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Top Secret: A New Chapter for this Newsletter
We're at an inflection point and pivoting Top Secret to focus on product depth, real user questions, and transparency.
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #24: Megan Seizes the Means of Newsletter Production (Ned is OOO)
This week, we talk about the joy of making a stressed founder less stressed, croissant density, and cultural models of self. Also, our marketing.
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Megan O'Leary
Top Secret #23: The One Where Ned Bakes For The First Time Ever
This week, we talk about our OAuth client for social login, AuthN vs. AuthZ, panicking Italians, spider discovery, and more.
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #22: SAML Setup Wizard, Cookies Again, Giant Beavers, and Meat School
This week, we talk about our self-service SAML Setup Wizard, the many, many cookies we need to bake for new customers, AI job interviews, and consumers…
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #21: Cookies, The Tesseral Vault, Kelp, and Cicero's Secretary
This week, we talk about our July cookies promotion (sign up, log in a user, and I will personally bake you cookies, despite never having baked before…
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Ned O'Leary

June 2025

Top Secret #20: UI Improvements, Puppies, Fractals, Trail Cameras, and Zombie Startups
This week, we talk about the comprehensive redesign of the Tesseral console, activist investors, AI in mathematics research, the Sierpinski triangle…
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #19: "Wait, They Want to Use Us?!"
This week, we talk about getting inbound from big companies, multiplying our SDKs, our YC AI Startup School Party, Joey Chestnut's triumphant return…
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #18: New Website, New SDKs, (Almost) Extinct Possums, and Medieval Moats
This week, we talk about our website glow-up, audit logs on deck, and the good, bad, and the ugly of each U.S. state's DMV (or equivalent) login page…
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Ned O'Leary
Top Secret #17: Incumbent Ripouts, Mars Terraforming, and Anticipating Objections
This week, we talk about what we did in May, our newest features, the history of vanilla, great writing, and a new chatbot from our friends at Ion…
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Ned O'Leary

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
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