Will Hawkins 🚀

Well this is kinda fun. Thanks for boosting my cred @Replit 🙏

Vibe coders are product managers who code

@tibo_maker unpopular take: to get to $10k MRR in “weeks,” you need 185k followers.

unpopular take: the "SaaSpocalypse" is the best thing to happen to bootstrapped founders everyone panicking about AI killing SaaS is missing the point most companies getting destroyed are bloated enterprises with 1,000+ employees trying to extract as much $$ as they can from their customers meanwhile solo founders are shipping AI-native products from their couch and hitting $10k MRR in weeks SaaS isn't dying bad SaaS is dying AI-native SaaS is thriving 🙌

@businessbarista Email is dead/dying. And young people don't use their calendars (at least, not like I do). If they don't get a text with a reminder and a link, the meeting might as well not exist. This is a hard lesson, learned from interviewing thousands of freelancers over the years.

I'm sort of baffled. I've been spending 30 hours a week interviewing strategists & engineers. Probably 20% of candidates never show up for the call. Is this a generational thing? Is it just that people are poor communicators? Imo, nothing more entitled than no showing to a job interview.

The best SaaS founders aren't SaaS founders. They're real estate brokers. Lawyers. Construction managers. Team leads who've sat through the same broken workflows for 10, 15, 20 years — and finally decided to do something about it. Their experience creates an execution advantage you can't buy or learn on Youtube: ➡️ Professional network = initial distribution ➡️ Domain expertise = content ➡️ Years of real experience = social proof ➡️ Deep industry knowledge = moat Everyone gets hyper-fixated on product. Because it's fun. But product is easy to build now — AI tools like @Replit and @AnthropicAI's Claude Code have collapsed the barrier to entry, just like @bubble did during the nocode boom. Distribution, marketing, and operations (i.e., building a real business, not just a Product Hunt launch) have always been the real problem. And niche founders with experience already have these. So, what's a painful workflow that you've dealt with forever? And why don't the tools you use solve it?

Did @claudeai just do an end-run around @openclaw? support.claude.com/en/articles/13…

@amasad @arafatmunshi_ @Replit vibecodejobs.io is built in @Replit

@arafatmunshi_ @Replit I’d be surprised if a “business generalist vibecoder” role doesn’t exist pretty soon. We already see something like that without clients. Maybe we should start a job board? 🤔

Am I Cooked? I will be graduating with Bachelor's in Business of Administration in coming few months. Mark Cuban said the same thing I followed their advice, Used @Replit to build Apps that: - Allowed extra 100-150k in ARR for a retail store through online sales. - Was able to get 75% discount on all Shipping labels. I am unsure what kind of job i will land with that project beacuse every entry level full time job is asking me to do some low level work. Not sure how I will implement my Ai projects in actual work environment. I wish to be in E-commerce/Supply Chain/Logistics Bubble, I am unsure how will my future look like.

Software was eaten by AI.

This is amazing.

Why is truly high quality UX/UI so difficult? You know it when you see it (@stripe, @linear, @NotionHQ, etc). But producing it is another thing entirely.

@thisiskp_ Indeed.

I know the traditional developers already know this but I wonder how many vibe coders feel this One of the most magical things I’ve learned to appreciate is this: As someone who’s now getting deeper and deeper into Github and Claude Code … I’m stunned at this thing called “Open Source” Literally a lot of my fav new finds are just open source repos which I share with Claude Code and ask it to implement them into my projects Open Source is hugely underrated as an exercise in humans helping each other And def something that quietly powers the world 🌎

Most @OpenAI Codex content is still too technical for non-developers. So I made a guide to show you how to use Codex to do more with AI across GTM, sales, content, customer support, research, and operations without needing an engineering background. I’m using Codex on the $20/month ChatGPT plan, and after spending the past month testing it as a non-engineer, I’m convinced most people are still underestimating how practical it already is. What’s in the guide: - How to install and get started with Codex - How to set up your workspace, folders, and context - How to use and create skills - When to use local vs GitHub - How to use threads, handoff, and commit without getting confused - How to do research, write content, and run quality checks across your work - How to set up automations and use slash commands like fast mode and plan mode This is for creators, marketers, operators, sellers, support teams, and anyone who wants to do more with AI using Codex as a non-developer. I recorded the full walkthrough and put together a free repo with the templates, prompts, skills, and setup I use. I’ll drop the guide in the comments below. Bookmark this and send it to a friend 🙏🏽

After a conversation with my plumber yesterday, I'm announcing new standard hourly developer rates for taking on vibecoded projects: $100/hr . . . If I build it $150/hr . . . If you watch $200/hr . . . If you help $250/hr . . . If you already built it $300/hr . . . If you tell me how to build it

@MatthewBerman @adisingh @agentmail we are building auth for ai agents auth0.ai

We're teaming up with @ycombinator to get builders to launch. Schedule your launch for tomorrow, tag "YC application." and @aaron_epstein will review launches. Top ones could get a YC interview + potential funding. 👇

the biggest marketing opportunity for most startups is youtube just search for anything somewhat niche, and top videos have 1k views you can absolutly dominate youtube with HQ content in your niche and rank high in AI search/SEO

We just added /btw to Claude Code! Use it to have side chain conversations while Claude is working.

Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code. When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs.

I packaged up the "autoresearch" project into a new self-contained minimal repo if people would like to play over the weekend. It's basically nanochat LLM training core stripped down to a single-GPU, one file version of ~630 lines of code, then: - the human iterates on the prompt (.md) - the AI agent iterates on the training code (.py) The goal is to engineer your agents to make the fastest research progress indefinitely and without any of your own involvement. In the image, every dot is a complete LLM training run that lasts exactly 5 minutes. The agent works in an autonomous loop on a git feature branch and accumulates git commits to the training script as it finds better settings (of lower validation loss by the end) of the neural network architecture, the optimizer, all the hyperparameters, etc. You can imagine comparing the research progress of different prompts, different agents, etc. github.com/karpathy/autor… Part code, part sci-fi, and a pinch of psychosis :)

Today we're launching local scheduled tasks in Claude Code desktop. Create a schedule for tasks that you want to run regularly. They'll run as long as your computer is awake.

It’s not about junior vs senior, it’s about “good with AI” vs “not good with AI.”