Elliot C Smith

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Elliot C Smith on product development, software engineering, startups, pricing, and building with AI.

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• Outpacing the Spiral #ProductDevelopment #Startups #AI

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  Sep 7, 2026

• Engineering Theatre #SoftwareEngineering #AI #ProductDevelopment

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  Aug 25, 2026

• Input based pricing vs Output based pricing #Pricing #Product #Business

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  Aug 12, 2026

• Want taste? Eat your slop. #AI #Product #Software

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  Aug 10, 2026

• Five styles of 'AI Product Development' #AI #ProductDevelopment #Tech

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  Aug 5, 2026

• You can just do things. #Productivity #Startups #Action

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  Aug 2, 2026

• Raising the floor, lowering the ceiling #AI #SoftwareEngineering #ProductDevelopment

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  Jul 25, 2026

• Quick thoughts on AI in Game Dev #AI #GameDev #Tech

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  Jul 19, 2026

• All the other bottlenecks #Startups #AI #ProductDevelopment

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  Jul 5, 2026

• Autoresearch, Claude and Constrained Optimization #AI #SoftwareEngineering #ProductDevelopment

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  Jun 30, 2026

• Findings, May 2026 #Product #AI #Startups

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  Jun 2, 2026

• Momentum is the Safest Moat #Startups #Product #Business

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  May 9, 2026

• Don't sell the build effort. #Startups #Sales #Product

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  May 7, 2026

• Build 'Taste' for the critics but 'Care' for the fans. #ProductManagement #AI #Startups

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  May 5, 2026

• Findings, April 2026 #ProductDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #AI

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  May 3, 2026