# ai initiatives (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ai initiatives. Page: Feed: --- ## [Why Your AI Prototype Isn't a Product](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/why-your-ai-prototype-isnt-a-product) _2026-03-10 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ You built it in a weekend. Cursor, Bolt, v0, maybe Replit. It runs on your laptop, it looks good in a demo, and investors leaned in when you showed it. ## [You Don't Need a Product Strategist. You Need a Right Hand.](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-a-product-strategist) _2026-02-20 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ Every founder I talk to has the same gap in their operation. They know their market. They can sell. They can raise. They can build relationships and close deals. But the product sits in no-man’s land. ## [AI Agents Helped Me Ship Five Products. Two Are Already Profitable.](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/ai-agents-helped-me-ship-five-products) _2026-02-17 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ I shipped five products recently. All within about six weeks. Different stacks, different users, totally different problems. Two of them are already making money. ## [Product Strategy for Early-Stage Startups: A Founder's Framework](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/product-strategy-for-early-stage) _2026-01-19 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ Before getting into what works, let’s understand what doesn’t. ## [Why AI Initiatives Fail (And How to Fix Them)](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/why-ai-initiatives-fail-and-how-to) _2025-11-20 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ 42% of companies scrapped their AI initiatives in 2025. Not because AI doesn’t work. Because they built solutions to problems that didn’t exist. ## [AI Is Sparking Minimalism in Interfaces, and I Love It](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/ai-is-sparking-minimalism-in-interfaces) _2025-08-05 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ The future of UX isn’t louder. It’s leaner. Here’s why that’s a good thing. ## [When no one is clapping, keep building](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/when-no-one-is-clapping-keep-building) _2025-07-29 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ Every successful founder has built in silence ## [Will AI Agents Kill SaaS?](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/will-ai-agents-kill-saas) _2025-07-23 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ How AI agents are quietly replacing the need for traditional SaaS products. ## [AI Chats Are the Last Good Corner of the Internet](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/ai-chats-are-the-last-good-corner) _2025-07-17 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ A calm, ad-free space on the web—while it still lasts. ## [Sometimes All We Have Is “Good Enough”, And That’s Okay](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/sometimes-all-we-have-is-good-enough) _2025-07-15 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ For the days when your best is simply doing what you can. ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XPP8EG641T4r) _2025-07-15 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [Why I Keep Showing Up Every Day](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/why-i-keep-showing-up-every-day) _2025-07-10 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ Most days, no one’s clapping. ## [Lessons I Learned from My Failed SaaS Products](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/lessons-i-learned-from-my-failed) _2025-07-03 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ I made every mistake so you don’t have to. Here’s what I wish I knew before launching. ## [How to Build a Kickass Dev Team (Even If You Don’t Code)](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-kickass-dev-team-even) _2025-06-30 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ Let’s be honest: building a product when you’re not technical can feel like wandering into a hardware store with a napkin sketch and saying, “I want this… but digital.” ## [The hard truths of being a Solopreneur](https://andresmax.substack.com/p/the-hard-truths-of-being-a-solopreneur) _2025-06-26 · Andres Max · Build. Ship. Share._ It is lonely, hard and satisfying. ## [Part 4: Urgency — The High Cost Enemy of Data & AI Initiatives](https://dataminded.substack.com/p/part-4-urgency-the-high-cost-enemy) _2025-05-14 · Oliver Angélil, PhD · Data-Minded_ In this blog series, I discuss solutions to common problems faced when bridging the data-value gap, to help companies maximise ROI in Data & AI initiatives ## [Part 3: A new era of cost reduction? AI agents as business strategy advisors](https://dataminded.substack.com/p/part-3-a-new-era-of-cost-reduction) _2025-04-04 · Oliver Angélil, PhD · Data-Minded_ In this blog series, I discuss solutions to common problems faced when bridging the data-value gap, to help companies maximise ROI in Data & AI initiatives ## [Part 2: What is AI?](https://dataminded.substack.com/p/part-2-what-is-ai-and-how-to-evaluate) _2025-03-24 · Oliver Angélil, PhD · Data-Minded_ In this blog series, I discuss solutions to common problems faced when bridging the data-value gap, to help companies maximise ROI in Data & AI initiatives ## [Part 1: When Data & AI skills don't matter](https://dataminded.substack.com/p/part-1-when-data-and-ai-skills-dont) _2025-02-28 · Oliver Angélil, PhD · Data-Minded_ In this blog series, I discuss solutions to common problems faced when bridging the data-value gap, to help companies maximise ROI in Data & AI initiatives