| Oct 19 |
Recent progress! https://t.co/gvTYjIRdxP
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| Oct 19 |
I try to unwind with miniature painting and reading, but the codebase always lures me back.
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| Oct 19 |
As a founder, do you have time for hobbies?
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| Oct 19 |
This is what I feel almost every day.
Itās magical technology that didnāt exist (as in āwas publicly availableā) a few years ago. Weāre the first people to ever benefit from this.
If you dismiss LLMs or āgot used to themā, you have no sense of wonder.
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| Oct 19 |
Yeah this is kinda not far off.
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RT @typingvanara: This is exactly true. Plus early adopters are more willing to use unfamiliar UI/UX and workflows than your "average" userā¦
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| Oct 18 |
Trying to sell to early adopters is both easy and extremely hard.
Easy because they love to try new things. Youāre likely one yourself as a founder. You speak their language.
Hard because theyāre quick to move on, chasing the slightly better dream. Retention is hard.
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| Oct 18 |
This sucks when it happens. Kudos to Alex for showing up again and again.
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| Oct 17 |
Over 2000 people are in line to listen to a single audiobook through the Toronto public library system.
Apparently they have one a single license for making this mp3 file available.
Digital book licensing (and compensation) is weird. Also, no wonder people pirate these.
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https://t.co/ka0EFAnAyE
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| Oct 17 |
One thing that LLMs will certainly be used more and more for is semantic validation for keyword-based moderation.
This stuff really doesnāt have to happen anymore with cheap AI. Even at scale.
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| Oct 17 |
Good times: https://t.co/WZalEqKio8
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| Oct 17 |
The latest Sabaton music video is literally a tabletop game.
Love when my interest in music and miniature nerdery collide is such spectacular ways š¤£ https://t.co/bF72vgL6oN
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| Oct 17 |
Is AWS running out of machines to provision new databases on a recession indicator?
Like the Lipstick index, the Big Mac index, or the Diaper Index?
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| Oct 17 |
You'll find the 20min episode here:
https://t.co/UGVwynlq18
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| Oct 17 |
Problem validation isn't enough. People stick with bad solutions rather than switching to your better one. Why?
I'll share the missing link on the Bootastrapped Founder podcast today. Link below!
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| Oct 17 |
I think we may have overturned the sycophant machine.
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| Oct 16 |
Tomorrow morning, The Bootstrapped Founder newsletter will go out to over 20.000 founders.
The topic is validation. Problem validation isn't enough... people stick with bad solutions rather than switching to your better one. Why?
You'll find it in your inbox. If you want :) https://t.co/yR8LBMv20g
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| Oct 16 |
You'll find the newsletter with over 20.000 readers at https://t.co/TbXIWV61XA, and the podcast lives at https://t.co/EvCE1g9huZ
I'd love for you to subscribe to get my weekly insight into running a real business with real paying customers.
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| Oct 16 |
My heart rate still goes up whenever I go on a Podscan demo call.
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| Oct 15 |
Say I have a single (rotating) logfile on a VPS that I want to archive and make searchable.
Whatās the cheapest way to do this without having to deploy a complicated stack on another VPS? š
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| Oct 14 |
Obviously, this happened to me today š¤£
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| Oct 14 |
One of the biggest skills you can learn in life is to hold two opposing thoughts in your mind at the same time.
Yes, entrepreneurship as presented on social media is performative and plagued by survivorship bias. It's a false promise of eventual success.
Yes, entrepreneurship is a non-random event that rewards consistent effort and increases its chances of success with each new challenge overcome. It's a valid promise of eventual success.
Both are true. You now have a choice which one to direct your attention towards.
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| Oct 14 |
Dago is ragebaiting and you know it.
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| Oct 14 |
If you're booking time slots in someone's Calendly or SavvyCal only to market your SaaS product in the description and then don't show up for a call, you're not "disrupting marketing."
You're burning bridges.
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| Oct 13 |
RT @mattpocockuk: The most important thing when you're working with coding agents:
DO NOT DELEGATE YOUR THINKING
Not only will this makeā¦
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| Oct 13 |
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all who celebrate š„°
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| Oct 13 |
Nah, a scammer wonāt put in traceable payment data. Cc-upfront is an effective deterrent. Unfortunately, it has been abused by lots of faceless companies in the way you describe it.
But that isnāt generalizable, particularly not with smaller founders-led business.
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| Oct 13 |
RT @_mwitiderrick: This might be controversial, butā¦
AI-generated code could kill your startup.
Everyoneās obsessed with how fast AI canā¦
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| Oct 13 |
Life is too precious to be a reply guy.
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| Oct 13 |
RT @adamwathan: Huge thanks to @tobi and the team at Shopify for sponsoring Tailwind CSS šš»
As someone whose life was totally changed by eā¦
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| Oct 12 |
Important note, looking at a few replies: even if you totally want their service, THEY DON'T WANT YOU. They know you'd buy, but they STILL don't want you.
And if you don't get how a business could say no to a customer, I recommend @asmartbear's great https://t.co/H7CKI6ggtu
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| Oct 12 |
My high-productivity morning routine is that I get up because I love my family and my dog is hungry.
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| Oct 11 |
I do like it when companies agree to these things and then see it through. Looks like Ayla is getting a new machine soon.
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| Oct 11 |
If you get triggered by ācall for priceā or ārequest a demoā, you are not the target customer for that service.
Their best prospects WANT to request and call.
Inversely, if YOU target that customer group with a low-touch offering, they will dismiss it.
Expectations matter.
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| Oct 11 |
Why is everyone asking Nikita Bier for money?
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| Oct 11 |
RT @hakluke: When asking coding questions https://t.co/mVXfsmXKRS
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| Oct 11 |
Getting a lot of resonance on this "long-term effects of AI coding on business ownership" topic.
Would you be interested in me diving into the other knock-on effects of AI usage for bootstrapped indie founders?
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| Oct 11 |
RT @sugardayfox: Yep
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| Oct 11 |
Dealing with high-impact data can be challenging. https://t.co/Q4IMWTyeqZ
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| Oct 10 |
Two things. I love WhisprFlow, using it myself ever day.
And secondly: this might be the antidote to the open-plan office weāve all been waiting for.
I want to prompt in peace. Not surrounded by dozens of people. Itās a creative process that suffers from an audience.
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| Oct 10 |
RT @Gammadocious: A fav part of this tidy 16min ep. on ācontextual debtā is hearing how important shared team context is for apps.
Contexā¦
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| Oct 10 |
Tech debt is something most SaaS founders understand.
But now, with AI coding agents and vibecoding platforms, a new kind of debt comes into play: comprehension debt. A hidden cost to AI.
And it DIRECTLY influences the multiples we can (eventually) sell our businesses for.
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| Oct 10 |
I'm talking about this in my 20ish min podcast episode today. Enjoy!
https://t.co/OGGk0a6ksX
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| Oct 10 |
RT @scottastevenson: Never surrender https://t.co/pxAKqXvEXg
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| Oct 09 |
You'll find the newsletter with over 20.000 readers at https://t.co/TbXIWV6zN8, and the podcast lives at https://t.co/EvCE1g9Pkx
I'd love for you to subscribe to get my weekly insight into running a real business with real paying customers.
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| Oct 09 |
Got something really interesting cooking for the podcast tomorrow.
A new kind of liability for software businesses looking to be acquired (eventually).
Check The Bootstrapped Founder podcast in the morning! https://t.co/jkjSXeIU0M
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| Oct 09 |
School teaches you what others want you to learn.
Only you can teach yourself what YOU want to learn. Donāt wait for others to do it.
Took me a few decades to understand this.
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| Oct 09 |
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R: notAgain https://t.co/ulV0Mr2a4e https://t.co/6RvEhjkIXH
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| Oct 09 |
Thank you, @crisp_im, for allowing me to speak fluent Japanese with my customers when needed.
Pretty impressive live-translation feature. Makes a huge difference in being able to support a global audience for my quite global business. Very cool.
(Not sponsored, just amazed) https://t.co/owPOn4YTRR
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| Oct 08 |
Persistent context and reliable memory recall will significantly improve the quality of agentic coding agents.
I'll share more about this on the podcast this week.
It's all about the AI keeping an accurate "mental model" of the code between prompts.
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| Oct 08 |
Tools like this will be part of the next generation of agentsL https://t.co/8AUks31QXP
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| Oct 08 |
There's some interesting research into the pshychological effects of these things: "Research on the effect of uncertain rewards on impulsive purchase intention of blind box products"
https://t.co/v1G2I22eHZ
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| Oct 08 |
Loot boxes are one of the worst trends in consumer products to have ever existed.
"Blind Buying" boxes are nefarious, dopamine-driven gambling cloaking as "joyful surprise" product design.
First trading card boosters, then Labubus. Now Le Creuset mystery boxes š¤£ I can't even.
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| Oct 07 |
I find myself listening to fewer and fewer interview podcasts.
Instead, I tune into expert-hosted solo shows, "fly-on-the-wall" shows where friends hang out and chat every week.
The less scripted, the better.
Anyone else feeling this shift?
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| Oct 06 |
Customers with a Job to be Done didnāt care about your tech stack pre-AI.
They wonāt care about your artisanal pledge either.
They will judge you on how well your hand-written / vibecoded / hallucinated product solves their problems.
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| Oct 06 |
š¤£
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| Oct 04 |
Nothing feels quite as good as marking a whole bunch of unread emails as āread.ā
And then forget they ever existed.
Important stuff tends to resurface by itself.
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| Oct 04 |
Not sure if I'm overthinking this...
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| Oct 03 |
š¤£
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| Oct 03 |
If you want to make some X ad revenue money, you should retweet this and either say
āNobody in my life calls it chatā
or
āEveryone outside tech calls it chatā
Outraged engagement guaranteed.
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| Oct 03 |
Donāt offshore your thinking to predictive token generators.
Do your thinking, tell the text generator about what you think, and then have it do the tedious part. The writing. The typing.
If you consider thinking to be tedious, you should probably work on that š¤£
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| Oct 03 |
Today on the pod: how to pick the "best" tech stack when much of our code is written by AI agents.
I used to say, "The best stack is the one you already know." So let's examine how much that has changed because of AI.
https://t.co/CNJ4Bp5bTV
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| Oct 03 |
"mom how did we get so poor"
"your dad forgot to turn off a single idling EC2 instance in another region for a few months"
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| Oct 03 |
Just added a GitHub-like activity overview graph to Podscan's podcast pages.
My main ICP is trying to place ad campaigns or sponsorships. Visualizing consistency and reliability helps them decide where to spend their budgets.
Data wants to be shown :) https://t.co/Nk6w4hnP8N
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| Oct 03 |
āRamen profitableā redefined.
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| Oct 03 |
RT @DmytroKrasun: Chat, a new MRR report format has been dropped:
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| Oct 03 |
It is impossible to actively write production software and, at the same time, stay on top of new developments in the software ecosystem.
Even if your information diet is all coding-related, youāll still miss things.
And thatās perfectly fine.
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| Oct 02 |
Best use of AI: alternative perspectives. Iāve gotten the most mileage from questions like:
āWhat am I missing in this blog post draft?ā
āIf someone wanted to dismantle my argument, what would they say?ā
āCan this be misunderstood? How do I tighten this up?ā
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| Oct 02 |
That feeling when the host of one of your favorite podcast hosts claims ownership of their show on your podcast data and analytics platform :D
Pretty good start into the day. https://t.co/DyQ085lv5s
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| Oct 01 |
Validation goes both ways. "This would be useful" is not enough.
If you find that people in an industry use DIY spreadsheets instead of a SaaS solution, check
- Why do no SaaS solution exists even though the need is there?
- Have people tried?
- What makes DIY "good enough?"
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| Oct 01 |
Now that Podscan makes mentions much more discoverable, names are dropped much more intentionally.
Interesting development. I like it, great opportunity for more actual human-to-human interaction. https://t.co/v00SLMQ6S2
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| Sep 30 |
RT @steveruizok: ok I think I'm buying some podcast ads for @tldraw. Who are you listening to?
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| Sep 30 |
Honestly, I donāt want to automate everything with AI.
Lots of stuff, yes. But not everything. Not the stuff thatās fun, creative, or sociable.
Why is it that particularly the act of creation is an AI frontier where a lot of tedious stuff is yet to be tackled?
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| Sep 29 |
RT @james406: i'll say it, ai agents are absolutely horrible at simulating real-world events.
i just tried a "senior software agent" and aā¦
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| Sep 28 |
RT @adrian_horning_: One of my followers gave the idea for Scrape Creators cause he DM'd me a listing of a social media scraping API on micā¦
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| Sep 28 |
RT @robj3d3: What you see: $8k MRR šš¤
What you don't see: https://t.co/fsFsCUR7Xj
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| Sep 27 |
I see a lot of vibe coders trying to integrate the Podscan API.
Some get it first shot, just throwing the API docs in there. Others struggle for weeks, only to have their somewhat working version overwritten every time.
Itās still a very volatile approach to building software.
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| Sep 27 |
Yikes.
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| Sep 26 |
The answer is: yes š¤£
It really depends on teh framework we choose to make these early tech decisions. I share what I usually do and why.
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| Sep 26 |
RT @sergeynazarovx: ā
fixed https://t.co/nFckWOKUer
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| Sep 26 |
RT @CloudflareDev: šØ We're kicking off the Private Beta for Cloudflare's AI Index ā a web index that rewards content creators and gives AIā¦
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| Sep 26 |
Today on the podcast: how much of our software business do we actually own when we have so many dependencies and complex deployment systems?
Does it make a SaaS easier or harder to sell when we use all these "as-a-service" components in our infra?
https://t.co/1D6IM53HL0
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| Sep 26 |
Wild.
What constitutes a currency (and who has a vested interest in maintaining one) is rapidly changing.
And I thought Canadian Tire money was intense.
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| Sep 25 |
And I say this as a very happy Resend customer :D
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| Sep 25 |
THIS is having an expansive mindset as a SaaS founder. Instead of cowering in the face of a massive competitor, Zeno realizes that Cloudflare is educating and eventually repelling & therefore creating his own future customers.
Now all that is needed is the funnel to catch them.
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| Sep 25 |
This is an interesting poll. If youāre an indie hacker, how much does your purchasing decision get affected by the landing page design quality?
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| Sep 25 |
Instead of chasing application speed, do this THIS. It's a much more interesting way to show the user that your app is working hard to crunch all those numbers and streamline that data.
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| Sep 25 |
RT @AlexTheGoodman: Do indie makers / hackers prefer handcrafted designs or vibecoded before signing up for another product? Why, why not?
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| Sep 24 |
This is what the vendors of complexity want us to forget.
And it might not even be malicious. Many products exist because they do fulfill a need for some.
But particularly for solopreneurs, maybe the heavily orchestrated 29-step deployment chain isn't the best choice?
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| Sep 24 |
This is the David vs. Goliath of modern B2B business.
Congrats @usefathom for accomplishing what most of us don't dare dream of š¤£
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| Sep 24 |
They're moving to a (potentially standalone executable of) Deno runtime soon.
The cat & mouse game continues.
https://t.co/U25248doe6
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| Sep 24 |
I just learned that yt-dlp, the CLI downloader for YouTube videos (and videos from all kinds of locations) has built a quick&dirty Python-based JavaScript interpreter to be able to solve YouTube's JS challenges pre-download.
Wow.
https://t.co/XIV2ssQqBV
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| Sep 24 |
My āfavoriteā: āIdeas are a dime a dozen, execution alone matters.ā
This has caused so many perfectionists to waste away years on their polished apps that nobody truly needed because the idea was just not there.
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| Sep 24 |
Whatās the one piece of entrepreneurial advice that irritates you the most?
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| Sep 23 |
That new Stripe logo sure is a stripe.
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| Sep 22 |
RT @DmytroKrasun: Your landing page must resonate with your ideal customer profile. They should cry from happiness when they see it and begā¦
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| Sep 21 |
RT @joshmanders: My take: https://t.co/qoD8FwLK4P
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| Sep 21 |
What do you find more compelling? Founder advice or founder stories?
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| Sep 21 |
Human ingenuity to use technology to do amazing things can certainly go in both directions.
Imagine if this kind of automation could be used in benign ways and still make a profit.
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