Here’s a daily reading routine I established for myself lately. It was also what got us to start working on Itemsy in the first place. We wanted to: stop using multiple reading lists, notes, keep tens of tabs open always be able to go back to or find new interesting…

Whenever I come across a blog post I really enjoy, I try and subscribe to be notified of future posts by email. Very often though, blogs lack that feature. I end up forgetting and never going back to them. This short blog post explains how to add a newsletter to…

Great product is the single best marketing channel. Quickly launch the most basic version of your product. Your one-liner must be crystal clear. People want to instantly try out your product. Choose the right day of week. Last Friday, we launched I T E M S Y on Product…

Microsoft Excel came out over 30 years ago. Since then almost every other software tool has been replaced by its modern, cloud version. Except Excel. Came for the data, stayed for the Excel Spreadsheets have become a natural end point for every BI, accounting or data management tool. …

Getting an online marketplace off the ground is very hard. Growing one is no easier. Marketplace metrics are extremely complicated. One thing that makes marketplaces so complex is feedback loops. Let’s say we want to estimate the effect of spending $1,000 on supplier acquisition. That will result in some change…

Incentivai has built a tool for testing incentive structures of economy-based systems. They are simulated in a safe environment (which closely resembles the real solution) with ML agents to estimate likely patterns of behaviour and help improve on the choice of system parameters. …

It always starts with an interesting problem. Many people give blockchain technology too much credit. Many give it too little credit. I believe that is at least partly due to there being a confusion as to what it is really that we can do now that we couldn’t without blockchain. …

Results of collaboration with Ocean Protocol Tokenised ecosystems (e.g. curation markets) require effective mechanisms for distribution of their native tokens. Bonding curves are a promising continuous token model where early adoption is incentivised and price is adjusted based on current supply. It is however extremely difficult to reason about the…

It’s fair to say that nowadays there is increasing interest in systems that coordinate behaviour and build trust by setting incentives for users. How do you design such a system? How do you reward and penalise users such that their dominant strategy is to be honest, reliable, unbiased and…