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Makersfuel is the Makersclaw newsletter: a five-minute briefing for founders building with AI, with the tools, resources and reads worth saving, and what actually happened. Five mornings a week, Tuesday to Saturday.

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Past issues

  1. 21

    Software revenue is fine. Software valuations are not. Know which one you are selling.

    Today's haul: 18 tools · 9 resources · 31 reads · 12 numbers · 22 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 21 · 12 Sept 2026

  2. 20

    The AI bill is falling, and it is not because the models got worse.

    Today's haul: 15 tools · 9 resources · 29 reads · 12 numbers · 22 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 20 · 11 Sept 2026

  3. 19

    Your stack keeps getting acquired. The advice going round this week is to stop renting it.

    Today's haul: 7 tools · 10 resources · 29 reads · 11 numbers · 22 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 19 · 10 Sept 2026

  4. 18

    The model produced the proof. The argument is about whose name goes on it.

    Today's haul: 10 tools · 12 resources · 24 reads · 11 numbers · 21 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 18 · 9 Sept 2026

  5. 17

    The cheapest win in agents this week was a router, not a bigger model

    Today's haul: 8 tools · 10 resources · 19 reads · 10 numbers · 15 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 17 · 8 Sept 2026

  6. 16

    The same model scored 62.7% and 99.9% on the same test. The cheaper run won.

    Today's haul: 10 tools · 13 resources · 31 reads · 16 numbers · 18 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 16 · 5 Sept 2026

  7. 15

    Meta planned to run on 60% fewer people. Then it didn't.

    Today's haul: 9 tools · 12 resources · 24 reads · 16 numbers · 18 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 15 · 5 Sept 2026

  8. 14

    The thing reading your pricing page isn't a customer any more

    Today's haul: 5 tools · 7 resources · 17 reads · 13 numbers · 13 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 14 · 3 Sept 2026

  9. 12

    The vendors are starting to eat the cost of a bad answer

    Today's haul: 10 tools · 12 resources · 14 reads · 11 numbers · 21 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 12 · 2 Sept 2026

  10. 8

    The migration you have been putting off for five years is now a two-week job

    Today's haul: 13 tools · 7 resources · 20 reads · 12 numbers · 19 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 8 · 28 Aug 2026

  11. 7

    The free layer of your stack turned out to be the expensive one

    Today's haul: 16 tools · 8 resources · 22 reads · 10 numbers · 16 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 7 · 27 Aug 2026

  12. 6

    The company that stopped waiting for a better coding agent

    Today's haul: 11 tools · 8 resources · 22 reads · 11 numbers · 14 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 6 · 26 Aug 2026

  13. 5

    Open models just took the majority of someone's tokens

    Today's haul: 6 tools · 11 resources · 23 reads · 10 numbers · 15 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 5 · 25 Aug 2026

  14. 4

    AT&T put a number on the thing everyone was guessing about

    Today's haul: 10 tools · 7 resources · 21 reads · 10 numbers · 13 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 4 · 22 Aug 2026

  15. 3

    The cheapest model that clears your bar just became a product category

    Today's haul: 9 tools · 8 resources · 18 reads · 14 numbers · 16 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 3 · 21 Aug 2026

  16. 2

    A bankrupt airline just proved your operating history is an asset

    Today's haul: 7 tools · 5 resources · 19 reads · 10 numbers · 13 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 2 · 20 Aug 2026

  17. 1

    Your tools got an upgrade. Your job market didn't.

    Today's haul: 6 tools · 5 resources · 14 reads · 5 numbers · 6 things that happened. Every tool, resource and read below has a working link. No link, no listing.

    No. 1 · 19 Aug 2026