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Studio 03 · Tom Huang, Open Design: "Stars are not revenue wearing a trench coat"
Eleven days after Anthropic shipped Claude Design, a Shanghai team shipped the open-source alternative. It has since crossed a million installs on 77,000 stars, and the first build cost about $200. Tom Huang on the file-first method that let agents write all the code, why giving the product away was the plan, and the part no agent can do for you.
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Studio 02 · Gabriel Amzallag: "I only build it if someone pays"
Five years of conversion work inside Qonto, then out alone with Web Anatomy: a library of what actually converts on landing pages, built in public, every line written by an agent. The roadmap has one rule, nothing gets built until someone pays. The first someone paid €99.
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Studio 01 · Steven Hylands: “Build judgement, not the thing you've already got”
Stora co-founder Steven Hylands on 10,000 pull requests, a quarter of them in the last six months, and why judgement is the one skill AI can't hand you.
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