One million

What got our start-up to one million users against all odds. Hint: it was curation for the masses.

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Recently, we purchased one of each Anthropic/OpenAI subscription plan and randomly ran long horizon coding tasks until we exhausted the weekly limit. It's widely believed that a $200/month plan maxes out at ~$2000/month worth of tokens (assuming API pricing). However, we found… pic.twitter.com/1e0zFhbFuo— SemiAnalysis (@SemiAnalysis_) June 10, 2026

Hubble first launch: 1500x cheaper getRepo for Bridgy Fed - microcosm

Bringing Bridgy's backfill back! (and unblocking a big Bluesky broadcast 👀)

Speedstrapping Playbook: Maximize Growth with Minimal Dilution DRAFT

Speedstrap Playbook Published version here - Part 1 + Part 2 Beta Version .9 - October 2025 “...my gut is we have a problem. The system as it exists today promotes less liquidity, less traditional, high quality company building and way higher burn rates. That’s just not a great combination from m...

Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new internet | TechCrunch

Bitcoin is up sevenfold, to $2,500, in the last year. Three weeks ago the redoubtable Vinay Gupta, who led Ethereum's initial release, published an essay entitled "What Does Ether At $100 Mean?" Since then it has doubled. Too many altcoins to name have skyrocketed in value along with the Big Two. ICOs are raking in money hand over fist over bicep. What the hell is going on?

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.

The blue-collar WordPress worker and the 2,500+ websites built to grow the CMS

I'm not foolish enough to think that the entirety of WordPress' growth is driven by our love for the software, but that we consultants are responsible for

The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive | kciter.so

What comes to mind when you hear "frontend optimization"? For most of us it's things like reducing network requests, shrinking the bundle,…

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Read the Docs 2016 Stats

Congrats, you made it through 2016! Read the Docs has been rolling along, and we’ve had another interesting year as well. For a quick summary: Our level of contributions and commits has gone down a good bit this year., Our traffic and user growth has been quite steady, which is particularly impre...

It’s actually open source software that's eating the world

At Lightspeed we’ve been investing aggressively in open source software (OSS) businesses for the past 10 years. Recently, we’ve seen a significant increase in entrepreneurs pitching open source startups, and we’ve also seen greater competition for these deals. We pulled together some numbers in an attempt to measure the acceleration in interest in and funding for OSS businesses in the last few years. The results were staggering even to us.