# founder note (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover founder note. Page: Feed: --- ## [Daily Driver 4/7: I still answer every support mail myself](https://adlk.io/blog/i-still-answer-every-support-mail-myself/) _2026-08-26 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ Since May, 644 support mails arrived and a model drafted an answer for nearly all of them. 16 replies went out the way the machine wrote them. I know this down to the keystroke, and that raw data is the reason the setup gets better instead of just feeling better. ## [So how the f do you build a brand anyway?](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/so-how-the-f-do-you-build-a-brand) _2026-08-19 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ the seven non-negotiables, from someone who has built four of them. ## [Daily Driver 3/7: The updates I never had time to check](https://adlk.io/blog/the-updates-i-never-had-time-to-check/) _2026-08-19 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ A bot opened a pull request that reads completely fine. The machine that checks these for me refused it twice, in three seconds each, for a reason no amount of reading could have found. For ten years, reading was all I had time for. ## [Keep it private. People love to ruin things.](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/keep-it-private-people-love-to-ruin) _2026-08-14 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ create for you. everything else is a trap. ## [Never Enough](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/never-enough) _2026-08-13 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ The true cost of more ## [Bathe me in pointelle.](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/bathe-me-in-pointelle) _2026-08-10 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ I knit this fabric myself because I couldn't find what I wanted anywhere. Here's how I've been wearing it, and a style guide (links to everything). ## [How I've been humbled.](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/how-ive-been-humbled) _2026-08-05 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ I just went to hell and back. ## [Daily Driver 2/7: 74 tests failed. Nothing was wrong with the app.](https://adlk.io/blog/74-tests-failed-nothing-was-wrong/) _2026-08-05 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ One night my test suite reported that most of the product was broken. Nothing was actually broken. The next step in that queue is an agent whose job is to make failing tests pass, and the only reason it stayed asleep was a number I had set for an unrelated reason. ## [The obsession might kill me.](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/the-obsession-might-kill-me) _2026-08-04 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ notes from inside the best month ($) I've ever had. ## [Q3 Founder Notes 1](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/q3-founder-notes-1) _2026-08-04 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ Let's see if ~10% turns to something bigger ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/87FTFhzhpJTN) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [You don't get what you want.](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/you-dont-get-what-you-want-78a) _2026-07-30 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ you get what you're disciplined enough to build. ## [The Collapse That Never Comes](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/the-collapse-that-never-comes) _2026-07-30 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ Why people love betting on calamity ## [Daily Driver 1/7: AI did not give me my time back](https://adlk.io/blog/ai-did-not-give-me-my-time-back/) _2026-07-29 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ I've run Franz with up to five people. Alone today I get more done than we did back then. But speed isn't the change I'd point at. What changed is that everything I used to do once in an eternity now runs every day, and gets a little better each time. ## [What I'd tell my twenty-year-old self.](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/what-id-tell-my-twenty-year-old-self) _2026-07-21 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ you're farther from what you want than you think, and that's okay. ## [Unpopular and Iconic](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/unpopular-and-iconic) _2026-07-16 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ The lost art of having an opinion ## [The Sunday Paper: Volume 30](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/the-sunday-paper-volume-30) _2026-07-12 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ the power of no. ## [You cannot be fruitful if you're not seedful.](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/you-cannot-be-fruitful-if-youre-not) _2026-07-08 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ stop chasing overnight success. start planting. ## [Something to Lose](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/something-to-lose) _2026-07-02 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ Why they stopped using force to control us ## [When you're rare, they're not supposed to understand you.](https://kenzieburke.substack.com/p/when-youre-rare-theyre-not-supposed) _2026-07-01 · Kenzie Burke · The KB Report_ stop explaining yourself. ## [Apostrophe City](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/apostrophe-city) _2026-06-18 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ The greatest funding trade of all time ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NKRrk6HQkehc) _2026-06-18 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Hacker News sent 10x the traffic to the one device it couldn't install on](https://adlk.io/blog/hacker-news-vs-product-hunt/) _2026-06-09 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ In the same week, Franz got featured on both Hacker News and Product Hunt. One sent roughly ten times the traffic of the other. The headline number lies in both directions, and what you do with the single day matters more than the size of it. ## [Why product people make the best AI operators](https://adlk.io/blog/why-product-people-make-the-best-ai-operators/) _2026-06-08 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ When the cost of building drops to near zero, the scarce skill is no longer building. It's knowing what to build, validating it and being able to tell its story. That's the product muscle, and most builders never had to train it. ## [Buy, Borrow, Die](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/buy-borrow-die) _2026-06-04 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ The unspoken American manifesto ## [Franz 6, and the end of an exception](https://meetfranz.com/blog/franz-6-and-the-end-of-an-exception) _2026-05-24 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ Why long-time free users now share the same Franz 6 plan as everyone else, what still works in Franz 5, and why paid users keep Franz alive for the next decade. ## [Q2 Founder Notes 1.0](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/q2-founder-notes-10) _2026-05-22 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ The more you know ## [Seat Beefs](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/seat-beefs) _2026-05-21 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ And other fun things about Italians ## [Why Franz Runs on European Infrastructure](https://meetfranz.com/blog/why-franz-runs-on-european-infrastructure-for-privacy) _2026-05-07 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ Privacy is not a privacy policy. It's a vendor list. Why every server, AI call, and email Franz touches answers to a European court. A founder's note. ## [Keep It Wild](https://thetuckerletter.substack.com/p/keep-it-wild) _2026-05-07 · E.B. Tucker · The Tucker Letter_ The high cost of comfort ## [Ten Years of Franz](https://meetfranz.com/blog/ten-years-of-franz) _2026-05-01 · Stefan Malzner · Writing_ Franz turns ten this year. Franz 6 ships now. A founder's note on a weekend prototype, a fundraise we skipped, and why one person is the point.