Small notes from
a life between two coasts.
I'm Iris. This is where I keep my longer thoughts: reflections, case studies of things I've shipped, travel journals, and the small products I keep making on weekends.
What you'll find here
All tags →POV, reflections, small essays. The public account corner.
Walk-throughs of things I've shipped or dissected.
Half itinerary, half feelings. From wherever I last landed.
Weekly whiplash of living between two countries.
Small products that started as one bad Sunday idea.
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More writing
Blank canvas vs template marketplace: the hidden gap between US and Chinese AI tools
Opening Claude is a blank page. Opening Doubao is a wall of templates. Two products, two completely different invitations to your first sentence.
The hour I sat on Sunset Cliffs
On a late-March evening I sat on a cliff in San Diego and waited for the sun to go down. Ten years ago I did the same thing in Santorini. In the ten years between, I hadn't.
The content pipeline for a solo founder is broken. Here's the gap.
The middle of the solo creator's content pipeline is empty, I know because I keep falling into it.
Distribution isn't a content problem. It's an identity problem.
I published a blog post two weeks ago. It's still not on any social platform. Time isn't what stopped me.
My most reliable cofounder is AI
Two cofounders. One walked. One's still at his day job. The most invested one is me.
The first place online that's actually mine
For years I've been posting slices of myself on other people's platforms. This is where I get to keep the whole.
Building A Creator Partnership Platform in 2 Months (When 6 Was Standard)
We had to build our own. And we had to build it fast.
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