2024 Year in Review
A developer's 2024 review of his indie software businesses, focusing on maintaining a timeline tool and pivoting an AI research assistant.
Matt Mazur is a web developer and entrepreneur with a focus on creating practical web applications and tools, including Lean Domain Search, Preceden, and A/B Test Calculator. He has experience in both web projects and online poker applications.
10 articles from this blog
A developer's 2024 review of his indie software businesses, focusing on maintaining a timeline tool and pivoting an AI research assistant.
A developer shares lessons from an SEO mistake that impacted his SaaS timeline tool's revenue while discussing his pivot to an AI research aggregator.
An indie founder shares 13 years of lessons from growing his SaaS timeline tool, Preceden, with a 37% annual revenue growth rate.
Investigates why ChatGPT 3.5 API sometimes refuses to summarize arXiv papers, exploring prompts, content, and model behavior.
A founder reflects on the first year of full-time work on Preceden, a SaaS timeline tool, focusing on AI feature integration, marketing, and business growth.
A technical guide on how to run the Mistral 7B Instruct large language model locally on a Macbook using llama.cpp and HuggingFace.
A technical guide on running the Mistral 8x7B Mixture of Experts AI model locally on a MacBook, including setup steps and performance notes.
An Atlantic article explores how Google's AI-generated Quick Answers, sourced from sites like Emergent Mind, are spreading misinformation.
An analysis of ChatGPT's knowledge cutoff date, testing its accuracy on celebrity death dates to understand the limits of its training data.
Explores OpenAI's new JSON mode for GPT-4 Turbo, demonstrating how to reliably generate valid JSON output with a Ruby code example.