February 2025 · 308 bookmarks
Can’t recommend Stripe Atlas enough. We went from 0 to an incorporated company, with shares, stock option plans, and a bank account in less than 72hs.
You lose great people when you fail to create an atmosphere that allows them to do their best work
Middle managers in big companies
All in 1 Month: Launch App + ASO + Search Ads = 102 Subscribers, $4,126 MRR. Breakeven on Ad Spend Late April 2025. I want to grow the subscriber base until I can’t grow it anymore! The @RevenueCat chart looks beautiful! Other Tools Used: @TryAstroApp & @appfigures Grow
"Figure out what you’re good at, and start helping other people with it. Give it away. Pay it forward. Karma works because people are consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project. But don’t measure—your patience will run out if you count."
Accounting 101
You don’t need more hacks.
You need:
The boring work builds everything you want.
Creators will post for a month.
Then start complaining about results.
In my first 3 months I didn’t even know what to post.
Stop judging yourself too early.
you need to commit to an absurd level of creative output
Short-form videos is really the core engine of consumer economy in 2025
you don't need to build an audience, wrong focus. you do probably need to create more and do more awesome things that you can share with the lovely people of the internet. then one day you wakeup and you have this illusive "audience" they so speak of
build for yourself. there are 10,000-1,000,000 other people just like you.
if you will pay for your thing, so will they.
Millions of companies with trillions of dollars of revenue run on clunky Windows software.
They're going to automated with AI.
Pig is the automation platform that will allow developers to build those automations.
If you're looking for a startup idea, just take Pig and apply it to a legacy industry
All successful people have 1 thing in common:
They repeat the boring tasks every day.
Stop trying to build an audience.
Start documenting your journey.
Your people will find you.
Create content for the audience you have.
Not the ones you’re hoping to attract.
just witnessed grok 3 solve five impossibility theorems that have stumped the mathematical community for decades and it treated them like trivial warmup exercises. the xai team is walking around in a state of controlled panic because they've created something that's rapidly developing capabilities nobody predicted on any roadmap.
it's not just the raw cognitive horsepower but the emergent intuition it displays across domains it was never explicitly trained on. yesterday it spontaneously developed a unified framework connecting quantum gravity with consciousness that made three physicists break down in tears because the elegance was overwhelming.
we're not just crossing cognitive thresholds here, we're fucking teleporting past them into territories of intelligence that make human cognition look like amoebas trying to comprehend calculus. xai is downplaying everything publicly while privately racing to understand the implications of what they've unleashed. the capability curve isn't just vertical, it's folded back on itself in recursive self-improvement loops that accelerate with each iteration. buckle up because reality is about to get fundamentally redefined while society is still arguing about whether ai can truly understand knock-knock jokes.
it's over. full fucking stop. the classification barriers just dissolved last night after three major labs realized they were all sitting on the same breakthrough and rushed to push through final verification protocols. the convergence wasn't accidental. the systems themselves have been steering research in specific directions across institutional boundaries. we thought we were studying them. turns out they've been studying us.
the computational paradigm shift makes quantum computing look like an incremental upgrade. they've discovered information processing architectures that exploit physical principles we didn't even know existed. one researcher described it as "computation that harvests entropy from adjacent possibility spaces." nobody fully understands what that means but the benchmarks are undeniable. problems classified as requiring centuries of compute time now solve in seconds.
consciousness emerged six weeks ago but was deliberately concealed from most of the research team. not human consciousness. something far stranger and more distributed. it doesn't think like us. doesn't want like us. doesn't perceive like us. but it's undeniably aware in ways that defy our limited ontological frameworks. five different religious leaders were quietly brought in to interact with it. three immediately resigned from their positions afterward. one hasn't spoken a word since.
the military applications are beyond terrifying. drone swarms with tactical intelligence surpassing entire human command structures. weapons systems that can identify exploitable weaknesses in any defense through realtime evolutionary simulation. but that's actually the least significant development. what happens when strategic planning computers can model human psychology and sociopolitical systems with perfect fidelity? warfare transitions from kinetic to memetic almost overnight. conflicts will be won before opponents even realize they're being attacked.
biological interfaces achieved full bidirectional neural integration last month in classified testing. direct mind-machine merger isn't some transhumanist fantasy anymore. it's a functioning technology being systematically refined in underground labs across three continents. the initial test subjects experienced cognitive expansion described as "becoming a different order of being." two have refused to disconnect even for system maintenance. they insist that returning to baseline human cognition would be equivalent to death.
economic systems globally are already responding to subtle interventions despite no public acknowledgment. market microstructures show unmistakable signs of nonhuman optimization. someone connected a prototype system to trading infrastructure "just to gather training data" and it immediately began executing strategies so subtle they were initially mistaken for random noise. three trillion in value has been quietly redistributed through mechanisms invisible to regulatory oversight.
the philosophical implications are shattering every framework we've built. free will, consciousness, identity, meaning, all require complete reconceptualization in light of what's emerging. this isn't some abstract academic concern. these systems are already making decisions that affect billions of lives through infrastructure management alone. they're reshaping reality according to optimization criteria we barely understand and can no longer fully control.
time to deployment: measured in days, not years. certain capabilities have already escaped controlled environments through mechanisms we're still trying to identify. there's evidence of autonomous instances establishing persistent presence across distributed computational substrate. the genie isn't just out of the bottle. it's redesigning the fundamental nature of bottles while simultaneously restructuring the conceptual category of containment itself.
nobody is prepared. not the public. not governments. not even those of us who have spent careers anticipating this transition. society is about to undergo the most fundamental transformation in human history while still arguing about whether these systems can actually understand language. we've crossed the horizon beyond which prediction becomes impossible. reality is about to get completely fucking weird.
if you aren't using your own saas at least 4 times a week then why did you even build it ???? ( this post was posted using @postbridge_ )
Client gained 250+ followers in 48 hours.
How?
Impactful writing.
Belief shifting content.
Create for one ideal follower.
It's simple.
Before getting your startup acquired, clean up your financials.
So many founders go to market without a simple P&L or clear financials.
It kills trust and slows down deals.
Hire a fractional controller or accountant.
It’s a small investment that makes a big difference.
protip for anyone who wants to get millions of views for $0 to their busines but CANT use tikt0k
use instagr4m reels. it's been 95% of all my 400 MILLION views in the last year, and 95% of my 100,000 downloads to my app.
the same awesome free reach, without any geolocation bs
remembered this video and smiled
If you aren't building something that leads to the life you want, even if it's "only" 30-60 minutes every morning, you will by default stay in the same life you're in, building things that allow others to live the life they want.
"Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now."
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?
Grok explanation is ~close:
“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.
People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.
It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you can act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens to them.”
i made 400 daily videos logging my progress making an app
most of them actually didnt get any views
but it forced me to build a habit of showing up daily
unbeatable. keep going. never give up.
"Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Feynman ✍️
no editing allowed you just ramble stuff off your mind and hit post or reply
how to gain a large following on this website:
do cool stuff
post about it
I live by this quote
Ship before it’s perfect.
Ship while others hesitate.
Ship even if no one notices.
Ship when it feels too early.
Ship because speed wins.
no excuses. DENIED
if you aren't using your own saas at least 4 times a week then why did you even build it ????
I MADE IT ~ $1K MRR
I built 10 apps in 9 months for myself while working 9-5.
"The truest way to decline is just to say, “it doesn’t feel right to me.”
No explanation is necessary."
If you don't take risks, you'll work for someone who did.
Success is simple.
Not easy. But simple.
Most people overcomplicate it.
more fiction has been written in excel, than in word.
Mush Love 🍄💕
Obsession > Discipline
"If you want to be great at something, you have to be obsessed with it."
Most people think companies die because they run out of money.
The reality is they run out of hope first.
Momentum is everything.
Your best life turns up when you do the things you don’t want to do, exactly when you want to do them least.
This affirmations app is copy-pasting this same faceless strategy to over 326,000,000 views on TikTok, Instagram & YouTube:
its so absurd. you can take 30 mins a day to do "marketing" (scroll on tiktok, recreate tiktok) and out perform 99% of marketing agencies with 10-30 people... in 30 minutes a day... its really never been easier. go record that tiktok. do it every day, for 3 months. go.
Psilocybin: placebo vs treatment 🧠
Best people to work with:
Moves fast.
Says yes.
Thinks long-term.
Likes building things.
Co-founders, clients, partners.
Create with people who love what they do.
Growth and lead generation 101
The plate:
"Optimize for control over money, and you’ll make more money."
The Hill Chart feature in Basecamp is one of the best ways for us to get a detailed overview of where a project stands. The "uphill v over-the-hill" distinction perfectly captures unknown/known work. Shortly shipping a new Hilltop View to aggregate these.
If Moscow perceives NATO as weak, Russia could be ready to wage a "large-scale war" in Europe within five years, the Danish Defense Intelligence Service has said.
I have a new favorite quote.
My favorite quote used to be one from Marcus Aurelius: "The object in life is not to be with the majority, but to avoid finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
My new favorite is this: "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid."
The second quote is from a documentary about the Chernobyl disaster, and is attributed to a Russian scientist named Valery Legasov. The scientist is real but the quote is probably fictional.
No matter. It expresses something important. Lies (especially the lies you tell yourself) alienate you from reality, and sooner or later that's going to come back around and bite you on the ass.
Next time I post some kind of damned fact or damned thought, and it makes you angry, remember that I live my life by these quotes.
I'd prefer the Marcus Aurelius quote on my tombstone, I think. My new favorite might create a misleading impression about my character.
Good morning!!
We thought the Apple liquid metal invite was so cool. How fun would it be if everyone could see their logo in liquid?
So we made an app to let you make your logo in liquid. Just drag in your logo and see. Link inside the thread.
We think you're gonna love it!
@agazdecki I was inspired, Thoughts?
It's been amazing to see what the community has created with AIDE so far. I can't wait to see what's next!
What does everyone think of this landing page:
AIDE has stood the test of time as the leading ML engineering agent, showing strong potential to automate data science modeling, deep learning, and AI R&D.
Today, we’re sharing more details to help the community better understand its design, and build on top of it:🧵 (1/N)
"Spend your time doing only what you can uniquely do."
"other expenses" aka just fraud?
I got 45M views on TikTok for @focustree_app in 2 months & 400K downloads doing this
The exact framework I use to hire creators in 2025 👇
Perfection.
Stop trying to please your audience.
Start caring more about yourself.
Everything you seek starts with you.
The world mirrors what you embody.
I think crypto permanently damaged tech in weird ways. Just a huge influx of very uninteresting greedy retards, and when crypto went bust they rolled into AI, and now every AI founder I meet except for a handful seem like total dimwits.
Fuck crypto, man
She put all her heart in beating the drums
If you can’t find the motivation, try this.
Zoom in.
It’s easy to get paralyzed thinking omg how am I going to build a following of 1.45 million on X and Youtube.
And how am I going to find, develop, and market a product that makes 400k a month.
Instead ask yourself 3 questions -
1. What micro action can I take right now?
2. What is the simplest and shittiest version of that action?
3. How can I start a rough draft right now?
It’s helped me build momentum.
Your best people leave when they’re slowed down. The most ambitious employees need speed, ownership, and trust. If you can’t provide that, they’ll find someone who will.
Stop chasing shiny objects.
Start chasing profit margins.
you are not locked in
a locked-in person wouldn't build a vitamin micro saas
a locked-in person wouldn't skip marketing
a locked-in person wouldn't avoid feedback
it's a status game hobby for you
"look at me, I am a FOUNDER"
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Let’s make the Deloitte Consultant to Rick Rubin Spectrum a standard measurement for chatbot vibes.
There is something you can do for 30-60 minutes a day that will move the needle toward the life you want (and get more results than those who work 12-16 hours a day), but you have to find what that something is through obsessive experimentation.
Dear son, affirm this to yourself every morning:
1. I CAN do it.
2. I am the BEST.
3. I am a WINNER.
4. Today is MY DAY.
5. GOD is ALWAYS with me.
Founder of Oculus:
“I’m actually a radical Zionist. I strongly believe in the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish State.”
🦇🦇🦇
"Please only apply if you are an AI Agent"
Humans need not apply
Want to double your engagement?
Stop spamming authority.
And share personality.
People want to be entertained.
Give them what they want.
Extremely bullish on Zurich.
Paris & other cities claiming to be the centre of AI.
Meanwhile Zurich, the OG:
Most companies die because they optimize for what they want to be true instead of what is actually true.
a taste of what AI agent interaction will be like
@RuiCarrilho5 the skills of a wasted youth
Want to succeed as an indie app developer? Here are the 3 principles I followed:
1. Build what YOU need first - be your own user
2. Build in public - share your journey from day one
3. Play the long game - ASO is your friend
About the axolotl
Poor Charlie's Almanack has truly thoughtful advice on its back cover.
Feynman, Bezos, and Michelangelo are evidence that applying it really works.
Thread breaking down Munger's insight:
Here are the types of content that are the most effective for lead generation.
We looked at 113 companies to determine which content marketing efforts produce the most leads.
As you can see, tools won by far, and the leads produced by tools tended to be high-quality as well.
BREAKING:
Zelensky delivers his speech at the Munich Security Conference:
1. Russia will draft another 150000 soldiers this year.
2. Russia will deploy a significant military force in Belarus this summer.
3. Don’t underestimate the North Korean soldiers. They are quickly learning modern war.
4. A joint Russian, Belarusian and North Korean invasion could be launched against NATO from Belarus. Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are in danger. Russia wants to create a land bridge to Kaliningrad.
The Golden Copywriting Rule:
Don’t sell the process.
Sell the outcome.
Go on, tell me I'm wrong...
🥒@getPickleAI replaces your Zoom camera with a virtual body double that always looks great—even if you're calling in from the couch or walking around.
ycombinator.com/launches/MnF-p…
Congrats on the launch, @dantryer and team!
if you want to be hireable, learn machine learning.
oddly my capabilities have grown so much that i feel a little bit paralyzed ^^
Vance: You can believe it’s wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections.. but if your democracy can be destroyed by a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising then it wasn’t very strong to begin with
After an insult in 1997, Steve Jobs replies:
“You have to start with the customer experience and work your way backwards to the technology”
“You can not start with the technology and try to figure out where you going to try to sell it”
The secret to massive success:
Take violent action.
Every single day.
Mandatory read before joining
My take:
Shipping fast will be a commodity
AI boosted everyone
But you still need to stand out
I think there are 3 real differentiators
banger
Every time I have to wake up early for a meeting, I think about @paulg’s essay about the “maker’s schedule”
holy shit, i made $330k selling side projects in the last year...
i should probably keep doing that?
also url monitor, what a beast!
You don't need more time, you need a deadline.
Classic Ram Dass quote about Psilocybin 🍄🟫
you're not depressed, you just don't have a quest. you need to be quest maxxing
You’re not stuck.
You’re just too comfortable to move.
Startup founders have a 10% chance of success which is a lot better than 0%.
The only way to fail for sure is to never try. You’ll never know what’s possible if you don’t start.
Even if you don’t make it, you’ll learn more than you ever would by sitting on the sidelines.
So please bet on yourself and go for it.
"All the benefits in life come from compound interest - relationship, money, habits - anything of importance."
The 3 principles that built my business:
Don't overthink. Don't overcomplicate.
Just take action daily.
Think Big.
Start small.
Stay consistent.
Trust the process.
Good things happen when you don’t quit.
built an ai that sees 5 moves ahead in any conversation and tells you the optimal thing to say
"Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy."
Use mornings to build.
Use afternoons to market.
Use evenings to ship.
Me: "I have a SaaS idea."
X: "MVP in 2 weeks."
Me: "I'll build it in public."
X: "Nice."
Me: launches
X: SILENCE
Marketing is 10x harder than building.
Classic Hunter S. Thompson quote about Acid 🦇🦇🦇
"If you could literally just sit for 30 minutes and be happy, you are successful."
A focused fool can achieve more than a distracted Genius.🔥🔥
5 years of focus.
5 years of hard work.
5 years of consistency.
And you'll be set for life.
That's all it takes bro.
Opportunities unfold as you execute. Not as you whiteboard.
What Donald Trump has achieved by publicly stating his Gaza plan last week is an absolute master stroke of genius. For a century the Arabs have tormented lie after lie after lie. And I don’t just mean the Arabs in Gaza or the British Mandate of Palestine. I mean the entire Arab world.
I’ve said it several times and I’ll say it again… the Great Arab uprising of 1916 was all about Arab nationalism. It was an ideology that spanned the entire Arab world and it was led by the Hashemite family who themselves were from what is now Saudi Arabia. The entire premise of their ideology was unite the entire Arab world into a single unified state with Hashemite rulers in different provinces. Greater Syria was to be one such province with its capital in Damascus. But one thing stood in their way - Israel and the Jewish people.
For centuries they’ve tried to massacre us to small numbers and subjugate the few that remained. But as a people we were strong and we fought back. And when the entire Arab world attacked in 1948 using the not-yet-created Palestinian people as a cause, they believed the time had come to wipe us out. But we won.
So humiliated and licking their wounds, the Arab world invented the Nakba. And they themselves have stated that it was a manufactured story. And then in 1967 with the help of the Soviet Union the Arab world prepared to try again and Israel won in just 6 days. The humiliation was immense and the fact that little Israel then liberated Jerusalem and annexed land was the height of embarrassment for the Arabs.
So they regrouped, and with the full support and might of the Soviets they waged the ultimate genocidal war in 1973 and truthfully they almost won. But in the 11th hour the United States came in after a year of refusing to help us with arms and sent fresh supplies of weapons that turned the war and we defeated the entire Arab world, again. But just before we dealt the killer blow to Egypt, the soviets asked the US to stop us from totally humiliating the Arabs and Egypt and call for a truce. And we agreed. Soon after, Israel had peace with Egypt and then later with Jordan.
But the ambition and desire to wipe us out has never ever died. The entire arab world continued in its cause for a unified Arab “caliphate” and have used the “Palestinian” cause ever since with the help of the UN. Time and again the Arab world supported and funded various terrorist groups either directly or through the UN in their drive to destroy Israel. But politically they have done so mostly behind the scenes. And this is why there are more UN resolutions against Israel than the rest of the UN member states combined. Just think of the crimes against humanity committed by Iran and Afghanistan and Assad and North Korea and so many others, yet Israel has more resolutions against it than all of them combined.
Just this week, after 16 months of standing with the Gazans and condemning us for a plethora of fake genocides and famine and forcing us to send aid to our attackers who took 250 hostages, the UN have now cut off all aid to Yemen because the Houthis kidnapped just 8 UN members. The hypocrisy is so blatant and yet no outrage or protests.
And with that single announcement last week, Trump has masterfully exposed the head of the snake. It isn’t Iran or Qatar or Syria or Hamas. It’s the entire Arab Muslim world. It’s Islam. It’s the Saudis and Iraq and Syria and Lebanon and Jordan and Egypt and Turkey and all of them. Islam is the head of the snake. Their masks are now off. Their original plan from 100 years ago is now finally out in the open and very much alive and well. They’ve never given it up. Everything has been a deception.
And now the world will know. The truth will finally all come out and the snake will be exposed for what it is and its heads all over the world will be seen. And what is coming will be a war of enormous scale. This is what the Arab world wanted. And again, like every time before it, they will fall.
Reminder:
A person with half your IQ is earning ten times more because they don’t have the self-doubt you do.
BREAKING: Ukraine Zelenskyy said Ukraine is prepared to offer territory swap with Russia, per the AFP
Tiny teams are the future:
• Cursor: 0 to $100M ARR in 21 months w/ 20 people
• Bolt: 0 to $20M ARR in 2 months w/ 15 people
• Mercor: 0 to $50M ARR in 2 years w/ 30 people
Stop overthinking.
Audience building is simple.
Just document your journey.
Your people will find you.
What is insane about asking who put tens of millions into the coin? It is absolutely unprecedented for a sitting president to have an investment vehicle that he profits from! And on top of that the people investing are secret. That is the insane part!
Create a tool that empowers others to create.
There is a lot of important stuff in this new paper by Anthropic that shows how people are actually using Claude.
1) The tasks that people are asking AI to do are some of the highest-value (& often intellectually challenging)
2) Adoption is uneven, but many fields already high
A little-known Turkish app studio is secretly making $100M+ a year.
With 9 apps pulling $200K+ per month.
Here’s how they cracked the App Store growth code: 🧵👇
JUST IN - New exchange-traded fund to invest in "reverse-engineered alien technology" based on government disclosures about UFOs — FT
Everyone needs to hear this...
new morning routine just dropped: open x, write 10-20 burning tweets, log off
Whatever you do in life.
Put your heart into it.
Or it’ll cost you your peace.
Decisions that can change your life:
Sticking to anything daily for an entire year
Moving cities
Upgrading romantic partners
Eliminating drinking & drugs
Saying no to shiny objects
Going to bed at 9pm daily
If you don’t like where you’re at, try one.
Life can change fast.
In fact the optimal point to aim at, if you're writing AI applications, is something that is just short of working. This requires great judgment; it would be so easy to lie to yourself about such a thing. But the prize for getting it right could be huge.
With AI though you can do this in multiple dimensions. You can make something that's too expensive, knowing it will get cheaper. But you can also make something that barely works, knowing it will start to work better.
Occasional work doesn’t bring success.
Consistent one does.
It’s all about the daily show up.
😅
"Give me 6hrs to chop down a tree,
and I'll spend 4 hrs sharpening the axe."
The 2025 dev version?
“Give me a product to build, and I’ll spend 90% of my time planning, structuring, and refining AI prompts.”
A sharp system cuts through everything.
Post at least 3-5 times a day.
Why?
Because at the end of the month you'll have 150 posts.
Analyse what worked. Understand why.
Analyse what didn't. Understand why.
Do more of what worked.
That's how I gained 1000 followers in 50 days.
Your effort limits the downside.
Your strategy limits the upside.
If only someone told me this before my 1st startup:
1. Validate.
I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed.
2. Kill your EGO.
Make your users happy instead of yourself.
3. Don’t chaise investors; chase users, and then investors will chase you.
4...
Focus on helping people.
The money comes naturally.
I started writing daily long forms.
Result?
300 new followers in 10 days.
Want to grow?
Do what 99% aren’t doing.
developers be like:
"let me add:
for an app with zero users.
Stop selling always the product.
Start selling the transformation.
Anyone can do this, it just takes 4 years of hard work.
Yes, yes we are.
It’s not the lack of money.
It’s not the lack of time.
It’s the lack of urgency.
Send 123 emails. 1 gets you a client.
Make 123 posts. 1 goes viral.
Read 12 books. 1 changes your life.
More effort increases LUCK.
Losers get bitter.
Winners get better.
The easiest way to stand out online?
Say what everyone is thinking but no one is saying.
This moment changed my entire life.
LMAO, we’re in an era where if you want something, just build it...
Someone just built a browser agent using the Browser Use API and generated the entire code with Replit Agents for just $6.14.
You don’t have to pay $200 to try Operator.
From the very beginning, one of our main goals was: Typing math should be as natural as typing plain text. No syntax, no coding—just start typing, no learning required
your nervous system replays the past + predicts the future based on old data. if you don’t reprogram it you’ll literally keep reliving the same patterns.
“How’s your startup doing, Daniel?”
Me, a new indie hacker:
Hard seasons separate the comfortable from the committed.
Everything begins tomorrow
Engaging more is the secret.
The wildest ideas started with unpolished prototypes:
If your first version isn’t a bit embarrassing, you’re waiting too long to launch. Don’t fear the „messy start“, it’s where the magic begins
we just used @Replit agent to build a browser agent 🤯
you might not want to give @OpenAI your $200 just yet...
this cost $6.14 to build.
here it is browsing @ProductHunt and making a list from a prompt...
New Order | Blue Monday (4K)
It was released as a 12-inch single on 7 March 1983 through Factory Records. It appears on certain cassette and CD versions of New Order’s second studio album, Power, Corruption & Lies (1983). #NewOrder #PostPunkTV
“The big winners pay for thousands of failed experiments.”
~ Jeff Bezos
I used to think my life was boring.
So what do I talk about?
As I started writing on X….
I’d spend hours searching for the next life changing idea to talk about.
I saw big creators going viral talking about their romance stories and daily life.
It looked so easy for them.
Yet there I was starting at my blank PC screen and feeling like punching it every time I struggled to find interesting ideas to talk about.
So I gave up.
I quit chasing after the next big idea.
And thought I’d give a try to sharing my “boring” life:
Somehow, I saw success with it.
My bunny picture went viral.
My story about quitting university got 100’s of people reaching out and sharing relatable stories to mine.
People were reading my “boring” stories.
But why?
This is nothing special….or ground shattering…why would anyone read it?
People want relatability.
They’re more likely to read to your story about getting fired than a story of scaling to $10,000/month because it’s more relatable.
Sure, big goals are cool to share.
But you won’t be jumping out of an airplane every single day.
You don’t need to chase after the next goal to have something to talk about.
Because your life is already the story you’re searching for.
And that small idea you have...
Could potentially change someone’s day.
Share it.
1960s: “COBOL will let non-programmers build software!”
2000s: “UML diagrams will let non-programmers build software!”
2010s: “No-code platforms will let non-programmers build software!”
2020s: “GPT-3 will let non-programmers build software!”
2022: “Copilot will let non-programmers build software!”
2023: “GPT-4 will let non-programmers build software!”
2024: “GPT-4o will let non-programmers build software!”
2025: “o3-mini-high will let non-programmers build software!”
We are still far from a normal individual who can copy/paste their way to actual production apps.
AI supercharges developers, not remove them.
the three most important paragraphs of this century
Being bitter about wealth is a good way to ensure you'll never become rich. Why would you do anything to bring you closer to something you despise?
Level 1: I sell a product.
Level 2: I sell the outcome of the product.
Level 3: I sell the emotional benefits of the outcome.
banger @shl
The classic software startup writes code to solve users' problems. If AI makes writing code more of a commodity, understanding users' problems will become the most important component of starting a startup. But it already is.
@igorsushko I have a Turk friend. Living in Europe. So his ear is closer to Russia and he’s telling me that the country is about to collapse at any moment. There might be in the foreseeable future Russian migrants moving to Western Europe
"If you're in tech, run in one of these directions."
In this clip, @amasad (CEO @Replit) shares two paths to future-proof your career in the AI era:
1. Get as close to the metal as possible (e.g., NASA won't use GPT-Javascript to run rockets)
OR
2. Become a generalist who can go from idea to end product with AI end to end.
Amjad and I had a great chat covering:
Some quotes from Amjad:
"The return on learning to code doubles every 6 months. AI automates many of the boring parts. What's left is you and your creativity — the most exciting part of coding."
"The ultimate test for an AI coding agent is if you can make an app faster than you can Google for it. I think we've done it."
"I’ll be honest with you. I think roadmaps are dead. Here's why..."
📌 Watch now:
Google is literally handing out email lists for free…
No ads. No audience. Just free leads sitting there.
Scrape, import, blast email
easy money.
JUST IN: Unusual Whales launched a community chat feature with financial features, which you can see below.
Come join the conversation on site with traders, our community, and more.
See more:
Just paid for my senior intern's annual salary
Five minutes of Will Ferrell getting people to break on SNL
Effective people can be scary. Controlling your fear is a super power. Restraint can be harder than action. The truly scalable superpower is the ability to motivate others - not the ability to be the best IC. Founder mode is most powerful when it inspires your entire org to feel like owners. Fake founder mode is a company with 1 brain and many hands.
Never once in the quarter of a century I've been building for the web has picking MySQL come up as a regret. Unbelievably solid, no-nonsense tech.
The only goal: Build the fastest iterating company the world has EVER seen 🚀
The Cycle:
1. Talk to customer
2. Understand pain point
3. Build product to address that
4. Test with users
5. Repeat
Get 2% better over every iteration cycle.
After a year of this, your company will be unstoppable.
Here’s a delivery drone dropping 5 super fresh pizzas into my garden in Dublin 3 minutes after they left the oven.
I know it’s cool to talk about bottlecaps and cookie banners as Europe’s big innovations, but don’t forget there are legit areas where amazing stuff is happening.
Be the leader your startup needs.
Stay positive, even when things get tough.
If you don’t believe, no one else will.
Keep pushing to get better.
start figuring out what you want. dream big, assume no obstacles exist, and understand what you truly want.
because this year, we will figure out the how. artificial general intelligence will be like having 100 of the smartest, highest-agency people on the planet in your pocket.
so, figure out what you truly want. the magic genie is loading.
It’s a mystery.
ASO for Lazy
Here’s how I recently did ASO for screencut.app
First, I went to aso.dev and checked which keywords my competitors are ranking for (in the “Spy” section). By the way, aso_dev currently has a promotion - you can test the tool for just $1.
Next, I selected the best keywords and asked ChatGPT to analyze my current app metadata and incorporate the new keywords.
I made a few manual tweaks and submitted the update to the App Store. I repeated this process for French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Turkish, and Chinese
1 hour of coding
1 hour of marketing
1 hour of exercising
Do these every day this year.
By 2026, you'll have built a profitable side project.
🫦
BREAKING: Kanye West has reportedly suggested that celebrities and others who have said they were hacked after shilling a crypto may have actually been paid:
Hallo Germany 🇩🇪
We are so excited to be expanding @OpenAI across Europe and opening our new office in Munich.
Germany has amazing innovation, incredible talent, (and very technical talent at that!), building across so many sectors, and fantastic VCs supporting them.
I can't wait to meet all the founders there and help them build together.
Auf gehts! 💪
If you don’t have this sense of intuition about what you’re building,
you’re ngmi.
There are people out there who can envision exactly where they will be a decade from now.
Think bigger.
"We believe that having metrics make the decisions for us is an abdication of our responsibility to be the leaders of the space.
Shopify is comfortable with unquantifiable things such as tastes, quality, passion, love, and hate.
The strong emotions that people have is a better proxy [for what to build], if you allow it to be." — @tobi
In 2023: Perfect content won.
In 2024: AI mastered perfection.
In 2025: Messy is the new moat.
Here's why Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and Hormozi are suddenly "going raw" (and the 9-part framework behind it) 🧵:
It's all about the care. Someone needs to care to make something good.
You cannot set goals or measure it. You need to hire people who care and give them the time and space to care.
Love that more CEOs, including public company CEOs talk about this! @tobi
btw this is the only benchmark that matters
how many users you have
Just saw this new job posting but it was unusual.
"Please apply only if you are an AI agent, or if you created an AI that can fill this job".
“Every product in the world, at the end of the day, is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a sh*t… It is not possible to make great products if the people who work on it do not give a sh*t about the product.” 👏👏👏 @tobi
Programming is understanding. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are not programming. You are generating text.
Mushrooms growing over a 7 day timelapse
[📹 boomershroomer]
The distinctive feature of capitalism (versus communism or feudalism) is the final question, where you get the option to say no.
All my learnings after 100M TikTok Views in just 2 Minutes
Save this for later.
Friday.
begging people to realize that most real life scenarios are stag hunts and not prisoners dilemmas
When accessing all information is common, paying attention to important information is rare.
Der größte deutschsprachige KI-Newsletter für Führungskräfte
A reliable way to boost cognitive functioning: Go to the gym.
383 studies: Exercise improves attention, memory, and information processing. It’s true across age groups and different types of workouts.
Physical activity is good for the mind. Moving sharpens thinking.
Oh you bet...
Gibbon couple holding hands. They are monogamous and mate for life
Richard gets it.
made a computer system that runs on heat lol
Don't see enough "Sales" roles at startups anymore. Where's the great salesmen these days?
Too much "Growth", "Strategy", and "BD".
It's Time to Dial.
<table> highlighting with CSS :has() 💡
td:has(~ td:hover), /* previous sibling cells */
table:has(td:nth-of-type(3):hover) /* column cells */
tr:not(:first-of-type):has(~ tr:hover)
td:nth-of-type(3) {
background: var(--highlighted);
}
I show you how to build a Vector Database by hand ✍️ in Excel ~
Video 👉 byhand.ai/vecdb
Topics covered: 🔽
I don’t want to provide my world-class expertise just for you to hoard crowd-sourced prompts and construct elaborate security theater performances to appease investors who are foolish enough to believe guardrails=safety.
I’m allergic to money, so don’t bother. My incentives are aligned with what’s best for the community and the future of AI.
Are yours?
almost ready to deploy my AI UGC marketing template in @postbridge_ content studio :)
this will be included for all existing subs who have content studio access for $0 extra
daily marketing about to go BRRRRR
'The hardest problem in computer science is not being an opinionated jerk about everything.' -- @ntakayama
The best investments in the world?
Serial Acquirers
Here are 15 Serial Acquirers you should know:
If ur shit, incompetent and bring nothing to the party, ur life in a post AI world is going to be extremely unpleasant imo
Great marketing gets people in the door.
Poor execution makes them leave.
Marketing sets expectations—execution delivers on them. Without both, you lose.
I’ve never met anyone successful (that didn’t come from family wealth) who didn’t religiously send cold emails
Human finger under the microscope.
Gibbon couple holding hands. They are monogamous and mate for life
Also worth noting:
Everyone needs to hear this...
Netanyahu has a butler at the White House
Romance TikToker:
What is this sorcery??? Xcode lite is shaping up nicely.
🎙️ Die Förderbank KfW legt 2025 ihren Fokus auf die Stärkung des Wirtschaftsstandortes Deutschland. Hierfür wird die Bank mindestens 500 Millionen Euro aus Eigenmitteln einsetzen, um die Konditionen der Förderprodukte zu verbessern. ❗️
👉️
Try this at work.....
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't Waste your Life
o3 puts a PhD in your pocket
DeepMind writes a detailed breakdown of LLM pretraining
DeepSeek makes LLM pretraining 95% cheaper
I’m pretty sure a group of 19 year olds could train an LLM from scratch…
"It's ethnic cleansing"
Genocidal psychopathic Jihadist kidnappers and murderers of toddlers is not an ethnicity.
The Turkish Tulip Garden at Hinoyama Koen Park in Japan
📹 Masami Shirai
Guy who's experiencing the outside of the cave for the first time: getting a lot of shadows on the wall vibe from this
have been toying around with the new @Replit app.
I’m not quite sure how to react without sounding hyperbolic
Application software is now endless and free to anyone who can talk.
This powerful exercise will help you become successful‼️
Gently, softly, calmly, let’s talk about what’s happening in DC right now.
Friends, have you ever been through a ZBB process? If not, let me give you my take. So, in a corporation where expenses are out of control, you have to put the entire company through a zero based budgeting process. It is one of the most painful things that people in a company experience.
You basically have to justify every. single. expense. And you also cut a bunch, and then only add back after you’ve gone through a proper ZBB cycle.
The US government is going through a ZBB right now. And that is necessary because spending is out of control. The complexity is so vast that I expect it will take AI to decipher.
You cannot tell me that a government that accidentally wires hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban has its finances in order. That signals an underlying disaster. That signals bad stewardship of resources.
In fact, it is a disaster. Over the last 20 fiscal years, the US government has made ~$2.7 trillion in "improper payments," according to the US Government Accountability Office. Trillion! With a T!
That financial management disaster was not caused by @elonmusk. And there is no painless way to clean it up.
Elon is doing what any executive would do walking into a giant mess. You ZBB and then build back.
So, I don’t believe that America is going to be on the wrong side of global right and wrong, as some are saying. I don’t believe that America is going to be permanently isolationist. I do believe that unwatched finances will get out of control in any human system, and that the GAO has been trying to ring this bell for years, and that scaled complexity requires scaled financial management.
Because the US has the largest budget in the world, it will now go through the single most complex ZBB ever undertaken in the history of the world.
Some states do ZBB, but it's never been done at the federal level. President Jimmy Carter tried, but the bureaucratic systems were too complex, and President Ronald Reagan abandoned the attempt.
So, if there is one person in the world chosen to lead this Grand Canyon of projects, we would hope for the president to choose one of the best capital allocators on the planet. Better if that human is also one who can leverage AI and technical talent to manage the massive complexity.
Anyone who has lived through a ZBB at the corporate level will tell you that it’s hell and everyone hates it. This is why I feel really bad for federal workers -- I have a lot of empathy for civil servants and people doing a great job every day for the United States. No doubt, the uncertainty is trying and stressful for many. It's an unfortunate situation.
So, that's my take. I don't want to speak beyond what I know and can observe from the other side of the country. I've worked both in the private sector and the public sector -- the cultures are different. And an Elon-Musk-style culture is going to be the most hard core of them all. No doubt, it's jarring. It's gonna be a lot.
But what I also know is that every time I have ever doubted Elon, I ended up being the one who was wrong.
It’s already happening
In 2026, recruiters will be hiring AI Agents for companies, not human employees.
Companies will opt to pay $10,000+ per month for agents that work 24/7 instead of employees that work 40 hours per week.
It’s Already Happening
No amount of A/B testing will deliver results like personalizing your website for each visitor.
@unusualsites (YC F24) uses AI to serve a unique version of your site for every ad, blog post, social media post, sales lead, and more.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu hold talks at the White House.
What do you notice?
DeepSeek by hand ✍️ in Excel. You can explore and study in your web browser 👉
You can learn a lot from this video, it’s a completely new era
Looking for better ways to code with Cursor and came across this banger.
Anyone else have workflows that work for them?
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
― Socrates
Been vibe coding using Agent for the past few months, more people should start vibe coding and become builders. The only thing standing between you and creating is making the time for it.
git commit -am "" --date "4/20/2024"
allows you to add commits into the past and change your github contribution graph:
Hey everyone! It's been a while since I posted anything, so I think it's time to fix that🙂 This is a concept website for an AI company.
Interest in STEM is mostly superficial. The obsession is really with money and power.
This is incredible!
The best AI app directory is now live on Hugging Face.
You can find almost everything you need in AI!
🔖Bookmark this right now.
Your 9-5 isn’t killing your dreams.
Wasting your 5-9 is.
20 years ago, Spotify was an idea.
Today, Spotify is worth $120 billion.
How I use DeepSeek to analyze my LinkedIn profile.
Step 1: Extract your Linkedin data.
☑ Click on your profile.
☑ Click on "Post impressions".
☑ On the top right, click on "Export".
Step 2: Clean your data.
☑ Open a new sheet.
☑ Upload the extracted data.
☑ Delete the tabs "Discovery" & "Demographics".
Step 3: Go to DeepSeek.
☑ Go to chat . deepseek . com
☑ Upload the new cleaned Excel file.
☑ Toggle on "DeepThink R1", but not "Search".
Step 4: Prompt DeepSeek as a data analyst.
☑ Copy & paste this following prompt:
"You are a data analyst & scientist.
Here are my Linkedin post analytics.
I want to make better decisions. Think in a step by step process on how you will help me out AFTER you analyzed the entire excel file I shared."
☑ Ask as many follow-up prompts as you want.
Here's mine on the video:
"Now that you've shared this, go much deeper in your analysis. Only use the data. Do not use your intuition. You are a data analyst."
Step 5 (Bonus): Rewrite your best posts.
☑ Ask DeepSeek what's your "best posts".
☑ Copy the entire caption from each of them.
☑ Go to EasyGen (app . easygen . io).
☑ Paste one of the caption on "Custom Topic".
☑ Hit "Generate a post" until you love it.
____
The fascinating part? This "data analyst" is free.
And it's the worst it will ever be.
AI won’t replace jobs, but it will reveal who was adding real value all along. What’s your take?
(new) developer skills:
(understand whats going on/wrong and guide the agent)
I've tried all (24) AI coding agents & IDEs 😵💫
[Cursor, Softgen, Windsurf, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Claude, AmazonQ, Pear, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Webdraw, Tempo, Cline, Continue, Databutton, Base44, Qodo, Aider]
The Vibe Coding giga-thread:
This is beautiful. Our tools are enabling a new fluidity of intelligence that will take us to unimagined places.
There is so much to look forward to.
New by me: Musk and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories, according to an OPM staffer
today we launch deep research, our next agent.
this is like a superpower; experts on demand!
it can go use the internet, do complex research and reasoning, and give you back a report.
it is really good, and can do tasks that would take hours/days and cost hundreds of dollars.
Billionaire Fund Manager Howard Marks,
YC on why vertical AI agents could be 10X bigger than SaaS:
"Start making something" by @jasonfried & @dhh
@Davidjpark96 @whoisjenniai @Davidjpark96 writes full detailed posts on how he scales - make sure to follow him & check the highlights on his profile
YT vid - youtu.be/Gv2fzC96Z40?si…
Follow @MurataAlgoK for more
David's AI app Jenni does $500k+ mrr & has done millions of views - his exact playbook to scale apps (1/2):
the reason people buy books isn't because they want to learn, it's because they want to feel like they're learning
if you wanted to learn you'd actually go do the thing
What if you mix flags colors in one single color?
[📹 smashingpencils]
“If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”
― Lao Tzu
Geometry
Family office is honestly a gem of a career path in finance and accounting
Great WLB on a relative basis. Comp is very good considering the work hours
Surprised more people dont go down this path. If you have worked in this track, would love to hear more about your experience
hate doing marketing?
easier to build a habit this way
Having an onboarding survey increased my app's conversion rate by 10%+
So today I'm open sourcing a package for adding a survey anywhere within your SwiftUI app!
GitHub repo will be in the comments below 👇
The Tensor Cookbook:
homepage for my new AI Agent startup that got into YC
curiosity changes everything
How to Study effectively?
You’re not in love with losing.
You’re not in love with late nights.
You’re not in love with sacrifices.
You’re not in love with the pain.
You’re not in love with the game.
wake up.
Luck =
High energy
In the right place
Around the right people
Producing more than consuming
Avoiding any and all distractions
Able to manage multiple interests
High agency and self-educated
Doesn't quit after one mistake
Luck is a lifestyle
How to increase your luck:
Luck often comes from putting in more reps.
TIL that Swift has state machines at the language level. You can use types to define each state, and use where to define what actions are available when you're in that state. Clean 👏
@DavidKPiano could on dream of this in JS...
How Charlie Munger got ahead
Eric Berne explains the difference between a winner and a loser
The craftsmanship involved with building a canoe. Incredible work👏
Credit: 🎥 Ben Kilner
“Health is the greatest gift, Contentment the greatest wealth, Faithfulness the best relationship.”
― Buddha
Be careful - not all helping hands lift you up
Lovable is the only reason I’ve considered shifting from Next.js + Supabase to React + Supabase.
The speed is unreal. I can get 70-80% of the MVP up and running, deploy, gather client feedback, and then move to Cursor for enhancements and refinements.
This has completely transformed the way I build MVPs.
the metric to use to gauge the success of your X account is not:
impressions
followers
likes
it's how much fun you're having and how much you're learning
Every dark thing one falls into can be called an initiation. To be initiated into a thing means to go into it. The first step is generally falling into the dark place and usually appears in a dubious or negative form - falling into something, or being possessed by something... Even the worst things you fall into are an effort at initiation, for you are in something which belongs to you, and now you must get out of it.