Matthew Maynes·Aug 14Anyone Can Build It Now. Almost No One Finishes It ProperlyYou can build anything with AI now, so everyone is. I've been testing what they ship, and the same gaps keep showing up.
Matthew Maynes·Jul 31The Email Editor With No Customers Became Our Biggest PlatformHow I repurposed a failed product into the platform for Constant Contact
Matthew Maynes·Jul 27Leadership Isn’t a Title. It’s a DecisionHave you ever worked with someone who went out of their way to make sure you were supported? Not a manager, but a coworker who made it…
Matthew Maynes·Jul 23I Tested a Viral AI App. Its Developer Never Even Logged InThe idea that caught my eye on Idea Browser, a daily story recorder for families facing dementia.
Matthew Maynes·Jul 21Trying to Find My Identity in the Era of AISame desk, same code, a job that quietly changed underneath me.
Matthew Maynes·Jul 14The Car That Taught Me to Commit and Move On$8,000, low kilometres, and one word in the contract I should have asked about.
Matthew Maynes·Jul 13I Built a Stream Processor and Accidentally Became a VPI learned that clarity and accountability are what drove my success
Matthew Maynes·Jul 10The Beautiful, Useless Thing I Built and Watched Die in Under a MinuteI spent two months building the wrong thing because didn’t understand my customer
Matthew Maynes·Jul 7Nobody Warns You the Job Is Also Everything ElseSnow, ice, and a plane on final descent, the exact thing the app existed to warn about
Matthew Maynes·Jul 5AI Is Dulling My Engineering Instincts — My CounterplanA house built on quicksand will stand for a while, and everyone will compliment the siding
