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Alex Ghiculescu
Personal blog · ghiculescu.substack.com · on HN as ghiculescustartupsaibusiness
Alex Ghiculescu's personal blog at ghiculescu.substack.com covers startups, ai and business. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-19, and you can follow it by feed.
non-academic takes on AI & SaaS.
Most-linked posts?
- Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-29
- AI coding is plateauing but also accelerating2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-18
What Hacker News says?
Author here. We don't have (or want) any investors. I encourage PMs to code because it's good for the business. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. I wrote about this years before we started doing AI-backed-coding: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/opening-the-codebase-up-to... , so some of the details are no longer correct, but the philosophy is the same.
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on “Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code”Submitted Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code as a story · 189 points
HN discussionI rolled out Claude Code and Cursor to my whole company. They’re really much better than copy paste. And very affordable compared to professional developer wages. Wrote about it: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/nobody-codes-here-anymore
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on “Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?”Submitted Nobody Codes Here Anymore: Notes on Rolling Out Cursor and Claude Code as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI started Substacking recently. I’m not bothering with a paywall - I’m doing it to get better at writing and because writing helps me think and reflect. If people find what I’m writing interesting or helpful, that’s a bonus. I thought the only people who’d read my posts were people I have on LinkedIn so I’ve been really pleasantly surprised how many people I’ve never heard of have been subscribing. I’m not sure what…
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on “Top highest-earning Substack newsletters generate over $22M a year”Submitted Do You Want the Customer? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, you should pay yourself. How much? Working out a pay structure is quite tricky, and reviewing it constantly so you can raise it gradually is a good way to lose focus. The approach in the article is one way, but I don't like the lumpiness of it and the big bonuses won't work if you're bootstrapped. A better approach is to pay yourself a fixed percentage of MRR. Some VCs may add salary caps but this works until y…
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on “If you’ve raised venture capital, you have to pay yourself”Submitted My 3 week career at a Big 4 firm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTechnically not a handbook, but recently I’m writing up a lot of the ideas we’ve been using to operate Workforce.com @ https://ghiculescu.substack.com . Hoping to turn it into a real book!
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on “Ask HN: What companies have publicly available handbooks?”Submitted One thing for founders to know about Business Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The LLM App Layer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI coding: plateauing but also accelerating as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI coding is plateauing but also accelerating as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody Codes Here Anymore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Use Claude as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with Delinquent Customers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Office NIMBYs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't need to go to university to work at a startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SaaS: The Lazy Industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “It's like ChatGPT, for Uber”. Building something useful in a tech hype cycle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terrible Startup Advice: Don't Hire Your Friends as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Drive Home as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What we should expect of software companies in an AI coding world as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from Building AI Features as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to think about when making your first hire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 11 years of SaaS product strategy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Product Management by Walking Around as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opening the Codebase Up to Everyone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “What did you work on today?” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Hosting a SaaS as a story · 1 points
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