Recommendation · MoneyThe creator recommends that if you have the ability to introduce outcome-based pricing, you may as well start experimenting with it, because there is clear evidence it is going to be used — pointing to how Anthropic and OpenAI are billing for AI functionality. He notes Anthropic also charges a subscription fee, so outcome-based pricing and subscriptions can work together; you just have to figure out the right points to use each.
MicroConf · AI Generated Apps vs SaaS: Which Moats Still Work in 2026
Recommendation · MoneyThe creator recommends that SaaS founders keep their minds open to regulated-environment niches like HIPAA compliance or industry-specific safety knowledge, calling it a really good space. His reasoning: generated apps are built in a chaotic and random way, and regulation and randomness do not go well together, so AI-generated apps will be really hard to live in regulated environments.
MicroConf · AI Generated Apps vs SaaS: Which Moats Still Work in 2026
Recommendation · MoneyFor a consumer business doing well online, start retail small: shave ~5% off the Meta ad budget (ROAS would be similar), fund a pop-up store, measure its effectiveness, and double down if it works.
Foundr · How Two Aussies Took On Samsonite & Rimowa - and WON ($100M+)
Recommendation · MoneyThe speaker advises against doubling down in the US market — you need millions, and it's the quickest way to burn money. Instead, having found themselves retail-strong, they continue the retail story in Asia and an online story in the US.
Foundr · How Two Aussies Took On Samsonite & Rimowa - and WON ($100M+)
Recommendation · MoneyArmstrong recommends giving an AI agent its own financial account by pasting a single prompt command into the agent; Coinbase provides tools for this with no KYC process.
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
Method · MoneyKent C. Dodds recommends using job-to-be-done language — asking about functional, social, and emotional progress points — to make sure you end up building the right thing, and framing user requests with jobs theory so many requests can be solved with a single solution instead of building each solution as it comes.
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AI Engineer · Build the Right Thing: Product Engineering (Part 2) — Kent C. Dodds, EpicProduct.engineer
Method · MoneyWhen a trace shows a failure, ask: Did it get bad search results (retrieval failure)? Right data but wrong conclusions (reasoning error)? Made up a stock price (hallucination)? Answered outside its domain (scope violation)?
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AI Engineer · From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 101 — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Method · MoneyLaurie Voss explains that anyone who works for Arize will tell you that you only have to add two lines of code to your application to instrument your call. The register function sets up OpenTelemetry, the industry standard for application observability, and OpenInference is a layer on top that adds LLM-specific attributes like prompt text, completion text, token counts, model called, and tools invoked. Pass in the Arize space ID, API key, and a project name when registering the tracer, and point the tracer at AX so traces get grouped in the UI. Instrumentation works with little code because OpenTelemetry is an open standard that nearly everybody uses, and SDK authors (Claude, OpenAI, LangChain) have already written code inside their SDKs that calls OpenInference and sends data back.
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AI Engineer · From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 101 — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Method · MoneyLaurie Voss instructs the audience to generate a body of test data — more than the one trace generated so far — to run meaningful evals. Kick off the 12 test queries in the notebook; they take about five to 10 minutes to run. Diversity in test queries is the key thing: include obvious queries that should work plus edge cases. Use different tickers, different questions, and different levels of complexity to generate test data covering the range of things users will actually ask. Include edge-case queries like giving two tickers (Apple and Microsoft) and asking for a comparison, and include the same tickers multiple times with different questions to observe non-deterministic output, e.g., Amazon profitability trends versus Amazon AWS performance.
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AI Engineer · From Vibes to Production: Evaluating and Shipping AI Agents That Work 101 — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
RecommendationDr Ghayas Issa recommends that at any suspicion of differentiation syndrome, high-dose dexamethasone 10 milligrams twice a day for three days should be given regardless of whether symptoms improve. Because differentiation syndrome can be deadly, it is better to err on the side of steroids than to wait for diagnostic certainty and risk it being too late to correct. A single dose often makes patients feel 100% better, which can serve as diagnostic confirmation, and stopping steroids early risks the syndrome recurring.
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Research To Practice · Acute Myeloid Leukemia — An Interview with Dr Ghayas Issa on the Role of Menin Inhibitors
RecommendationThe key factor for improving durability of response in relapsed/refractory AML patients on menin inhibitors is consolidation with a stem cell transplant.
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Research To Practice · Acute Myeloid Leukemia — An Interview with Dr Ghayas Issa on the Role of Menin Inhibitors
Recommendation · MoneyIn a sales organization turnaround, identify and elevate two early adopters, fire two resistant underperformers, and hire two new people through a revamped process.
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30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #606 - How To Build An Elite Outbound Sales Team (Get Reps Dialing Fast)
Method · MoneyConnect your technical team with the prospect's technical team to bypass skepticism and reach difficult stakeholders — hook your head of AI with their head of AI so they can talk at a level you can't. Match lower-level engineers based on shared interests (e.g., both love Red Dead Redemption 2). Match execs on professional persona and personality — who will they vibe with? This forward-deploys the relationship before the contract is signed.
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30 Minutes to President's Club | No-Nonsense Sales · #608 - How Mapping the "Shadow" Org Chart Got Me to 305% of Quota
Method · MoneyWarrick instructs structuring agent code with Temporal's primitives to track system state: the worker is the thing running the code, the workflow is where steps in the system are tracked (and is deterministic), and activities are the non-deterministic parts interacting with external systems. Model calls (like Invoke the Model) and any other tool calls are set up as activities; steps in the process are set up as workflows.
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AI Engineer · The Human Is an Async API — Melanie Warrick, Temporal
Recommendation · SocialOnly lead the woman to walk once there's been 3-5+ minutes of conversation or she indicates she needs to leave. Leading at 1:20 was premature — there was no reason or need to go for the lead, and premature leading creates an awkward vibe.
Coach Kyle · A Realistic Approach at a Shopping Center (Infield)
Recommendation · MoneyUse AI agents to automate financial administrative overhead, such as filing HSA reimbursements from past receipts or negotiating travel credits for flight price drops.
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The a16z Show · The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan
Recommendation · MoneyJake recommends providing a list of component URLs to an agent and instructing it to create Code Connect using the code in the code base as a reference point.
Figma · My agent army writes Code Connect | Dev Mindset
Recommendation · MoneyJake recommends telling an agent to go through each Code Connect file, get its information from Figma, and make sure it is still up to date, then make the change and publish it back up.
Figma · My agent army writes Code Connect | Dev Mindset
Recommendation · MoneyEvery buyer cares about GRR (Gross Revenue Retention) and NRR (Net Revenue Retention). More than 80% GRR is considered good or great; below 80% disqualifies some buyers. NRR below 100% is so-so; above 120% is world-class. If GRR is 70-75%, take short-term actions to boost it to 80% before going to market, such as switching from paid trials to free trials.
MicroConf · When to Sell Your SaaS Business: How to Get a 5x Better Offer
Recommendation · MoneyMore profit leads to a higher valuation. If you are burning money, get yourself to at least break-even before going to market, as a large number of buyers will disqualify themselves. The step up from negative 10% burn to plus 10% profit is a bigger step up in valuation than going from break-even to plus 20% profit.
MicroConf · When to Sell Your SaaS Business: How to Get a 5x Better Offer