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May 2025

Top Secret #16: Product Hunt, Dillon, New Docs, and Migratory Birds
This week, we talk about our latest engineering hire (a fellow YC founder!!), what we've shipped recently, M&A flops, rare guitars, and cool…
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #15: RBAC, Bombing Volcanoes, and Ivar the Boneless Viking
This week, we cover a few major product improvements, historic milestones in biotechnology, the serendipitous discovery of an original Magna Carta, and…
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #14: Webhooks, Saccades, and The Fried Chicken Renaissance
This week, we talk about life after launch, our early webhooks rollout, programmable mischief, and saccadic eye movement.
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #13: Launching Tesseral (Also: Powerpoint, Pizza Clocks, and Project Silica)
This week, we launched our new company, Tesseral. We're really excited.
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Ned O'Leary

April 2025

Top Secret #12: Beta Launches, Insider Threats, and Wolverine Frogs
This week, we talk about our launch next week, the Open AI personality crisis, menu-hacking Disney villains, and broken job boards.
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #11: Deep Space, Dumb Features, and the Drudgery of "Enterprise Readiness"
This week, we talk about moonshots, SCIM-induced ennui, encryption via chaos theory, the extinction of Neanderthals, and why AI thinks 'vegetative…
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #10
This week, we talk about scaling realities, finding bugs in a new product, the history of the Internet, fruit flies as robots, vexilloids, and more.
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #9
This week, we talk about the Hacker News community, ransomware-ing ransomware-ers, Goodhart's Law, The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre, the Genie game engine…
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #8
This week, we talk about YC Open Source Day 2025, increased demand for well-built, OS infra SaaS, the Bay Area cnidarian invasion, Larmarkism, and more.
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Ned O'Leary

March 2025

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