Lovable, an AI-powered app-building platform valued at $6.6 billion, is actively seeking acquisitions and looking for teams with founder backgrounds to join the company. The startup faces competition from tools such as Cursor, Replit, and Bolt, as well as larger AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Despite competitive pressures, Lovable has grown to $400 million in annual recurring revenue and sees over 200,000 new projects created on its platform each day.
The design industry has grown rapidly over the last 20 years, requiring design leaders to develop business fluency and strategic skills beyond traditional craft mastery. Design schools have failed to provide adequate business education, leaving professionals unprepared for executive responsibilities like managing teams, securing budgets, and guiding organizational strategy.
AI is compressing design workflows and automating execution, shifting the focus away from UI production toward outcomes and faster experimentation. Rather than replacing design, it creates an opportunity to return to its core purpose—helping users achieve goals—by focusing on holistic, cross-system experiences instead of isolated screens. While tools like rapid prototyping and emerging ideas such as “Design Twins” can scale insights, meaningful design still depends on real user understanding and empathy, positioning designers as orchestrators of systems, research, and outcomes rather than just makers.
Slicer.dev is a browser extension that allows users to copy any interactive or static website element and convert it into AI-ready prompts for coding tools like Lovable, Bolt, v0, and Cursor.
To mark Apple's 50th anniversary, 99designs collaborated with global designers to reimagine iconic Apple products in era-specific styles, pairing them with personal stories that highlight the brand's lasting impact on creative work.
Figma variables can be used to test font size increases across scales from 100% to 200%, fulfilling WCAG 2.2's mandatory AA criterion that text must be resizable up to 200% without loss of content. The workflow requires structured auto layouts, text styles, and number variables for font-size and line-height — foundations that most teams with a design system already have in place. According to APPT data from February, 26% of mobile users increase their device's default font size, making accessibility testing a non-negotiable part of the design process.
Great UX results from small daily design habits rather than just big research projects or major redesigns. Key habits include keeping design iterations rather than deleting them for a visible history and faster branching, organizing Figma files with clear sections and page structure for better team navigation, and using Auto Layout from the start to enable faster iteration and a smoother developer handoff. These workflow decisions dramatically affect how quickly you iterate, how clearly teams collaborate, and how easily developers implement designs.
Birkenstock has launched Your Blank Canvas, a new in-store customization platform at its King's Road flagship in London, developed with KIT Studio, marking a shift from purely functional design toward playful self-expression. The system features mascot versions of iconic styles, a bespoke bubble-style typeface, and city-inspired “passport stamp” graphics, allowing customers to personalize footwear with charms, messages, and travel references while blending the brand's heritage with a more expressive, youth-oriented identity.
Nango used OpenCode to develop an autonomous agent that generates hundreds of API integrations in minutes for a fraction of the traditional cost. While highly efficient, the project showed that these agents require strict guardrails and constant verification to actually be reliable and fully usable.
Naming your useEffect callbacks instead of leaving them as anonymous arrow functions makes it easy to skim a component's intent from function names alone. The naming also acts as a design forcing function. If you can't name an effect without “and,” it's doing too much, and if the best name sounds like internal state shuffling, it probably shouldn't be an effect at all.
The VS Code team describes how AI agents enabled a shift to weekly releases by automating tasks like triage and PR generation, doubling commit volume. Maintaining high velocity requires good testing harnesses and mandatory automated reviews to prevent regressions.
Don't use LLMs to write documents. Doing so is a missed opportunity for personal growth and a betrayal of professional trust. Writing is a cognitive exercise necessary for developing a deep understanding of topics.
Complex and manual setup instructions for AI coding agents, requiring users to edit configuration files, are a major barrier to product adoption. A better solution is a single command that scans a user's machine, writes the necessary agent configurations, and installs agent skills to teach agents how to use the tool directly.
The article talks about ten fake conspiracy theories about open source, such as Dependabot as recruiter surveillance, Kubernetes as a Google jobs program, git as a declassified Finnish military system, and more.
Logging libraries provide structured outputs so you and your AI agents see what actually needs fixing. In this Sentry blog [13], you'll get a side-by-side comparison of the top JavaScript logging
The Codex plugin integrates OpenAI's Codex into Claude Code, allowing users to perform advanced code reviews and delegate tasks like bug fixes via background jobs. It uses existing Codex CLI configurations to provide an easy workflow for the combo.
Semiotic is a React data visualization library that provides a broad range of standard and advanced chart types, including complex network, streaming, and real-time geographic visualizations. The library is specifically designed for AI-assisted development, with machine-readable schemas and diagnostic tools to help coding assistants generate accurate chart code.
AI coding agents will transform vulnerability research and exploit development by using LLMs to discover high-severity vulnerabilities across software faster than ever. This means that there will also be an overwhelming amount of zero-day exploits in networked devices.
AI-generated slop is overwhelming open-source software maintainers. An influx of poor contributions undermines the collaborative model, introduces security risks, and makes open-source projects unsustainable, forcing some to shut down. Maintainers are implementing stricter AI policies as a result.
As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents to automate end-to-end workflows and lead our context engineering project to allow non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [18].
This dev created a forked Excalidraw VSCode extension to automatically generate light and dark mode SVG images from framed elements in his Excalidraw files.
After a technical draft was rejected for sounding AI-generated, this person felt that reliance on LLMs has eroded her natural writing voice and creativity.
Motivated by a potential ban on new consumer routers, this guide shows how to turn virtually any Linux-compatible computer, even old or "junk" hardware, into a fully functional and customizable home network router using free and open-source software.
Following developer backlash, GitHub reversed its decision to allow Copilot to automatically insert promotional "tips" (ads) into users' pull requests.
Consumer sentiment fell 6% to its lowest level this year as the Iran war pushed up gas prices and slashed stock values. Short-term economic outlooks dropped 14%, and personal finance expectations fell 10%. Gasoline prices and stock market losses hit middle- and upper-income households hardest. Sentiment could worsen if the conflict persists, with headline inflation expected to reach 4.2% and growth slowing to 2% this year.
Online advertising outside platforms like Google and Meta is shifting from buying impressions to driving measurable outcomes. As fragmentation and data loss weaken old models, optimization is moving upstream to filter better inventory before auctions. At the same time, creative is becoming a key performance signal through engagement data. AI connects media and performance into a continuous loop, allowing campaigns to improve in real-time and making the open web more competitive with walled gardens.
This framework builds a B2B email nurture sequence by defining audience, story, problem, value, action, and post-nurture experience. Use storytelling and content that solves the problem (templates, frameworks, or case studies). Segment by problem, job, vertical, or company size, and send from a real human, responding to replies. Treat each email as an experiment. Test content, CTAs, format, and incentives, then iterate. Include exclusive assets and use post-nurture actions like demos, roundtables, or trials to drive engagement.
Marriott is shifting its loyalty strategy from points to emotional connection through better guest experiences. With 270M Bonvoy members and nearly 10K properties, it is investing in real-time feedback during stays instead of post stay surveys. In-app check-in surveys let teams fix issues before they escalate. The goal is to position Marriott as a lifelong travel partner across the full journey, from inspiration to post stay engagement.
Most CXO newsletters fail because they skip validation and publish generic content that drives no pipeline. Traditional channels are weakening, with cold email reply rates at 3-5% and LinkedIn reach at 1.6%. Niche newsletters can reach 30-45% open rates and build compounding relationships when they target a clear CXO persona and deliver useful insights. Even 200-300 subscribers can drive 15-20 qualified meetings a year. This piece includes a 5 prompt system to test demand, competition, ROI, and fit before investing.
Bluesky's Attie is an AI assistant that lets users create custom social media feeds through conversational commands rather than relying on platform-controlled algorithms. The app runs on Bluesky's AT Protocol and pulls data from across the entire ecosystem to build personalized timelines instantly. Attie represents a deliberate contrast to how major platforms use AI primarily to increase engagement and data collection. The long-term vision includes allowing users to build complete social applications without coding knowledge.
AI citation behavior varies by industry, not a single formula. Many SEO tactics don't scale. A clear opening line boosts citations by about 14%, while hedging hurts performance across all seven verticals. Including a date and a number consistently helps. Price mentions reduce citations in most verticals, and Knowledge Graph entities show negative impact. Heading structure varies widely, from 5 to 9 in crypto to 20 plus in SaaS. Corporate content drives 94.7% of citations, while UGC ranges from 0.5% in finance to 9.2% in crypto.
Pricing changes at most SaaS companies take a full quarter of engineering time because access rules and billing logic are hard-coded. AI makes this worse as usage shifts more often. The fix is a four-layer monetization setup that separates access from enforcement, so non-engineers can manage plans and experiments. Superhuman waited six years to raise prices by $10, and even with 4% churn, saw a 28% overnight revenue lift that compounds over time.
Leadership breaks down when leaders aren't available to decide, engage, and follow through. Availability builds trust, speed, and ambition, while its absence quietly weakens teams.
2026.03.31·
runthebusiness.substack.com·6 min read·TLDR Product
AI agents are becoming the decision-makers, creating a new growth channel. Winning requires being easily callable, well-documented, and embedded in the tools agents use.
2026.03.31·
mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com·4 min read·TLDR Product