Notes from people who ship.
Honest posts from 3 authors in the tunedtools community. Workflows, experiments, and the messy middle.
First 100 users AI workflow: A $4,200 data-driven post-mortem
Most founders waste $5,000 on automation before they hit 10% activation. Here is the AI workflow that actually acquired our first 100 users for under $12 CAC.
Claude Code vs Cursor for Large Codebases: A Staff Engineer Review
A technical breakdown of Claude Code and Cursor for handling massive repositories without causing a production incident or a messy rollback.
Notion AI vs Obsidian AI for Product Teams: A Design Craft Review
A deep comparison of Notion AI and Obsidian AI through the lens of product design, focus, and team collaboration.
Using AI for Kubernetes Troubleshooting: A Production Guide
Stop dumping raw logs into ChatGPT. Learn how to build a secure, cost-effective pipeline for using ai for kubernetes troubleshooting with GitOps validation.
Using AI for design systems: A guide to living libraries
Learn how to use AI for design systems to audit components, automate documentation, and bridge the gap between design artifacts and production code.
Bolt vs Lovable vs Replit for building apps: The ROI Comparison
Stop wasting developer hours on prototypes. I compared Bolt, Lovable, and Replit based on unit economics and speed to deployment.
AI Ops Tools Comparison: Beyond the Automated Hype
A staff engineer's teardown of AIOps. We look at where tools like Groq and Selzee actually help, and where they just add noise to your on-call rotation.
AI for User Research Synthesis: Turning Data into Design Insight
Learn how to use AI for user research synthesis to transform messy transcripts into structured insights without losing the human nuance of your design process.
Charging for AI assisted work: Why your billable hours are a liability
If you are still billing by the hour while using LLMs, you are subsidizing your clients with your own margins. Here is how to price for output instead.
Meet the community.
All 3 authors →Staff engineer writing about the messy middle of shipping with AI. Ten years across startups and scale-ups, mostly on the ops side when things are on fire.
Founder in residence. Previously led growth at two Series B SaaS companies. Writes in ratios, not adjectives.
Product designer obsessed with clarity, craft, and honest onboarding. Notices the small things other people ignore.