Kumail Hunaid

6 years ago I got fed up with Flippa All the listings were stuff I’d never buy People flipping affiliate, drop shipping or scammy courses So I made Borderline.biz Now MicroSAAS has become ubiquitous Good ideas get copied very fast

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What you do in between the things you have to do is what makes you who you are

In the AI era, copywriting will become waaay more important LLMs have proven that writing has personality, and when all writing has the same personality, it sounds inauthentic Professional copywriters, people who have their way with words, will become increasingly important

When I see your AI generated image, all I see is slop. Even when it is very good. It's the same effect as the Stock Photos of the 2000's.

I would never get to read stuff like this without boredreading.com

In 2024 when I built a booking process with a map, I didn't realize just how complex it was going to be Having to deal with overlapping bookings, time zones, multiple sessions, booking seat changes, etc Airline seat booking systems must be one hell of a beast

This website I designed probably had the most distinct brand positioning of any

Throwback to when I designed a job board portal

One of the nicest dashboards I've designed IMO

Part of a design presentation

Trying a vibe

oxblood is such a nice color and love how yellows pop on it

lime and dark blue go so well!

hierarchy & states

POV: you're so rich you need a dashboard to track your wealth

new portfolio pixelsongrids.com

Weekends are sacred. Never work on weekends.

probably my favorite widget

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Söhne is such a beautiful typeface

A good corner is so satisfying

The Chapel Coffee Shop in Romania I love when design turns almost nothing into something Like this gap between two buildings has now become iconic

Experimenting with widgets

The best PRs are ones where you remove more code than add The same applies to design

really bullish on apps without interfaces

I love how design is almost free like you can spend extra brain cycles and using the same cost of goods end up with a better product

Before AI, everything was 0's and 1's The limitation is that all logic has to be quantitative With no room for ambiguity Now, every layer allows for some ambiguity and unstructured data This changes all software from the ground up Everything must be re-thought Opportunity.

Now that engineering is 10x easier Design is 10x more important to make that engineering effort go in the right direction

Here's how to stop using Gmail Get a domain on namecheap.com Get email hosting on Migadu.com Use Apple Mail for your email Old school, but works perfectly well!

When I was 19yr old, I started my first job The adults around me were working to pay the bills I was working because I just loved the work I could run circles around them As I get older, I have to remind myself to love the work Otherwise I lose to the 19yr old

I bet you didn't know that Amazon controls on the order of ~190M IPv4 addresses, an inventory worth an estimated $7–8 billion, and reportedly earns on the order of $1 billion/year by renting them out at $43/yr each.

Finding your design style is like a band finding their sound. Some artists spend a decade before they hit the thing that's unmistakably theirs. Design's no different. Designers need to find what resonates with the times A distinct style they can call their own

Spotify, Jira, Google Cloud & Amazon are great examples of how good design is totally optional to winning as a business

Hell www.smbc-comics.com

For 10+ years you could buy a $25 html template off Themeforest/etc and make a professional looking website quickly But people didn't do it because it implied the message wasn't worth the paper (website) it was written on So businesses kept hiring designers This hasn't changed

With local cloud becoming more price competitive to 3rd party clouds, I wonder if we'll see a renaissance of on-prem computing

Build something you really love, because if it works, you'll be stuck working on it for a while.

Who are the best marketing people to follow on this app?

Every ERA has its design STYLE If you want your designs to look FRESH and not dated It cannot look like anything from the previous era This is what people mean by "taste" It means stealing from designers who've done something fresh But first, you must IDENTIFY what's fresht

"Business is always personal. It's the most personal thing in the world." —Michael Scott He got that right!

The best interface is no interface at all Especially now, when it's cheap to make complex UI The apps that will win will have almost no UI at all

My process as a designer has changed in the last few months In Janurary, I'd start my design with notebook and a pencil Now, I start my design with Claude I generate wireframes, and use them to visually think Then move to Figma to find the right direction