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Self-Hosting Is Back. The Reasons Are Different.
n8n has 70,000 GitHub stars. Plausible, Umami, Vaultwarden. The economics and trust calculus around self-hosting have shifted — not because it got easier, but because vendor dependency got more expensive.
Standups Are a Symptom. Async Tools Don't Fix the Diagnosis.
85% of remote teams report productivity gains from async video tools. That doesn't mean they've fixed what standups were compensating for.
AI Makes Senior Engineers Slower. That's Not a Paradox.
A METR controlled experiment found senior developers are 19% slower on complex tasks when using AI. Software developer demand is up 34% since AI became mainstream. These facts are consistent.
Engineers Automate Products. They Leave Their Own Workflow on Manual.
Automating non-product dev tasks saves up to $40k per engineer per year and reclaims 20–30% of engineering bandwidth. Most dev teams never apply that logic to themselves.
Personal Friction Is the Most Honest Design Input
Most founders validate against market demand. The prior question — what's actually broken in your daily work — is more reliable and harder to fake. Ordia came from two specific moments of things breaking.