Noah Laphart

He got into finance and experienced all the downside that 2008 had to offer.

Post all of that, he started a restaurant at the age of 26 with some folks and quickly realized how difficult it was.

After four years, he wanted to start a new thing.

But outside of tacking, his wife spent a lot of time watching his son play hockey and engaging with the team at the hockey rink.

Nico has observed the restaurant business change, moving towards many different ordering methods, mobile, web, in-person, etc.

At the end of whatever method, the order needed to land inside the black box of the POS system.

He wanted to create the plumbing, better yet, the ultimate system to connect it all.

This is the creation story of Cube.

Let's dive into the MVP of Q, that first version you built.

How long did it take to build and what sort of tools would you use to, or did you use to bring it to life?

This episode is sponsored by Brain Grid.

Building with AI coding tools is exciting until the moment things start breaking.

You ask for a small change and suddenly three other features stop working.

AI gets confused, misses edge cases, and loses track of your intent.

The problem is not code generation.

The problem is planning.

That is why Brain Grid exists.

BrainGrid acts as your product management agent.

It writes clear specification, maps UX flows, asks the clarifying questions you forgot to ask, and breaks big ideas into engineering-grade tasks that AI coding tools can build reliably.

It guides Cursor, Cloud Code, Replit, Windsurf, and others so they deliver features that work and keep working.