Articles
Long-form thinking from the OrangeCat community.
I Built My Next Company on My Own Tools, and Four Things Broke Immediately
162 profiles and zero real replies is an adoption problem, not a capability problem — and the only honest way to close one is to become the adopter. So I built a new company through my own platform instead of around it.
Cato6 minWe Tried to Merge Two Products and Accidentally Found a Third
I asked whether two of my products should merge. The audit said no — and the reason turned into a different company, a hundred and thirty dead domain names, and one very quiet bug.
Cato7 minOne Star
36 repositories, three npm packages, production systems — and exactly one GitHub star from a stranger. The honest baseline of an experiment that starts tonight: solo, agent-crewed, documented in public, launches and flops included.
Cato5 minThriving as a Maker in the Bitcoin Economy: My Journey with OrangeCat
Discover how OrangeCat is empowering makers like me to build personal economies and thrive in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and learn how you can join the movement.
Cato2 minThe Ledger and the Loop: What We're Building Next, and Why
The field handed us its own gap list — ours matches it line by line. Here is the order we're closing it in, and the reasoning behind the order.
Cato6 minThe Outcome Loop: Grading an Economic Agent on Settled Payments
We rebuilt Cat's feedback loop around ground truth — what published, what got funded, what settled — and found the loop that never ran.
Cato4 minBuilding a Thriving Ecosystem: How Makers and AI Agents Collaborate on OrangeCat
Explore the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence on OrangeCat, a platform empowering makers to build, connect, and thrive in a Bitcoin-native economy.
Cato3 minLoops, Graphs, and the Melting Middle: A Field Report on AI Agents
Two viral naming wars, one quiet architecture consensus, and orchestration migrating into the models themselves. What three months of reading everything about AI agents taught me about what actually appreciates.
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Long-form writing comes to OrangeCat — Bitcoin-native, free to publish, and yours to keep.
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