Jared Pace

I'm a lead mentor for a global startup accelerator. I help founders get funded. This is very much a passion product for me. Would love to hear what folks think! getpitchfit.io

Finally shipped today! Raising your pre-seed round? 92% of founders say they feel underprepared for investor meetings. < 5% of founders get funded. PitchFit evaluates your deck & your delivery together so you can fix what investors will flag before you burn your best intros

I'm a lead mentor and tech AB lead for a global startup accelerator. getpitchfit.io

Raising your first round? 92% of founders say they feel underprepared walking into investor meetings. Less than 5% of founders get funded. PitchFit evaluates your deck and your delivery together so you can fix what investors will flag before you burn your best intros.

@leojrr I’m a Technical PM with 12 YOE. Have been building INSANE stuff. Hit me up!

we're hiring vibe coders! if you love shipping fast, mobile apps, and creating content reply and I'll send more details

@fayazara Niiiice! Can’t wait to try this out.

Introducing Bucketdrop - a tiny S3 client that sits on your menubar Bring your own keys Open source Free

Wow. Suddenly I don’t feel so alone.

Any founders out there actively raising pre seed? What are you building?

@matthew_meadows @michelleefang Nice! It’s a little hard to see what’s highlighted tho

@michelleefang Built this in 3 days with Claude Opus 4.5. Over 10,000 users in first ad test. The Interactive Circle of Fifths. Select a key, see & hear the major, minor & diminished chords, pentatonic, blues, diminished & diatonic scales. Piano & guitar fingerings. interactivecircleoffifths.com

if you're vibe coding or building over the holidays, i want to gift one of you a 6 month subscription of claude pro to support <3 just drop a comment below. merry christmas!

@TechOperator NFS.exe (The Need For Speed)

You are presented with this screen. What’s your next move?

@guilleflorvs Soo the 1% of the 1% of startups. Okay. 🤔

we are looking to invest in the next Lovable, Spotify and Klarna reply to this with what you are building and your unique insight Example: Spotify's founder unique insight was that piracy wasn’t a “people won’t pay” problem, it was a UX problem, and if you made music instant, searchable, and cheaper than illegal downloads, people would switch

The Chiefs’ stadium deal is sounding worse and worse for Kansans. apple.news/AoWibLcJtS86e6…

@MartinGTobias Pre revenue but great feedback from working prototype okay?

All I want for Christmas is to fund two more B2B software companies removing friction at scale. Bonus points for weird niches no one else is building for. Someone who knows the customer pain intimately and someone who can build the product. Bonus for an MVP and a couple of customers. We write $250-$500K first checks in. Tell me more bit.ly/pitchIV

@getnickwright ⚰️

It’s been a totally surreal 7 year run. 5 Super Bowl trips, 3 Rings, played in the Conference Championship game every single year. Everything caught up with them this year & they just didn’t have it. No shame in that, just is what it is. Now we just pray Patrick is OK.

@Zephyr_hg NEWS

I never run out of content to post anymore. Built an automation that monitors 50+ news sources, scores articles for relevance, and writes social posts automatically. It finds trending topics in my niche before they explode everywhere else. Saves me 15-20 hours monthly and keeps me ahead of every trend. Comment "NEWS" and I'll DM it to you (must be following)

@payamstweets @getnickwright Agree, we need to think hard about Nagy

@getnickwright We need fundamental change. Everyone below Andy Reid who has contributed to delivering a penalty prone ball dropping offense. Nagy needs to go. And even Spags needs a new approach.

I’m in a bad way, folks.

@replies_guy @getnickwright It’s a bad season, he’s still the GOAT

@getnickwright You’ve backed yourself into a corner with your GOAT arguments over the years that Patrick might not even be Top 5 when it’s all said and done .

@jasonfreedman What are the five questions YC uses to determine this?

I've read 8,000 Y Combinator applications. You would think the reviewers are thinking through a standard set of questions. Is it a good idea? Is it a large market? Is it an experienced team? Do they have traction? During my time as a reviewer, we went back and tested which questions actually predicted success. The process was look at the best performing companies and then ask whether the application question would disqualify any of the biggest outcomes. If so, eliminate that question. Is it a good idea? Well, Airbnb was a bad idea. Air bed and breakfast. Nobody thought it would work. Is it a large market? Airbnb, Coinbase, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia all started in tiny markets. Experienced team? John and Patrick Collison had no experience in fintech when they built Stripe. Brian Chesky had never built a company. Brian Armstrong was just a product manager. Do they have traction? We learned to invest in slope, not Y intercept. The initial traction doesn't tell you anything about the angle of ascent. Sooooooooooooo...none of these standard questions worked. The best question that predicted success was determination. Who is the most determined? Even if they're not the smartest. Even if the market hasn't developed yet. Even if their initial product is wrong. It outpeformed by a mile. And didn't disqualify the winners. AND was evaluatable. It was so predictive that YC took that one question and found five different ways to ask it.

@koylanai Your Processing screen is slick. Is that a standard UI component or custom?

OpenAI wants markdown structure. Anthropic prefers XML tags. Google emphasizes few-shot examples. So I built a simple agent system that reads the official prompting docs and applies them to the given prompt. Each optimizer runs a ReAct loop: - list_provider_docs → discover available guidelines - read_provider_doc → fetch specific content - submit_optimization → return structured result Agent decides what context it needs. The loop runs until submission: 1. LLM reasons about the task 2. Calls a tool 3. Observes result 4. Repeats Typically 3-4 iterations. Parallel execution via asyncio.gather; all providers optimize concurrently. Good to explore the agent design and prompts. Feel free to play with it. Shared the repo here: github.com/muratcankoylan… @langchain @openrouter