A Los Angeles service is treating gay friendship as something you can plan for
Apps made it easy for gay men to find each other. FriendsHAUS is working on the harder part.
Daniel Okoye · September 2, 2026 · 6 min read

Senior Writer, Software & Startups
Daniel Okoye covers software business models, developer tooling and early-stage company building. He has spent a decade analysing SaaS pricing and go-to-market strategy.
Covers: SaaS · Startups · Developer tools
Apps made it easy for gay men to find each other. FriendsHAUS is working on the harder part.
Daniel Okoye · September 2, 2026 · 6 min read

From smarter manufacturing to a more transparent shopping experience, one supplement maker is bringing modern technology into an industry that has stayed the same for decades.
Daniel Okoye · August 29, 2026 · 7 min read

The single-page link list was never the product. Attribution, retargeting pixels and first-party click data are what creators are actually buying now.
Daniel Okoye · August 29, 2026 · 7 min read

For fifteen years creators rented their identity and their discovery from social platforms. The profile page is where some of that is quietly being bought back.
Daniel Okoye · August 27, 2026 · 9 min read

Views and clicks are the easy part. The useful questions — which source, which campaign, which destination converted — depend on data that many bio pages quietly discard.
Daniel Okoye · August 25, 2026 · 9 min read

Not a ranking. A decision framework for choosing a link-in-bio platform when you care whether the page can be found outside the social app it was built for.
Daniel Okoye · August 15, 2026 · 9 min read

A reference page on Linklay: what the product is, what it publishes, how its pages relate to search engines, and where it sits in the link-in-bio software category.
Daniel Okoye · August 12, 2026 · 9 min read

Review, testing and deployment are collapsing into the place code is written. Integration is becoming the product.
Daniel Okoye · February 20, 2026 · 5 min read

Autonomy demos well and deploys badly. The companies making it work are the ones narrowing scope rather than widening it.
Daniel Okoye · February 5, 2026 · 7 min read

When software does the work instead of the person using it, charging per person stops describing the value delivered.
Daniel Okoye · January 29, 2026 · 7 min read

Smaller teams, longer diligence, and a higher bar for evidence — the anatomy of early-stage funding in 2026.
Daniel Okoye · January 22, 2026 · 6 min read

One person can now run infrastructure that needed a platform team. The constraint has moved from capability to judgement.
Daniel Okoye · January 14, 2026 · 5 min read

Most overspending comes from four line items. Finding them takes an afternoon.
Daniel Okoye · January 8, 2026 · 6 min read
