[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":107},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-article-\u002Fblog\u002F2_dicehub_update_april_2026":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"authorAvatar":7,"authorDepartment":8,"authorUrl":7,"body":9,"description":87,"extension":88,"hero":89,"keywords":92,"meta":93,"navigation":94,"ogDescription":95,"ogTitle":5,"path":96,"publishedAt":97,"readingTime":98,"seo":103,"stem":104,"topic":105,"__hash__":106},"blog\u002Fblog\u002F2_dicehub_update_april_2026.md","dicehub is very much alive","Rostyslav Lyulinetskyy",null,"Founder & CEO",{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":80},"minimark",[12,16,19,24,27,31,34,37,44,50,56,60,63,66,69,72],[13,14,15],"p",{},"Back in December I posted on LinkedIn that I was at a crossroads with dicehub.\nThe platform wasn't getting the traction I expected. Most of our usage\nconcentrated around the Pedestrian Wind Comfort template, which worked great,\nbut overall growth had flatlined. I kept asking myself whether it was the\nproduct, the marketing, the market timing, or something else entirely.",[13,17,18],{},"I laid out the three options I was sitting with. Double down with more\nfeatures, more templates, more marketing, and go all in. Keep dicehub running\nin maintenance mode for our existing users while I shifted focus to something\nnew. Or pull the plug completely and move on. I wrote it honestly because I\ngenuinely didn't know which way to go, and I asked for advice.",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"the-response","The response",[13,25,26],{},"It blew me away. Dozens of people reached out with advice, ideas,\ncollaboration offers, and honest perspectives. Some of you even came by our\noffice in Mainz to talk it through in person. If I somehow missed replying,\nI owe you a thank you too. That message and the conversations around it\nchanged the way I was looking at the problem.",[20,28,30],{"id":29},"where-things-stand","Where things stand",[13,32,33],{},"Short answer: dicehub is very much alive.",[13,35,36],{},"The longer answer is that three things shifted between December and now.",[13,38,39,43],{},[40,41,42],"strong",{},"The feedback was overwhelmingly positive."," The people closest to what we\nbuild weren't telling me to stop. They were telling me the opposite. That\nalone was enough to keep me going.",[13,45,46,49],{},[40,47,48],{},"The customers who use dicehub are happy to keep using it."," This is the\nsignal I care about the most. It's easy to get lost in growth curves and\nadoption dashboards and forget that the people already on the platform are\nthe best judges of whether you've built something worth keeping.",[13,51,52,55],{},[40,53,54],{},"The new generation of LLMs changed what I can do as an engineer."," The\nrecent Opus and GPT releases, combined with dicehub's codebase (over half a\nmillion lines of code, a mature microservice structure, clear guidelines)\nturned out to be a great match. Work that used to take me months now takes\ndays. Sometimes hours. Last month alone I closed over two hundred issues.\nThat number still feels unreal to type out.",[20,57,59],{"id":58},"a-small-army-of-agents","A small army of agents",[13,61,62],{},"What this practically means is that I'm actively developing dicehub again,\nand I'm doing it with a small army of agents running all day. New features,\nlong-standing bugs, infrastructure work that had been sitting in the backlog\nfor quarters; all of it is finally moving. The product direction feels\nre-energized for the first time in a long while.",[13,64,65],{},"None of this is a victory lap. The original questions from December, about\ntraction and market fit and whether this is the right hill to climb, are\nstill there. But the answer to \"should dicehub exist?\" has quietly become\nyes, and that matters.",[13,67,68],{},"To everyone who wrote back, visited the office, or quietly rooted for us:\nthank you. You kept this thing alive.",[70,71],"hr",{},[13,73,74,79],{},[75,76,78],"a",{"href":77},"https:\u002F\u002Fdicehub.com\u002Fsignup","Sign up"," and run your first simulation in dicehub.",{"title":81,"searchDepth":82,"depth":82,"links":83},"",2,[84,85,86],{"id":22,"depth":82,"text":23},{"id":29,"depth":82,"text":30},{"id":58,"depth":82,"text":59},"Four months after asking the network whether to double down on dicehub, put it in maintenance mode, or pull the plug, an honest update on where things stand today.","md",{"img":90},{"src":91},"\u002Fwelcome\u002Fblog\u002F2026-04-23-airfoil.webp","dicehub update founder AI agents CFD simulation",{},true,"Four months after the crossroads: an honest founder update on dicehub.","\u002Fblog\u002F2_dicehub_update_april_2026","2026-04-23",{"text":99,"minutes":100,"time":101,"words":102},"3 min read",2.43,145800,486,{"title":5,"description":87},"blog\u002F2_dicehub_update_april_2026","dicehub HQ","m9Ih6faPGf-04T1RjhJ1eyKPBfSCm_fo8FVNDLA1Th8",1776956884100]