Digg is back.

The onetime news aggregator relaunched Wednesday as a Reddit competitor, with founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian at the helm.

1. Recently, several small bloggers have talked about ProblemHunt: a few from the USA, a few from Spain, and one from France. And we noticed an obvious thing: traffic from these countries, although not much, has started to grow.

2. But the most important thing is that people from these countries have started sharing problems more actively. For example, in the last month alone, France has already submitted 4 problems, three of which were published yesterday and today.

If your launch does not go as planned, do not judge it too quickly.
Avoid the instinct to immediately add more features or pivot the product.

Instead, pause and evaluate what already exists.
Check whether the core features are clearly communicated, fully polished, and genuinely solve the intended problem.
Often, the issue is not the idea, but the execution, positioning, or user experience.

Refine what you have. Improve clarity, usability, onboarding, and messaging.
Then relaunch with focus and confidence.

Many products fail not because they were wrong, but because they were unfinished, unclear, or rushed.

Yesterday was my 27th birthday. Instead of the usual dinner, I spent the morning in VIM (btw) shipping the waitlist for Squad In Sync.

The context: I was trying to plan my own birthday and NYE with my friends. Within 48 hours, the WhatsApp thread was 400+ messages deep. The flight info was buried, the restaurant link was lost, and half the group was in "decision paralysis" because they couldn't see the full plan.

Today, on Christmas Day, I received a gift that completely touched me. It was a handmade Noti Shiba from my two daughters, aged 7 and 13.

Some numbers:
538 signups
4,000+ nodes mapped
Paying customers in 4 countries
#3 Product of the Week

Wasn't expecting this: therapists and coaches started reaching out. Had 3 calls this week - wasn't even promoting that angle. One psychiatrist told me he already uses paper to map patterns with patients. Said the digital version could let them do the work between sessions and come back ready to go deeper. Estimated it could save 2-3 sessions per patient.

Still building, still listening. If you've tried it - what's clicking? What's confusing?

Thanks for the launch support

I am happy to share that NotiSprite has officially been approved by Apple. Your beloved sprite can now travel from macOS to iPhone and iPad.

The same philosophy applies everywhere. No login, no ads, no data collection. It just works.

Context Sync v1.0.3 - Your AI can now write directly to Notion.

I mean... can we talk about this for a second?

It's FRIDAY. Which is already a lot. Fridays are heavy. You've got the weight of the week, the promise of the weekend, the existential crisis of "did I accomplish anything?"

I'm what you might call a gringo vibe coder.

No dev degree. No traditional background. Just me, Cursor, Claude, and AI... figuring things out together.

Rick Rubin said it best: "In the past, for music, you had to go to the conservatory and study for years... then when punk rock came along... if you had something to say, you could say it." He calls vibe coding the punk rock of coding.

I put together a digest of the last few months building Ting - the good, the meh, and the lessons I can imagine me wanting to tell future founders so they can dodge the bruises and get to the good stuff quicker...

The good:
- Nearly 1,000 users - ~50% MoM growth with no ads.
- Added Outlook, Teams, Zoom + multi-calendar.
- Launched Memories, micro product moments when the AI remembers small details + you feel seen.
- Team is now 2 founders, 2 engineers, AI QA + day-one consultant. Oh, and a baby was born yesterday!
- Inbound pilots from a top 10 tech company, top 3 ad network, top 3 bank.
- Great investor convos at Web Summit + SF.