Aditya Saxena

@get_all_answers @evernote doesn't have a web client :(

@adi808080 @evernote Obsidian

can anyone recommend a good alternative to @evernote which has a web client and a native mac client? losing ~5 mins on login every day is a productivity loss 😮

@michelleefang interested!! i'm working on adding a referral program for calstudio.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!

@Vixhal i'd switch if it was even 1/10th as good as cursor

bro disappeared like he never existed

@benln just added elevenlabs to calstudio.com so that users can build conversational voice apps :)

What are you building this weekend? Share links, curious to see.

@donvito @llama_index @weaviate_io gemini file store has been outperforming other vector dbs for me

if you’d implement RAG now what would you use i tried @llama_index and @weaviate_io Verba before but that was a year ago how is the RAG landscape now

GPT 5.2 is now live on CalStudio ⚡️ Scary-good upgrades, wild benchmarks: → SOTA long-context (MRCRv2 leader) → SOTA tool-calling (Tool Decathlon + τ²-Bench) → 50% fewer UI/chart errors- strongest vision model yet → #1 on SWE-Bench Pro for coding try @ calstudio .com

@OfficialLoganK Hi Logan, would be very interested!!

Reply here or DM me :) will add folks in as much as we can

Big upgrade to vibe coding in @GoogleAIStudio lands in Jan, but if you want to test early… 👇🏻

@AdityaShips Meta ray ban glasses

The day you hit $10K MRR, what’s the first thing you’re gonna buy for yourself?

is there a way to hook up a screenshot api to claude code/cursor, i'm using it quiet heavily for seo content but often run into these image issues would be awesome to have it auto screenshot my tool and use that!! 😮

@guilleflorvs palo alto

Which is the best startup city in the world (after SF)?

@T_Zahil claude code because opus 4.5 in terminal is significantly faster than cursor in my experience.

Cursor or Claude Code? I keep switching between them 🤦🏻

@johnrushx i don’t think openai collapses, but progress definitely feels slowed. we had custom gpts in 2023, now google ai studio + base44/lovable type of tools for fully functional apps feel way ahead - openai should've owned the ai app builder space long before others!

I feel like OpenAI is gonna collapse just like many other pioneers did in the past. 1995–2008 Yahoo → Google 2005–2009 MySpace → Facebook 2003–2011 BlackBerry → iPhone 1994–2012 Netscape → Chrome 2022–2025(?) ChatGPT → Grok/Gemini/Claude > Grok: real-time questions > Gemini: multimodal king > Claude: coding & long context king > DeepSeek: cheap

HUGE UPDATE!!! 🚀🚀🚀 we're partnering up with @koahlabs to enable contextual ai ads as a revenue stream for @calstudio_ai customers ⚡️ creators can now monetize through ad income without paywalls: • one-click toggle to enable ads • automatic payouts via Stripe • ai-contextual ads shown in conversations • new revenue stream alongside subs/payments this is perfect for high-traffic apps where users won't pay upfront 😮 learn more → docs.calstudio.com/account/koah-l…

@Aladey calstudio.com

Phase 3. Drop your domain in the comments 👇 My AI agent will appraise it. 📷🤖

@johnrushx this is an uplifting stat, thanks for sharing!

Most founders think VC-backed means rich, but bootstrapping means poor. Not true. I’ve done both: VC exits are rare: most are small, and only a tiny few are big. Founders are diluted to 10%, locked for years with an earnout. Bootstrapping to $3.7M/y at 80% margin equals $3M/y in profits, which is $30M/10y. But the VC path means hoping for a big exit after years. I raised pre-seed to Series A 10+ times and stayed poor, dreaming of billions that never came. I knew 1,000+ founders, but only a few achieved life-changing exits. My profits fund whatever I want here & now, not in some imaginary future. I'm my own boss, earning money now while spending time with my family and living life on my terms. Ofc, if you wanna make a billion-dollar exit, VC path is the way to go, but idk, that's a fking lottery to me.

@TimSuzman @garrytan @pioneer_fund wait, didn't this get shut down years ago? i remember religiously following the leaderboard :)

@garrytan At @pioneer_fund we love investing in YC startups with solo founders, non-traditional backgrounds, non B2B, non SaaS, international founders, consumer products, the works.

YC is funny because for everything we get hate for, we fund those and fund of that kind by #'s than anyone else Solos Non-traditional background Anything not B2B SaaS Almost any category, we do the most # of anyone, and the ones we do generally are among the most successful

@MartinGTobias distribution and network is great!

Founders: Other than money, what do you hope your investors give you ?

@fightmay @calstudio_ai you’ll receive a dm by end of day 🫡

@adi808080 @calstudio_ai Oh done ✔️

@shri_vatz was appsumo worth it? have seen more negative reviews, was considering it for calstudio

It's crazy that Guidejar is in the top 9% ($148k - appsumo+stripe revenue) Honestly I think I just got lucky enough, pitching in the right places at the right time My only rule though was to build a connection with every customer. Word of mouth is how you compound customers