I like Claude Desktop, so I created my own
How I built Recowork, my own Claude Desktop clone, with Tauri, GLM-5.2, the Claude Agent SDK, and sandboxed Apple containers — for about a dollar in tokens.
Andrey Zagoruiko
AI Product Manager building production AI systems that deliver measurable business impact. Writing on AI, product management, and building things.
Latest posts
Why Mermaid Sucks and What I Did About It
AI genuinely sucks at making diagrams with Mermaid — here's why it fails and how I fixed it by building an AI-first diagramming tool.
Trying Too Hard by Dean Williams
Verbatim quotes from Dean Williams' classic talk 'Trying Too Hard' on investing, expertise, and the trap of overcomplication.
Why Cursor is a great company
An analysis of Cursor's business model, pricing strategy, and product approach — and what the AI code editor gets right that others don't.
Status games
Notes from Keith Johnstone's 'Impro' on how status dynamics govern human interactions — and why every conversation is a status game.
Josh Elman interviews Alex Zhu
Five major lessons from Alex Zhu, the Musical.ly cofounder, on building social products — notes from his interview with Josh Elman.
Product ideas
A living collection of product thinking frameworks, mental models, and half-formed product ideas I keep coming back to.