This isn’t the first time I’ve thought about this - I think perhaps it’s cropped up in my mind a few times over the past decade.

Some of the best B2B SaaS products I’ve used started out as great consumer tools. I have found that if somebody has a tool they can’t live without, they’ll advocate for it within their workplace. And let’s be real—people love nice things, especially when they’re free.

I’ve been using CleanShot for a bit over five years. I have no complaints except that it’s attached to my SetApp subscription, something that I was fine paying for until some of my favorite apps left the service. I essentially now only use Lungo, TablePlus and CleanShot X – the first two of which I now have one-off licenses for.

I’ve been dragged back into Jira after five years of bliss with Linear, and it’s rough.

I often see developers merging main into their feature branches and opening pull requests (PRs) that include commits from other branches. This practice leads to “git spaghetti,” which has several consequences:

Jamie AI is a project I embarked on to build a human-like virtual assistant that I could CC on emails to take care of my admin. I originally intended very much to open source this, but I’ve decided to make it into a product.