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I'm Jacob. I run DatePhotos AI, UGCfy AI, FragCut, and a couple of smaller things — all solo, all bootstrapped. No team, no funding, no designer. For about a year now, my de facto cofounder has been Claude. Last week, I shipped my fifth product, Tracetify. It took roughly
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The rapid advancement of information technology throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has fundamentally altered the ways in which information is stored, received, generated, and transmitted. The emergence and widespread integration of innovative tools have significantly expanded human capabilities in executing these processes. Furthermore, this technological shift has fostered a
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We forgot what we were supposed to build In late 2017, my previous co-founders Jannis Pohlmann, Brandon Ramirez, and I spent six months on nights and weekends working through an idea which eventually became The Graph. We were trying to make open data usable while keeping control distributed. Ethereum had
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My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn't learn anything new, as it stopped at my grandparents. I was never very interested in my genealogy, but I decided to see if AI would be
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With AI expanding fast and the debt cycle contracting, the market is moving from abstract positioning to urgent business change. M&A activity is selectively rebounding, private capital is reengaging with clearer conviction, and AI-driven demand is pulling money toward data centers, power, grid capacity, and industrial infrastructure. That
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We trust math. And the math shows that a model that uses five times as many tokens but achieves ten times better outcomes is economically superior, despite higher COGS. So, while charging per token seems to be the default strategy, it is a mistake for most of them. A foundation
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As mentioned in the Series Introduction, Ballast is a foundational piece of the architecture of the Vesper app. Ballast is the architecture of the frontend application, and it is the Kotlin-language interface to the server-side schedules and background queue workloads. An understanding of Ballast and the problems it was designed
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Since the launch of OwlVigil, I have been contemplating a key objective: fully unlocking its capabilities for developers, enabling seamless integration of AI management functionalities and fostering the creation of innovative products built on top of these capabilities. We have developed a comprehensive set of APIs and have been developing
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During the California Gold Rush, hundreds of thousands of people showed up chasing gold. Most of them left with less money than they arrived with. The people who actually got rich weren’t panning in the river. They were named Levi Strauss and Sam Brannan, and they were selling pickaxes,
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The default way schools adopt AI is to send student work to a vendor's cloud. That choice creates three problems at once, and all three land hardest on the schools with the least money. First, student data leaves the building. Minors' writing, questions, and mistakes travel to
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A category-by-category look at autonomous penetration testing, from attack-chain exploitation to continuous retesting Plenty of products wear the "autonomous" label. Fewer earn it. Per the Astra's State of Pentesting research most run a scheduled scanner, match your stack against a CVE list, and hand you a
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I’ve found past Aqara products, like the multipurpose security sensor, particularly useful, but at IFA 2026, the security company is swerving in an entirely new direction: smart lighting. Entering the lighting world is a bold move for Aqara, but I’m not totally surprised. Showing off a suite of
