Building @forestwalkai. 🌳 I also host itshipped.fm and write monthly about what I’m learning. Follow me elsewhere: allenpike.com/follow/
Joined March 2008
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25 Feb 2025
My articles automatically post here, but if you use Bluesky, LinkedIn, Email, or Mastodon then better to follow along that way: allenpike.com/follow/
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When you try a SaaS for free, no credit card required, what do you expect to happen when you hit the usage limit? Maybe a warning email about being cut off, then suspension? Or perhaps, a warning email about being cut off... then a $1000 invoice?
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Building for Voice In, Visuals Out: flashes of brilliance, and the tyranny of latency.
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May 7
A clip from this morning's daily huddle. It's always fun when your own tool does something you didn't realize it could do!
(I'll allow myself to feel proud for one day. I'll resume insisting it needs to be 10x better tomorrow.)
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Apr 30
We Can Do Hard Things: On the considerable benefits of ambition.
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Apr 20
It's annoying when you're in a meeting, and somebody describes a bug really well. So you're like, "We should file an issue with what you just said" – but then have to actually type all that stuff out. Like an animal.
So now Cedarloop will do it for you.
ALT Image of somebody saying, "Okay let's just close the linear issue about the squirrel thing." and a confirmation that Cedarloop has closed the issue about "Add squirrel animation to homepage".
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The Rise of Transparency: How tooling improvements will pull company cultures to be more open, and make better use of the firehose. allenpike.com/2026/the-rise-…
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Mar 27
RVSPs are now open for the next Infer Vancouver meetup. We have engineers coming from WealthSimple, Cresta, and Gumloop to share things they've learned building with LLMs. Thursday, Apr 9 – spots tend to fill up fast. luma.com/4i1dyhyf
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Launch Now: On putting things in front of people, early and often.
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A Broken Heart: Getting a 100x speedup by changing one dumb line of code
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Jan 7
WealthSimple Co-Founder and @bretthuneycutt shares lessons learned, including the underlying wisdom of “Launch now”, increasing both speed and quality, attention to detail as a brand promise, and hiring people you would want to work for. itshipped.fm/episodes/35
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31 Dec 2025
A Box of Many Inputs: On browser address bars, local AI, and Roger Rabbit.
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1 Dec 2025
Why is ChatGPT for Mac so good? A look at the the different AI labs' approaches to the Mac, and the opportunities therein.
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4 Dec 2025
This episode, Zapier’s first PM @chrisgeoghegan shares about building Zapier from millions in ARR to hundreds of millions, the effects of AI on PM roles and automation tooling, and disrupting yourself before anybody else does.
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1 Nov 2025
How to Not Get Acquired: An approach for staying focused when trying to do something difficult. allenpike.com/2025/how-not-t…
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1 Oct 2025
UX Entropy: How products like Zoom can bloat from hero to hulk.
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1 Sep 2025
Building Something Big: On the pros and cons of the indie path. allenpike.com/2025/building-…
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