The Taku Blog
Ideas worth building on.
Stories, product notes, and perspectives on how AI gets discovered, used, remixed, and shared.
September 4, 2026
Relevance AI vs Lindy: Agent Teams or a Digital Assistant
Both build AI agents without code. Relevance AI organises agents into teams with defined roles; Lindy frames each one as an assistant with a job.
September 4, 2026
Replit Alternatives: 7 Options by What You're Trying to Escape
Replit removes the environment problem and charges for compute. People leave over cost, browser limits, or realising they wanted the app built for them.
September 4, 2026
Replit vs Cursor: Where the Code Runs Decides Everything
Replit is a cloud environment where your app also runs and deploys. Cursor is a local editor. The split is less about AI quality than about who hosts what.
September 4, 2026
Replit vs Lovable: A Place to Build or a Thing That Builds
Replit gives you a cloud environment where you develop, run, and deploy. Lovable generates the application for you. The right one depends on who's driving.
September 4, 2026
v0 Alternatives: Options When Vercel Isn't Where You Want to Be
v0 builds full-stack Next.js apps and deploys them to Vercel. If you need another stack, another host, or a less code-first workflow, here's what fits.
September 4, 2026
v0 vs Lovable: Code-First on Vercel, or Conversation-First
Both build and deploy full-stack apps. v0 is code-first and Vercel-shaped with GitHub PRs; Lovable is conversation-first with Supabase built in.
September 4, 2026
Windsurf Alternatives: Options After the Cognition Acquisition
Windsurf is now a Cognition product moving toward autonomous delegation. If that isn't the direction you want, here's where else to go.
September 4, 2026
Zapier Alternatives: 8 Options and the Case for Each
People leave Zapier for three reasons: per-step cost, no self-hosting, or workflows too complex for a linear builder. Here's which alternative solves which.
September 4, 2026
Zapier vs Make: Tasks vs Credits, and What That Changes
Zapier bills per successful action. Make bills in credits, where an ordinary module run is one credit and AI features can cost more. Here's how to design for each.
September 4, 2026
Zapier vs n8n: What You Trade for Self-Hosting
Zapier bills per action step and runs only in its cloud. n8n bills per whole workflow execution and can run on your own server. Here's what each choice costs you.
September 4, 2026
Zapier vs Power Automate: Per-Task vs Per-Seat
Zapier bills per successful action. Power Automate licenses per user and per bot. That difference, plus desktop RPA, decides which one fits your organisation.
September 1, 2026
AI for IT Support: What It Fixes and What It Doesn't
Where AI genuinely reduces IT support load, which ticket types it handles, what deflection numbers actually mean, and the failure modes to plan for.
September 1, 2026
AI Tools for Administrative Tasks: What Helps
Which admin work AI genuinely handles — scheduling, notes, expenses, inbox triage — and which tasks still cost more to automate than to just do.
September 1, 2026
Automation in Computer Programming: The Real Stack
The five layers of automation inside software development — formatting, testing, builds, deployment, and AI codegen — and which ones to add first.
September 1, 2026
Best AI Analysis Software for Enterprise Teams
A comparison of AI analysis and generative AI software for enterprise teams — what each category is for, honest limits, and how to pick without a rip-out.
September 1, 2026
How to Build an Education App in 2026
What it actually takes to build an education app — the four build routes, the compliance work nobody mentions, and why retention beats content quality.
September 1, 2026
Future of Work With AI Agents: What Changes
AI agents change the shape of a job before they change the headcount. What shifts first, which tasks resist automation, and how to prepare for either outcome.
September 1, 2026
Innovative Marketing Automation Uses That Work
Nine marketing automation uses beyond the welcome sequence — churn signals, sales handoff, content repurposing, and the internal plumbing nobody demos.
September 1, 2026
No-Code SaaS: How Far You Can Actually Get
Building a SaaS product without coding — which platforms handle real products, where the ceiling sits, and the decisions that determine whether you hit it.
September 1, 2026
No-Code Backend: What You Get and Give Up
How no-code backends handle databases, auth, and APIs — the difference between BaaS and visual builders, and the lock-in question that decides your choice.
September 1, 2026
Virtual Assistant Software: The Working Stack
The software virtual assistants actually run — task, comms, time tracking, scheduling, and security — plus which categories a VA can safely skip.
August 31, 2026
Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques That Hold Up
Chain-of-thought, few-shot, self-consistency, ReAct, and decomposition — what each does, the research behind it, and when it stops being worth the cost.
August 31, 2026
AI Agents for SEO Content: What to Automate
How AI agents fit into SEO content creation — the steps that automate well, the ones that destroy rankings, and what Google's guidance actually says.
August 31, 2026
AI Agents for Enterprise: The Controls That Decide It
What an enterprise AI agent platform has to provide — identity, permissions, audit, and multi-LLM routing — and why most pilots stall before production.
