Andrei Gec

Build and traverse linked lists, reason about pointer updates and complexity, and choose the right structure for your workload. gec.dev/articles/linked-list…

One of the simplest forms of market research: Find a successful product. Read hundreds of its negative reviews. Ignore the one-off complaints. Find the same three problems people mention repeatedly. Build around those.

A lot of founders want a market with: zero competition massive demand premium pricing easy distribution low churn Yes, so does every other founder!

What's one development habit you've completely dropped since you started using AI? I’ve completely dropped the habit of spending hours Googling errors and debugging code manually. 🤖 Now, I use AI to quickly identify bugs, explain the issue, and suggest solutions. It saves so much time! 🚀

A business model people underestimate: Find an expensive product customers already understand: strip out the enterprise clutter, make switching painless and charge less. Canva did a good job taking on photoshop. Are you taking on a big competitor?

How much MRR would your side project need to bring in before you quit your day job?

If everything has to go perfectly on launch day for your product to work, maybe the product isn’t as good as you think. Is it value—or hype?

What feature made it into your product simply because AI made the implementation easy?

Vibe coders, how much are you spending on tech each month? Curious about subscriptions, hosting, and everything in between.

The most useful AI skill right now is knowing when not to use it. Need to rename a variable or fix a typo? Just do it. Save AI for the work that actually eats your week.

Being a solo founder is fun until you remember: $0 MRR. $0 salary. No backup plan.

Think again on ultra high youtu.be/WV6A1Zf3F2Q

Do you trust ai with direct prod database access? I never get it to write rows directly, but it's pretty handy to have read access for debugging. I wonder how people ensure that PII is never accessed by AI...?

Your first business is an education in creating value. Revenue may come later; the working model you build along the way is the payoff.

Saying no to a feature request is harder than building it. Yes feels like progress. No feels like leaving money on the table. What feature request did you turn down this month?

Name an app with 0 haters I'll go first: Gmail. It's hard to hate something that good that is free!

Trace MessagePack bytes, round-trip JavaScript data, and decide when binary serialization is worth its integration cost. gec.dev/articles/messagepack…

Maybe your product isn’t stuck—it just hasn’t reached the right people. If nobody saw it, you haven’t tested the product—you’ve tested your distribution.

Would you rather have 10000 free users or 10 paying users on your app?

Bit of a gap of mine, but how important actually is DR? Have people seen substantial Seo increases with higher DR?