Field Notes

What 27,000+ real complaints can teach you. Opinionated, sourced writing on what to build, where the pain is, and the sectors everyone else ignores.

CORNERSTONE · POV

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.

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COMPARISON

Best 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.

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AI-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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