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01GENERAL

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AI INSIDER'S SESSION: "HELP! OUR AI TOKEN SPEND IS OFF THE CHARTS!"

AI contracts are approaching an average of $1M…yet 80% of companies are still missing AI spend forecasts by 25% or more! This Thursday's Ramp-hosted webinar [5] will explain how to bring visibility and control to your AI spend. The session will reveal: * How one dashboard tracks AI spend across providers, models, API keys, teams, and time * Spotting spend trends [6], anomalies, and savings opportunities with automated insights * Which spend limits and real-time alerts catch issues before the invoice arrives Save your spot [7] for August 13th at 10 AM Pacific.

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03STRATEGIES & TACTICS

HOW TO OPTIMIZE YOUR HOMEPAGE FOR AI TRAFFIC

AI as a channel sends fewer people than search, but those people, on average, spend more time on site. Treat the homepage as a front door for visitors who already know what to do. AI systems cite knowledge from deep pages, but they usually direct users to the homepage. Most sites are handing their best new traffic to the one page still built for a stranger.

similarweb.com15 min read

HOW NOTION HIT 100M+ USERS BY HIRING FANS INSTEAD OF MARKETERS

Notion now has more than 100 million users and crossed $500 million in revenue in 2025. It's always good to see what a company like that looked like in the beginning. Notion once cut the team to two, borrowed $150,000 from its founder's mother, and rebuilt the product in Kyoto. One of its best early growth hires was a fan whose template site already brought in 20,000 to 40,000 visits a month. Look for the people already teaching, supporting, or distributing your product. They may have started the job before you posted it.

links.tldrnewsletter.com12 min read

YOU SHOULD DEPLOY DIRECTLY TO PROD

Continuous deployment reduces release risk by keeping changes small, observable, and reversible instead of batching weeks of work. Fast CI, strong monitoring, feature flags, automated rollback, backward compatibility, and staged rollouts make production the safest place to validate changes.

links.tldrnewsletter.com7 min read

04TOOLS & RESOURCES

AGENTBLOG

AgentBlog helps users install a blog that ranks and gets cited with just one command. The agent has seven skills and a rule block to help it format posts correctly. Every post is a Markdown file in the repository. Prerendering, structured data, feeds, and crawler wiring are built in.

agentblog.devTool

FROM UNCHECKED AI SPEND TO COMPLETE CONTROL: HOW RIPPLING BUILT AI SPEND CONSOLE

Rippling's AI Spend Console gives CFOs and CTOs a clear view of AI spend, connects it to business outcomes, and governs the use of approved LLMs. It ties AI spend to employee attributes so leaders can understand which departments, teams, or roles are driving AI spend. It also connects spend to key business metrics so decision-makers understand where token usage drives improved business outcomes. This post looks at how and why Rippling built the tool.

rippling.com9 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

TBM 435: 20 UNFILTERED OPERATING TAKES

This post contains advice on how to operate teams. It covers topics like the North Star framework, trees/pyramids, shipping speed, lanes, and more.

cutlefish.substack.com27 min read

I FOUND THE AMERICAN DREAM… IN CHINA

Investment casting is the kind of industry most software founders never look at. A conventional part can require a $500,000 mold, eight months of waiting, and up to 40 hours of labor. Rangeview says it can make a pour-ready mold in about 12 days without changing the customer's approved design. Its founder found the market by ranking more than 100 manufacturing processes, then picking one where old tooling and a shrinking supplier base had become the bottleneck. The output stayed the same. Rangeview rebuilt how it gets made.

rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com9 min read

GAME DISCOVERY LESSONS FROM 30 YEARS (!) IN THE BIZ

In 1995, only 262 PC games shipped all year. Today, you can buy a complete Unity game template for $30 to $100. Making games got much cheaper. Getting anyone to notice got much harder. MobyGames lists about 1,100 PC releases in 1998, while the first PlayStation had roughly 1,500 Western releases across its entire life. Software and media are moving the same way. If customers can choose from thousands of decent products, distribution may matter more than one more feature.

newsletter.gamediscover.co10 min read