A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicbksjdhd. First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

Shreyas Doshi (I find games helpful as an example. You can't research your way straight to a good game—or so good game designers tell me. But you can use it to inform a model that eventually leads you to create a good game, and you must use research to test whether the game is actually good.)

Nithin Kamath If you remove top 3 crore customers for calculating our per capita income, it would drop from $1900 to <$600. It’s hard to sell things to people when their income is barely enough to survive and get food. Another curse is ~95% of urban women are not having own financial income.

1) Zig Zag and hiring: why FTX is going to keep growing as others cut jobs

When creating a new product, Fail Fast should be the last resort, not the default approach.

2. "We need more people to execute" after a layoffs is a synonym for "we don't know how to prioritize and say no to the work we should no longer be doing." If you have less people: do less work. It's how it all works.

New product initiatives within already-successful companies often fail to achieve their potential because they have too much rather than too little. Too much of: 1) headcount: you are now under pressure to come up _something_ for all these people to do 👇🏾

I'm learning more about how games development compares to 'traditional' software engineering. One surprising thing I've come across is how games are often rebuilt several times during the production process. It's also why many 'traditional' development approaches don't fit.

When distribution is proprietary, distribution wins (Comcast vs Netflix), when distribution is commoditized, best product wins (chrome vs IE), when product is commoditized, best service wins (Amazon vs others), when service is commoditized, best network wins.

A subtle reason why creativity, attention to detail & pace of product progress suffers as a startup scales is that the Visionary founder has hired an Operator to run the product (which is fine) but that Operator has simply hired other Operators & there are no Craftspersons left.

When we were first developing MARVEL SNAP - we wondered if we could do away with a card game staple: The Mulligan. Obviously we did, but early testers hated it. We changed their perception with a single change to 1 card. 🧵

Announcing God In a Box, a direct implementation of GPT-3.5 into Whatsapp. Unlike other implementations, ours uses the brand new model and API, and doesn't require credentials. We're launching tonight, but you'll need a beta key. For a free key, just RT this and I'll DM you one.

The Ghibli-style memes are the beginning of something bigger. The age of minimalism is over. No longer is the Internet stuck in the soulless valley of right angles and flat white backgrounds. Everything from anime to Art Deco is now just a clever prompt away. A new kind of

1/ Bangalore, gear up! South Park Commons is hosting its first-ever hackathon in India: Curiosity 2025! A weekend jam for builders exploring what’s next in consumer AI. Currently invite-only, more details in the 🧵

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I'm hiring a native + unity engineering intern to build something cool at Gameramp. Please reach out on DM if you / anyone you know might be interested. Our application is quite simple - send a link to something you've built before!

I shut down my gaming startup last year. Took some time off. Traveled. Became a scuba diver. Built in AI B2B SaaS. Thought. Now I’m back — and I have questions. 🧵

💰New: GameRamp, which helps games & consumer apps rapidly scale up, has raised $5.4M pre-seed funding round. The round was led by BITKRAFT Ventures with participation from Mixi, South Park Commons, & DeVC Story - moneycontrol.com/news/business/… Vivek Ramachandran sashank vandrangi Anuj Tandon 🇮🇳

We’re excited to announce our investment in GameRamp as part of our India thesis! We led the $5.4M pre-seed round with Anuj Tandon 🇮🇳 leading the charge for BITKRAFT and participation from South Park Commons, MIXI Global Investments, DeVC and other prominent global angels.