Simon Schmitz

@AlexHormozi i love these ai posts. Shoutout to whoever receives a hefty paycheck for this ghostwriting slop lol

You don’t have what you want because you can’t stay focused, you get frustrated too easily, and you’re unable to wait for it to work. It’s not a lack of information, it’s a lack of character.

@m_y_serrano this is kinda sick haha

Ever tried to automate a real website and ended up babysitting Playwright selectors, browser-use agents, or computer-use agents? Watch me use Rindler to set up my plans for the world cup ⚽️🏆 youtu.be/V_nCIxYD-so

@sdianahu cost per token will be a huge think to figure out for new startups going forward

AI model talk has been in the Overton window for a while. AI silicon talk will be the next topic in Nvidia has a stronghold in training, but inference is the next big wave, with lots of room for new architectures optimized for *cost per token* not FLOPs

@sahil_seth sick idea! Good luck on the launch

when we started building talentpluto, I didn't know if anyone would care you build in the dark for a long time and just trust that the thing you're making matters next week we launch. but without our first believers, who knows so we decided to do something special for the ones that took a bet (see the BTS of the work that went into it) ep. 3 - talentpluto @ yc

@SimonHoiberg the same boomers that will tell you a firm hand-shake is half the battle to close a deal

I just don't get it, people seem fully aware that you can now code features and launch products with AI that previously took 6 months to POC - no one disagrees with this anymore. But whenever I talk about self-hosting, half of the comments are boomers saying "yeah, but you didn't count all the time you need to maintain it" You realize AI is just as good at infra, right? "Time to maintain it" is barely a thing anymore, AI does this too.

@yyugap good stuff! Is Ai-nativity your main product differentiator?

🚀 just launched on YC: Ekpa, the AI-native investment platform built for everyday traders. no more staring at charts for hours or drowning in complex tools. Ekpa uses AI to help you discover opportunities, manage risk, and invest smarter — all in one intuitive experience. huge thanks to @ycombinator and our partner @agupta for the support! if you’re an everyday trader (or aspire to be one), this is for you. check it out and upvote if you like it! 👇 ycombinator.com/launches/RJy-e… #Ekpa #YCLaunch #Investing #AI #Fintech

@ycombinator @dflieb this is all data that will have a huge ionfluence on how you want to position your startup from a marketing standpoint

Most founders obsess over dashboards and aggregate metrics, but some of the best product insights come from understanding how individual users actually use their product. In this episode of Startup School, YC's @dflieb walks through one of his favorite tools for better understanding your users, the dot plot. It's a simple two-dimensional grid that reveals usage patterns no aggregate chart can show you. He’ll cover why it gives founders a better sense of product health, what patterns to look for, and real-world examples of how dot plots helped teams at Google Photos and PayPal. 00:52 — Why DAUs Lie to You 01:39 — What is a Dot Plot and How Does it Work? 02:50 — Picking the Right Event to Track 03:34 — Reading Patterns in the Dots 05:17 — Tracking User State & Attributes 06:16 — The PayPal Fraud Insight 07:59 — Dot Plot vs. DAU Graph 08:56 — Finding Features That Drive Retention 10:30 — Scaling Dot Plots to Billions of Users 11:13 — The $80K Contract That Churned 11:57 — Common Dot Plot Mistakes 12:41 — Dot Plots + Cohort Curves

@LoupWang where can i donate

Co-founder series part II: Due to a lack of personal hygiene, Luca was on his deathbed yesterday. Now he’s back on the office, grinding on our AI-native B2C SAAS. This is the dedication it takes to be a startup founder. Please applaud him, everyone. #tenacity #startup #founder

@PhillipYan2 how do you end up with the decimal number here haha

day 16/78: the journey is hard, but it would be impossible without those who help and support you (you know who you are)

If your SaaS service has a web page called ‘pricing’ that doesn’t give me your pricing, that tells me that I don’t need to know any more lol

@sahil_seth @OpenAI @strimblez @alex_brussell sick

today’s field trip included a pit stop at the @OpenAI office thank you @strimblez and @alex_brussell for the invite

SaaS company: "Pricing starts $49/mo. Need SSO? It's now $4,900/mo"

@PhillipYan2 Gotta eat some shit before good things happen.

day 15/78: there is alpha in physical suffering

@sahil_seth @ycombinator this is sick, congrats!

@ycombinator just bet on talentpluto we’re building the voice agent that represents your career one call. headhunted forever

@TonyXavier_ @ycombinator the funding also doesn't hurt lol

People often ask me how @ycombinator actually helps - instills urgency - everyone’s pushed to be more ambitious (like way more) - network - 1:1 mentorship (worth everything if you’re doubting YC) - incredible friends

In general, your users won't care if your product uses AI, or other fancy technology that they likely don’t fully understand They only care if the end product is something they want Don’t upsell your technology as a main value prop Build something people need & want

@SimonHoiberg self hositnv is the way to go in thise scenarios

Building good products is now easier and more competitive than EVER. Which makes cost optimization more important than ever. Spend less on product where you can, then shift that budget into distribution. We took our hosting and product costs from $30,000+/month to under $3,000/month by moving from expensive cloud infrastructure and 3 full-time developers to self-hosting and AI doing most of the coding. Then we reallocated that budget to ads and marketing. Startups that do this will outrun startups with big engineering teams pretty fast.

Today I talked to a seed stage SaaS startup with revenue, was pretty wild

Your buyers don't care that your product uses AI. They care if it solves the problem they just googled. AI-powered" is not a value prop. It's just a hint that your product may contain slop

@rambuilds_ whattup

looking to connect people on X if you're into - building SaaS - vibe coding - AI tools - shipping in public - figuring it out as you go say Hi or drop what you're working on looking to follow active ones 👋