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just got accepted to YC with the application i wrote using claude who hired me to Anthropic, so happy to announce that i am joining Anthropic to work on nothing, so tired of love songs, so i reversed the offer into ChatGPT taste engine because taste is the new moat unless you love Corgi cafe while AGI is approaching so i just quit Anthropic to join Kimi then decided to leave and join OpenAI which opened my eyes to the rising moat called taste is the move to SF and distribution is king.
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Mihoyo, creators of Genshin Impact, just launched Olivia - an AI companion who lives on your desktop, plays piano while you work, & exchanges letters with you. 100k downloads on day 1
The brilliant part is the GTM. Olivia debuted on Bilibili last summer as a virtual pianist, spent months building a fanbase and answering fan letters - all before shipping as a companion
She launched with a built-in audience - hundreds of thousands follow her as a Shanghai university student majoring in piano (with a minor in psych), who loves old movies and rainy days
Character-first AI with distinct personality, recognizable IP, and world building beats faceless agents - this is the way
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Never seen a model this powerful
Claude Fable 5 just helped me build this whole koi pond where every single fish is drawn manually, live, point by point
No images, no SVGs, literally all straight outta code (html, css, and js)
Try it below, sound on for the music 🎶
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The older you get, the more you realize luck is just exposure.
If you sit in the same chair, same routine, talking to same people… nothing new happens.
You have to touch the world to win.
• Talk to strangers
• try a new coffee spot
• post on social
• Start a side hustle
The world rewards motion.
You don’t find opportunity sitting still.
You bump into it.
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Can codex one shot an application? PROBABLY. I've one shot a few myself.
SHOULD you one-shot an application? Absolutely not.
A good app, vibe coded/agentic engineered/whatever should have iteration, QA, unit tests, regression gates, future spec, security principles, the whole nine yards.
Even with the most rigorous plans and specs and execution checklists and blockerboards, no agent in the world can account for all aspects of app creation in one turn.
One shotting an app IS commoditized appeal for sure and anyone who tries to "one and done" their app is either a) building an app so simple that it doesn't need the SDLC/TDD workflow OR they're cutting corners in the worst way.
jen retweeted
"Distribution" is becoming a cope term.
It's a very loosely-defined word, and it has this air of unattainability about it. It's too easy to say you're limited by your lack of distribution, and curse those who "have it".
Here's a reality check:
- You can have 100k followers on X and still nobody gives a shit about your product. Your audience and your customers are not necessarily the same thing.
- You can have a mailing list of 10,000 people and still get zero conversions due to timing, messaging, or lack of relevance.
- You can have millions of people using your free product but nobody wants to pay for the upgrade.
Just look at the number of celebrity business ventures that fail. Restaurants, clothing brands, etc. They all have "distribution" but in the end it didn't make a material difference.
Success is down to a matrix of different factors.
It's about building a product that solves a problem, marketing that communicates that well, pricing that people find fair but also allows you to grow the business, growing multiple different marketing / distribution channels by being valuable and / or interesting, and the skills to do all of the above multiple times over because you won't be successful the first time.
If you are looking at successful people on X and scoffing that they are only there because of their "distribution" you're missing the forest for the trees.
jen retweeted
A mentor told me:
If you get the right things right, you can get a lot of wrong things wrong, and still win.
"Perfect the details. Limit the number of details." - Jack Dorsey
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my dream girl type.
i don't care about good looks at all.
she just has to have a big heart.
I repeat, looks don't matter.
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There are so many insane frames from this video
Wowwww
When I was editing, I was so in the state that I denied all of my basic needs until I finished.
Obsessive feeling of wanting to make it perfect and create something never seen before.
So addictive, yet so beautiful, state of flow.
All for @zachpogrob and his app Share Aura.
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today we're announcing @zocomputer.
when we came up with the idea – giving everyone a personal server, powered by AI – it sounded crazy.
but now, even my mom has a server of her own.
and it's making her life better.
she thinks of Zo as her personal assistant. she texts it to manage her busy schedule, using all the context from her notes and files. she no longer needs me for tech support.
she also uses Zo as her intelligent workspace – she asks it to organize her files, edit documents, and do deep research.
with Zo's help, she can run code from her graduate students and explore the data herself. (my mom's a biologist and runs a research lab. hi mom)
Zo has given my mom a real feeling of agency – she can do so much more with her computer.
we want everyone to have that same feeling. we want people to fall in love with making stuff for themselves.
in the future we're building, we'll own our data, craft our own tools, and create personal APIs. owning an intelligent cloud computer will be just like owning a smartphone. and the internet will feel much more alive.
THIS ONE'S FOR YOU MOM ❤️
special thank you to @modal, @pydantic AI, and @steeldotdev for being great partners leading up to this launch. and thank you @cursor_ai for being my sword 🗡️
and thank you to everyone who believed in us. a small handful: @spc, @adityaag, @chrisbest, @rauchg, @immad, @shreyas, @MattHartman, @lessin, @gokulr, @sabrinahahn, @iqramband, @whoisnnamdi, @guruchahal, @mikemarg_, @gaybrick, @SJCizmar, @magdovitz, @anneleeskates, @henloitsjoyce, @sugarjammi, @vibethinker, @aaronmakhoffman, @Sunfield__
