually either surveillance capitalism or fleeting enthusiasm. That's why I pay for the things I appreciate, and I think you should too. newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/pay-...

We've made it with uncommon care 🥲

Turns out, my vacuum cleaner can suck harder than @sacramentokings.bsky.social

My favourite chart from our year-in-review article — monthly sales & marketing expenses. At some point, we stopped doing "startup marketing": no ads, no SEO, no paid influencers, no stupid ProductHunt launches. −85% marketing budget +85% revenue growth What a coincidence 🙃

How the 3-minute ravioli save me from spiraling into self-loathing: newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/fail...

I have not edited the HTML, ClickUp really says that on their homepage 🤦

Four horsemen of the curiosity apocalypse: “You don’t know THIS?! That’s elementary school material!” “I'll study computer science because it’s in demand right now. “ “I’ll read it later.” “Why are you sitting at the computer all day? Go read a book!” newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/prot...

Someone has leaked our entire strategy doc for 2026 🫠

For a nice change, here's a small, practical, and maybe even actionable newsletter issue. (back to introspection next week, though 😅) newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/two-...

— What do you do for a living? — I’m a nurse. And you? — 😰😰😰 For a long time, conversations like this have been awkward for me. Not only don’t I have a satisfying public-facing answer, but I've also struggled to find a concise explanation for myself. newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/what...

It's this time of the year

"I tell myself my data obsession helps me stay grounded in objective reality, but it often borders on OCD and ends up feeding my anxiety. Knowing that about myself, I’m cautious about what I measure in the first place." newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/dont...

Something I am proud of

Buying apples always feels like a lottery to me, as I cannot for the life of me remember which varieties I like. These folks are my champions 😍.

"It’s awkward to admit, but helping strangers has never been a strong enough motivation for me to sustain any serious project. I’m always happy to help with a stroller, but I’d never start a project that builds thousands of ramps across the world." newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/scra...

Why I’m purposely bad at tolerating chronic unhappiness: newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/unha...

This essay won’t disappear in 24 hours. Read it at your convenience. newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/not-...

Neglect, accumulate, dread. Start from scratch. newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/writ...

Here are the tracking settings for my newsletter. Your peace of mind, my peace of mind.

Ten years ago, I sent a cold email that affects my life today newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/writ...

Asking candidates why we should NOT hire them has turned out to be a remarkable filter: newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/why-...

I'm starting a quiet weekly newsletter: newsletter.antoniokov.com/archive/star...

So I have a basic website now: before → after antoniokov.com

So glad I never used my initials to tag my work

In B2B SaaS, "free" plan usually means a camouflaged extended trial. Not in @fibery.bsky.social. A customer who signed up in 2019 has just converted—2067 days of free usage, our new record.

We are hiring a full-time role for the first time in two years! Remote, CET±3. Join us to help our beloved (and confused) customers master Fibery. Create tutorials & user guides and help us to simplify the product so that most people wouldn't need them.

A fascinating story of how Soundslice built a feature into their product because ChatGPT repeatedly and incorrectly told their users that it had already existed. holovaty.com/writing/chat...

Since I switched from Android to iPhone, my favourite flag trivia quiz was gone... ...so I decided to vibe code my own! It took me just 35 minutes of vibe coding and 7 hours of vibe debugging to get there 🥲 The era of hyper-personalized software is (almost) here.

AI-related prediction #10945. In the next year or so, switching SaaS tools will become drastically easier thanks to MCP: "Replicate my @notion.com setup in @fibery.bsky.social as closely as possible, migrate data, and explain the differences" Leading to higher conversions and higher churn.

Dog food tasted good this morning 😅