The early GPT-3 demos made me believe AI would genuinely replace most knowledge work within a decade. Back when I started, most founders I knew dismissed LLMs as toys - too unreliable, too expensive, too slow. We would have never shipped what we ship today without that

What is a founder? Can we accept that a founder is not a lone builder, but a node in a network of problems, markets, and people that shaped them, taught them, and will outlast them? Every startup is a temporary structure through which the market works out what it actually needs.

Most successful founders are not balanced. They're obsessed. They're shipping while others sleep. They're ignoring noise. They're playing a longer game. They're less available. Maybe it doesn't have to be that way. But usually it does.

Startup advice I'd give anyone starting out: - Build in AI now, not after it's obvious (obvious = crowded = late) - Know your mode: are you a builder, a seller, or a systems thinker - Ship for yourself, not for a boss who caps your upside

- Investor: I've only heard about you online. - Me: Oh yeah? - Investor: Yeah. I followed your build-in-public thread. - Me: Appreciate that. - Investor: I didn't expect you to be this relentless in person. You actually believe you're going to pull this off.

Go to these resources to study how successful AI startups are built: - Lenny's Newsletter - The Pragmatic Engineer - Hacker News - First Round Review - Paul Graham Essays - a16z Podcast - Latent Space - The Batch by - Stratechery - Y Combinator Blog - Indie Hackers - Superhuman

How I stay sharp on building in 2025: - X: founder discourse and AI news - HN: what engineers are actually shipping - Indie Hackers: real revenue, real problems Literally all signal, no noise.

"What would you do if you ran out of runway tomorrow?" "I have 18 months of runway." "But suppose you were the kind of founder who could sit with that hypothetical?" "In that case, I'd say I'd cut burn, call every lead, and ship something billable by Friday. But since I'm not

5 years ago the idea that you would raise a seed round without a product was laughable. Founders ship an MVP in a weekend now. The bar keeps moving.

An underrated way to win in AI is to just be ten times more useful than the next tool. Everyone is chasing a novel idea or some defensible moat. But most markets are wide open because nobody is actually trying that hard. Most founders ship once and coast. The bar is low. Clear

When this is all said and done, no one in the mainstream will ever understand what it took to build in this era. The business schools won't teach it. The press won't cover it honestly. The safe-career crowd will rewrite the story to make it look inevitable. But we know what it

If you survive the no-revenue months, the churn, the rebuilds, the silence after launch - you will get there. Most founders I talk to are grinding through the same wall right now. Seen it too many times to think it's permanent.

It is Tuesday. Open your laptop. Ship something. Check your metrics. Fix what broke over the weekend. Conquer your morning and start the week ahead of the competition. BUILD.

stop what you're doing and learn these before your competitors do: • n8n • cursor • perplexity • claude • how to build systems • how to write SOPs • how to map workflows • how to find bottlenecks • how to audit processes • notion as infrastructure • thinking in

subreddits i use to get my first users when launching: r/sideproject r/roastmystartup r/saas r/imadethis r/growthhacking r/startup_ideas r/entrepreneur r/indiebiz r/smallbusiness r/startups r/buildinpublic r/scaleinpublic r/indiehackers r/launchmystartup r/saasbuild r/testmyapp

building a product is how you create value. getting people to notice is how you grow. closing deals is how you fund the next one. if you want to hit $10M, you need all three working.

start building that AI tool. start writing about your journey. start that sports tech startup. start that content brand. start that $10M company. become someone who creates value.

AI models can pass medical licensing exams. AI robots succeed at 12% of household chores. We automated the hard stuff first. Now we are stuck with technology that can diagnose cancer but cannot fold a shirt.

Why would they give us a Mythos teaser and release a weaker model???

Is it just me or dose the usage on the claude max subscription feel a lot better these past few days than it did before?? Anyone else?