7 Harsh Truths About MVPs I Learned Building 30+ in a Year

even the sound is code. piano, pads, a glass chime when you switch scents, a low swell when the lights go off. all generated, no audio files

added features one by one -> drifting petals -> dark mode where the liquid glows -> 3 scents that pour new colours into the bottle -> a frosted glass gift card that tilts with your cursor and flips over

asked Claude to build the bottle in three.js. thick real glass, liquid inside, a stone cap, a printed label. the trick: the “Solenne” wordmark sits behind the bottle as part of the 3D scene, so the glass actually bends the letters

started with the vibe, not the screens. a fictional perfume house, warm stone colours, a big serif wordmark, glass as the hero. no Figma, just a written brief

Stripe just made B2B payments feel like sending a text. here’s what “stripe pay” actually does 🧵 1/ every business gets a Stripe handle, like @company. you search it, pick the business, send money. no IBANs, no routing numbers. 2/ sending is free and it’s instant. it lives in the Dashboard and the Stripe CLI. 3/ you need a funded Stripe financial account to send, and the other side needs one linked to their profile. so it only works between businesses already on Stripe, for now. 4/ the CLI part is the sleeper hit. you can dry run a transfer before it happens, which makes it safe for scripts and AI agents to pay vendors. 5/ Patrick Collison said it himself: A2A payments will matter more than P2P. this is Stripe’s first big step there. I build payment systems, and this changes how I’d design vendor payouts. happy to answer questions below :)

designed, illustrated and animated this hero from scratch. sound on

typing has never felt this good every key squishes the jelly 🫠

opus here we go

this is so cool

at this point, i feel bored without opus :( time to touch some grass

My tip was too generous...

is it just me or has Opus felt a bit dumb the last few days?

my mascot refused to stay in his screen