what product market fit feels like

The global economic order is now chaotic enough to get me out of my social media hiatus... I’m a self confessed econ nerd. But what caught my eye in all my reading weren't the tariffs or interest rates. It was cheap beer, Korean skincare hoarding, and... skirt hemlines. The

Just got off a call with a founder who felt stuck. Revenue flat. Team scattered. Investor pressure building. They said: “I don’t even know where to start.” I said: That’s not the job. The job is to find the next step you can take today and take it. Optimism doesn’t come from

💡 We’ve rolled out updates to our CRM, mobile app, API, and integrations—all designed to help you move faster, find insights easier, and close deals with confidence.

From dark mode and intelligent duplicate detection to enhanced API capabilities, these updates were built with your workflows in mind. 👀 See what’s new—and what’s coming next: affinity.co/blog/updates-t…

The person who says, 'life has been kind' to the question of how life has been is not necessarily someone to whom life has always been kind, but someone who has accepted life for what it is and chosen gratitude as their final emotion. It is hard to come across this answer now

Top issues you face as a startup, in chronology: - No great cofounder - No real PMF yet - Running out of money - Too feature poor - Can't close strong 1.0 mgmt team - Competition bigger / faster / strong - Can't close strong 2.0 mgmt team - No strong second product / vertical

Founders have an incredibly annoying attention-to-detail * They see every typo * Notice every time anyone is late * Catch 10,000 bugs * Remember every time anyone said they'd do something It's not that they don't have anything better to do It's just, start-ups die otherwise

The older I get, the more I realize that life gets much better when you stop trying to impress people you don’t even know.

CFO: Can we capitalize this software expense? CTO: Sure. THIS SOFTWARE EXPENSE. * If this dad joke gets more than 100 likes, I'm going to use it in a presentation.

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am i hallucinating or did we just go from "openai acquiring windsurf" to "cog+ws team shipping wave 11" in seven days

🚀 We're thrilled to welcome Lindsay Bayuk as Affinity’s new Chief Marketing Officer! Lindsay brings 17 years of experience building and scaling global SaaS companies—including as CMO at Fullstory and Pluralsight. She’s led marketing through major milestones from product-market

One day I'm going to solve the mystery of why even the finest bakeries and hotels in America can't produce a Croissant on par with a Danish 7-11 or a Spanish gas station.

Remember fairness cream ads from the 2010s? People suddenly transformed from being dark grey (not even brown👀) to glowing like a bulb, becoming the CEO of their company, and moving along a "shade card" - yes, a Pantone card for skin tones... They now sell “glow” instead of

What do Hailey Bieber & Alia Bhatt (Alia Bhatt) have in common? They've turned their pimples into a fashion statement - all with the humble "pimple patch". There was a time when a single pimple could derail your entire day. You’d slather on concealer or even cancel plans. Today,

I've had my whole saga with the US visa system: 3 H1b lottery misses, cross-border long distance relationship through it all, finally getting L1 visa approval, and then deciding to come back home in '19, giving up the L1 I wanted so badly... I still can't fully articulate why I

Big congratulations Akshat Bubna Erik Bernhardsson and team! 🚀

If you are interested in knowing in which industries AI is most successful in understanding (& which models), you should pay close attention to the APEX. More below.

Remember: A major cheat code in life: Your personality will get you 10x richer than your intelligence. Be easy to work with. Kind when others aren’t. Calm when things fall apart. Intelligence alone is overrated.