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How We Grow

How we grow Kai, week by week.

A weekly, behind-the-scenes log of how two people are taking Kai from zero toward a unicorn. The experiments, the tools, the calls, and the things that broke. Written for builders and operators who want the playbook, not the highlight reel.

3 issuesStarted May 2026
  1. #003Week of June 8, 2026

    What a Product Hunt Launch Buys You

    Issue #003 of How We Grow: we launched our free meeting-transcription Chrome extension on Product Hunt and read the dashboards. The launch-day spike, where the signups came from, and the organic lift that keeps compounding long after launch day.

    Jim Hartung8 min readRead issue →
  2. #002Week of June 1, 2026

    We Deleted Linear and Notion. Now We Run Sprints Inside Claude.

    Issue #002 of How We Grow: why we ripped out Linear and Notion and run our whole sprint system inside Claude Code. The setup, the three skills (with the prompts), what breaks, and the closed beta we just opened.

    Lambert Le Court de Béru9 min readRead issue →

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