OpenCode, an open-source AI coding harness, has grown from 650,000 to nearly 8 million monthly active users in months. Co-founder Dax Raad discusses how the company turned Anthropic's blocking of Clau…
Conductor, a multi-agent IDE startup founded by former Vercel employee Charlie Holtz, launched Cloud Workspaces built on Vercel Sandboxes to enable developers to run multiple parallel coding agents re…
Tasmap, a new mapping platform described as "Canva for Maps," launched to allow users to create clean, customizable interactive maps without hiring experts. The service offers AI-assisted tools for bu…
Shalin and Kanyes, cofounders of Hyper, launched a self-serve version of their "second brain" AI software that integrates personal context to automate tasks. The founders, who previously built robots …
Lenny Rachitsky, author of the "Lenny's Newsletter," has curated a list of 36 essential books for product builders, organized by specific development goals such as improving communication and executio…
An AI Engineer at Notion who is also a parent of two young children has averaged two commits per day to a side project over three months by coding entirely on a phone. The developer uses an "encapsula…
Confluent Cloud launched a new enterprise knowledge management architecture using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that connects large language models to real-time streaming data, replacing batch-…
PlainMarkdown v1.6 now offers one-click conversion of any web page into clean Markdown, with integrated AI actions and direct exports to Obsidian, Readwise, and Notion. The free tier provides 30 AI ac…
The article argues that while AI tools like Claude Code can quickly generate functional software, they currently fail to create products with good user interface, user experience, and security. The au…
The article describes six free, browser-based developer tools created by the author to solve common friction points, including an AI prompt cost calculator, a cron expression generator, a self-hosted …
The author canceled their $20 Claude Cowork subscription after switching to OpenWork, an open-source, free AI coding tool that handled real tasks without requiring configuration. OpenWork impressed th…
Exa raised $250 million at a $2.2 billion valuation in a Series C round, Modal raised $355 million at a $4.7 billion valuation in a Series C round, and Turbopuffer reached $100 million in annual recur…
AI workflows often fail at scale not because the AI itself malfunctions, but due to "automation debt"—structural weaknesses in the underlying architecture that become catastrophic under higher volume.…
At Google I/O ‘26, Google announced new cost-effective frontier models for startups, including Gemini 3.5 Flash for agentic tasks and Gemini Omni for dynamic video content creation. The company also i…
PromptCache is a centralized prompt management platform that allows developers to version, manage, and deploy AI prompts like code, using a TypeScript SDK and REST API. It solves the problem of scatte…
A new workspace platform is integrating 80% of the functionality from seven separate tools — including Jira, Slack, Notion, Figma, and coding environments — into a single graph-based system to elimina…
Productivity and infrastructure companies must now design for AI agents as their primary users, not humans, as agents increasingly handle tasks that people once performed manually. Traditional metrics…
Notion engineer Ryan Nystrom detailed the company's spec-driven development workflow, where engineers dictate ideas into OpenAI's Whisper, have Codex format them as specs, commit them to the repositor…
Notion launched an official MCP integration approved by Anthropic, allowing Claude to access Notion workspaces as a secondary consumer of existing knowledge. LoreDocs offers an alternative approach wh…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has selected 65 fellows for the inaugural cohort of its Growth Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week program for growth engineers and AI-native leaders. The fellows, who come from …