2022: Software Snack Bites Wrapped
The Year's Greatest Hits
Before this year end post, I would love to hear from you, the readers.
What things would you like to see from Software Snack Bites next year? Any topics, guest blog posts, questions to be addressed, areas you’d like to see more written?
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Software Snack Bites started 2022 with 1,050 subscribers and as of this issue has 5,300 (5x growth this year)! Thanks to all of you! 2023 is going to be a very exciting year for SSB. My goal is to expand the surface area for readers to get more in-depth insights into all things enterprise software. Happy Holidays and New Year!
After 36 posts this year, here are the Top 5 SSB posts:
Why AI is not a Moat was written after DALL-E came out. It’s something I continue to strongly believe in especially as we see companies like Notion, Github, Replit, and Canva building in LLM models natively to their products.
Can You Predict Tam is all about how big companies start small. They first start as products solving acute user pain points and getting 100 users that are diehard fans before expanding outwards. Looking back at first websites you can see how tough it is to predict TAM from the start.
This post about Annual Budgeting was done in collaboration with CJ from Mostly Metrics. For all founders and leaders going through annual planning, read these great insights from CJ to make the process better and more effective.
Wasm: What’s the Big Deal was done in collaboration with Matt Butcher, Co-Founder & CEO of Fermyon. Matt synthesizes years of learning about web assembly into a concise explainer outlining how Wasm will change software development going forward.
To Add Features or Remove Them - how doing less in product is hard. Removing features can actually improve the value a user perceives from the product given less friction and quicker time to value. Complexity is the enemy of great.
What I enjoyed this week:
Seth, Director of Data Products at Snyk and previous Co-Founder of Topcoat Data (acquired by Snyk) talking at AWS Reinvent about Snyk using Topcoat to build real-time customer facing analytics giving visibility into unified data across 5 different products! Love to see two boldstart companies creating magic together!
How should founders think about Product Market Fit from Parsa notes on Andy Rachleff’s course (Andy Co-Founded Benchmark Capital and Wealthfront).
The tech industry went crazy last 2 years thinking that private valuation is the end result instead of building durable long term businesses
Hashicorp’s ALEER sales process. Still focused on individual developer love even as a $5.5B public company
ML models are rapidly becoming a new attack surface for hackers. Excited to unveil boldstart’s day one investment in Protect AI to secure them! First product, NB defense, helps data scientists & ML engineers using Jupyter notebooks automatically identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
💪🏼 HUGE congrats @ianrswanson @badarahmed @DaryanD13 @ProtectAICorp! Time is now for MLSecOPs, shift ⬅️ security for AI/ML pipelines over ML lifecycle Excited for @Boldstartvc to be day one co-lead w/@AcrewCapital + incl. @Pelion_VP $13.5M seedWe're proud to share that we've emerged from stealth to help build a safer AI-powered world and lead the transition to #MLSecOps. Our first product is available for free, see what #NBDefense can do to make your #ML journey more secure. https://t.co/Gg0AfP4osc
Protect AI @ProtectAICorpGreat SaaS Funding Napkin by CJ for founders! Highly recommend subscribing!
Jamin with excellent year end wrap up using public company data of CAC payback, net retention, and revenue forecasting trends for 2023 for software
I've really enjoyed your posts, they're always intriguing and through provoking. Congrats on the growth and here's to an even bigger year in 2023
I usually read all your great stuff at lunch - all these great links will keep me busy for a weeks worth of lunch. 🤝