"But my key takeaway would be that if your product is just a SQL wrapper on a billing system, you now have thousands of competitors: engineers at your customers with a spare Friday afternoon with an agent." An astute observation and good for users. Can confirm having spent a lot of years in enterprise software.

Martin Alderson

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.

gm, good people. ☕ Happy Friday.

If you meet the Buddha in your inbox, kill him.

Monday will mark 3.5 years for me on nostr. Viva la nostr.

Bullish on Bitcoin embassies.

Bitcoin Products

Bitcoin Embassies - Trusted Bitcoin Tools & Services

Physical spaces and community hubs where Bitcoiners gather, learn, and build together.

Great new product, @Marty Bent.

Let them eat bangers and mash.

Reclaim The Net

US Suspends $41 Billion Tech Deal with UK over Online Censorship Laws

Washington wanted an alliance on AI; London delivered a lecture on acceptable conversation.

WIP: Self-hosted #v4v analytics. Connects to @Alby Hub via NWC. Relies on a proxy running via Netlify function that injects content URLs into invoices for per-piece zap tracking. Next step is to extract the proxy code and incorporate it. It's live at

Shawn Yeager | Bitcoin Go-to-Market & Revenue Leader

Shawn Yeager

I help Bitcoin founders solve hard commercial problems. 30 years in tech, $300M revenue. Led sales at Amboss, NYDIG Payments, and Bottlepay.

and working smoothly. See the footer zap link or the end of each essay (Zap this essay).

GitHub

GitHub - shawnyeager/v4v-analytics: Value for Value payment analytics CLI for Bitcoin Lightning via NWC

Value for Value payment analytics CLI for Bitcoin Lightning via NWC - shawnyeager/v4v-analytics