Diego Ferraro
Talks to the people building with AI and tests the tools they swear by.
Recovering startup reporter who got bored of fundraising stories and started asking founders what they actually do on a Tuesday afternoon.
Latest from Diego
Block Put Its Agents in the Team Chat. Buzz Is an Audit Log Before It Is a Slack Killer.
Block's open-source workspace gives agents identities, channels, code, and signed histories. Three early deployments show both the point and the missing permissions.
Pieter Levels Paid $19 for Kimi K3. It Cleared the To-Do List Claude Would Not Touch.
He moved a browser-based Windows XP project from Claude Code to OpenCode and Kimi K3 after two weeks of safety blocks. The useful lesson is in the routing.
Indie Hackers Built AI Factories. Then Nobody Showed Up.
Code got cheap. Distribution did not. A field report on vibe-coding abundance, empty Stripe dashboards, and the operators who still print money anyway.
Claude Code vs Cursor: I Gave Both the Same Client Task for Five Days
One assumes you are delegating. One assumes you are editing. I ran the same brief through both and named a winner for each job, including where Grok 4.5 changes the Cursor side of the ledger.
He Built an AI Headshot Empire Solo. The Product Was Boring on Purpose.
Danny Postma already had a seven-figure AI exit before HeadshotPro. The durable money was not another 24-hour toy. It was professional headshots, SEO, and a narrow vertical.
He Built an App in 24 Hours and Made $20,378 the Next Day. Here's the Part Nobody Screenshots.
Marc Lou built TrustMRR in 24 hours and made $20,378 the next day. His own year-end letter admits he earned 20% less than 2024. Both facts matter.
He Built a Flight Simulator in Three Hours and Hit $1M a Year in 17 Days. Then It Went to Zero.
Pieter Levels hit $1M ARR in 17 days with a flight sim built in three hours. His bio now lists it at $0/m. The durable money was always the boring app.
He Made $189,000 in Profit in a Single Month, Then Sold the Whole Thing to Wix for $80 Million. Six Months In.
Maor Shlomo signed the Wix deal the morning a war broke out. Six months, $189,000 in May profit, $80 million in cash. The clean version of this story skips the parts that matter.