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BrainStormers insights are practical guides from our two founders: startup engineering articles by Thanos Gkanas and product management articles for founders by Roger Grekos. Alerts track security issues and deadlines, each sourced.
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The three most recently updated guides.
SCALE STRATEGYGUIDE
How to build a product roadmap
How to build a product roadmap a startup can follow: formats, a seven-step process, RICE scoring, a copyable template, examples for three stages and habits that keep it honest.
Roger GrekosSCALE STRATEGYGUIDE
How to find product-market fit
How to find product-market fit: the signals that show it, how to run the product-market fit survey, the questions to ask, and what to change when the answer is no.
Roger GrekosAI CODE FIXINGGUIDE
How to measure and reduce technical debt
How to measure technical debt, the types that hurt startups most, and a step-by-step way to reduce technical debt while you keep shipping features.
Thanos Gkanas
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Alerts and updates
Active alerts come first, soonest deadline at the top, next to our end-of-life tracker for a typical startup stack. All our startup industry updates are also listed on one page.
- SHUTDOWNS FROM OCT 23DEADLINE OpenAI API deprecations: shutdown dates, October 2026 to January 2027
- EXPOSURES REPORTED TO OCT 1Vibe coding security: why AI-built apps exposed data in 2026
- IN EFFECT SINCE AUG 2, 2026EU AI Act enforcement: what startups calling model APIs must do
- NEW WAVES THROUGH OCT 2026npm supply chain attacks in 2026: what startup teams should change
Software end-of-life tracker: the dates your startup stack can't missAlerts and updates
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- SCALE STRATEGYGUIDE
How to build a product roadmap
How to build a product roadmap a startup can follow: formats, a seven-step process, RICE scoring, a copyable template, examples for three stages and habits that keep it honest.Roger Grekos - SCALE STRATEGYGUIDE
How to find product-market fit
How to find product-market fit: the signals that show it, how to run the product-market fit survey, the questions to ask, and what to change when the answer is no.Roger Grekos - AI CODE FIXINGGUIDE
How to measure and reduce technical debt
How to measure technical debt, the types that hurt startups most, and a step-by-step way to reduce technical debt while you keep shipping features.Thanos Gkanas - PRODUCT VALIDATIONGUIDE
How to validate a business idea with real evidence before you build
How to validate a business idea before you write code: interviews, bottom-up sizing, smoke tests and pre-sales, with go, pivot or stop signals and real examples.Roger Grekos - AI CODE FIXINGGUIDE
Is vibe coding bad? What breaks when AI-written code reaches users
Vibe coding is fast until real users arrive. What breaks when AI-written code ships, which apps are fine to build this way and the checks that catch problems early.Thanos Gkanas - STARTUP ENGINEERINGGUIDE
The MVP development process, step by step
The MVP development process in six steps, from the riskiest assumption to a launch decision, with MVP testing methods and minimum viable product examples.Thanos Gkanas - PRODUCT VALIDATIONGUIDE
The product discovery process
A product discovery process for startups in four steps, with the techniques that fit each step, the questions to ask users, a simple framework and a one-page template you can copy.Roger Grekos - MONETIZATIONGUIDE
SaaS pricing strategy
How to set a SaaS pricing strategy at an early stage: choose a value metric, pick a pricing model, design clear tiers, and test a price change without losing trust.Roger Grekos - CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURETRACKER
Software end-of-life tracker: the dates your startup stack can't miss
End-of-life, deprecation and retirement dates for startup stacks: runtimes, databases, operating systems, cloud runtimes, frameworks, AI models and AI regulation, from vendor pages.Thanos Gkanas - STARTUP ENGINEERINGGUIDE
Technical due diligence: the process, checklist and report
Technical due diligence explained from the reviewer's side: what investors check, the process step by step, a checklist by area and what the final report should contain.Thanos Gkanas - UX/UIGUIDE
Usability testing questions that get honest, useful answers
Usability testing questions for before, during and after each session, the methods they suit, and the leading questions that make users agree instead of showing you problems.Roger Grekos - UX/UIGUIDE
UX audit checklist
A UX audit checklist for SaaS products and apps: 40 checks across onboarding, navigation, forms, content, accessibility, performance and conversion, plus a template to score fixes.Roger Grekos
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