The InfiniteUp Blog
Product Strategy & Startup Ops
Essays on building products that survive contact with reality — MVP scoping, growth without ad spend, pricing, and the operational side of shipping software as a small team.
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Engineering & App Architecture, Generative AI & LLMs, Inside InfiniteUp, Product Strategy & Startup OpsInvisible AI: The Five-Stage Ladder From Chatbot to Infrastructure
Invisible AI is not a chatbot with better manners. It is AI that removes steps instead of adding a surface. Our definition,…
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Building With MCP: Four Real Projects and the Cheat Sheet I Wish I’d Had
A WordPress site, a 126-task backlog, a FlutterFlow app and a 268,000-word book. What the Model Context Protocol actually did on each,…
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Canada’s Counter-Tariffs Are Live: What Canadian Businesses Should Do Now
Canada’s counter-tariffs came into force on 8 September 2026 — more than 700 US products, $27.6 billion of imports, at 15%, 25%…
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AI Agents for Main Street: Our Predictions vs. Reality + 5 Real Use Cases
A year ago, we predicted how AI agents would transform small businesses. Here’s our retrospective analysis of what actually happened—plus 5 real-world…
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Data Process, Data Structure, Engineering & App Architecture, Generative AI & LLMs, Inside InfiniteUp, Product Strategy & Startup OpsThe SaaS Apocalypse: Why We’re Betting on Invisible AI and a 200-User Tipping Point
InfiniteUp’s public bet: a 200-user tipping point, a viral J-curve, and full transparency on the numbers as they happen — starting today.
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The Million-Hour Man-Month: Four Heads That Think Like One
Paul Graham said to hold the whole system in one head. He was right about coherence and wrong about the container —…
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Vibe Coding Is Cruise Control: Great If You Know Where You’re Going
We vibe code daily. It’s cruise control — brilliant at holding speed, indifferent to your heading. Here’s how to tell you’re stranded,…
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AI API Pricing in 2026: What a Million Tokens Costs Now — and What That Unlocks
Our API bill fell 100× in three years. Current AI API pricing per million tokens (July 2026), and the business models cheap…
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Main Street Is the Most Underserved Market in Software. Four Tests to Win It.
Small firms were never worth a software company’s time. That changed. Four tests any custom software for a Main Street business has…
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MCP Is a Scalpel for App Development, Not a Chainsaw
We spent two weeks stuck on one sorting algorithm. What untangled it was an AI working directly in the project through MCP…
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The AI Toll Booth: Why Knowledge Shouldn’t Have a Price Tag
Hundreds of years ago, the most important book in the Western world—the Bible—was locked behind a language barrier.
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Centralized Intelligence: How NotebookLM Democratizes Custom AI for Operations and Creators
Public discussions around Artificial Intelligence often focus on macroeconomic impacts, infrastructure expansion, and resource demands—such as the massive…