reserved a NYC rooftop happy hour for consumer founders next week
we have spots for a few more to join an already cracked guest list:
- 26 founders at >$1M ARR
- 19 founders at Seed - Series A
- 9 founders bootstrapped >5M ARR
reply if interested in applying!
Introducing Ponder: the agentic video editor.
It’s a new paradigm for filmmaking, where powerful creative agents and humans collaborate to tell world-class stories.
We're also announcing our $2.5M pre-seed, led by Liu Jiang from Sunflower (@seedtosunflower), with @Joshuabrowder and @MattHartman.
Joined by @levie (Box), @emerywells (Frame), @JaredLeto, @CommaCapital, the @nyuniversity venture fund, @cory, @darian314, @shiffman, and many more incredible founders, investors, and creators.
NYC consumer app founders
@a16z and @consumerclub_ reserved a rooftop + open bar for a private happy hour in May (30 more spots, current attendees are 1M+ ARR or VC-funded consumer founders)
reply if you'd like to join
This is what having a creative team of 100 could look like. Introducing General Context.
To celebrate, we’re giving away 5,000 top performing ads, organic posts, creators, and landing pages from over 200 of the world’s best brands.
Comment “Context” below to have it sent to you.
Competitive research, creative analysis, and image generation can quickly drain your budget and your calendar, so we rebuilt all three.
General Context can:
- Do deep competitive/persona research
- Clone competitor content
- Track industry trends
- Uncover viral formats
- Even audit your Meta ad account
+ much much more
introducing Motion, a video agent for tasteful motion design.
this launch video was made entirely with Motion. 👇🏽
comment "MOTION" to get early access + free credits.
tag @motion_so in any post on your X feed for a surprise.
here’s how it works + examples (thread):
Truly blown away by a new AI image model launching this week ✨
Finally, you can generate photos that actually look like you!
It's so much better than everything I've tried - from LoRAs to NB Pro.
Onboarding some early testers. DM or comment if you want access 👀
NanoBanana 2 just made your static ad agency obsolete.
And I just open sourced the entire tool.
Drop your product page URL.
It pulls your logos, product images, fonts, colors, and brand voice automatically.
Builds a full brand guide for you.
Then generates ad creatives at scale using nearly 4,000 high-performing ad templates across 8 niches.
It dynamically matches the best templates to your brand and brief.
Here's what makes it different:
→ Instant resizing
Get any ad in 1x1, 4x5, 9x16 with one click. No regeneration. No broken text.
→ Highlight-to-edit
See an issue? Highlight the area and tell it what to fix.
→ Multiple brand profiles
Run different brands or segments from one tool.
→ Auto persona building from real customer reviews
→ Multiple QC loops on briefs and final assets
Catches AI-isms before you do.
→ Upload your own templates or use ours
Runs locally.
Just needs your Claude and Google API keys.
This is the lite version of what we use internally.
You get the full finished tool AND the open source code to make it your own.
Creatives still design the system, this handles iteration and scale.
Want a copy to download?
1. Like this post
2. Comment "AI"
Will DM you the tool along with a tutorial shortly after.
Hack for anyone using Seedance 2.0, prompts in English get flagged frequently as against policies, translate it into Chinese and it doesn't get flagged anymore.
(Side note the quality is insane)
@beechinour biggest thing i've noticed add to realism in clips is when there are particles in the air (ie. snow, fog, rain) it just always leads to wayyyy more realisitic seeming outputs.
You can 10x the quality of your AI videos by injecting as many non-AI elements as possible
It's easy to lap people who outsource all their thinking to AI by building a deep context bank of what's worked historically in traditional film
I started building a swipe file which includes:
- actual film work
- commercials that made me stop scrolling
- movie trailers that gave me chills
- random clips I couldn't look away from
This is a must have to get better scene ideas, sharper editing styles, understand pacin and actually directing AI instead of just prompting it
RT + comment "SWIPE" and I'll send over the file (must be following so i can dm)