# Projects — First 1000

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# One thing led to another.

## The Workshop / 2020–Now

We document projects, experiments, and a few wrong turns across a 15-chapter project timeline.

## Project timeline

### May 2020 — Started First 1000

During COVID, we turned an obsession with how companies found their first customers into the First 1000 newsletter. The first issue went out on May 21, 2020. The newsletter includes founder interviews, early-employee perspectives, and research.

[How it started](https://read.first1000.co/p/prt2-growing-first-1000-this-newsletter)

## All projects — 15 chapters

1. **May 2020 — Started First 1000.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/prt2-growing-first-1000-this-newsletter)
2. **2020–2021 — Built things to find readers.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/prt2-growing-first-1000-this-newsletter)
3. **Early 2021 — Some ideas went nowhere.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/prt2-growing-first-1000-this-newsletter)
4. **April 2021 — The first 10,000 readers.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/prt2-growing-first-1000-this-newsletter)
5. **2022 — Learning how habits stick.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/positive-friction)
6. **2022–2025 — Finding my footing in growth.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/im-sorry)
7. **January 2024 — The script before the company.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/im-sorry)
8. **January 2026 — Taking my own shot.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/lazyweb-is-live-finally)
9. **March 18, 2026 — Then came the canvas.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/lazyweb-is-live-finally)
10. **March 2026 — A small, useful detour.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/how-an-alarm-app-got-25-million-views)
11. **August 4, 2026 — Meet people where they build.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/6-months-in)
12. **August 7, 2026 — A new chapter in San Francisco.** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/lazyweb-a16z-speedrun)
13. **August 2026 — Would you bet on that experiment?** [Source](https://read.first1000.co/p/the-moat-paradox)
14. **Current project — Building tools for the writing.** [Source](https://lazyblogs.com/)
15. **Current project — Helping products meet agents.** [Source](https://mudpie.ai/)

## Still building

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- [About](https://www.first1000.co/about)
- [Now](https://www.first1000.co/now)
- [Why I write](https://www.first1000.co/why-i-write)
- [Work with First 1000](https://www.first1000.co/advertise)
- [Building Lazyweb](https://lazyweb.com/)
- [MCP](https://www.first1000.co/mcp)

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