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Jaryd Hermann
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Writing The Diff and build products in public to put ideas to the test.

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Oct 2, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

How is a texting agent with no app worth $10B? Why did OpenAI just cut its $200 plan in half? Why would Salesforce pay ~67x revenue for a survey startup? Is your vibe-coded app leaking data? And why did Airbnb refuse to build a chatbot?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

Was this Anthropic's best product decision?

Sep 29, 2026

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10 min read

Was this Anthropic's best product decision?

Finding your perfect constraint with inside-the-box thinking

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Sep 25, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Why did OpenAI and Anthropic launch at the exact same time? Why is Amazon blocking Muse? Why is Waymo chasing 13-year-olds? Are AI food photos killing your appetite? And how is a "boring" tool worth $12.55B?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Sep 18, 2026

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6 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Why Anthropic just cut Cowork, the 80/20 list for every founder, how to find your depth advantage by going wide, the problem with our environment, and are you testing the most important piece of software?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

The new iPhone Duo growth play

Sep 15, 2026

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10 min read

The new iPhone Duo growth play

Six ways to win attention, stand out, and use Apple's new hardware

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Sep 11, 2026

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8 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

How to steal someone's launch event for free, why software is making people insane, the reason small bets are scarier than big ones, why your first company name should suck, and do people care about your product?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

What makes a great button?

Sep 8, 2026

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8 min read

What makes a great button?

The data, psychology, and anatomy of buttons that work

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Sep 4, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Why is Netflix selling their competition? A brilliant IRL marketing idea that pays you? Why is PostHog trying to kill PostHog? What's the problem with these two words? And what's up with all these drones?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

Remix a game to win B2B customers

Sep 1, 2026

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12 min read

Remix a game to win B2B customers

How to find users with a mini game built on your knowledge advantage

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Aug 28, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

What happens if China wins the AI race? Did we just solve Cancer? What does "we have no plan" mean? Is AI firing or just not hiring? And how Spotify built their $100M audiobook business

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

The channel that pays you to use it

Aug 25, 2026

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14 min read

The channel that pays you to use it

How to make $50k a month from the thing that drives your company pipeline

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Aug 21, 2026

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8 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

How and why does anti-marketing work? What are three things to ask about any market? Is one extra click your next growth lever? Are you just collecting tactics? And with software factories, what's left for you?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

The new distribution engine Apple is giving you in 2 months

Aug 18, 2026

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11 min read

The new distribution engine Apple is giving you in 2 months

Your next 1,000 users are inside someone else's app

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Aug 14, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

What are the algorithms hiding and rewarding? How are GPUs becoming real estate? What do we need to learn from Anthropic's IPO? Is your app safe? And are you ready for non human shoppers?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

The emptiest distribution channel with 800M users

Aug 11, 2026

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12 min read

The emptiest distribution channel with 800M users

How to get in on this rare opportunity

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Aug 7, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Is your roadmap making you worse at everything? How are 2-minute soap operas making $1B? What is the music industry doing with AI? Do your users know what you cost them? And who's financing customers instead of equity?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

Adding ambient AI

Aug 4, 2026

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10 min read

Adding ambient AI

How to put AI to work where nobody is looking for it

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Jul 31, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Why would a food app become an airline? Are lucky people just the ones who look up? Should you buy your customers instead of selling to them? Why is more code not more product? And Apple just stop selling iPhones?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

Steal this data from Anthropic's 1 million user interviews

Jul 28, 2026

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11 min read

Steal this data from Anthropic's 1 million user interviews

The AI labs are telling you exactly what to build

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Jul 24, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

What does a cracked 50-year-old math problem mean? Why was Burberry burning $30M+ in clothes? What was Apple actually selling for 99¢? Are you wasting Fable, and how not to? And why does everything you own keep getting worse?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

How to control what AI says about you

Jul 21, 2026

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11 min read

How to control what AI says about you

Copy this simple move to enable your best salesman

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Jul 17, 2026

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7 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Did China just outlaw your retention strategy? What happens when hacking becomes free? What's the cost for staying at the frontier? Which rung of the AI ladder are you on? And is your growth problem actually a you problem?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

The Meme Viable Problem

Jul 14, 2026

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8 min read

The Meme Viable Problem

The simplest way to know if a problem is real, and a 3-step playbook to using it

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

5-Bit-Fridays

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Jul 10, 2026

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6 min read

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Why is gaming the key to AGI? Why did a bird-speed app just hit 300K users? Does AI actually destroy jobs? How does FIFA profit more when the big teams advance? And is AI your new storefront, or your replacement?

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann

Stealable Ideas

The "Open OS" play

Jul 7, 2026

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12 min read

The "Open OS" play

How to compete by opening up what someone else keeps closed

Jaryd Hermann
Jaryd Hermann
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