Rokitcoder

Tomorrow hits a decade working partly on NASA github projects. One thing I learned: best systems still run on "outdated" programming languages. Very many smart people at NASA github building projects.

Updated my shortlist: • @tmrohan - Otherwise Fund • @lennysan - Lenny's newsletter • @cyantist - Long Journey • @brackin - Gradient • @KyleHParrish - early Figma • @vsodera - Supercharge • @DStrachman - 1517 • @alanaagoyal - basecase • @edsim - Boldstart • @fubini - XYZ • @sarahdrinkwater - Common Magic • @camillericketts - early Notion • @cjc - Linear, Stripe • @rauchg - Vercel • @haddartha - PM, Instagram • @OfficialLoganK - Deepmind • @artlevy - Brex • @scottbelsky - Adobe, A24 • @romainhuet - OpenAI • @chudson - Precursor Ventures • @annimaniac - Floodgate • @jsngr - lil fund • @jackmmcclelland - Afore VC • @rex_woodbury - Daybreak • @nikunj - FPV Ventures • @ashleymayer - Coalition VC • @BigMekaStyle - First Round • @mashadrokova - DayOne VC • @yrechtman - Slow • @akothari - Notion • @andreasklinger - Prototype Cap • @AstasiaMyers - Felicis • @bryce - Indie VC • @Markgher - MXV • @vedikaja_in - Weekend Fund • @sarahcat21 - Amplify • @hunterwalk - Homebrew • @KatieS - Moxxie Ventures • @alexiskold - 2048 Ventures • @yanatweets - angel investor • @varadh - angel investor • @AdamDraper - Boost VC • @vaibhavbetter - Better Capital • @soleio - angel investor • @jefielding - Everywhere VC • @calfonsorico - Cocoa VC • @erica_wenger - Park Rangers Cap • @ColinGardiner - Yonder • @sonyatweetybird - Sequoia • @hthieblot - Founders, Inc

@agi2asi @Replit @pirroh @seijadvice @agi2asi Hello, been in competitive programming for decade. Built from ideation to development, vibe code greatly with great prompts: dr.pogodin.studio/topcoder/membe… github.com/Rokit12

Hiring at @Replit. 90-day clock starts now. I was brought on by @pirroh to build internal platforms for every department at Replit - using Replit. Support, People Ops, GTM, Recruiting, S&M etc. Real enterprise systems, not templates. I need one more builder to join @seijadvice & I. Requirements: • You vibe code, but you also know what a P&L is • You've run something - a company, a team, a chaos machine. Show me that you can handle intensity • You can explain a database schema to an engineer and a workflow to a VP in the same meeting • You talk to humans just as well as you talk to machines This is not a "build me a pretty dashboard" role. This is: sit with a department, understand their pain, ship software that kills a $100K/yr vendor contract, then do it again next week. If your portfolio is landing pages and e-commerce sites, this isn't the gig. If you've built systems that actually run a business, DM me or email me directly with your Cover Letter, Resume and a Portfolio (site would be ideal but GitHub is fine) Bonus points if you built out using Replit and have AI features that go beyond a simple chatbot. (Must be able to come full time in Foster City)

@agi2asi @Replit @pirroh @seijadvice github.com/Rokit12

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Read Larry Fink’s Letter to Investors. 1blk.co/40KnIFr

@Rumingzh @speedrun @a16z Congratulations

Today, we're officially launching Bota, backed by @speedrun, @a16z's early-stage fund.

OF owner, Leonid Radvinsky, has died at age 43

@gideondern_ @FS_Build Congratulations

I’ve been accepted in to @FS_Build A 10-week equity free founders program Looking forward to building, refining, and taking things to the next level.

Mlisema wordpress kwa Africans is the way

@ndiritu_michael @AvechiKenya 🤣

@AvechiKenya's intern has deployed today

@hdxswx @join_ef Congratulations. Unfortunately they don't take african startups

Excited to share I got accepted to @join_ef Spring Cohort. For those who don’t know, Entrepreneur First is an international talent investor which writes founders their first check and flies them out to SF to work on their startups. Looking forward to building alongside some of the most ambitious founders! @akashizzle @rahulsamat @MokshitNaidu

@iamukasa Like the people who have never coded, they think everything is vibe coded

Wakenya, muache kujiita AI experts and you don't know the back propagation algorithm.....

Babies born in 2026 will be called Sigma generation

In africa, @Forbes shows africa has no billionaires! I doubt Kenya doesn't have one...

to avoid app store rejections and faster submissions, i follow a specific checklist: 🔳 privacy policy 🔳 terms & conditions 🔳 EULA (just use apple's own eula link, no need to generate) 🔳 for hard paywall, add a disclaimer that app requires a subscription 🔳 majority of the screenshots should show the actual app 🔳 accepting Paid Apps Agreement for your App Store Account (you need to do it once, not per app) from the Business section 🔳 paywall and settings page to include a link to privacy policy and t&c 🔳 ASO based unique app name 🔳 promotional text 🔳 if sign-in required, create an account for app store and share username & password with apple 🔳 if you have sign in with google or facebook, you must implement apple sign-in (such a monopoly behavior) 🔳 age ratings, app encryption documentation 🔳 data collection disclaimers (include all the third party sdks you use in your privacy and terms) 🔳 crash tracking & analytics disclaimers 🔳 user identifiers, if collected additional items for app store readiness: 🔳 ASO based description, title, subtitle, keywords 🔳 icon 🔳 submitting IAP and subscriptions as part of the binary 🔳 IAP & subscription description & localisation 🔳 accessibility features especially important for ASO. people mostly miss this as vast majority of the apps already support voice over and dynamic text sizes 🔳 localised pricing if i missed anything, add as a reply so that we can bookmark and come back to this post!

You don't need a $2M pre-seed to start building deep tech. When I started building @laminalabs (@ycombinator P26), I had no funding, no team of 10 engineers, and a vision that required serious GPU compute and AI infrastructure. So I did what any desperate founder would do. I cold emailed. I wrote to @agupta , who was building the YC student credits program. I told him I was going all in on building a deep tech project, why it needed serious compute, and the commitment I was putting behind it. I sent that email at 10:50 AM on November 14th. He replied at 10:52 AM. Two minutes. That reply changed everything. Thank you Ankit, that early access was the unlock. From there, it was months of grinding through architecture after architecture. Rewriting core pipelines more times than I can count. Shipping, breaking, rebuilding. Just me, Claude Code, and Codex running in parallel, the closest thing an early founder has to a 10-person engineering team, except they never call in sick. AI coding agents are the single greatest force multiplier available to founders right now. I'm not exaggerating. The leverage is unreal. Here's the thing most people get wrong: you don't need a massive round to get something real off the ground. You need compute credits, the right AI tools, and the willingness to grind through hundreds of iterations until the architecture clicks. If you're a student or early founder sitting on an idea that feels too ambitious, just start. Email the people building the programs. Apply for every credit you can find. Reach out to people you think won't respond. They will. The infrastructure to build serious things as a solo or two person team has never been more accessible. The funding comes after you've already started building something real. Because someone gave me that first unlock, I want to do the same: I'm giving away 5 x $50 Claude Code credits. And whoever ships the best project with that gets $200 in Claude credits from me personally. I know firsthand how much potential $200 in credits has for a builder who's willing to grind. Just comment below with the link to the coolest thing you've built. I will DM you myself.

Approaching people you have never met to pitch your business idea via text, is it unprofessional and tactless? @garrytan @sundarpichai @GadSaad @satyanadella @elonmusk

@Sajwani What is this? @grok

TERAFAB is a alive 🤯

When I was at Google, I wasn’t afraid to make mistakes in production. The general consensus was: if a well intentioned engineer manages to bring the system down, then we better fix the damn system. The Delve founders should definitely be held accountable if this is true. But this really is bigger than them. They didn’t even try too hard to be sleazy, they just followed the Silicon Valley playbook. 1. Drop out of school as a status symbol, completely missing that correlation is not causation. Dropping out does not make you a genius. 2. Start a business with 0 mission (no 21yo dreams of compliance) 3. Fake it till you make it (hide human labor behind the grandeur of AI features) 4. Raise an obscene amount of money because you can and because those losers who stayed to finish their degrees will be jelly. This is the playbook. The biggest culprits are the ones who made it and uphold it. If you’re not allowed to drink before 21 but are allowed to raise 30m on a compliance idea with no due diligence from investors, then maybe something is really really wrong with the system.

@Andydy42 Nice

our hacker house is out of room. our company isn’t. we just raised 5m and we’re still hiring.