// NewsletterFormat EmailCadence WeeklyStatus NominalSubscribedWeek 01 sent Oct 16, 2026
One letter
a week
Every week I write to founders and the people who build with them about design, launches, AI and running a small studio.
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- Ryan Hofmann
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What's in a letter
One subject a week, from the work my studio is doing right now. Short enough to read with a coffee, with the numbers left in.
- Channel 01
Numbers from real work
How 100 startup homepages scored, what a 22-second launch video did, and how long a shop and a brand identity really took.
- Channel 02
Running a small studio
What clients are really buying, how a project runs week by week, and what I'd change if we made it again.
- Channel 03
AI, from daily use
Where it helps, where it still falls short, and what it's changing at my studio. Week 01 has 8 interactive figures you can turn and toggle.
From Week 01
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Replies come to me
Every letter is written and sent by me. Hit reply and it lands in my inbox.
Read one first
The newest letters, as they went out. Week 01's figures are interactive: turn the brain, move the taste curve, compare the patterns.
- W01The tools change. Taste and results don't.Oct 16, 2026 // 9 min // 8 interactive figuresAI makes design cheap to produce. What it can't make is the call on what's good, or the result a client is paying for. A letter from someone who uses it in almost everything.Read
- 006A brand identity in four weeksOct 5, 2026 // 2 minTICKIZ needed a whole identity, from the mark to 14 applications, in four weeks. What we built, why, and the two problems a brand can't fix.Read
- 005A shop in three daysOct 5, 2026 // 2 minThen & Theory went from an empty folder to a live site with 50 products between 28 and 30 September. Most of what made that possible was deciding what not to build.Read
- 004Why I brought Auditvia backOct 5, 2026 // 2 minIn 2025 I built Auditvia to fix accessibility in the code. On 2 October it came back as something smaller, a free audit any founder can run on their homepage in about a minute.Read