Matt Rickard

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11-30-23

Discord and AI GTM

11-23-23

Duties of a Board of Directors

11-14-23

What if Google Wasn’t The Default?

10-30-23

What If OpenAI Builds This?

10-27-23

When A/B Testing Doesn't Work

10-25-23

Positioning Yourself Near the Opportunity

10-07-23

Incentives Behind Programming Languages

10-06-23

3D as the New Modality

09-21-23

Automate (But Automate Last)

09-18-23

Five Principles from Renaissance Technologies

09-17-23

Moving Upmarket

09-13-23

The New Economics of Generating Code

09-12-23

The Inevitability of Scope Creep

09-08-23

The Hardware / Software Cycle

09-06-23

The Widgetification of Apple

08-29-23

The Contrarian Strategy of OpenAI

08-28-23

GitHub Inbox as GTM

08-26-23

The Business Source License

08-18-23

Directly Responsible Individuals

08-06-23

NVIDIA's CUDA Monopoly

08-04-23

Focus On What Could Go Right (Not Wrong)

08-03-23

Apple's Hidden Social Network

07-19-23

Why Did Meta Open-Source Llama 2?

07-13-23

Hard Launches vs. Soft Launches

07-09-23

Towards Technical CEOs

07-08-23

ActivityPub, Decentralization - Do Users Care?

07-04-23

Where AI Fits in Engineering Organizations

07-02-23

Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts

07-01-23

The Circular Startup Economy

06-27-23

06-11-23

The Last Innings of Web 2.0

06-01-23

The End of Public APIs

05-22-23

Twitter and the Idea Maze

04-28-23

Why Multi-Cloud Failed

04-20-23

Peanut Butter Manifesto (2006)

04-09-23

No GPUs before Product-Market Fit

04-06-23

Internet Magic Numbers

04-04-23

Reasons To Do a Startup

04-03-23

The Automation Frontier

04-02-23

Why Open-Source a Model?

04-01-23

Consumption Pricing Units in AI

03-25-23

Necessary Conditions for an App Store Monopoly

03-23-23

Are Incumbents Accruing All The AI Value?

03-20-23

Framework-Defined Infrastructure

03-18-23

The Value of Software Generalists

03-11-23

Automatic1111 and AI Aggregators

03-10-23

03-08-23

Data Local Machine Learning

03-07-23

03-05-23

Will The AI Stack Be Open Or Closed?

03-03-23

Product Windows

03-02-23

ChatML and the ChatGPT API

03-01-23

The Bundling of the Software Developer

02-28-23

Shells and Distribution

02-26-23

Wrong Sequences For Startups

02-23-23

The Connectors/Loaders Trap

02-18-23

Nix Is Fighting The Last War

02-11-23

What Won't Change

02-10-23

Multi-Model vs. Multi-Cloud

02-09-23

Should OSS Projects Have Telemetry?

02-08-23

Reactive Strategy

02-05-23

Composable Models

02-03-23

If It Doesn’t Ship, It Doesn’t Exist

02-01-23

Future is Not Evenly Distributed

01-25-23

Cloud Services Ranked: Build vs. Buy

01-22-23

01-20-23

01-19-23

Cloud Spend Breakdown

01-18-23

Rebuilding in Rust

01-12-23

Minix and nanoGPT

01-11-23

Fully Managed Infrastructure

01-10-23

Lessons from the Last AI Cycle

01-09-23

01-07-23

Semi-Organic Growth

01-06-23

What's Next After NextJS

01-05-23

RPA: The Human Interface

01-04-23

The Implications of More Developers

01-02-23

12-30-22

Local AI: Part 2

12-29-22

Local AI: Part 1

12-24-22

Shortest Time-to-Launch

12-23-22

Software Rewrites

12-21-22

ML Developer Experience

12-20-22

The Architecture of Mastodon

12-19-22

How Did Microsoft Win Back Devs?

12-17-22

The Fall of Freenode

12-16-22

Docker as a DevTool Platform

12-15-22

AI-driven Interfaces

12-13-22

Abstracting the Infrastructure

12-12-22

Lessons from Lensa

12-11-22

12-06-22

Stack Overflow Bans ChatGPT

12-05-22

Will LLMs Disrupt Google Search?

12-04-22

The Frontend Ouroboros

12-02-22

Apple's Enemies

11-27-22

Human-in-the-Loop and Other AI Mistakes

11-23-22

The Cloud Tax Implications

11-20-22

Will Twitter Fail?

11-19-22

Generative AI Value Chain

11-18-22

Amazon's Distributed Computing Manifesto (1998)

11-16-22

Solving the Simple Case

11-15-22

On the Mastodon Experiment

11-14-22

11-11-22

11-07-22

What Happens to Infra Engineers?

11-05-22

UGC: User-Generated Code

11-02-22

Who Pays? The Twitter Blue Check

11-01-22

What If Google Builds This?

10-31-22

Facebook's Culture Book (2012)

10-26-22

Apple's Ad Positioning

10-23-22

Moat By Induction

10-21-22

AI Will Write Most Code

10-20-22

Cloud Repatriation or Not?

10-14-22

Short Taxonomy of Open-Source Strategies

10-11-22

Why Is NixOS Popular Again?

10-09-22

On Web Clipping

10-04-22

Free Compute and Replit

09-30-22

Why Stadia Failed

09-26-22

Startup Ideas I've Considered

09-24-22

What's an MVP in 2022?

09-19-22

Standards, Protocols, and Platforms

09-18-22

Is GitHub a Social Network?

09-16-22

09-02-22

The Unbundling of Twitter

09-01-22

Low-end Disruption of AWS

08-31-22

Why Does Google Kill So Many Products?

08-29-22

08-28-22

Timeline of Early Email

08-25-22

The Value is in the API

08-22-22

r/K Startup Theory

08-21-22

Tool-driven Scientific Revolutions

08-18-22

Friction as a Proxy for Value

08-16-22

Teams, Slack, and Discord in Retrospect

07-29-22

Brooks in Reverse

07-28-22

Don't Be Scared of Cloud Lock-in

07-20-22

Choosing Esoteric Technology

07-16-22

IaC: Strength or Weakness for Cloud Providers?

07-14-22

The Story of CP/M

07-12-22

Distribution in a Downturn

07-09-22

So Easy You Could Run It Yourself

07-05-22

Commoditization of Large Language Models

06-25-22

Asset-lite in an Asset-Heavy Business

06-19-22

Is Snowflake a Platform?

06-16-22

Convergence of DBaaS and BaaS

06-08-22

The Surprising Linearity of GitHub Star Growth

06-07-22

The Centralization of Skype

06-06-22

Usage-based Pricing in a Downturn

06-04-22

Datadog's State of Serverless

06-03-22

06-01-22

Product Velocity of Alternative Cloud Platforms

05-30-22

Interface Decomposition in Cloud

05-27-22

ETL vs. Platform Extensibility

05-23-22

A Universal Package Manager

05-20-22

Crypto Without Blockchains

05-19-22

Streaming Applications

05-18-22

05-17-22

SQLite Renaissance

05-15-22

The Problem of Sharing Code

05-14-22

Stablecoin Depegging

05-13-22

Why Did Heroku Fail?

05-11-22

Future of Passwords

05-05-22

API Aggregators Aggregating Aggregators

05-02-22

{Java,Py}Script

05-01-22

The M:N API Problem

04-30-22

Ethereum Transaction Fees

04-28-22

What's Holding Monorepos Back?

04-27-22

Path Dependence

04-26-22

Improving Twitter

04-24-22

Innovation Tokens

04-23-22

Permissionless Reckoning

04-22-22

Chekhov's Gun of Product Development

04-21-22

Why Do Protocols Win?

04-19-22

Less Sticky SaaS

04-18-22

Only the Paranoid Survive

04-17-22

Stitching Together SaaS

04-14-22

Cathedral and Bazaar Startups

04-12-22

Why So Many Outages?

04-09-22

Every Unix Command Becomes a Startup

04-07-22

Shift Left: Observability at the Edge

04-06-22

NFT and Email Spam

03-30-22

Lagging vs. Leading Indicators

03-28-22

Threat of the Hard Fork

03-23-22

SaaS is the New Microservices

03-22-22

Working on the Right Problems

03-21-22

Trends from The Enterprise 30

03-20-22

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

03-15-22

GitHub Isn't About Code

03-14-22

youtube-dl and Google

03-09-22

Exponential Trends

03-01-22

Giving It Away For Free

02-26-22

Why First Mover Advantage is Overrated

02-23-22

02-22-22

Don't Ship an Architecture

02-21-22

Total Cost of Ownership and Crypto

02-16-22

What is Dog Fooding, Fish Fooding a Product?

02-14-22

Cutting Out the Middleman

02-08-22

02-07-22

Platform vs. Publishers

02-06-22

Onion Futures Act and Saturated Channels

02-05-22

Commoditized Trust

02-04-22

02-03-22

Behind the $325mm Blockchain Hack

02-01-22

Okta's 2022 Business at Work

01-30-22

Building the VPC Layer for Cloud

01-27-22

Dumb (and Free) Interchange

01-24-22

S3 Isn't Getting Cheaper

01-23-22

Negative Value Features

01-20-22

Antitrust Opportunity

01-18-22

Layer Above, Layer Below

01-16-22

Notes from Behind the Cloud

01-15-22

Best Tech Acquisitions of All Time

01-14-22

Code or Issues in DevOps Platform(s)?

01-10-22

Too Cheap to Meter

01-08-22

The Story of Adobe

01-06-22

Losing Sleep Over Java

12-30-21

Expert Networks

12-29-21

Open Customer Data

12-25-21

Capturing Digital Identity

12-14-21

Unused Gift Cards are Great Business

12-03-21

Every DevOps Company is an Observability Company

11-30-21

On Centralization

11-28-21

Calculating Willingness to Pay

11-27-21

Browse Now, Pay Later

11-26-21

Netlify, Vercel, and AWS Amplify

11-25-21

Cloud Marketplaces

11-18-21

Being Wrong on Hacker News

11-16-21

The Collision Course of Databricks and Snowflake

11-12-21

A Browser for Developers

11-11-21

How to Beat Google Search

11-08-21

11-03-21

11-02-21

Niche Communities

10-29-21

10-28-21

Technical Wedges

10-16-21

Top-Down JAMStack vs. Cloud

10-15-21

The GitLab Upgrade

10-11-21

Calculating SaaS Retention

10-08-21

Open Source Reckoning

10-04-21

Sales Compensation at GitLab

10-02-21

Egregious Egress and Disruption

10-01-21

The Puzzling Corporate Archaeology of MIPS

09-29-21

Extending Applications with WebAssembly

09-27-21

Go-to-market Strategy

09-24-21

Commoditizing Your Complements in the Cloud Era

09-23-21

A Public Public Company

09-22-21

The Unbundling of the Software Developer

09-20-21

Thinking Like a Contrarian With Counter-Positioning

09-19-21

Remote Developer Environments are Cool Again (Kind of)

09-14-21

Email is Back in Vogue

09-13-21

Net Dollar Retention

09-08-21

The Mother of All Demos

09-06-21

09-05-21

09-03-21

Product-Led Sales Efficiency at GitLab

08-30-21

SaaS Isolation Patterns

08-24-21

What Low-Code Lacks

08-20-21

Potential Energy in Startups

08-18-21

Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept

08-14-21

Cheap and Expensive

08-13-21

Non-Consensus Right

08-05-21

Unexpected Developer Trends

08-04-21

Real Options Valuation

08-01-21

Economics of Bundling and Unbundling

07-31-21

07-25-21

The IKEA Effect in Software Development

07-24-21

Why The Dow Jones is a Lousy Index

07-20-21

Open-Source and Firm-Specific Training

07-16-21

A History of 'Welcome, seriously' Ads

07-15-21

A Personal Internet

07-11-21

JEDI Mind Tricks

07-09-21

Avoiding People at Work

07-06-21

Dynamics of Switching Costs

07-05-21

High-Velocity Decision-Making

07-01-21

What is MicroSaaS?

06-29-21

Steven P. Jobs and Pixar Employees Buy Pixar

06-25-21

Foundational Products

06-24-21

How Startups Grew by Platform Hacking

06-23-21

Live Programming

06-20-21

Platform Advantage: Velocity

06-19-21

The End of Per-node Pricing

06-18-21

Software Wants to be Simple

06-16-21

Everything is a Browser

06-13-21

Asynchronous Communication

06-12-21

The Post-Modern Web

06-11-21

Why Developers Will Win the Creator Economy

06-10-21

Build a Team of Rivals

06-09-21

Comparative Advantage and Why PMs Shouldn't Write SQL Queries

06-08-21

The Case For XCode Cloud

06-06-21

Getting to Market With Rails

06-05-21

The Developer Economy

06-04-21

APIs Will Disrupt Rpa. This Is Obvious to Engineers.

06-03-21

Organic Cloud Infrastructure

06-02-21

Usage or Subscription Pricing

05-31-21

Inorganic Growth at Zynga

05-29-21

What's Measured Gets Managed

05-28-21

Why Do Companies That Sell APIs Have Such Low Churn Rates?

12-12-20

Sales Calculus, Part 1: Scaling

07-05-20

The Negative Operating Cycle

10-08-18

Offline is a Feature, Not a Product