Why we're building a new product every month

I am entering my third decade building software and I have seen more changes to how the job is done over the last 18 months than in the previous 18 years combined.

I assume this is not a surprise to you.

Earlier this year I started a new venture: Beta Acid Foundry. The goal of Foundry is to figure out how to do this job — the job of designing and building software — faster, better, and cheaper, while still retaining the high level of security, stability, and scalability that teams of our caliber are expected to produce.

I spent months and months working with the AI models of all the frontier labs and late last year had a breakthrough. I was able to piece together a workflow that allowed me to design and build a complex piece of software — one that would have normally taken our team 4-5 months to create — in about 2 weeks. And the result was not only saved time, but quality that was better than I could have built myself by hand.

I saw an opportunity.

The companies we work with at Beta Acid are pushing us to create things for them faster, better, and cheaper. How do we create the tools to do that?

So, I created Foundry. Foundry is an R&D team, tasked with evaluating, testing, and refining the leading edge AI models, tools, and workflows that will help us figure out how to design and build software faster, better, and cheaper for the companies we work with.

And what better way to do that than building real products and launching them into the world? Not just prototypes and MVPs, but fully featured products intended to be used by thousands (or millions!) of people?

And what if those products we build make money?

And what if we pushed ourselves even further by doing this every single month?

Since we started this effort 4 months ago we have launched 3 new products: Spiceful, Nudge, and Trikome. Cut Club will officially launch later this month, and we have another new product in progress, expected to launch in late July.

We are now taking the workflows the Foundry team has developed and starting to use those to build new products for Beta Acid's clients.

Over the coming weeks and months I will share more about Foundry, Spec Driven Development, AI, Growth Marketing, running a winery, living abroad, and all the successes and failures of my life.

Stay tuned.

Cheers,

Ryan