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hot take: there are still a lot of opportunities in this economy, but most people aren’t looking in the right places i help run events for one of the largest student tech clubs in nyc, and almost every week we get startups reaching out to host hiring events the real question is: are you actually putting yourself out there?

@tiffany_yxy 500 dollars for a seminar with certificate is kind of insane. it feels more like companies using their education budget on really random things rather than actual people spending their money though

I can’t help but feel bad for the people that pay for this Maybe I’m wrong and this is a crazy high ROI event but I’m not feeling that

@yeonjidev the instagram of a16z yeah

@popedotdev Is it insta account?

I feel like I’m getting stupid so decided to read some books! Do you have any recommendations for me? 😁

@djyang1 nah 67 is true alpha

@popedotdev i skipped the line 45 years sidenote i shoulda waited 5 minutes for 69

Proud to Announce I have 67 Followers! I've unlocked Capital Letters and I couldn't be happier.

@JiayiMiao4 so jealous right now

:D Haven’t been cooking in a while

@konstiwohlwend at least he’s a man to his word

not to get involved in the fights here but i did go to his office on a sunday at 10:30pm and he was still there to push out a release respectable

@rackSpreader1 unironically go network and join events, a lot of vc backed startups just go through their vc network to find talent

So whats the best app or way to get recruited at startups?

@SunnyxxSingh now youre at 300 congrats lol

0 Followers 21 days ago 107 Followers today! Insane. I have never used this platform ever. and the community is sooo collabrative! Next goal: 138 followers.

@josssiiiah ceo always vibes the feature and the cto has to fix the slop as usual

I wonder how many YC founders could pass a basic system design interview

@juliali call me crazy but its the first time ive heard of this park and i live in nyc

who’s in mccarren park nyc :))

@MaxoCorrea blarping is truly the new meta

blarping (building + larping)

@jeremybernier @levelsio I assume its also a mix of retail space being way too expensive for good coworking spaces in sf.

At 3pm today I was in Menlo Park and debating heading to SF to work out of a cafe. Then I remembered that there's literally no great cafes to work out of in SF that are open past 5pm. Maybe some meh ones open until 6pm, but def nothing worth the drive. Ironic given that SF is supposed to be the place for building startups. If you like working out of cafes, SF is surprisingly bad for it. Most cafes are cute little spots that close 3-5pm and barely have seating. I haven't found a single great cafe that combines modern design, ample seating, and remains open past 5pm. Actually I have yet to find a single cafe that even just checks those first two boxes. The #1 city in the world for working out of cafes is Seoul, and its surrounding suburbs. You could be in a random suburb of Seoul, and within 15 minutes walking distance there will be a quality work cafe with tasteful modern design, ample seating, thriving co-working space vibes, and open 24/7. There are even 24/7 cafes with zero employees - something that could never exist in the U.S. I was in Tokyo last week and saw the most beautiful and aesthetic co-working space I've ever seen where you can rent by the hour or day, attached to one of the nicest bookstores I've ever seen, two more hip and stylish cafes, all in a beautiful building and beautiful area. A 15 minute walk away was the nicest Starbucks Reserve I've ever seen, with 4 floors. These kind of places don't exist in the U.S, and definitely don't exist in SF. Ironically, Tokyo and Seoul are probably better places to build a startup if you're just working from your laptop, don't have an office and prefer working out of cafes to holing up in your apartment all day in your pajamas, don't need to beg rich people for funding, and don't care about networking. Anyways I ended up driving 10 mins to Mountain View to work out of the only cafe I know here with ample seating, modern design, and open till 6pm. Of course it has nothing on what I saw in Asia though (attached photos are from Tokyo)

@yanjohn101 @Shivam25mishra I feel like ive had the complete opposite experience when running windows vs macos as ive owned two laptops both at 16gb but it might be cause of macs tapping into the ssd

@popedotdev @Shivam25mishra Not really both are pretty much the same if you are using the same load. Even at high load both are similar. So is Linux (like cachy, bazite and fedora. I've been distro hoping)

Be honest: Are you still buying a 16 GB RAM laptop in 2026?

@_rxrz just general b2b saas space, theres a good amount of people building for industries they have 0 experience in

@popedotdev is this a dig at agent-first companies lol

do people even build for consumer now

@krishgupta72 @ruslanjabari @fdotinc wishing you the best, congrats!

Product so goated, got the acceptance within 2hrs. sf calling📞??? see you soon @ruslanjabari @fdotinc.

@JamesonZaballos early congrats, make sure to let me know when openai sends you a counteroffer

Some news: I have decided to join Anthropic. Yup. Whenever they're ready, they can feel free to send that offer letter over. I've never talked to them but figured this is as good a time as any to get the ball rolling

@kirillfbc heya would love to connect

looking to connect with people on X if you’re into: AI agents building products open source content systems YouTube growth Web3 & TON shipping fast sharing what works currently building: Want2View (content research) Atlas Repo (open source discovery) FabricBot (Telegram payments & referrals) say hi and tell me what you’re working on 👋 always looking for builders to learn from

@fioraapp this is genuinely insane congrats

Life update: graduated high school and moved to SF for YC S26.