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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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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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- 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 - 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
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