We emergency migrated to Postmark. Fast, great features, and a genuinely polished product. Avoid Mandrill if you value reliability.
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We emergency migrated to Postmark. Fast, great features, and a genuinely polished product. Avoid Mandrill if you value reliability.
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This is a pattern. Other companies report similar experiences. One lost 29 hours and tens of thousands of emails. Another had 7 years of perfect reputation, then instant shutdown.
2/3
Yesterday Mandrill locked our production account at Brella for "review" with zero warning or explanation. Many years of smooth operations, and then suddenly we are dead in the water.
1/3
Switched to OpenCode over Claude Code. Web version runs on my Mac Mini over Tailscale, so same sessions across devices. Using Ollama Cloud Max ($100/mo) with GLM 5, close to Claude performance but cheaper. Just started OhMyOpenCode today, seems promising.
30 years running retros. Most blur together. The rare good ones all had proper follow-through on action items. Tools never helped with that. So I built SprintPulse, an AI retro tool focused on what happens after the meeting. Just launched, need teams to try it. sprintpulse.io
K8s needs a full team? Myth. I run clusters solo. At Brella I use my tool hetzner-k3s to save 90% vs GCP. I can do this due to experience. For beginners, managed services are easier. Stateful workloads are solved too. Don't be scared to try K8s.
hetzner-k3s.com if curious.
Started using Fireworks.ai with GLM 5, Kimi K2.5 and MiniMax M2.5 - all hitting up to 200+ tokens/sec. Speed is legit. Hearing good things about uptime, pricing and support too. Definitely worth a look.
Update: Cancelled Ollama Cloud after it got too unreliable. Switched to Kimi K2.5 coding plan ($39/mo) tonight and it's been brilliant - stable and fast. Need open source LLMs so I can use my preferred tools (OpenCode, BoltAI), but Kimi works for now. Using their per-token API for non-coding tasks.
Snappy native Mac app, not a browser wrapper. One-time purchase, actual privacy. Finally fits my workflow properly. 2/2
Upgraded from BoltAI v1 to v2 last week. Global shortcut brings AI over any app, instant workflows, inline editing, and customisable everything from prompts to plugins. I can switch between models instantly and use proprietary or open source models with my provider of choice. 1/2
Still impressed, but if reliability doesn't improve, I may switch back to Claude. Cancelled two Claude Max subs ($400/mo) because these open source models are just that good. 2/2
The Ollama Cloud subscription is genuinely ridiculous value when it works. I've burned through 949 million tokens on the $100/mo plan using GLM 5, still nowhere near the limits. Mostly fast with minor slowdowns, but today was very slow and sometimes unusable after they added Qwen 3.5. 1/2
Opus 4.6 spent six hours stuck on a Jira issue. GLM 5 fixed it in minutes.
The performance gap? Minimal. The price gap? Huge.
Maybe we should stop equating expensive with better.
There's a special kind of happiness in deleting code. Not just a few lines, I'm talking about hundreds of lines. Ancient features built in a hurry years ago and held together with sticky tape.
When I launched SpringPulse, I'd already built it for a year. I made it for myself at Brella, fed up with bloated tools and stupid simple boards with simulated sticky notes but no insights or analytics.
Know which game you're playing.
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I did some digging on "market before you build" after watching founders launch for years. It works when your risk is market risk, not product risk.
1/2
For me so far, Kimi K2.5 beats Claude Opus at ~1/8th the price. Fixes tests properly instead of giving up, remembers instructions. OpenCode desktop + Zen inference is excellent. Curious about GLM 5. Chinese models making US pricing hard to justify.
21 years with Rails and I still love it. Nothing else lets you build this fast. It's the only framework where one person can build something complex without getting stuck. Gutted it isn't more popular when teams struggle with JavaScript fatigue. Here's to the next 21 years 🚀
30 years of coding means I don't "vibe code" (blindly accepting AI output). I vibe engineer (tinyurl.com/2kwyk6bh): I design, specify precisely, and review everything carefully. Research confirms professionals "don't vibe, they control". AI amplifies my experience; it doesn't replace my judgment.
Category domains like ai.com are a branding trap. Advertise "AI.com" and you promote every competitor too. ChatGPT hit 100M users without it by building branded search, not renting generic terms. The domain just bounced between leases for years. Spend on specific intent instead.
Forbes puts Musk at $852bn. Statistics Finland says median household net wealth is €96k. One person = roughly 8.3 million Finnish households. He added $400bn in 14 months. The scale has stopped making human sense.
Not worried about setting up OpenClaw safely. I'm worried about giving any AI model full access to my machine when prompt injection is still unsolved. 900+ instances already open on Shodan. People buying Mac Minis they didn't need.
The trust isn't there yet. I'll wait.
Gave Claude Opus 4.6 one task: build a full Jira integration for SprintPulse.
30 minutes. One shot. Auto-accept the whole way through.
I haven't even reviewed the code yet and it just... works.
This is the first feature I've ever let AI build completely unsupervised. We're in a different era now.
Heroku is officially in maintenance mode. No new features. Salesforce is moving on to AI.
It changed how a generation of devs thought about deployment. Sad to see, but most people moved on years ago.
Pick platforms where you are the customer - not an afterthought funding someone else's pivot.
Unpopular opinion: most founders are building launch platforms or "ship faster" tools. Those markets must be completely oversaturated. Meanwhile boring industries with real budgets are barely touched by modern software. Best opportunities are where nobody's posting about them.
Hey guys do you mind upvoting my app SprintPulse on MicroLaunch? It would help a lot microlaunch.net/p/sprintpulse
Built for small teams, priced for small teams.
Free to start. Code LAUNCH = 30% off forever (first 100 only).
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I just launched SprintPulse 🎉- a retrospective tool for teams that actually want to improve, not just tick a box.
Real-time collaboration. Anonymous feedback. AI that surfaces key topics, generates summaries, suggests actions, and tracks sentiment + improvement metrics across retros.
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Retro app update: subscriptions and payments done with Creem.io. Working beautifully. Added around 800 security-focused tests just for this area - payments is something you don't want to get wrong. Last major feature done. Launching in the coming days.
Retro app update: action item email notifications, edit items from main view, newsletter form, updated tour and pricing. And Creem approved my account - starting payments tomorrow. Last piece before launch.