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Paul Xue

@pxue

I distribute content on Reddit. 100M+ views across 20 niches. Co-host @gregoryandpaul show. Previously, startup CTO.

🇨🇦 가입일 Şubat 2010
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Jamon@jamonholmgren·
Not going to lie, last night I couldn't sleep hardly at all. A lot of anxiety about how the game would be received. You all have been SO KIND. I'm blown away by the positive responses!
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Paul Xue
Paul Xue@pxue·
@thekitze Something something not sending your data to China is worth the $25
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kyzo
kyzo@ky__zo·
Fluar just got acquired in an all cash, 6-figure deal I built it solo for 14 months, now it’s going to an industry leading team that can really scale it this is the second startup I’ve sold since I learned to code 3 years ago life is incredible, what a time to be alive 🫡 LFGG
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Paul Xue
Paul Xue@pxue·
@harpreetchatha_ it's the state of the market right now and profound is trying to roll everything into zero click. my guess is they'll eventually roll out some synthetic audience and then double dip into the measurement
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Harpreet
Harpreet@harpreetchatha_·
This case study between Profound & Zapier is genuinely mandatory reading if you want to understand the grift behind GEO / AEO. The growth analytics manager at Zapier said that without the AI visibility tool, "they have zero visibility into what LLMs said about them". I wonder if these people use AI themselves? Then "Standing up an AEO program". Profound says that Zapier's AEO program entails "alternative and head-to-head articles". Zapier wanted to own listicles. They have a quote in there which says "they made the decision to double down on AI search as a net-new channel, not a sidecar to SEO". They doubled down via lisicles. I'm gonna leave it at that. Scaling listicles is not an AEO program lol. If VPs, CMOs & marketing leaders are dumb enough to fall for this type of stuff them good luck to those companies. Stay safe out there.
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Koby Conrad 🌻
Koby Conrad 🌻@kobyjconrad·
These compliance companies are ripping each other apart in a dirty as hell fight and I absolutely guarantee you this is some black hat oppo mud slinging The guy who wrote this literally emailed me which is a CANSPAM violation & half this shit is made up and misleading
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Koby Conrad 🌻
Koby Conrad 🌻@kobyjconrad·
Just a PSA we use Delve. Delve does EXACTLY what EVERY other company in this space does, they provide a checklist and help you automate your compliance. WE are still responsible for our security. Not Delve. This industry is shady AF and this anon is 100% a competitor 🫡
erin griffith@eringriffith

A detailed and brutal look at the tactics of buzzy AI compliance startup Delve "Delve built a machine designed to make clients complicit without their knowledge, to manufacture plausible deniability while producing exactly the opposite." substack.com/home/post/p-19…

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Paul Xue
Paul Xue@pxue·
@ohryansbelt Reddit knows man. soc2/cybersecurity subreddit got swarmed with their astroturfing posts
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Paul Xue@pxue·
But gotta say they got a kickass Reddit strategy
Ryan@ohryansbelt

Delve, a YC-backed compliance startup that raised $32 million, has been accused of systematically faking SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance reports for hundreds of clients. According to a detailed Substack investigation by DeepDelver, a leaked Google spreadsheet containing links to hundreds of confidential draft audit reports revealed that Delve generates auditor conclusions before any auditor reviews evidence, uses the same template across 99.8% of reports, and relies on Indian certification mills operating through empty US shells instead of the "US-based CPA firms" they advertise. Here's the breakdown: > 493 out of 494 leaked SOC 2 reports allegedly contain identical boilerplate text, including the same grammatical errors and nonsensical sentences, with only a company name, logo, org chart, and signature swapped in > Auditor conclusions and test procedures are reportedly pre-written in draft reports before clients even provide their company description, which would violate AICPA independence rules requiring auditors to independently design tests and form conclusions > All 259 Type II reports claim zero security incidents, zero personnel changes, zero customer terminations, and zero cyber incidents during the observation period, with identical "unable to test" conclusions across every client > Delve's "US-based auditors" are actually Accorp and Gradient, described as Indian certification mills operating through US shell entities. 99%+ of clients reportedly went through one of these two firms over the past 6 months > The platform allegedly publishes fully populated trust pages claiming vulnerability scanning, pentesting, and data recovery simulations before any compliance work has been done > Delve pre-fabricates board meeting minutes, risk assessments, security incident simulations, and employee evidence that clients can adopt with a single click, according to the author > Most "integrations" are just containers for manual screenshots with no actual API connections. The author describes the platform as a "SOC 2 template pack with a thin SaaS wrapper" > When the leak was exposed, CEO Karun Kaushik emailed clients calling the allegations "falsified claims" from an "AI-generated email" and stated no sensitive data was accessed, while the reports themselves contained private signatures and confidential architecture diagrams > Companies relying on these reports could face criminal liability under HIPAA and fines up to 4% of global revenue under GDPR for compliance violations they believed were resolved > When clients threaten to leave, Delve reportedly pairs them with an external vCISO for manual off-platform work, which the author argues proves their own platform can't deliver real compliance > Delve's sales price dropped from $15,000 to $6,000 with ISO 27001 and a penetration test thrown in when a client mentioned considering a competitor

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chris
chris@chrislevan·
gm all, pleased to announce i’ve earned the absolute badge of honour. i also am a toronto accelerator.
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Jonathan Wilke
Jonathan Wilke@jonathan_wilke·
Holy crap... with the @nextjs 16.2 update the next server is now using 10GB+ of memory and my MacBooks fan is running constantly (before it never even turned on). What's going on here...
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Paul Xue
Paul Xue@pxue·
Low key the highest leverage activity you can do for any business is to invest 6 month into SEO/AEO from day 1. Do it yourself, then when things are working, hire an agency. It shouldn't cost more than $3K a month.
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Abby Grills
Abby Grills@AGrillz·
I added Founder profiles! Filter and search ALL @ycombinator founders. You can see: - Repeat YC founders - Career path (eng/product/sales/consulting) - Years work experience - Prev. notable employers - Education - College Dropouts Check it out --> yc-update-tracker.lovable.app/founders
Abby Grills@AGrillz

I made a free web app that tracks @ycombinator companies. It updates when: - A new company is listed to YC’s website - A company does a launch post - A company changes their name or tagline/one-liner You can even download the full list of all the companies YC has ever funded.

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Paul Razvan Berg
Paul Razvan Berg@PaulRBerg·
This is the most annoying thing in Claude Code. Hiding raw text when you paste more than 4 lines. Terrible UX decision.
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nico
nico@nicochristie·
@tryshortcutai is growing ~50% MoM and we are looking for a world-class technical GTM person to join the team. Looking for someone relentless, and passionate about profoundly solving spreadsheet work. DM me (bonus for a referral!) TC $220-$300K Cash + Equity
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Paul Xue
Paul Xue@pxue·
Claude just casually creating visualizations directly in chat from database and API data. Why even vibe code anymore..
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Jamon
Jamon@jamonholmgren·
@pxue @tannerlinsley Yes, sorry, it's been crazy busy, but I'll try to get it out soon. Need to remove some code-base-specific stuff
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Tanner Linsley
Tanner Linsley@tannerlinsley·
Looking for the most reliable way to run agents in some kind of continuous/ralph loop mode, preferably overnight (@jamonholmgren). I'm use both Codex and Claude and am a sucker for OpenCode. What do I use?
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Paul Xue
Paul Xue@pxue·
At last week’s Vibe Your SaaS pitch competition in SF, one of the VCs in the fireside chats talked about kingmaking. If you don’t know what that is, it’s when one of the big 20 VC firms makes a massive investment in a firm. Loads them up with cash so they can outspend competitors. The technique is called kingmaking. That really stuck with me. In a world of vibe coding, more founders can build. More products can launch. More categories can get crowded almost overnight. So the bottleneck is no longer just creation. It is selection and distribution. For SaaS founders, this changes the game. The product still matters, but when software is easier to build, the winners are often the companies that get amplified by investors, communities, customers, and the internet itself. And this means one thing: You cannot just build a good product. You have to become the company people mention when someone asks, “What should I use?” That is why distribution matters so much. In a crowded market, visibility is not just traffic. It is category formation. And the brands that show up in the right conversations early have a much better shot at becoming the winner everyone else copies.
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Jamon
Jamon@jamonholmgren·
@tannerlinsley Sorry, just saw this. You just need a markdown file. I’ll send you mine.
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Brett Bell
Brett Bell@Bretton_Bell·
@FounderEric So many Canadian accelerators. Where are all the start ups...?
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FounderEric
FounderEric@FounderEric·
The world's number of startup accelerators 1. 🇨🇦 Toronto - 77 2. 🇺🇸 New York - 63 3. 🇺🇸 SF - 62 4. 🇬🇧 London - 44 5. 🇨🇦 Montreal - 44 6. 🇩🇪 Berlin - 37 3. 🇺🇸 Boston - 23 7. 🇨🇦 Waterloo - 21 8. 🇨🇦 Vancouver - 28 9. 🇺🇸 Miami - 19 10. 🇺🇸 Austin - 17 fundingcake.com/startup-direct…
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