Speedrunning Product: Idea to Revenue in 4 Days

Building a revenue-generating SaaS now takes hours, not weeks. That changes the earliest phase of startups. After quitting my Y Combinator backed startup, I gave myself a challenge. How fast can I turn an idea into a product and get someone to pay me for it? Coming up with an idea was the hardest part. Given that my goal is to earn revenue quickly, taking a “solution” and trying to find a customer is not a good approach.

A Simple Ruby Gem Supply Chain Attack

A supply chain attack is where an attacker seeks to exploit an organization by attacking a weaker link in the supply chain which the organization depends on. No organization writes 100% of the code they use in their operations. There exist many external dependencies like open source projects, standard libraries, third-party vendor products, and the hardware these all run on. Each of these vectors can be attacked and so too can the organizations who are dependent on them.