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Productivity everywhere! So excited to get my hands on one and be able to work everywhere including next to the lake or in a pasture with cows around.
Introducing Mini 2, the next-generation portable Starlink. Get up to 4.5 hours of connectivity on a single charge with the quick-swap battery, or plug in with USB-C.
With built-in Wi-Fi, all you need is a clear view of the sky to get online in 60 seconds.
Preorders are now open by invitation in the US. Be the first to know when it's available → starlink.com/mini-2
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Creation is also the fastest way to start a business.
Swap one hour of scrolling for one hour of building: a landing page, an offer, a cold email or the product.
Do that for 30 days and you'll have something to sell.
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You're not afraid your first offer will be crap.
You're afraid someone will see it being crap.
Most people are too busy with their own work to notice. The few who do notice can tell you what to fix.
Just start and put it out there
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A record flight looks like an aviation story. It's really a planning story. Fuel, crew rest, alternates, weather, timing. All of it mapped before wheels up.
That's the lesson from airline ops: the big moment is just the last step of a lot of boring prep.
It’s official! @Airbus’ A350-1000 now holds the Guinness World Record for longest flight by distance by a commercial airliner. We’re proud to have helped validate the record-breaking flight. flightradar24.com/blog/aircr…
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You don't need a brand-new idea.
Find a niche that's already making money, but badly. Low ratings and no recent updates are a signal, not a warning.
Then ship a better version with a twist and sell it. Just because somebody made it on e doesn’t mean you can’t as well otherwise we wouldn’t have Lyft.
now that apple put xcode inside claude code, here’s how i’d find, build and grow an iOS app with AI agents:
find it
- open appfigures or sensor tower and sort utilities by revenue
- filter for apps with a rating under 3.5
- bonus points if the top app hasn't shipped an update in 6+ months
- check the keywords they rank for in appfigures. low difficulty + high revenue is the sweet spot
- scroll the "you might also like" row on the top app's page. every app there is another market to check
- or find a startup idea on ideabrowser.com based on social sentiment
validate it
- use facundoolano/app-store-scraper to pull every review for the top 20
- give them to an agent: "cluster the 1 and 2 star reviews into the top 5 complaints and quote the users"
- pick the app where the complaints are about the product, not the price
- if people complain about the price but keep paying, that's demand. if they complain about bugs, that's your opening
- search reddit for "alternative to [app]". every thread is a list of people waiting for you
build it
- claude code + apple's new xcode plugin to build, preview and fix
- cameroncooke/XcodeBuildMCP so the agent can build, test and run the simulator on its own
- joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp so it can tap, swipe and screenshot like a user
- write a skill with the top 5 complaints so every feature gets checked against them
- apple's foundation models for on-device ai, so your inference cost is $0
- app intents so siri and personal agents can use your app too
- add an "import from [competitor]" button. make switching take 10 seconds
test it
- maestro tests every flow the reviewers complained about
- the agent runs them on every screen size before each build
- if the competitor's worst flow takes 6 taps, yours takes 2
- sentry for crashes, telemetrydeck for analytics
- testflight it to 20 people from those reddit threads before launch
monetize it
- revenuecat for subscriptions and mrr
- superwall to test paywalls without shipping a new build
- paywall right after the first win, never on launch
- annual as the default with a 3-day trial, weekly as the anchor
- turn on win-back offers for everyone who cancels
rank it
- your screenshots answer each complaint directly. "no ads." "works offline." "cancel anytime."
- fastlane snapshot + frameit regenerates every screenshot automatically
- a/b test them with app store connect's product page optimization
- have the agent localize your listing into 10 languages. most competitors only rank in english
- ask for a review right after a win with apple's built-in review prompt, never after an error
grow it
- find 10 creators in your niche on tiktok one. small monthly base + a bonus for every 100k views
- give each one a fresh tiktok account that only posts about your niche
- apify's tiktok scraper pulls the top 100 hooks in your niche every week. that's your hook bank
- every creator tests 3 new hooks a day in capcut. anything that loses people in the first 3 seconds gets cut
- arcads or heygen for ai ugc when you need 50 variations of a winner
- postiz to schedule everything across tiktok, reels and shorts
- faceless slideshow accounts posting 3x a day: problem, screenshot, result
- when an organic video takes off, put money behind it with tiktok spark ads instead of making new ads
- a unique apple offer code for every creator so you know exactly who drove each subscriber
- a quiz landing page on framer that ends in "download the app." web-to-app funnels convert better than cold traffic
- appsflyer to track which video, creator and ad actually turned into revenue
- apple ads on the competitor's name
i could do a whole episode on @startupideaspod if people are interested. i will never gatekeep anything im learning in real-time.
welcome to the golden age of ios apps, because now anyone can build one
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Disgusting attack on people changing our country and doing nothing but supporting democracy and building companies that will change the way we live for the better.
These are hit pieces designed to brainwash people. @theallinpod
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Easy decisions don't need a founder.
Hard ones do.
Every real tradeoff costs something: cash, speed, or quality.
Your job isn't to find a painless option.
It's to pick the loss you can live with, take it clean, and move.
You don't need to worry about which direction you're going to start.
You just need to start... move fast, and keep asking yourself if your life is what you want it to be.
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U.S. foreclosure filings rose 13% year over year in August, hitting 40,277 properties. Bank repossessions jumped 42% to 5,794.
Filings aren't the same as losing a home—but the rise in repossessions is worth watching.
Get ready we’re about to enter a not fun period.
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The most lucrative business is the one that fixes a boring, expensive problem for a customer who already pays to make it go away.
Find the pain first. Then pick the tool.
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New Coke won the taste test and lost the market. The lesson for founders: test what customers do, not just what they say.
A survey gives you opinions. A sale gives you the truth.
coke vs pepsi one of the greatest rivalries of all time
in 1985, new coke beat pepsi in 200,000 taste tests and got pulled in 79 days
in 2026, i run the same kind of test on my own products with synthetic users
fathom calls → LLMs personas → browserbase → 30 simulated days in your product
50 customer calls become 50 personas, each gets a browser and uses the product for 30 days
the stuff they love on day 1 and hate on day 10 gets cut
i don't know why more people aren't doing synthetic user testing
very cheap way to find out if you're on the right path
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Cory Clark retweeted
A JSX departure with a little SpaceX history! This Embraer ERJ-145 wears the special Starlink livery celebrating JSX becoming the first airline to introduce Starlink inflight Wi-Fi in 2022. Spotted taking off from Hollywood Burbank Airport LIVE on Airline Videos Live, November 2nd, 2026! – at Burbank, CA
Hire for the process, not the hype. Before you bring in an AI specialist, list the 3 tasks that eat the most hours every week and start there
The most important hire in your business:
AI implementation specialist.
All the best engineers and IT folks have become AI masters over the last 3 years.
Hire one to come into your business.
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Money doesn't change your standards. It shows you what they always were.
Build a business that gives you options, and you stop tolerating the bad customer, the bad deal, and the bad hour.
Getting wealthier will actually radicalize you against all the nonsensical behavior that you used to tolerate just because you had no other choice.
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Cory Clark retweeted
Absolutely devastated by yesterday’s tragic plane crash in Florida and the loss of all nine lives. I flew on that exact aircraft last month with those same two pilots. They were incredible professionals and genuinely wonderful people. Hearing the young woman’s story and learning about the bright future she had ahead of her makes it even more heartbreaking that her life was cut so short. 💔
My heart, thoughts, and prayers go out to the grieving families and loved ones of everyone on board. A tragic reminder of how fragile life is. Love on your loved ones while you can, because you never know what tomorrow may bring.
You're not in business when you file the paperwork. You're in business the first time someone pays you.
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In a small business that gap costs money, not just sleep. The price you know is too low. The client you know you should drop. The process you know is broken. Write the decision down today and act on it ASAP.
Most “stress” is just a decision you’ve made privately that you haven’t acted on publicly.
You already know the answer; the stress exists in the gap between knowing it and acting on it.
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Couldn't agree more - the disparaging comments about the FO is an embarrassment and my heart aches for her family and the families of everybody onboard.
As a former Learjet pilot with thousands of hours and a former aircraft accident investigator, I’m truly shocked and horrified at some of the insane theories and ridiculous conclusions being posted all over X.
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