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SaaSykit Summer SALE Ends Soon, Open Source in The Age of Agentic Coding, MCP Onboarding is The Most Exciting Thing in Tech Right Now, If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat & more
Ahmad
July 19, 2026
Hey Makers 👋
Just a quick heads-up: the Flash Summer Deal is almost over. ☀️
If you've been waiting for the "right time" to start your next SaaS, this is probably it.
For a limited time, you can still get 25% off SaaSykit Complete—everything you need to skip the repetitive parts of building a SaaS, including authentication, billing, multi-tenancy, teams, permissions, and more, so you can focus on the features that actually make your product stand out.
👉 Use code SUMMER2026 to get 25% off SaaSykit Complete.
Now let’s dive into the world of building and SaaS! 👇
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Open source stopped being a philosophical side-quest a long time ago. It is now the substrate the entire industry runs on: the frameworks, the databases, the language runtimes, the build and CI tooling, and increasingly the AI models and the agents that write code on top of them. Almost every product shipped this year stands on a foundation that someone, somewhere, published for free and maintains in the open. We have built on that foundation for two decades, and we are now preparing to give a serious amount back. This piece is partly about why open source matters more than ever — and partly a heads-up worth reading to the end.
The HTTP QUERY method is a new addition to the HTTP spec (RFC 10008) designed for exactly one thing: queries. It is a safe, cacheable method that carries its parameters in the request body, giving you the expressiveness of a POST payload without giving up the read-only semantics of GET—and without cramming complex filters into a URL that may hit length limits along the way.
Laravel Cooldown is a package from Mahedi Zaman Zaber for putting a timed lock on a named action: no second OTP for 120 seconds, one password reset request per minute, a payment retry that can't fire again until the window clears. Where Laravel's RateLimiter counts how many requests hit an endpoint within a window, Cooldown tracks whether a specific action for a specific owner is still within its waiting period and can persist that state in the database rather than only in the cache.
Practically all of my work happens inside a terminal. Git, kubectl, tmux, ssh'ing into a server, open practically the entire day. Something I use that much has to be fast. Any lag in opening a new tab, typing a character or hitting tab for a completion is something I feel hundreds of times a day. It's death by a thousand cuts.
Laravel 13.20.0 adds first-party image processing to the framework, with an immutable, driver-based API for transforming images that come from uploads, storage, URLs, or raw bytes. The release also brings a WithoutMiddleware controller attribute, a dedicated session prefix for Redis, and a batch of Eloquent and queue additions.
Laravel 13.19.0 rounds out support for the HTTP QUERY method across the HTTP client and testing helpers, and adds a handful of collection, string, and queue improvements alongside the usual fixes.
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But over the past few weeks, my co-founder and I have been putting in a lot of hours into figuring out how to make our product’s agent experience as seamless as possible, and oh my goodness the deeper I got into it the more exciting the problem became.
AI products generate more usable signal than any software before them, yet (almost) nobody is actually using it.
I think that’s a mistake, and a surprisingly expensive one at that.
AI was supposed to replace human labor.
It did the opposite.
For the first time in history, humans are cheaper than software.
And AI is creating more jobs than it eliminates.
“But what will weigh on you the most is just how bad it will feel until you find product market fit. It feels like pushing a boulder uphill while wondering whether the boulder wants to move at all.” This is how Sam Gerstenzang describes the pain of finding Product Market Fit within a startup. I liked the post and it includes a few tips, from a founder’s POV, on navigating the idea maze. Still, as I read it, the sadist in me wanted to push the bar even higher and talk a bit about false PMF, which can sometimes be an even worse situation than no PMF (because you’re ramping up spend and activity, essentially running, with increasing speed, in a straight line towards a cliff.
The biggest winners of AI need not be the companies with the most engineers, the largest data teams, or the highest software budgets.
They may be the companies with the lowest margins. The manufacturers, trucking carriers, distributors, staffing agencies, and field-service operators that have run on thin, single-digit margins for decades – the businesses nobody would ever call AI companies.
There are songs that make me cry that you'll never hear about. There are poems I read while my mother lay dying in front of me, and unless I tell you, you'll never know which ones. My taste in music, in food, in art, all of it is private by default. You'd have to eat with me to know I'd happily live on fried chicken. Nobody reads my diary unless I show them. Nobody comes into my home unless I invite them in.
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