❌ Your friend saying your product is awesome is not validation ❌ A stranger signing up to your waitlist is not validation ❌ An influencer talking about your product is not validation ✅ Someone paying for your product is validation

App idea 💡 Reverse Grok / Ani where the avatar is a scantily dressed man and the more you talk to him the more clothes it puts on

We gotta tune the AI hype-fluencers out of the feed. It leads devs to think there's some AI silver bullet for coding. It doesn't exist. If I just use this MCP server, or run 20 subagents across terminals, or get the perfect rule crafted, only *then* will AI suddenly work!

"Fake it till you make it" is such a toxic idea. Be real. Be genuine. Be raw. That will get you much further in life.

Talking to users also includes figuring out if no one gives a fuck about your product. I killed so many ideas after 3 months because no one would use it (or too little people for it to make sense) Does it suck? Yeah. Does it suck harder to work 2 years on something no one

it's just a cold email tool they run these ads because every week you guys fall for it and make it go viral

You'll never see a male version of these Guess why

The React Native new architecture allowed Shopify to update FlashList to include zero native code and make it much faster and smoother and easier to implement. Again, the new arch is a bigger deal than people think, just because it’s been a long time coming. Now that it’s here,

"GPT-5 is the LLM of all time"

Curious whether ya'll agree

This is huge. Expo CLI already exposes so much context via the CLI with everything from logs to errors to import stacks. Now the agent can automatically read it without needing an additional MCP layer.

Instead of agents replacing me, I now need to design every feature for both humans and agents. 🙃

as much as people say idea is easy and execution is everything, imo idea is the most decisive factor of how successful a startup is and how fast they achieve success you need both great idea and great execution to succeed bad idea + great execution is a waste of time & talent

I got another document full of AI slop this week. 15 pages of heavily AI written slop. AI slop tables. AI slop summaries. AI slop bulleted lists. AI is the greatest spam technology ever created. It gives the incapable the ability to pretend to be capable. It covers their

As we lurch into a place where AI-assisted programming becomes possible, it's ironic that actual documentation (in well-crafted English) is now becoming extra important, especially for APIs. LLMs do not "understand" what code does—what it's supposed to accomplish. They're pretty

Did you know Chrome had all these prerendering techniques? I didn't 🤷‍♂️

Want free, local AI in your browser? Chrome's built-in Prompt API is ready to try and is also shipped for Chrome Extensions. Powered by Gemini Nano. Demo featuring Y Combinator 😅

Discussed how we're thinking about styling and web<>native interop at Expo. A lot of which is coming to Expo soon!