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Nate Ritter

@nateritter.com
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Helping SaaS founders get unstuck, 3 exits, startup advisor, fCTO & founder → Knowledge: writings.founderlabs.io → Community: founderlabs.io/community → 1-on-1 to get unstuck: nateritter.com

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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 10/10/2026
I've been quietly running a human vs bot test behind the scenes at an org with self-learning/self-updating techniques. Humans have been ahead so far. Still getting better too. But bots are now as good as humans were and still climbing. (Humans also using AI in background). The future is here.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 09/10/2026
Any other Pickleheads users and pickleball players on Bluesky? pickleheads.com
pickleheads.com
Find Pickleball Courts, Games & Groups | Pickleheads
Discover all of the pickleball courts in your area! Search over 25,000 places to play pickleball, find open play schedules and join local groups.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/10/2026
The real tell that Bluesky feels like OG Twitter... I just had an extremely interesting real call with @bencurtis.com Interesting people. Interesting topics. Positive environment. Need I say more?
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/10/2026
People don't buy features, they buy outcomes, even if they try to build inferior products themselves.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 07/10/2026
CTOs and founders: Think back to the last time you changed how your team ships code, whether that was review, process, tooling, or hiring. What happened right before you decided to change it?
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 06/10/2026
Follow-up on PR reviews: Every founder who answered had already built their own fix. AI pre-review, bot-vs-human triage, review dashboards. One said the hard part wasn't the tech. Devs fought giving up human review even though they all hate reviewing. So who's still stuck with PRs waiting weeks?
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 05/10/2026
Great answers so far. Now flip it: Whose team is still stuck? Where do PRs wait a week or more for review?
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/10/2026
How are all you CTOs handling the increase in PR reviews?
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 30/09/2026
Insta-purchase.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 30/09/2026
I don’t want to build a software factory. I want a customer factory.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 24/09/2026
Trying something out... agentpowers.ai/skills/local...
agentpowers.ai
local-jev - Skill for AI Assistants | AgentPowers
Make Laya trustworthy. Fit its confidence to your own labeled data, keep the decisions it gets right local and free on Apple Silicon, and send only the ones it does not know to hosted Jev (TypeSafe Sy...
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 23/09/2026
Fun times.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 18/09/2026
Literally showing up and being nice and helpful where people are mean (YouTube comments, Reddit, cliquey private groups) will win you customers. The bar is very low in some places.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 07/09/2026
Your SaaS finally has real cash in the bank. Now you're hunting. Would you still want it if the money weren't there? If not, be careful because it was the cash that created the itch.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 31/08/2026
Wrote the follow-up to my partnerships piece. This one's about the conversation – why walking into the first meeting with a proposal kills the deal, and why you need to figure out what the partner is focused on before you pitch anything at all. Same product, wrong currency = a waste of time. Link ↓
writings.founderlabs.io
Use Partners to Increase your Distribution
What to say once you've built the list
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 20/08/2026
"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire
"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
- Voltaire
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 12/08/2026
I mean, really. AI is amazing. (actual travel data from 4 sources being turned into a map-based travel journal). Time in our RV around the US in orange, and flights in blue.
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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 10/08/2026
Average and not human. We'd rather see a human make a video/blog/podcast imperfectly than an AI do it "perfectly", regardless of one's definition of "perfect." Just as we don't want computers play chess, even though they're all better than us.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 10/08/2026
With attention diminishing, building getting easier, and the rise of the comparison algos, the things we will say have quality will be those we spend an inordinate amount of time to produce. This is why you hate AI writing. Not because it's wrong. But because it's easy and average.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 10/08/2026
I'm dying inside right now. Sad.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 31/07/2026
Build something 100 people love, not something 1M people kind of like. ~ Brian Chesky
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 24/07/2026
About to be 3 days offline. It's weird to be nervous/excited about not seeing the next AI feature get released over the weekend. Digital detox, here we come.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 24/07/2026
The testable unit is (offer x channel) as a pair. Every test is a distribution test.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 13/07/2026
I took 3 years to switch out of startups, do consulting, and travel with my family. Sometimes a break is needed We did some stuff in Scotland. Watch the long form video if you need some rest. youtu.be/fr7off8Sov0 S3E8 - Living in Scotland for A Month
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/07/2026
If you want to be great at something, you have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Over-performance necessitates getting uncomfortable.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 07/07/2026
I love my kids but if I have to hear of one more story about a VR game called Gorilla Tag….
static.klipy.com
The Simpsons Bart Simpsons Virus Transformation
ALT: The Simpsons Bart Simpsons Virus Transformation
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 27/06/2026
I’m convinced this morning that my love language is not creating shit for me to maintain or clean up.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 19/06/2026
@andrewbeeston.com 🤝 Good luck sir. 🇦🇺 v 🇺🇸
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 11/06/2026
TIL that it takes 10 weeks (!!) to start building muscle with weight lifting. First 3 weeks are mostly repairing damage, so size = swelling, not muscle growth. Gonna say it again. I believe doing the simple, difficult, compounding thing over time is almost always the answer to "what should I do?"
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/06/2026
If you haven’t done this yet are you even using AI bro? 🤣
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/06/2026
Remember when too many browser tabs would crash your computer. Now it’s Claude Code terminals. Welcome to the new era.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/06/2026
Is there a thing where I can put a GitHub repo behind a paywall?
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/06/2026
Thanks for ruining visual voicemail for us all, call spammers. Letting my voicemail box fill up like a 90 year old grandma does because I can't take it anymore.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 01/06/2026
Heads up, Shopify stores are now being widely used to commit fraud, selling user's credit card info. Just had almost 30 transactions come in. Same bank. Same descriptor. Same person owned one Shopify store. Extremely hard to detect.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 01/06/2026
🔥 direnv.net is so handy with multiple profiles for AI or projects.
direnv.net
direnv – unclutter your .profile
unclutter your .profile
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 01/06/2026
Claude down again? This would have told you sooner than your Slack alerts: github.com/nateritter/s...
github.com
GitHub - nateritter/status-glance: Minimalist macOS menu-bar app showing live Atlassian Statuspage service status (defaults to Claude) as a single colored ✽ glyph.
Minimalist macOS menu-bar app showing live Atlassian Statuspage service status (defaults to Claude) as a single colored ✽ glyph. - nateritter/status-glance
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 31/05/2026
You know I'm in a more relaxed season when I can catch up on a travel video. ✅ Only 2.5 years behind, but whatever.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 29/05/2026
I kept Claude's status page pinned in a tab to know if it was up before blaming my own code. So I built StatusGlance — a small macOS menu-bar app showing live service status as one colored ✽. Click for per-component history. Any Statuspage site. github.com/nateritter/status-glance
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 28/05/2026
Introduced my 2 boys to Monty Python and the Holy Grail tonight. Epic. Totally forgot how good and ridiculous it was.
static.klipy.com
Monty Python Holy Grail: French Knight's Taunts
ALT: Monty Python Holy Grail: French Knight's Taunts
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 27/05/2026
You know what's a great feeling? Exercising hard. Then getting to work without feeling the need to check email. Get straight into focus. Really enjoying this right now.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/05/2026
Been thinking about legacy and generational history lately. I’m sad that because of digitization we will look back at this time and think Mr Beast was what we all did all day long. The things we gave our attention to became our history because we have little else to say otherwise.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/05/2026
PRs are a gold mine of AI self-improvement waiting to happen. Don't like how AI is coding? Teach it with your old PRs. Train it with every PR after that. It'll get your preferences, styles, and more correct first time. Want to try the plugin I made that does this all for you? Looking for testers.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 01/05/2026
Me: Show me where LLMs directly add to the quality of experience connecting with my friends and family. Others: Well, they could… Me: Nope. Moat. <walks away>
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 30/04/2026
LLMs + memory = the new version of the social media tribe bubble
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 18/04/2026
Is there an open source close of Instagram on ATProto yet? Has to be already vibe coded right?
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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 10/04/2026
What helps someone be open to being wrong? Curiosity. If you have it, it's pretty obvious even in casual conversation, so you can also ID it in people. Adopt it yourself, to be smarter. And hire accordingly.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 12/04/2026
Underrated life skill.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 03/04/2026
"Sanity checking" all day is... well... insane.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 03/04/2026
This post is not about business, product, or technology.
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Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 03/04/2026
Didn't even think about it till I saw it. 100 repos on Github alone. Not even counting the years before while on SVN, and then no repos at all. That's a lotta stuff.
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