Matt Collins

We’re at an interesting but confusing point in time.

Cloudflare’s ‘Code Mode’ got some attention in the AI developer community recently, thanks to a popular blog post about it.

Heard of ‘AI slop’?

Journalists sometimes get things wrong.

I’ve heard a few people say that, since generative AI systems can hallucinate, we’re alway going to have to double-check their work in great detail if we want to be confident it’s correct.

It is now clear: AI is transforming how software is developed.

What if AI could help you generate ideas for products and build them?

I heard about FastHTML a few months back and was immediately intrigued by its pitch: “Modern web applications in pure Python Built on solid web foundations, not the latest fads – with FastHTML you can get started on anything from simple dashboards to scal…

Lots of people are starting to explore what can be done with agent-based AI systems.

As of 27th September 2023, the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) has ended its strike with the big studios, having reached a tentative agreement with the big studios that will now be voted on by the WGA’s members.

[Edit: I wrote this a while ago and I’d now recommend you look at the idea of ‘evals’ as a way to approach this.]

If you’re looking to name a new company or product, it can be tricky to know how to go about it.

The idea of product-led growth is an appealing one to many company leaders.

How do you feel about your company’s product vision, product strategy and product roadmap?

One of the interesting things about online marketplaces is their inherent network effects.

Solving the chicken-and-egg problem is a key one for any marketplace business.

How do you find and hire a CTO for your business?

If you’re interested in how to start a successful marketplace, Matt Mickiewicz is a man to study.

What makes some online marketplaces billion dollar successes and others costly failures?

How do you build an online marketplace from scratch?

What churn rate can you expect for your subscription box business?

You have a WordPress blog or website.

I always like hearing how entrepreneurs have managed to launch marketplace businesses.

PandoDaily have been running a series of articles lately on ‘ecommerce 2.0’, featuring video clips from a dinner with the CEOs of some of the top ecommerce startups: Birchbox, Warby Parker, One Kings Lane and Jack Threads.

iPad Share of Visits Up 23% In the month before Christmas, 13.2% of our unique visits came from iPads.

Screen Pages, a UK ecommerce agency, publish some great data on their blog.

This is a great TED talk: Rory Sutherland makes an entertaining case for thinking more about psychology in the way we design and enhance things (and less about technology).

According to an email I’ve just received from Google, they are today rolling out Google +1 Recommendations to all users.

What’s a typical retention rate for a subscription commerce business?

The latest Grovo ‘Expert Series’ video is an interesting one.

Working out how to accept payments online is a pain.

It’s 11.38pm as I’m starting to write this, so I’ll keep it brief.

I told you about an interesting interview with the Bonobos founder last week on a site called Grovo.

Google AdWords has revenues of $30 billion or so a year.

I came across an online education website called Grovo this evening.

I want to like Google.

There’s been a lot of interest in the subscription e-commerce business model lately.

You’ve started your business, but money’s tight.

People sometimes ask me if I’ve found having an MBA helpful in starting businesses.

If you’re setting up a web-based business in London, there are lots of resources that can come in handy once you know about them.

I’ve recently launched a new subscription e-commerce business and it turns out we’re in a hot space again (as we were with DealBunch and the daily deal phenomenon last year)… Boudoir Privé is all about meeting the desire that a lot of women have for beauty

Are you thinking of setting up a two-sided marketplace business?

What will local advertising look like a few years from now?

Google today announced ‘Boost’ a new, simplified self-service ad offering.

Patrick over at Micro ISV on a Shoestring has a fantastic post summarising lessons learnt at the recent Business of Software 2010 Conference.

I was just making a payment via PayPal and discovered that PayPal have a new checkout page.

I spend a lot of time with people who know a lot about the web.

Could you be saving yourself time and money with a PSD to HTML service?

Very soon, together with my co-founders, I’m going to be launching a new venture.