Everyone suddenly wants to tell you SaaS is dead. The Klarna-replaced-Salesforce story spread because it fit the mood, whatever the exact boundary between “…
What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026
In case you quietly filed Point Nine under “boring SaaS investor” … well, first of all, I’m not going to blame you. We’ve been investing in…
ServiceNow Stock Tumbles 50% in a Year: Good Earnings Don't Stop 'Death of SaaS' | Salesforce Ben
ServiceNow's stock has experienced an 11% decline on the day of their Q4 announcements and a 50% decline over the past year.
Death of the Killer App
I was telling a friend yesterday about how most of my development time is going to Winesky, but a non-insignificant amount of mental bandwidth is going to exploring other side projects, ideas, and sma
Why the next professional network will look nothing like LinkedIn
As LinkedIn unbundles, SaaS companies emerge as leaders of the new professional networks
Apple Can ‘Distill’ Google’s Big Gemini Model
Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the company’s new "Spud” model and its decision to shut down the Sora video app and application programming interface, which we scooped on Tuesday. (For what the company’s organizational structure looks like ...
OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’ | TechCrunch
"Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.
We’re in the middle of a perfect storm for rollback of the “open web” and burgeoning online surveillance
Looking at fallout of the KOSA hearings today — and subsequent commentary — I remain optimistic for the development of social technology & communication but I’m beginning to think the ope…
"The S is for surveillance": fighting KOSA and bad internet bills in the ATmosphere and the fediverses
Part 2 of The Time Is Right: shifting from theory to practice.
The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter
The common forum that Elon Musk destroyed will never be replaced—and that’s okay.
Stack overflow is almost dead
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
Something’s Rotten in the State of macOS Icon Design
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
it's not abandoned. we iterated on the communities concept after you left. it's on the horizon. events are top of funnel. goal is to harness these to draw people into communities. come for the event, find your niches (communities), and then connect with people in more siloed / private spaces.
Post-appitalism rejects the super-app as a meaningful alternative to todays app-based production of software. An app that becomes so big that it starts sucking in smaller apps perpetuates the same dynamics no matter how well integrated the smaller apps can be.
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