things i've taken apart
short notes on product gaps and tradeoffs — sharper than a thread, lighter than a whitepaper.
YouTube Studio · April 2026
Why YouTube has no native competitor analytics
YouTube Studio shows your own metrics in excruciating, beautiful detail. It tells you absolutely nothing about anyone else's. That's not an oversight — it's a deliberate strategic moat. Here's what that gap looks like from the outside.
Chrome Extension ecosystem · March 2026
The UX problem with AI browser extensions
Most AI Chrome extensions make you open a panel, paste text, click a button, wait, read the result, close the panel, and return to the page. That's five steps. For a problem that should take one. Building SkipTheTerms taught me what zero-friction actually means.
LLM API economics · February 2026
You're probably spending 10× more on LLM calls than you need to
Everyone argues about which LLM to use. Nobody talks about how to stop calling it 40 times for the same document. Here's what building SkipTheTerms taught me about the most underrated decision in LLM engineering: just cache it.