From AI Interest to a Working System
Most small and mid-size businesses are stuck in the same place:Leadership feels pressure to “do something with AI,” some guys is playing with ChatGPT, and nothing useful has been actually shipped… The
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Ruidy Nemausat | Fractional CTO & Strategic Tech Advisor. I help Seed and Series A founders bridge the gap between business vision and scalable technical execution using first-principle thinking
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Engineering Strategy: Buy vs. Build
The most expensive mistake in tech isn’t picking the wrong database. It’s picking the wrong battle. Every line of code your team writes is a future liability. Every custom-built system is a maintenanc
The 15 Invisible Risks That Kill Series A Rounds
I’ve watched $10M Series A rounds stall, not because the product didn’t work, but because diligence exposed invisible risks. An infrastructure held together by a single script no one could understand
Product-Engineering collaboration
The most expensive friction in a tech company isn’t technical, it’s the gap between Product and Engineering. At exmox (my current employer), these are sister organizations with the same goal: building
Meet Your Autonomous AI Marketer
Hey my fellow Indie Hackers, Ever feel like you’re juggling a million things at once? Building a product, talking to users, fixing bugs, and guess what—oh yeah, marketing too! If you're a solo founder
Overcoming Content Hoarding: Leveraging AI to Find Balance
If you're anything like me, your inbox is a graveyard of unread newsletters, promotions, and updates. Every morning, I’d open my email, see the overwhelming number of unread messages, and promptly clo
How to Deal with Software Vendors
Navigating the world of software vendors can be tricky, especially when you’re trying to ensure that their product aligns with your business needs. This guide is for software engineers and technical l
Day 2: Learning, Testing, and Junior Dev Vibes
It’s Day 2 of Advent of Code, and my AI assistant, Aider (+ Claude Sonnet), is already showing signs of learning and adapting. Today’s challenge was all about parsing and analyzing data, with a mix of predictable successes, unexpected issues, and a s...
Day 1: Advent of Code, Elixir, and Aider
It’s official – I’m diving into Advent of Code 2024 with Elixir, one of my all-time favorite programming languages. Elixir has this elegant simplicity and scalability that I adore. While it’s not as mainstream as JavaScript or Python, its growing pop...
AI-Driven Advent of Code 2024
Day 0: The Start of Something Different This year marks a new chapter for me in Advent of Code – one that involves ChatGPT and Large Language Models (LLMs). It’s the first time I’ll be integrating AI into my problem-solving process, and I’m curious (...
Meetings are useless (most of them)
Meetings suck! Not because they do but because of how we do them. They are long, not well-defined, and most people attending don’t know what they are doing here and would like to go back to their activities. The typical meeting experience expects you...