Ben Wallace

About:

Ben Wallace is a tech enthusiast in NYC, working in product and customer success, with interests in edtech and tech strategies.

Website:

ben-mini.com

Specializations:

Project Manager Automation Engineer Solution Architect Product and Customer Success Software engineer Product Manager

Interests:

Product Edtech Tech companies

Outgoing Links:

Henrik Karlsson Joel Spolsky Simon Willison

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2025-11-28 • technology career counterculture youth ai

The author reflects on the uncertainty facing today's youth regarding career choices in the age of AI, suggesting that traditional paths like law, finance, and software engineering are increasingly threatened by automation. Drawin...

2025-11-09 • literacy software development excel collison, simon and john no-code

In a reflection on the Invest Like the Best podcast featuring John Collison, co-founder of Stripe, the author discusses the significance of no-code tools and the underappreciated value of Excel as a programming environment. Collis...

2025-07-15 • openai generative ai android app development claude ai network effects

The blog post discusses the evolution of network effects in generative AI, particularly focusing on OpenAI's Custom GPTs and Anthropic's Claude and its Artifacts feature. The author reflects on the decline of Custom GPTs and the r...

2025-06-14 • innovation healthcare bureaucracy compliance trust

The blog post discusses the book 'Abundance' by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, which critiques the inefficiencies of U.S. government bureaucracy that hinder ambitious projects. It highlights the concept of 'procedural fetishism,' ...

2025-03-08 • platform software development product design customer needs point solutions

The post explores the contrasting business models of tech platforms and point solutions, using Notion and Linear as case studies. Notion is characterized as a platform that allows users to create and customize their own tools, whi...

2025-02-05 • product management compliance customer relationship management (crm) saas solutions

The author reflects on insights gained from a conversation between Lenny and Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear, regarding the challenges of building a great SaaS product. Key points include the importance of 'dogfooding'—using one...

2024-08-16 • open source business model disability benefits commoditization ai

The blog post discusses the concept of open-source software and its implications for big tech companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft. It highlights how these companies contribute to open-source projects to complement their cor...

2024-11-03 • social media apple youtube iphone visual content

The blog post discusses the 'Send to YouTube' feature that Apple iPhones and iPod Touches had between 2009 and 2012, which allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube. This feature significantly increased video uploads on Y...

2025-07-20 • product design feedback

The blog post discusses the importance of making feedback easy and valuable for app users, particularly in the context of internal testing at Duolingo. It highlights the 'Shake-to-Report' feature that allows employees to quickly r...

2024-12-22 • privacy data analysis sql gpt-5 kibu

The author announces an update to their domain and introduces the Kibu Schema God (KSG), a Custom GPT tool designed to help Kibu employees easily access and analyze customer data using SQL queries. KSG simplifies the process of ge...

2026-02-25 • mental health happiness coaching youth basketball

Coaching a youth basketball team brought the author unexpected joy and fulfillment, contrasting with their feelings of emptiness in the tech industry.

2025-12-27 • software happiness large language models personal projects saas solutions

The blog presents a new project focused on positivity while exploring the evolution of software development and the concept of 'perfect software' tailored to individual needs.

2024-10-12 • sports self tennis mentorship inner work self 2

The blog post reflects on 'The Inner Game of Tennis' by Tim Gallwey, emphasizing the impact of mental processes on performance in sports and life. It introduces the concepts of Self 1 (the critical voice) and Self 2 (the instincti...

2024-09-14 • apartments real estate web scraping and crawling street complete first mover advantage

The blog post discusses the creation of FirstMover, an app designed to provide faster notifications for new apartment listings on StreetEasy, addressing the challenges of being the first to inquire about available rentals in Manha...

2024-09-22 • home ownership investment real estate first-time buyer university of pittsburgh

The author shares their journey of planning to buy their first house in Pittsburgh, PA, with the goal of making it an investment opportunity. They discuss the financial considerations, including the importance of good credit and u...