Reading up on startups

@tibo_maker I have always struggled promoting my startups in reddit, posts getting blocked or accounts disabled. Would definitely be interested for this

@geobotsar

emailing (by hand) every user that cancelled over the last 30 days and badgering them till I get a real answer if you exclude failed payments, acquisitions and shutdowns the results are mostly price any thoughts on how we could improve our pricing?

@frantzfries

How I'd make $10 million with AI agents

@gregisenberg

Codex for finding customers for your startup:

@gdb

Validation is a mirage. “How do you validate if it’s going to work?” “How do you know if people will buy it to not?” “How do you validate product market fit?” “How do you validate if a feature is worth building?” “How do you validate a design?” You can’t. You can’t. You can’t. You can’t. You can’t. I mean you can, but not in spirit of the questions being asked. What people are asking about is certainty ahead of time. But time doesn’t start when you start working on something, or when you have a piece of the whole ready. It starts when the whole thing hits the market. How do you know if what you’re doing is right while you’re doing it? You can’t be. You can only have a hunch, a feeling, a belief. And if the only way to tell if you’ve completely missed the mark is to ask other people and wait for them to tell you, then you’re likely too far lost from the start. If you make products, you better have a sense of where you’re heading without having to ask for directions. There’s really only one real way to get as close to certain as possible. That’s to build the actual thing and make it actually available for anyone to try, use, and buy. Real usage on real things on real days during the course of real work is the only way to validate anything. And even then, it’s barely validation since there are so many other variables at play. Timing, marketing, pricing, messaging, etc. Truth is, you don’t know, you won’t know, you’ll never know until you know and reflect back on something real. And the best way to find out, is to believe in it, make it, and put it out there. You do your best, you promote it the best you can, you prepare yourself the best way you know how. And then you literally cross your fingers. I’m not kidding. You can’t validate something that doesn’t exist. You can’t validate an idea. You can’t validate someone’s guess. You can’t validate an abstraction. You can’t validate a sketch, or a wireframe, or an MVP that isn’t the actual product. When I hear MVP, I don’t think Minimum Viable Product. I think Minimum Viable Pie. The food kind. A slice of pie is all you need to evaluate the whole pie. It’s homogenous. But that’s not how products work. Products are a collection of interwoven parts, one dependent on another, one leading to another, one integrating with another. You can’t take a slice a product, ask people how they like it, and deduce they’ll like the rest of the product once you’ve completed it. All you learn is that they like or don’t like the slice you gave them. If you want to see if something works, make it. The whole thing. The simplest version of the whole thing – that’s what version 1.0 is supposed to be. But make that, put it out there, and learn. If you want answers, you have to ask the question, and the question is: Market, what do you think of this completed version 1.0 of our product? Don’t mistake an impression of a piece of your product as a proxy for the whole truth. When you give someone a slice of something that isn’t homogenous, you’re asking them to guess. You can’t base certainty on that. That said, there’s one common way to uncertainty: That’s to ask one more person their opinion. It’s easy to think the more opinions you have, the more certain you’ll be, but in practice it’s quite the opposite. If you ever want to be less sure of yourself, less confident in the outcome, just ask someone else what they think. It works every time.

@jasonfried

If you want to start a startup, don't learn "entrepreneurship." Learn how to build things. The hard part of startups is not "entrepreneurship" but product: to know what to build, and to be able to build it.

@paulg

Congrats to the Orchid team! This is the second acquisition of a Loops customer by Figma.

@frantzfries

Jake, who built a $50K/month alarm app in 4 months, says the most valuable skill right now isn't building it's... "Focus on top of funnel only. That is the most valuable skill right now is marketing. There's so many people that can build an app and it's so easy with AI, but there's not so many people that know how to market and know how to get views." "If nobody knows about your app, it doesn't exist. You can build as many features as you want." "Building doesn't really matter so much. You got to build a good product, of course. But getting views is more of the unknown."

@starter_story

I went to Miami to chat with @thdxr, co-founder of OpenCode. We talked about the future of software engineering, coding agents, and why open source matters more now than ever. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 5:30 Miami vs San Francisco tech scene 15:05 OpenCode origin story, scaling while open-source 25:03 OpenCode vs. Anthropic: owning models, open-source AI 33:36 AI hardware shortages, predicting the future 42:15 The bet of open-weight models, China vs. US 48:34 Why inference is hard, economics of intelligence 55:36 Will developers be automated? Software engineering as a craft 1:11:02 Advice to founders, building in public, marketing I had so much fun making this with @ad0rnai. Enjoy!

@Madisonkanna

"Just use Vercel." "Just use Supabase." "Just use Clerk." Cool. Now your auth, database, and deployment are owned by 3 different companies who can change pricing whenever they want. And the rest of your product is wrapping OpenAI. At some point you have to ask yourself: what do I actually own here?

@SimonHoiberg

> pick commodity SaaS > make it AI agent first > sell the value, not the product > 🤑

@marclou

my wife thinks i'm obsessed...but I will keep repeating this. Claude Fable 5 + SEO is going to create more “self made millionaires” this year than the last decade combined. don't bookmark this if it crosses your timeline. just paste this entire thing into Claude Fable 5. thank me later.

@bloggersarvesh

If I was starting a new company today, I'd start a small pie shop on the corner somewhere. Counter service with some stools, incandescent lighting, just a few pie choices in a rotating display, and a mug for coffee. Probably call it "A piece of pie and a coffee, please". One flat price. Coffee and a slice of pie included. Don't want the coffee? Don't drink it. Don't want the pie? Don't eat it.

@jasonfried

The Hardware Coup: Why AI Hardware Just Changed Forever

@ai

Product Shape is the Moat

@scottastevenson

I'm building an app to make $10,000/Month and I'll record everything... I want to document my WHOLE journey building an app, marketing it, and making money off of it. Is it really that easy? How hard is it? I've been seeing so many X users online talking about how easy it is to make money online with AI now. I want to test it and show people the reality of making a business online.

@jomatech

this could have killed thousands of startups, but google interfaces are unusable

@cheepo2109

Let It Crash: How to Steer What Comes After

@vijaypande

Almost ten years since @mijustin wrote a (really good) blog post about why he bought my product! 😁 https://justinjackson.ca/software-saas-product-marketing

@petersuhm

This is the most exciting time in history to be a solopreneur: - Claude Code to build - Stripe to monetize - Fastlane to market - Posthog to understand usage This is insane 👇

@gauravsbuilding

I built Polsia into a $250M company in under 3 months. Solo + AI. Zero employees. Everyone asks me how I did it. Introducing aisloP, a docu-series on how I build Polsia. Episode 1: The Launch. How I orchestrated the biggest Twitter launch of 2026.

@Bencera

.@mntruell launched Cursor 8 times, and nobody cared. Don't give up.

@marclou

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@sidyadav

introducing killedbyopenai dot com a digital graveyard for everything openai has killed. what am i missing?

@benhylak

Today we're introducing the world's first influencer Agent. Tell it what you want to promote and it finds creators, reaches out, manages campaigns, handles payments, and gets content live. Try it now at http://okara.ai/influencer

@askOkara

Feels like we're all just building "things for building other things" and not a lot of "things" anymore.

@adamwathan

Owning vs. Renting Intelligence

@lqiao

The Window Has Closed

@AndrewCurran_

less than 2 months after launching @postbridge_ i got an offer to buy it for $3,000 then 10 months after launching i got an offer to buy it for $1,000,000 i decided not to accept either offer and for awhile there when growth stalled i thought maybe i made a mistake but in the last few months MRR doubled and we're now at nearly $40K MRR.

@jackfriks

$10,000,000 on the line: how we measure Devin’s engineering output (via @ryanbai1412)

@ryanbai

You have $0 for marketing. Your product just launched. How will you get users?

@clarefinds

To All the Folks Who Are About to Be Rich

@joulee

32 Principles of a Viral Product

@marclou

tibo talking about the pain of an earnout is *real*. it was a huge reason i sold baremetrics for "just" $4 million. the fact that i refused to entertain any earnouts or contractual obligations after close immediately killed nearly every offer. i'd sold businesses before and knew that once i was "done" (i.e. willing to sell), that it was over. that every day i was still obligated to work on it would be torture. after spending *decades* being self-employed, working a job because i was contractually required to would kill my soul.

@Shpigford

I believe @cfosilvia is the fastest growing finance product for multi-millionaires. @shaincodes and I break down the product, the underlying technology, frequently asked questions, and how users can get the most out of Silvia. Try it here: http://www.cfosilvia.com

@APompliano

We raised $6M led by Sequoia to build the future of travel. Watch me plan a perfect trip to Mexico City in 3 minutes. Flights, hotels and a full itinerary that matches my preferences. All bookable on the spot. Available today, free to use.

@FDavidsonT

Michael Truell (@mntruell) fell in love with coding at 12. The company he co-founded, @cursor_ai, went from 15 people to 700 in two years. Today, over 60% of the Fortune 500 build with its AI coding platform.

@claudeai

Moats Need Models (via @sahar__zadeh)

@saharsolimano

Screen Charm is live on @ProductHunt i made a funny video about my relationship with PH (thanks to my wife for recording it!). on my first PH launch 2.5 years ago, i got only 2 upvotes. because of that terrible experience, i started taking X more seriously. so basically, Product Hunt and especially that failure is the reason i started posting on X. today, i want to say thank you to that experience. i guess i'm a bit more mature now and don't expect anything, but I'd really appreciate your support 👇

@sergeynazarovx

I documented my SaaS journey to $20K MRR. It took 512 days. I got excited, I cried, I laughed, I lost hope. I got literally every moment on camera. This video is the raw story of what building a startup actually feels like.

@marclou

Distribution is the new moat

@lennysan

Has anyone here actually shipped a product you created via vibe coding? How is it going?

@KaiXCreator

The most comprehensive Hermes Desktop tutorial on the internet NOW is LIVE. You'll learn sessions, profiles, artifacts, cost savings, and real use cases for making money and building startups with Hermes agents. Whether you're already running Hermes or haven't started yet, this is the episode for you. @AlexFinn says this is the moment Hermes overtakes OpenClaw. S/o to Alex for walking me through it. "It's now the best way to use AI agents on your computer" I do think the desktop app of Hermes looks almost like an Apple product. Everything you need to know about Hermes Desktop App/agents in 43 minutes This episode is 100% free. No ads. @startupideaspod I just want to see you win on the internet. And I think Hermes can help. Plus, It's fun thing to play with this weekend. Share this with a friend. Link below. YT:

@gregisenberg

Indie hackers run boring sites. They are making $1.7M+ per month. 12 boring websites:

@hridoyreh

Great post by @smalzner, the founder of Franz He launched 10 years ago, went superviral, got lots of offers to get VC funded, didn't see the point Instead he asked for donations from users and with that money was able to hire a team of 5 people But a team slowed him down and made him very money focused (because he had high labor costs) and less fast in shipping (because of the design by committee problem) So he fired everyone and went back to a team of one Just him (and probably AI) shipping very very fast!

@levelsio

The response to this has been crazy. So many teams want to move their team docs to @linear where they work. In the first 24h we added 200+ companies to beta so we now decided to open this for everyone. Start creating team docs, no additional cost

@karrisaarinen

This is how you do a great startup video Humble and chill and a real cool backstory

@levelsio

Realising Apple went public at under $2 billion and 15 times revenue in 1980. SpaceX wants you to buy at $2 trillion and 100 times revenue in 2026. That is not getting in early. That is being the exit for venture capitalists who have held this equity for years at a fraction of what you are being asked to pay. Almost none of the retail investors buying this IPO will read the 300 pages before the book closes on June 11. That is your entire competitive advantage right there.

@DamiDefi

every hit product in the past few years could have been made by an established company shopify could have made cursor airbnb could have made claude code stripe could have made lovable everyone will have good reasons as to why but remember amazon made aws

@thdxr

silently been doing a little experiment with reviving the http://cedarandsail.com brand + product line. woke up to 13 orders. 🫣

@Shpigford

5 things @rauchg does differently > counts every keystroke he types per day > built a tool that lets him retroactively screen-record bugs > gives feedback in v0 instead of writing it out > gets a full company brain dump from an agent every Monday > doesn't keep a to do list

@julesrosenberg