Chris Kernaghan

Owner of We Are Founders, UX designer, husband, and dad. Got something you want to share with us? Reach out at hello@wearefounders.uk.

Belfast, United Kingdom

406 Articles

Ship Production Code in Hours: The Cursor Playbook from AI Founders

Learn the exact prompts and architectural patterns that AI founders use to build production-ready applications with Cursor. Stop guessing and start shipping faster

By Chris Kernaghan Feb 5, 2026 5 min read

Security

How to Save Hours of Research and Stop Building Products Nobody Wants

How Dalexor survived a pivot to save founders

By Chris Kernaghan Feb 5, 2026 2 min read

Design Services

How bnbicons.com Turned an Airbnb Design Trend Into a High Velocity Startup

Nicolas built a viral design tool using high-speed vibecoding

By Chris Kernaghan Feb 5, 2026 2 min read

Design Services

How Cyril Vanneste Scaled a Productized Side Hustle to €2,000 MRR

Swapping custom client chaos for a "safer" and lighter subscription

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 28, 2026 2 min read

How to Use Claude Cowork to Save Hours on Administrative Tasks

Claude Cowork is an AI agent that manages local files

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 18, 2026 2 min read

News

Cloudflare Acquires Astro: A Win for the Open Web (and a Lesson for Founders)

Cloudflare acquires Astro, ending the struggle to monetize open source

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 16, 2026 2 min read

Indie Hacking

10 SaaS Ideas to Avoid as an Indie Hacker in 2026

Stop building the same ten generic products everyone else is

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 14, 2026 3 min read

SaaS

Vercel: How One Founder Built a Nine Billion Dollar Cloud for Developers

How a self-taught developer turned deployment into a $9 billion empire

This article is for Paid-members only

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 13, 2026 2 min read

SaaS

Supabase: How Two Founders Built a $5 Billion Empire by Rejecting Millions

How Supabase became the default backend for the AI boom

This article is for Paid-members only

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 13, 2026 4 min read

Finance

8 Best Budgeting Apps to Master Your Finances and Build Wealth

Manage your personal finances like a startup. Extend your runway

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 12, 2026 4 min read

Gear

6 Best Noise-Canceling Headphones to Block Distractions and Focus Deeply

6 best noise-canceling headphones to help you block out the office banter

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 12, 2026 4 min read

What Tailwind CSS Layoffs Teach Founders About AI Disruption

Tailwind CSS layoffs prove AI is breaking open-source business models

By Chris Kernaghan Jan 12, 2026 1 min read