Michael Michelis

A few months ago I created a small side project with the plan of selling it on @microacquire . Today I got the badge of honour of being microacquired! Thanks @agazdecki !

You become the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.

@Jason I'm in

We started an AI founder twitter group... reply with "I'm in" if you're a founder and want to be added

Being overweight is hard... Going to the gym is hard... Choose your hard

Being hated by stupid people is the price you’ll pay for not being one of them.

@Watch_Velocity Love this

Hollywood spent $100M+ and years to make The Social Network, WeCrashed, SuperPumped. they're too slow. introducing Velocity. legendary tech stories, shipped fast with AI. first drop: Twitter Wars which company should be next?

how to waste a VC's time 🧵

Happy to send you one of our A.I. calorie counting scales, @bryan_johnson to avoid such problems in the future.

@galligator Tackling weight loss from another angle... A.I. calorie counting that's accurate: qalzy.com

What are you building this weekend? One comment gets a $10k investment and I’ll help you execute.

@yasser_elsaid_ @arvidkahl Moving this as the first and only slide of my deck

My moat is that other companies don't have me as the founder

This the future

@KaiXCreator Talking to customers, everything else is fun 😅

As a solo founder, what drains you more? - Building the product - Finding the customers

Most people who try calorie tracking quit within 2 weeks. Not because it does not wor, but because the friction of logging every meal is too high. The process works, but forming the habbit can be challenging. We built Qalzy because the world needed a tool fast enough to fit into real life.

3 weeks heavy lift, 1 week deload. This program has significantly helped me progress to heavier weights

@Syraavibes Beach volley

People who don't drink and smoke, how do you manage stress?

Another way to explain the Dunning–Kruger effect

Your MRR won't fix what's broken inside you but it's a good start👍

@thejustinwelsh Not just early on... you are the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with, you should review your network often

The most important decision you make is who you surround yourself with early on. Hang with winners, and they'll convince you that you're a winner. Hang with losers, and they'll convince you it's all the winners' fault.

@FarzaTV @PaulYacoubian Curious, why did you decided to go through the accelerator again?

I decided to join Y Combinator, again. This would be my second time! Not fully sure what I'm working on yet. But, I'm sure I'll find something in time as I wander and ship. I'm a little scared to do the whole build a company thing again ngl, but mostly excited. There's never been a better time to work on the ideas in my head. The batch started this week. Starting a company at 23 vs now starting a company at 30 feels so different. At 23 (when I did YC in 2020), naivety was there. At 30 I guess I know how difficult it all is. It's not surprising to me that most people in YC are aged 19-24. Still, I feel like I have the naivety of a 19 year-old, but, with the mental of a guy who's been through a lot and learned a lot. So, I'm bullish. Let's see what happens. You'll probably see me launching a lot of random stuff over the next few weeks especially. Also, I am blown away by the number of founders in the batch walking up to me telling me they credit being at YC to @_buildspace. It's so wonderful, and warms my heart. I often struggle to stop and understand the value of my past work because I'm so interested in the future. So, this was nice. It's funny, many saw me irl and freaked out thinking I was joining as a YC partner and were very very surprised to hear I was joining as a founder back in the dirt alongside them haha. Most founders never start another company and usually turn into VCs or get a high-tier job at a big company. I do not blame them. And honestly, that would be the easier more secure path for me especially as I begin thinking about family. But, idk. I feel like my ideas are important. And even though I don't have a specific "This is the idea I'm excited about" it's more a feeling of "I should explore my ideas...I would regret it if I didn't". Especially in 2026, at the epicenter of one of the greatest inventions of my lifetime. Every time I think about getting a job (of which I've been offered many great ones) that voice in my head comes back and says to give my nascent visions a shot. So, gonna try :) Maybe I flop, maybe I don't, only one way to find out. I'll be dropping weekly updates on YouTube if you're interested. I put one out last week that talks more in depth around the story of how this YC stuff even happened randomly, why I'm doing this again, my imposter syndrome and how I think about it, and other stuff. I'll link it below. Lets see what happens!! See y'all.

Introducing Nutrition Score in our next release. It's a tough one to max out #qalzy

@marckohlbrugge same games I built on Android a few years back... when writing code was a thing... learned a lot

what's your favorite, personal project, that was not a success?