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Notes from inside the exchange

What we learn running a peer review network, written up for the founders in it.

2 September 2026

You do not need an audience. You need eight people who will tell you the truth.

Thirty polite people will teach you less than three honest ones. The case for skipping the audience-building advice and finding eight strangers who will tell you what is actually wrong with your product.

feedback
founders
distribution

2 September 2026

Shipping with an agent: what broke

Eleven of the twenty-seven commits on this site exist only to fix something an earlier commit got wrong. Including a privilege escalation that let any member make themselves an admin. A build log, with the ugly parts left in.

ai-tools
founders
building