Field Notes
What 250,000+ real complaints can teach you. Opinionated, sourced writing on what to build, where the pain is, and the sectors everyone else ignores.
Everyone's Building SaaS for SaaS. We're Betting on the Trades.
The builder-tools market is saturated and incestuous. The overlooked money is in the sectors nobody else scrapes — and the data says they're heating up fast.
Read the thesis →1,201 Nurses Are Trying to Leave the Bedside. Everyone Keeps Building Them the Wrong Thing.
One of the fastest-growing complaint piles we track, with real numbers — and the obvious business is the one that already exists ten times over.
Read →POVThe Internet's Two Biggest Complaints Are Gardening and Job Hunting. The Answer Isn't Another App.
The two biggest complaint clusters online are gardening and job hunting. Look at what people actually need and the answer is almost never another app, which says a lot about where founders keep pointing.
Read →COMPARISONBest GummySearch Alternatives (2026)
It shut down and orphaned ~135K users. The honest comparison of what to actually use now — price, monitoring, multi-source, free tier.
Read →POVAI-Native Agencies: SaaS Margins, or Labor in a Costume?
YC wants AI-native agencies. The pitch is SaaS margins on agency work. We're building one — here's the honest unit-economics math.
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