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nishank jain
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nishank jain
@_nishankj
something new :) earlier @accel
Mumbai, India Katılım Kasım 2014
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Hello Everyone, For 16 weeks we’ve dropped a weekly update here. (except the last one)
@pkaura and I are shutting down @theclankline
Over the last few months, 15 creators launched nearly 200 markets built on interesting, contrarian theses. The kind that didn’t exist anywhere else.
Those markets saw participation from over 900 people and did a notional volumes of over $90K.
For a small, two-person team, this meant a lot.
Every market created, every trade placed, every message we received was a source of inspiration for us. We’re genuinely grateful to everyone who showed up and gave this a shot.
Why are we shutting down?
Clankline was not a sustainable business yet. We had a few ideas. But as a lean bootstrapped team, we simply ran out of time.
This is hard to write. But it is what it is.
That said, this is not the end. We’re builders at heart.
We still believe in what we were trying to do. And I’ve a feeling that we will be back.
But for now, we’re taking a step back to rest and reflect.
Thank you for being part of the journey!
P.S. If you have any questions or any help you need related to Clankline, our DMs are open.
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@vatsal_sanghvi I hope this reaches to all those people who endlessly talk about how distribution is everything bullshit.
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my journey over the years as a founder
year 1 - let us build this, let us build that; users will use because we’re building a product
year 2 - oh no we need to market and distribution is hard, f*** distribution is the moat - it was never about building
year 3 - ok product is v v important, bad product + some distribution = no revenue; and revenue is king
year 4 - build products that have inherent network loops, distribute them well, get users to use and revenue will flow
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people who have tried both @conductor_build and @superset_sh, what experience do you prefer more and why?
i noticed i like superset more because i am working on the terminal there, however i did enjoy working on codex mac app as well quite a bit though that’s not a terminal.
thinking where will the ux converge..
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This is so so inspiring.
I keep coming back to it.
I think I’ll print and frame it in the office. @willahmed
Will Ahmed@willahmed
You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️
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You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…
Just keep going ✌️
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Single player to multi player is going to be one of the largest and most important UX innovations across ai products in 2026
Be it coding tools, creations (photo, video), gtm or nearly anything else.
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@WillowVoiceAI Is the iOS app update not released yet? It's not working as smoothly most of the times
Also when I click on activate on the keyboard it opens Blue Sky for some reason
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Why just skills, sub-agents and custom rules?
Why not entire agent chats? Seeing how someone else gets 10x the output with ai tools will help everyone be 10x engineer!
Remember reading about meta sharing everyone’s agent chats internally. Such a forward thinking decision that was.
Sarah Wang@sarahdingwang
Pavan Ravitapi at @cursor_ai raised a great point at dinner last week: Reusable artifacts like skills, sub-agents, and custom rules are how context will diffuse through the AI-enabled firm. ~1% of engineers are making them, and discovery is an unsolved problem, but they benefit the whole org when shared internally. Cracking artifact authorship will be a big unlock.
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Open-sourced as a pi extension:
pi install git:github.com/zonko-ai/pi-gi…
Try: /gigaplan build a rate limiter for the API
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We gave our coding agent an adversary for planning.
Most agents: one brain plans, same brain executes. Ours runs a full adversarial loop -> one agent plans, a different agent tries to destroy it, a decision engine scores every flag.
Only surviving plans get built.
Clarify → Plan → Cross-model Critique → Evaluate → Integrate → Gate → Execute → Review
Every sub-agent visible live in cmux panes. Versioned artifacts. gigaplan_doctor for recovery. Robustness from light to thorough.
Link below
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So a lot of people love to dunk on @cursor_ai saying Claude code / codex really fucked their business model.
For startups working at the frontier, it’s probably true as we will always want to work with the latest models.
But speaking to engineers on the ground from other tech and non-tech companies really tells you the whole story.
They nearly don’t care as much about working with the latest model. A three month lag is okay for them because they are dealing with business problems that aren’t as fast evolving.
This + harness + ability to work with models from across different labs is the bull case for cursor!
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So so accurate. Couldn’t have said it better.
On a side note, someone please build an ai native posthog.
andrew chen@andrewchen
how to tell the difference between AI-native products versus when AI is bolted on after the fact... fake AI products: - main AI feature is an AI button with sparkle icons - chat pane where you can ask LLM questions - no memory/personalization beyond one chat - users try it once and go back to using the app the "normal" way - AI is optional not essential to the product working AI native products: - you can spend $100 or $1000 via tokens as you use the product - it gets substantially better every 6 months as base models improve - core workflow is impossible without AI, not just enhanced by it - creates behavior change when users try it what else should be on this list?
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@samrags_ what an amazing idea!
give people money to onboard and customise it basis their value and alignment with tg
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One thing I am actively trying to learn when making a product is keeping it narrow.
My natural instinct is to add when it should be subtract.
The best products often work because they do fewer things (which lets people understand what exactly it is in the first place).
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nuance - productionizing and being cash flow +ve while being boostrapped is incredibly excruciatingly crazily hard
nishank jain@_nishankj
Prototyping is easy Productionizing is hard. Productionizing and being cash flow positive is excruciatingly hard. - from how Elon works by @FoundersPodcast
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