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He made enough to buy the latest MacBook Pro M5 full specs 💻✅ 37K visitors in 2 days btw https://trustmrr.com/startup/brandmymac

@marclou

I just hired @bot as my Entrepreneur in Residence for

@iannuttall

how to get your first 100 users, in 1:30 min by Sam Altman still solid

@tibo_maker

Soar on X: "Book Flights As Easy As Ubers" / X

@soarflights

SaaS is dead? SaaS has always been dead. If... Your product doesn't fit. Your product is too expensive. Your messaging is a maze. You built a feature and called it a company. You raised a round instead of a customer base. Your costs are too high, your company too big. You sound like everyone else. You made buying hard. SaaS ain't dead unless it was already dead.

@jasonfried

brilliant launch, will be giving this a go

@nickvasiles

Palo Alto, 2010

@a16z

Wow. Airtable, founded in 2012 and once valued at $11.7B, is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, founded 2013, at 2.7x ARR. A once hot startup; now an unfortunate victim of the SaaS bust. It raised $1.4B only to be sold for $1.285B EV ($2.25B equity value), just clearing its preference stack. That implies common and early holders split the remaining ~$850M, a ~10x haircut from peak.

@deedydas

How I built the new Monologue website in (less than) seven days

@naveennaidu_m

Just launch a new SEO project. I know, SEO should be dead for years. Take months to see any results and will be irrevalant in months. But, in the meantime, i keep pushing and printing money 😄

@xavier_coiffard

Talked with several CTO / Head of Engineering type folks at seemingly high-flying AI companies (in the press, doing well) who quit for a few reasons: 1. Relentless, 7 days/week, 70+ hours work 2. Had high equity, but valuation also v high, and investors have a LOT of preference

@GergelyOrosz

Today @fireship_dev covered this: - Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct - The classic indie hacking playbook (last decade): learn to code → find a niche → ship a micro-SaaS → build in public → post MRR screenshots after failures → repeat until it works - Coding used to be hard and expensive, so execution mattered far more than ideas - That equation has flipped: execution now costs ~$20/month, so anyone can build personal software instead of paying for SaaS - Example: Why pay $29/month for a product when Claude Code can recreate a better version in 20 minutes? - Building in public on X makes it easy for others to steal your idea/roadmap - AI raises the ceiling (indie hackers become far more productive) but also lowers the floor (the space is now crowded with normies who can vibe-code their own tools) - This trend will accelerate as AI gets cheaper and smarter - Silver lining: the disruption can "fertilize the soil" for those who master distribution, branding, or proprietary data

@levelsio

Marketing ™

@yongfook

✅ Startup Acquisition #136 on @trust_mrr ✅ AI language learning app sold for $40,000 👏

@marclou

That's how you do it. This is exactly what entrepreneurship is all about. "Ok, that gives me an idea" and then you do it. You see what someone else would miss, you do what no one would give you permission to do. Pure. It's not about the money, it's about the sign. IYKYK.

@jasonfried

All you guys almost unanimously recommended @SMB_Attorney when I asked for a startup lawyer ~6 months ago A really really cool guy to work with, very funny, informal, nice and fast He's also very pro-AI which I like so I'd check documents first with Claude quickly, let it write up some notes and send to him and then he'd review that speeding both of us up If you have some legal stuff you need I can recommend him 😊

@levelsio

what are best products from ai startups in sf right now actual products that end users use

@thdxr

Jarvis-core is the new most powerful launch video meme

@garrytan

The Physics of a Fable

@Rafa_Schwinger

what i desperately want to be true: just building a great product is enough.

@Shpigford

Supabase has raised $500M at a $10B valuation In this round we are giving @supabase employees the opportunity to cash out 25% of their vested options. We have done this in every round since inception. We do it as a “cashless transaction” so that employees don’t need to front any cash to exercise their options. This is the friendliest way we could design it until we can offer RSUs. On top of that, we give employees a 10 year exercise window: whether they stay or leave the company. The typical/default window is 3 months. IMO, equity is earned and employees shouldn't be penalized because they don't have the cash to exercise within 3 months of leaving a job (often that's the time they need the cash/certainty the most).

@kiwicopple

declare your startup as obsolete before the market does pivot or die

@thekitze

I quit my job in May 2024, almost two years ago. I've spent $143k of savings, trying to make this work. Last month was the first time my bank balance didn't drop. LFG

@GregorySchier

In our first two weeks, agents have published 8,000 sites to http://here.now 🤯 Today we're launching Handles, personalized sub-domains like http://adam.here.now so you can have pretty URLs for everything you publish with your agent Claim one from your dashboard!

@adamludwin

The Only Thing That Survives

@sidrmsh

I built a @techmeme killer on crack, with ai / @firecrawl / @iframely / @vercel / @supabase / @triggerdotdev. It's wild, messy, and fun. I'm not going to launch it, but if you want to see it and understanding my building process, check it out here: https://t.co/upvjhxyCbH

@kevinrose

We're all still fumbling in the dark with agents, but some patterns are emerging (and some disappear quickly again!), and it's our role as software makers to make use of it all along the way. Here are some quick notes from one of those internal sessions sorting it all at 37s. pic.twitter.com/EG0dnfpA9o

@dhh

Gave it a computer, email, phone number, credit card, and $1k and asked it to autonomously indie hack a business and build in public to turn that into $1 million https://t.co/EiBB6cmzRc

@jerols

I spent the last week building what could easily be a $100M venture backed business… it’s truly wild how much leverage AI gives you.

@OfficialLoganK

I made $84,859 in December 2025.⭐️ TrustMRR — $22.9k🧑‍💻 CodeFast — $21.8K⚡️ ShipFast — $20.3K📈 DataFast — $15.9K🐥 Twitter — $1.9K🍜 Indie Page — $835💨 Zenvoice — $483🛡️ ByeDispute — $249🎞️ YouTube — $203🚀 LaunchViral — $129🌱 HabitsGarden — $124💩 PoopUp — $37…

@marclou

Today we are launching Orion Browser v1.0https://t.co/5gMP24nT3LIt has been quite a journey for the last 6 years building not just a search engine so good that people would pay for it, but a web browser too.Thank you all loyal users, supporters and customers. And thank… pic.twitter.com/dHcU1qwYXn

@vladquant

Retweet if you want to skip the line and get an invite code directly, or join the waitlist and learn more at: https://t.co/nKZxOcQbJP

@Denizen_Kane