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The Fine Line Between Rejection and Revelation: How Invisible Rules Nearly Stopped My Entrepreneurial Journey

What If the Only Thing Holding You Back Is an Invisible Rule You Never Questioned?

“I’d take th’ risk. Worst they could say of me is, that I did what I thought best, even to my own wrong.”

PROMISES FULFILLED.

From ARPANET’s open roots to today’s walled gardens, explore how we centralized the internet—and why the fight for a freer web isn’t over.

From Walled Gardens to World Grid: A Short History of How We Centralized the Internet

Never before, perhaps, was staged a more thrilling race, and yet it was run with only the moon and stars to see.

The Walled City

The Feature Image was made by HackerNoon’s Stable Diffusion AI, Prompt “landlord looking happy in his walled garden”

First thing first: Apple takes 30% of all sales made by developers via its walled garden app store

Once upon a time, the personal computer stored the user data. Then, the Web came along. 

The Walled Gardens of Social Media: From the Free Web to the “Free” Web

Comment comes as part of big tech CEO grilling by antitrust committee

The Markup Investigation: Congressman Says that Google engineered a “Walled Garden”

In just five years the Salesforce ecosystem has transformed from a "walled garden" to an open-sourced driven solution set.

Salesforce: Walled Garden No More

The walled gardens situation is on everyone's lips, as it pushes ad-tech peers on both buying and selling sides to fight over the scraps remaining after the industry titans saved the best ad budget slices for themselves. 

Walled Gardens Transparency and the Cost of Obscurity: Will 2021 Be Different?

In the last few years, I've been dissecting business models of any type, and companies of any size. At the same time, I've been talking, interviewing, and discussing business models and business model innovation with dozens of entrepreneurs, and practitioners.

Are Tech Giants Building Walled Gardens (Again)?

<em>Rob Walling has bootstrapped multiple startups to exit, most recently Drip. These days he’s working on TinySeed, the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. He also founded and runs MicroConf and Startups for the Rest of Us.</em>

Founder Interviews: Rob Walling of MicroConf, Drip, and TinySeed

This is Part 3 on my series about cross-compilation. You can check out Part 1 and Part 2 first&nbsp;!

A C++ Hello World And The Rose Gold Walled Garden Of Doom

Snapchat’s addition of Memories is ushering in a new wave of walled gardens.

The Age of Walled Gardens

A 1932 sci-fi classic exploring Port o’ Porno—a lawless spaceport of crime, chaos, and survival.

Before Cyberpunk, There Was Port o’ Porno

Sudarshan Venkataraman explains how agentic AI, multi-agent meshes, and zero-touch systems are redefining enterprise autonomy.

Sudarshan Venkataraman on Engineering the Nervous System of High-Assurance Autonomy

The API is compatible with the OpenAI Realtime API specification.

Grok Just Got a Voice (And It’s Cheaper Than Your OpenAI Bill)

The current state of AI agents trying to use web browsers is the equivalent of putting the horse in the driver's seat of the tractor. 

Why Teaching LLMs to "Click" is a Futile Abstraction

Controlled experiment compares perceived vs actual defect-detection effectiveness across testing and code reading, measuring mismatch cost and project loss.

Why We Misjudge Our Own Effectiveness at Finding Software Bugs

Explains how x402, ERC-8004, and agent discovery turn APIs and AI agents into usage-based micro businesses. Web3's future is in Agents doing the work for you.

Not a Lucid Web3 Dream Anymore: x402, ERC-8004, A2A, and The Next Wave of AI Commerce

The .cv domain is shaping a new global identity layer in the AI era, as Cape Verde and Ola.cv build an open, DNS-anchored alternative to LinkedIn.

Free .cv Domains for Everyone: A Tiny Island Nation Is Rewriting the Future of Professional Profiles

The round values Numerai at $500 million, five times its 2023 valuation

Numerai Raises $30 Million Series C Led by Top University Endowments at $500 Million Valuation

Efficient, eco-friendly, and powerful — Sparse Spectral Training boosts LLM performance while cutting memory use and training costs. 

Can Sparse Spectral Training Make AI More Accessible? 

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A cheeky experiment uses ChatGPT to slip LinkedIn’s walled garden, proving off-platform links still win—and why MS’s Dismal Platform must pivot or die.

Microsoft’s LinkedIn Still Sucks, But Outsmarting Its Algorithm Is Hilariously Easy

Building the ultimate onboarding experience across the web2 and web3 through a Digital ID aggregator toolkit

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