Pick an ugly problem

👋 Hey - Egemen here.

Something that keeps coming up in my conversations with early-stage investors: they're done with the "horizontal" platform model for new startups.

Here's a snapshot of what's on the menu today:

💡 Spotlight

AI Agents Are Reading Your Docs. Are You Ready?

Last month, 48% of visitors to documentation sites across Mintlify were AI agents-not humans.

Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents are becoming the actual customers reading your docs. And they read everything.

This changes what good documentation means. Humans skim and forgive gaps. Agents methodically check every endpoint, read every guide, and compare you against alternatives with zero fatigue.

Your docs aren't just helping users anymore-they're your product's first interview with the machines deciding whether to recommend you.

That means:
→ Clear schema markup so agents can parse your content
→ Real benchmarks, not marketing fluff
→ Open endpoints agents can actually test
→ Honest comparisons that emphasize strengths without hype

In the agentic world, documentation becomes 10x more important. Companies that make their products machine-understandable will win distribution through AI.

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🧠 Deep-Dive: Pick an ugly problem

The "one stop shop" era for startups is over I guess. Adoption of specialized operating systems is up 42% compared to last year.

If you're in the ideation or early build phase, pay attention:

This is a real opportunity to build something narrow and deep. Founders who spend their first month doing actual ethnography inside a specific, unglamorous niche are hitting product-market fit way faster than those chasing broad consumer trends.

Investors want this level of specificity because it leads to higher pricing power and lower churn. A plumber will happily pay for a tool that handles their local compliance forms. That same plumber will bounce from a generic task manager that needs an hour of manual setup.

Look at your roadmap. Where are you trying to be too many things to too many people? The path to your first million in revenue gets a lot shorter when you speak the language of one customer segment.

In 2026, the most defensible moat is your understanding of a specific workflow that everyone else has ignored. Pick an unsexy problem, take advantage of it.

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