Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 10/10/2026I'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. 120
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 09/10/2026Any other Pickleheads users and pickleball players on Bluesky? pickleheads.compickleheads.comFind Pickleball Courts, Games & Groups | PickleheadsDiscover all of the pickleball courts in your area! Search over 25,000 places to play pickleball, find open play schedules and join local groups. 010
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/10/2026The 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? 050
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/10/2026People don't buy features, they buy outcomes, even if they try to build inferior products themselves. 000
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 07/10/2026CTOs 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? 010
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 06/10/2026Follow-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? 120
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 05/10/2026Great answers so far. Now flip it: Whose team is still stuck? Where do PRs wait a week or more for review? 010
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/10/2026How are all you CTOs handling the increase in PR reviews? 210
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 30/09/2026I don’t want to build a software factory. I want a customer factory. 032
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 24/09/2026Trying something out... agentpowers.ai/skills/local...agentpowers.ailocal-jev - Skill for AI Assistants | AgentPowersMake 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... 010
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 18/09/2026Literally 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. 020
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 07/09/2026Your 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. 110
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 31/08/2026Wrote 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.ioUse Partners to Increase your DistributionWhat to say once you've built the list 120
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 20/08/2026"Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire 020
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 12/08/2026I 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. 120
Reposted by Nate RitterJason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 10/08/2026Average 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. 011
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 10/08/2026With 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. 220
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 31/07/2026Build something 100 people love, not something 1M people kind of like. ~ Brian Chesky 120
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 24/07/2026About 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. 000
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 24/07/2026The testable unit is (offer x channel) as a pair. Every test is a distribution test. 000
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 13/07/2026I 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 000
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/07/2026If you want to be great at something, you have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Over-performance necessitates getting uncomfortable. 110
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 07/07/2026I love my kids but if I have to hear of one more story about a VR game called Gorilla Tag….static.klipy.comThe Simpsons Bart Simpsons Virus TransformationALT: The Simpsons Bart Simpsons Virus Transformation 020
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 27/06/2026I’m convinced this morning that my love language is not creating shit for me to maintain or clean up. 110
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 11/06/2026TIL 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?" 110
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/06/2026If you haven’t done this yet are you even using AI bro? 🤣 130
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/06/2026Remember when too many browser tabs would crash your computer. Now it’s Claude Code terminals. Welcome to the new era. 140
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/06/2026Is there a thing where I can put a GitHub repo behind a paywall? 210
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 04/06/2026Thanks 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. 220
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 01/06/2026Heads 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. 242
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 01/06/2026🔥 direnv.net is so handy with multiple profiles for AI or projects.direnv.netdirenv – unclutter your .profileunclutter your .profile 000
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 01/06/2026Claude down again? This would have told you sooner than your Slack alerts: github.com/nateritter/s...github.comGitHub - 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 000
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 31/05/2026You know I'm in a more relaxed season when I can catch up on a travel video. ✅ Only 2.5 years behind, but whatever. 010
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 29/05/2026I 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 010
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 28/05/2026Introduced my 2 boys to Monty Python and the Holy Grail tonight. Epic. Totally forgot how good and ridiculous it was.static.klipy.comMonty Python Holy Grail: French Knight's TauntsALT: Monty Python Holy Grail: French Knight's Taunts 050
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 27/05/2026You 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. 140
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/05/2026Been 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. 110
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 08/05/2026PRs 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. 110
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 01/05/2026Me: 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> 010
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 30/04/2026LLMs + memory = the new version of the social media tribe bubble 010
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 18/04/2026Is there an open source close of Instagram on ATProto yet? Has to be already vibe coded right? 020
Reposted by Nate RitterJason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 10/04/2026What 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. 3101
Nate Ritter @nateritter.com · 03/04/2026Didn'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. 010