Georg von Manstein

I just won first place at the NVIDIA x Vercel x Brex hackathon! Jensen Huang even signed a hat for me! It was the world’s shortest hackathon ever, and we won it by building a simulation of autonomous driving algorithms like NVIDIA’s Carla model. Thanks @Baxate_carter & @evilrabbit_ for judging! cc @nvidia @vercel @brexHQ

@cory will be there!

who's at Stanford / TreeHacks this weekend? hosting an unofficial dessert meetup Friday night at 10PM there will be cookies, books, and great people @ reply if you want to come

cc @friendsandfam_

I just won 1st place at the Stanford Internal FAF Hackathon as a high school grad! I built an AI app that writes with you on your Goodnotes canvas. It thinks and scribbles alongside you, all in natural handwriting. @vedant__khanna thanks so much for putting this awesome weekend together! The Stanford FAF Club is really such a special group of people! It was so much fun to hack with all the FAF members!

Met @garrytan and @DrewEndy at Stanford yesterday, and both gave an amazing and deeply personal talk! Favorite thing that Drew Endy said was: "If you want to start a company, patent and license it; if you want to start a sector, give it away." Favorite thing from Garry: "Really, really good ideas are not just contrarian intellectually; they’re contrarian in your body!"

@ryuzokijima @akatoshouse

I’m also looking for a hacker house in Waterloo.

I’m collecting information on hacker houses around the world! San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Delhi, Paris, London, Rome, São Paulo anywhere in the world, please reach out.

@giginotmario Congrats on the launch! 🎉

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@akatoshouse 🤩🤩🤩

Canada’s best and brightest deserve a home. That's why we’re launching Akatos, Waterloo’s first hacker house🇨🇦 Akatos is a space for founders, builders, creators, and tinkerers with a burning desire to make an impact and do something great.👇

Everyone keeps asking me what I've been up to since shutting down my startup Well, it's called @appclub

YC Summer Conference was incredible! Great talks from @eshear & @handotdev with @snowmaker & @harjtaggar! cc @adamcandoit @ycombinator Takeaways: - It is a people game. It always comes down to the people you can inspire to work on a vision with you. - "You will feel if you have PMF". If you ask yourself if you have already found PMF, you probably haven’t. - Mintlify: You might need to pivot 100 times, but if you just don’t die, you will find the right project, and then it will hit! - Mintlify & Harj: A great co-founder is like a superpower. - Emmett Shear: Build things that you genuinely love to use yourself and that you can find 5 other people that are also obsessed with using it. - If you can’t find 10 people that absolutely love a product and that spread it everywhere, how do you want to convince 1k, 100k, or 1M people? General about YC: - Make something people want. It sounds so simple but is actually very hard for most people to understand. Instead of trying to understand which tricks to use to increase retention, you should build a product that people can’t stop using. - The partners actually care for each founder, visitor, company, user, ANYONE. - They take the time to just talk to you and spend two hours deep diving into a topic. @snowmaker @harjtaggar - You can just go up to a YC partner and ask for help on a problem you have, and they are more than welcome to help you. - Some YC founders took the YC deal way past the “YC stage“ and said it was the best decision of their life. “You don’t do YC for the money, but everything else it has to offer.“ - Move to the Bay Area. This is the place to be.

@haolun_yang @browsercompany Super cool!

if wikipedia were designed by the @browsercompany

@_sonith Steve Jobs by @WalterIsaacson

Best biographies to read?

@hoomanrenezhad LFG! 🤩 Congrats!

@KishanBagaria @beeper Congrats on the launch! 🤩 I love the new "multiple accounts" option!

over a year in the making, the new beeper is finally here!

@_sonith "You can just do things" by @Jayyanginspires

Best books to read?

Thanks a lot Apple for having me! It was fantastic to meet so many of the people behind the tools we use every day. Special shoutout to the ML team that made the new Foundation Models Framework happen, which brings a fast & private local LLM into every app. @shshnkp @EEhare @settern

@arlanr Super cool!

Foundational Work

Let’s go!!! 🤪

@itstuckermac @TideGuideApp @AppStore Congrats! 🥳

App of the Day! What an exciting way to kick off the 8th summer of @TideGuideApp 🌊🏄🏼‍♂️. Thank you @AppStore for the recognition!