Rennie Haylock

Building @TryHuntr (resume builder) with 4 people and a lot of AI. Writing about how AI changes what small teams can do. Creator of

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If I could wave a magic wand to become world class at any dev/product skill I'd pick "naming things". AI makes this a lot more attainable.

I have multiple 20+ turn chat sessions with Claude trying to come up with the right name for something: database schemas, file structures, public facing product/feature names, internal names, labels for UI artifacts, etc etc.

Being good at finding the right words to describe something is a super power. When you get it right it adds a ton of clarity and momentum as the team/customers/agents/etc can communicate about "the thing" using a shared vocabulary.

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At this point Claude is soaked with rich context; just ask it to come up with 3 to 5 UI mock variations for you to consider “given the above context”. I promise the quality of those mocks and the inspiration you’ll get from them will blow your mind.

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My biggest cheat code as a technical product designer working with Claude Code every day. 🧵

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Then in the same session, ask Claude to work its way back from those user stories to find winning UX patterns, no mocks yet.

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As a product builder, sometimes your highest leverage isn't building the product; it's building the tools to build "it".

Eval harnesses, internal admin panels, custom data viz.

There's never been a better time for internal-tooling.

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I don't have a clean answer here. Something is clearly shifting. We do things at Huntr with 5 people that would've taken 30+ a few years ago.

But I think an explosion of new products and brutal consolidation within each niche can both be true at the same time.

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If it costs millions in salaries to maintain a software product, you need a sizable addressable market to justify building it.

At $50K/year in tools, infra, and AI. Team of 1-3. A market of a few thousand paying users is a real business.

I think this changes what gets built.

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If the minimum viable company is 1–2 people, we might be heading toward a world of solo operators and micro-partnerships more than small companies with employees.

"I work at a company" turns into "I am a company." Exciting if you're a builder. Less clear if you wanted stability