The Heavybit Library
The Heavybit Library is an extensive catalog of educational content featuring hundreds of hours of expert presentations, insightful podcasts, and articles focused on helping technical founders achieve breakout success.
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Synthetic Data for AI: Purpose and Use Cases
What to Know About Synthetic Data for AI Programs For software developers, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can help...
Navigating Markets in Open Source As Your Startup Matures
What to Consider About Market Forces in Open Source Why is Heavybit posting this extensive interview about how to navigate...
Personal Branding for Founders
Why Personal Branding? A lot of founders I’ve spoken to, especially those of us who are technical, bristle at the idea of...
Educate Technical Audiences With Template Marketing
Rapidly Educating Technical Audiences with Templates I’ve spent most of my career learning how products work using other...
How Local-First Development Is Changing How We Make Software
What Local First Is, and Why It Matters Local-first development is a development ethos that keeps data and code on your device...
Understanding Business Models & Defensibility in Open Source
First-Principles Business Models Matter for Open Source A key concern for open-source startup founders is defensibility–how to...

Demuxed Ep. #21, Demuxed 2024 Conference Preview
In episode 21 of Demuxed, Matt, Phil, and Steve give a lively preview of Demuxed 2024, diving into what attendees can expect at...
How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: First Principles
Welcome to the first article in our definitive series on how to launch a developer-first startup, featuring advice from veteran...
How to Start an Open-Source Project
How to Start an Open-Source Project Why is Heavybit posting a first-principles guide on how to create an open-source project?...
Demuxed Ep. #20, Exploring Shaka Player with Joey Parrish
In episode 22 of Demuxed, Matt, Phil, and Steve reflect on the 10th Demuxed conference and welcome Joey Parrish, creator of Shaka...
How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: Community & Leadership
Welcome to the second article in our definitive series on how to launch a developer-first startup, featuring advice from veteran...
MLOps vs. Eng: Misaligned Incentives and Failure to Launch?
Failure to Launch: The Challenges of Getting ML Models into Prod Machine learning is a subset of AI–the practice of using...