01 / Thinking
Writing by Hien Nguyen.
Published on Substack ↗
- What People Actually Pay For
- The Problem with "Proactive" AI Assistants (and why it's dangerous)
- I Was Playing a Game I Was Guaranteed to Lose. Here's What I Learned
- Bootstrap or VC — pick your pace, pick your audience
- Dear Non-native Founders, Stop Apologizing for Speaking English
- When a Single Tap Breaks Trust
- The First Business I Ever Built
- Everything You Need to Know About Community-Led Growth — In Action.
- Who This Newsletter Is Really For (and where we go next)
- What Got Me Here Won't Get Me There
- How I Built Hỏi Phật (Dear Buddha) and What Almost Broke Me in the Process
- No Audience, No Problem: Stand Up a Community That Actually Moves People
- The 10x Guide to Your Early Community-Led Growth Hire
- How Google Developers' Communities Were Built Locally From Scratch
- How Notion Built a $10B Empire: The Community Everywhere Playbook (P1)
- The Era of Community-Led Growth Has Begun