Andrey Zagoruiko

How I built Recowork, my own Claude Desktop clone, with Tauri, GLM-5.2, the Claude Agent SDK, and sandboxed Apple containers — for about a dollar in tokens.

AI genuinely sucks at making diagrams with Mermaid — here's why it fails and how I fixed it by building an AI-first diagramming tool.

Verbatim quotes from Dean Williams' classic talk 'Trying Too Hard' on investing, expertise, and the trap of overcomplication.

An analysis of Cursor's business model, pricing strategy, and product approach — and what the AI code editor gets right that others don't.

Notes from Keith Johnstone's 'Impro' on how status dynamics govern human interactions — and why every conversation is a status game.

Five major lessons from Alex Zhu, the Musical.ly cofounder, on building social products — notes from his interview with Josh Elman.

A living collection of product thinking frameworks, mental models, and half-formed product ideas I keep coming back to.