Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

Father of 3. Founder of https://t.co/erKlLqUMBW. Sometimes I like to argue with people online about software, licensing, startups, bootstrapping, among other things. SGF Joined July 2024

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Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko

21 hours ago

A small rant on the contemporary Zeitgeist for the weekend. Fuck 996. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/4/996/

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Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

2 days ago

On aligning price with value, and product with market. But also on aligning your interest: keygen.sh/blog/price-so-…

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@pkayokay Absolutely. I would add that there's nothing inherently wrong with being "desperate for customers" early on, especially for first-time founders. Even desperate for "users." I was absolutely desperate for users and customers — for years. You have to find your place in the market…

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Julik Tarkhanov @juliknl

2 days ago

AIs can spew code at an alarming speed, but make it a habit to drive manually. blog.julik.nl/2025/09/drivin…

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Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

2 days ago

How to get businesses to never trust you: 12 startups in 12 months. It's self-inflicted failure. Buyers won't buy if they think what they're buying for their business will disappear in a few months. Trust is paramount in B2B.

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Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

2 days ago

Been seeing a lot of AI-slop devtool side projects lately on company GitHub orgs, guessing as an attempt at "engineering as marketing." Even the READMEs reek. Signals they don't care about quality imo. Should probably market and talk to users instead.

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Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

2 days ago

If your max price for your B2B SaaS is $150/mo, you're doing something wrong or you're desperate for customers.

Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

a week ago

If your max price for your B2B SaaS is $150/mo, you're doing something wrong or you're desperate for customers.

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Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

3 days ago

It seems Murphy's law has struck me again. How am I the first one to encounter this Docker bug? Spent a whole day debugging this with a customer; it worked on my machines, but not his — and worse: it didn't work on a brand new Linux server: github.com/moby/moby/issu…

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Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

4 days ago

I'm taking a long break from HN. I find myself getting too heated in discussions, and I'm not sure I fit into the crowd anymore tbh. Forcing myself to put my limited attention elsewhere via noprocrast.

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Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

4 days ago

One of my favorite pieces I've written on the topic of open core. Worth reading if you're interested in the ethics of open core, and why I think fair source is almost always better.

Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

10 months ago

One of my favorite pieces I've written on the topic of open core. Worth reading if you're interested in the ethics of open core, and why I think fair source is almost always better.

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Zeke Gabrielse @_m27e

4 days ago

How do y'all handle Stripe bank transfers with enterprises? I continually have issues where over the years the bank accounts change per-invoice, but the enterprises don't pay attention to that line on the invoice and just send funds to the original bank account instead.