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Been heads down working on our AI store builder ✨

@acce @alexcapital01 Seconded, your vision was great. Looking forward to seeing what you'll do next 🙏

@alexcapital01 🤗🚀

I don't believe this is the right strategy for PayPal. Alex Chriss was right to fully integrate Venmo with $PYPL. I still feel for the guy — he was the right leader to turn the company around, but he came in too late.

@sumoru Just sent over a DM, demo video of our store AI builder attached ✨

a16z SR007 applications are open: speedrun.a16z.com If you are building something awesome and are considering applying or have already applied, DM me on what you are building. As a scout I can refer you and write a check for a small investment < 24hr if I like what I see.

@jeff_weinstein PayPal support for NA pretty please 🙏

stripe.com/roadmap here’s me scrolling the first of 11 pages of it.

@stripe When Stripe Connect support 😍🥰

Stripe Managed Payments is now generally available. Sell digital products in 195 markets with our merchant of record solution for tax, fraud, disputes, and support.

@jeffrey_way +1 for Silo. Started reading after I finished watching season 1 and couldn't put the book down

Sci-fi reader friends, I’m deciding my next book. I haven’t read any of these. Which would you recommend first?

@sab8a Off topic but I remember reading your YC story ages ago, great to see how far VEED has come 💪

This is the guy who stole my first successful app. Full story here: x.com/sab8a/status/1…

@levelsio Replaced my bright white bulbs with 2700K ones last week, it really makes such a difference

Today I hacked my Home Assistant with AI to nuke the bright white LED spots that came with my house when I bought it They're absolutely horrific to look at, they burn into your eyes, all new Portuguese houses come with them, I remember South Korean houses ALSO had these, it's like a factory light, I have no clue WHY anyone would want these Luckily we have our own diffuse indirect light strips that just give off a glow and are much nicer So I asked AI to redirect any signal that puts those shitty LED spots on, immediately KILL them and redirect them to my diffuse lights and it's wonderful Also ALL my lights switch off at 10pm now and the ones that support color get turned on and switched to only RED light for sleep, so the entire house is red, very nice

@levelsio Well-timed exit by Cursor tbh

Xcited to connect to Starlinx, boot up Xursor powered by SpaceXAI LLM model 690 part of SpaceX and share my progress on X All jokes aside, xongrats to all parties involved

@illyism Sent you a DM

just got off a SEO consulting call with a founder who built a crazy cool product but that nobody knows about yet 🤙 SEO is awesome at demand capture, but not at demand generation so here is the exact playbook we mapped out: 👇 how to do seo for a product nobody searches for: 1. write a "top 20 best " listicle for your niche 2. put your product at #1 3. include 19 other non-competing indie products 4. email those 19 founders: "i just featured you, can you include us in your listicles?" boom 💥 free, highly relevant backlinks from real businesses 👍 bonus insight: find the exact articles that chatgpt cites for your target keywords (press on "Sources" in the bottom), email those specific authors to get added to their existing posts stop fighting for impossible keywords, build alliances instead! 🙌

@SamiraBehrouzan @speedrun just tried it can confirm its true

if you can reply to this message you can apply to @speedrun.

@mbaril010 @coinbase @CoinbaseBiz @MoonPayCommerce We (sell.app) built an in-house processor after trying half a dozen solutions 🫠

Hey all, looks like @coinbase @CoinbaseBiz is killing their coinbase commerce platform and the business account are only available in the US and Singapore. So CT what are the option to replace them ? @MoonPayCommerce ? Who else ?

@d4m1n Adding a bit of color: twitter.com/Yoesef/status/… tl;dr it's (mostly) self-inflicted but not looking bleak for Gumroad. They make more revenue now v.s. 2022 Very few users go the vibe-coded route, network effects can't be replicated. Competitors seeing strong growth too

creators earned $8.3M in Feb 2026 vs $16.97M in Nov 2022 on Gumroad. is everybody moving to vibe coding platforms?! what's going on

Gumroad in Nov 2022: • Go-to with great momentum • Reasonable fees • Fewer competitors • NSFW allowed(ish) Then: • Series of (imo) bad decisions; price hike, botched redesign, etc. • Users jumped ship to modern alternatives, biggest winner Lemon Squeezy (acq. by Stripe) • Ban of NSFW content, furries outraged • Ostracizing users added fuel to the fire; closing down community forum, AI-ified seller support, etc. Now: • GMV slashed in half • More profitable than in 2022 • Wider variety of products; from only Gumroad to "Antiwork" with e.g. a payroll product, AI moderator, etc.

@ryanseanbadger Yep got it last year, only took a few days but IIRC it was right after they relaunched the program so that might've been a contributing factor

Anybody managed to get Cloudflare credits? I've applied twice, never had a reply... cloudflare.com/forstartups/

At this point it might be worth the effort to expand to (more) digital products Most creators & their customers are already on X. Being able to upload & sell an eBook/file, access to a private community, etc on here would be very neat Could even tack on MoR-style processing for added convenience 🤔

The most powerful distribution channel in the world is Timeline. And today we're launching a new way to take full advantage of it to monetize your content. Introducing Exclusive Threads Here's an Exclusive Thread on why it's the best way to build a content business on the Internet 👇

@levelsio Me too! What I like most about Vercel is their easy deployment process, it gives me the same warm feeling as when I ate my first ever chocolate chip cookie

I changed my mind, I love Vercel

@cultured @tether Good shit, congrats 🫡

We are excited to announce that @tether, the largest stablecoin company in the world, is making a strategic investment of $200M into Whop, valuing us at $1.6B. Our partnership with Tether marks a major step in building the world's largest internet market. Tether is committed to enabling everyone in the world to participate in the new internet economy. The way humans work and create value is changing fast. The world needs both an open internet market giving people a platform to conduct business, as well as a transparent payments network. Tether and Whop together will work to bring a sustainable income to billions of people throughout the world. There is enormous opportunity when you combine Tether’s global scale and wallet technology with Whop’s community of next generation entrepreneurs. My co-founders and I met as teenagers on the internet selling software. We first launched Whop as a way for us to sell our own software to people in Facebook and Discord forums. Prior to Whop, the place we found customers was different from the place we collected payments, different from the place we talked to customers, and there wasn’t a central place to “do business” on the internet. In partnership with Tether, we will be scaling infrastructure in real-time for new business models as they emerge across the globe. The job is just getting started. 🚀

Doing customer support in 1 image:

Sauron is recruiting minions to spread the gospel of the one true Orb