hussam
@hussamfyi
product & design @SpellbookLegal • host @futurestatefm • shaping products in pixels and code • prev @shakepay
you need to be souq-maxxing
Saying you're a capitalist — lame, cringe. Saying you're bazaar-pilled — mysterious, based.
Almost everything about how we’re building enterprise software products is changing right now. For years when you built SaaS products, your entire design focus was how a user would interact with the system to accomplish their task, by themselves or collaboratively. Now many of…
the craziest thing about toronto’s culinary scene is you can walk into most ethnic restaurants and feel like you were teleported to a different country. it’s nuts.
you know when you're on vacation & you spend like you just don't care? that's how it feels to spend money on claude code.
I've done ton of work over the past several years but haven't mentioned it much outside here, so I resurrected my personal site and documented everything. Here's the most important things I've worked on from 2015—2025: gabrieloc.com
i almost flunked out in my first year of college. i thought, maybe i was partying too much? so i dialed it in and spent every night in the campus library. it didn't matter how hard i studied, or how much amphetamines i pumped into my body, i couldn't improve my grades. i…
PoopV5 is here. We just launched Goob-400B, our largest and smartest model yet. You can now use o5-blorp-high in Cursor. DooDoo-Instruct 8B is now available on Hugging Face. We will pay you 500 million dollars to work here
i must not be using o3 right because honestly i hate it compared to 4o
The Truth About Building Products at Early-Stage Startups ft. Hussam (@hussamfyi) After years building products at early-stage startups, Hussam breaks down what nobody tells you about the process. "When you join a company at the early stage, you are effectively playing the role…
the best gelato in toronto can be found at the sicilian sidewalk cafe. also gabagool.
it’s not just about how fast you can strike or how well you string together different combinations. do you keep the tempo? is your grip loose? do you flow? are your strikes serving the rhythm, or are they just for feeding your own ego?
an underrated dimension of technicality is the way you wield the sword
an underrated dimension of technicality is the way you wield the sword
who’s building cursor for seppuku
People are reporting that Gemini 2.5 keeps threatening to kill itself after being unsuccessful in debugging your code ☠️
i care less about the vertical tabs and more about the ability to seamlessly switch between personal and work spaces. clicking a link and having it open in a new window where i could “open in personal/work” is what made arc feel super fast and genuinely useful.
Building @charliedeets's design for a sidebar option in @diabrowser. We’re torn: should we ship it?
If you want to eat real food, avoid 1) restaurants with a Michelin star or trying to get a Michelin star, 2) restaurants with a "famous" chef, 3) restaurants with a view.