Gabe Mays

I finally built Mathy, a little project I’ve been thinking about for a couple years.

This is my 4-year investment update following buying the dip on ‘pandemic stocks’ that declined (70%+) in 2022, then reallocating into AI stocks in 2023.

I finally hit 1,000 days of doing math daily!

Over the last few months I went deep burning ~$1,000/month on tokens building various ‘agent-native’ products and trying new things.

HaaS will be the new SaaS…but we’ll still call it SaaS because it’s all just software.

The AI boom is exciting, there’s so much opportunity and so much to build at the application layer.

Most of my experience with AI had been retrofitting: Incorporating AI into existing software and codebases.

If AI isn’t writing 50%+ of your code by the end of the year, you’re moving too slow and you’ll get lapped by the next competitor who does.

Time-based estimates don’t make sense when your pair programmer is an AI.

The biggest bet in tech right now isn’t a deliberate decision, but rather the result of company cultures that were a benefit until they weren’t.

This is my 3-year investment update following buying the dip on ‘pandemic stocks’ that declined (70%+) in 2022.

Heuristic ([H]) or bot ([B]) contests are a killer way to improve your programming, problem-solving, and prototyping skills.

I was having trouble charging my phone (iPhone 12 Pro Max) yesterday and wondered how old it was.

I recently crossed 500 days of practicing math daily with Math Academy.

I’ve been consistently impressed with how fast new, AI-native companies are growing.

I bought the dip on several ‘pandemic stocks’ that had significant declines (70%+) in 2022 and started sharing public updates 1-2 times a year.

Historically, startups had an innovation advantage because incumbents were slow to adopt new technologies.

For context, I bought several ‘pandemic stocks’ following the dip in 2022.

Update: We shutdown POPSMASH.

Olivia Moore recently posted a thread on Twitter about retention in AI consumer products: It got my wheels turning, forcing me to flesh out my intuitions and assumptions about retention with consumer AI products.

Today, consumers are overwhelmed by choice.

In the past, disruption was about whether or not incumbents adopt new technologies.

AI is a great marketing term to describe your product, but setting out to build ‘AI’ products often leads to poor results.

Update: See my daily math streak progress here I recently passed 100 days of practicing math every single day I’ve wanted to beef up my math chops for a while, but I needed a good reason that would justify the time investment.

I used WordPress for over 15 years — it’s a solid tool if you need everything it offers.

This is a list of questions I’ve collected over the years that resonate with my business and product philosophies.

I am sharing this since this may not be common knowledge for some: Due to the current high-interest rates, you’ll earn much more on your savings in a money market account compared to a standard savings account.

I was only planning on giving annual updates but opted to give this 18-month update, given the changes I made a couple of months ago to rebalance my portfolio.

This post was prompted by Li Jin’s piece stating that the barrier to crypto’s mainstream adoption is product-market fit: Li cites examples like Facebook and the iPhone.

Remember the .mobi domain?

Last year there was a post asking what folks were doing to profit from the current/upcoming recession on Hacker News.

There’s a question on Hacker News about what people were doing to profit from the current/upcoming recession in 2022.

On Hacker News I came across a thread with some good insight into app developer experience at Shopify: The interesting thing about app ecosystems is that, in a way, they’re similar to social networks from a creator perspective: App developers and creators…

A recent article on Stratechery connected a few dots for me on digital transformations and how tech evolves.

WordPress is the largest CMS in the world, powering ~1/3 of all websites.

I didn’t start working in tech until my late 20’s.