Archive - Ian Vanagas

Nick Bare and the Hybrid Athlete Cinematic Universe

Creating a brand moat in a wildly competitive industry

Jun 3 •

February 2025

Simplicity is the wrong abstraction

Why building a “simpler” product is simply a bad idea

Feb 19 •

Against Duolingo

Fighting the epidemic of unseriousness

Feb 9 •

December 2024

Where are all the banger blog posts?

You can see the impact of LLMs everywhere except the banger blog post statistics

Dec 20, 2024 •

August 2024

Putting the service back in software as a service

SaaS companies have much to learn about unreasonable hospitality

Aug 16, 2024 •

Are you writing to write or writing to publish?

Real writers publish (that is the whole point)

Aug 1, 2024 •

June 2024

Distributing builder culture

Can bottoms-up communities recreate SF builder culture before it eats them?

Jun 21, 2024 •

Million dollar blog posts

They were out there (and inside you) this entire time.

Jun 16, 2024 •

April 2024

Why spring smells like marbles

A nostalgiapost

Apr 2, 2024 •

December 2023

November 2023: Async, Coworking, French 79

For PostHog, wrote a newsletter on how we work asynchronously, tutorials on Astro and Remix, some docs, and a bunch of “alternatives” pieces. Added a…

Dec 4, 2023 •

November 2023

October 2023: London, Exits, Birthdays

What I Did This Month

Nov 4, 2023 •

October 2023

September 2023: Camping, SQL, Reality

What I Did This Month

Oct 1, 2023 •

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