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What’s new on CreateOS this week? A couple of focused updates shipped across the workspace, aimed at helping builders reduce idle usage and better manage how they work with Skills. This week introduces session sleep for Create and improved Skills organization. Here are the latest updates 👇🏻

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22yo London girl: vintage pearl purse + Raspberry Pi = portable Doom. 30M people watched. Because sometimes the best builds are the most useless ones 😂 moonfoundry.com/essays/girls-c… #RaspberryPi #Doom #Maker @Raspberry_Pi @adafruit @hackaday @DOOM

Would you carry this as your daily bag? Yes/No

Listening to the new @raye album. Stuck in a world of synthetic everything, this feeds my soul in a real, warm, touch-grass way. I didn't know I needed this energy. I was hungry and thirsty for it. My musician heart is fuller.

A founder on @newsycombinator Hacke News asked how to solve the cold start problem for his two-sided marketplace, essentially a BlaBlaCar for packages. 69 top-level replies came in, most from people who had actually built one. I read the whole thread. Five patterns kept showing up. 1. Be one side of the market yourself, for as long as it takes. DoorDash's founders were the first drivers. Uber paid early drivers just to sign up. The founder of FontOfWeb, a Pinterest for web design, seeded the database by clipping 8,500 websites by hand before any user showed up. 2. Pick one route, one category, one city. "If you can't force the first 20 successful matches manually, the market is still too under-specified." Every founder who had tried the global launch came back to tell a version of the same story. 3. Subsidise the harder side. Usually supply. Pay drivers to make the trip even when no sender has posted. Treat the spend as research into how the market behaves. 4. The manual work is the product work. The arduous seeding forces empathy with the user. You design a better interface because you have lived inside it a thousand times. 5. Every market has a market-maker. Someone places the early supply or demand by hand, until enough real users show up to sustain it without them. Two books came up worth reading: The Cold Start Problem by @andrewchen , and the NFX Network Effects Bible. The boring answer is the real one. Be the first driver, the first sender, the first match-maker. The drudgery is where the product gets designed. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478342… nfx.com/post/network-e…

I opened four startup pages this morning and could not tell them apart. A study of 500 Show HN posts says 67% now share the same AI-designed look: colored left borders, Inter heroes, grey-on-dark body. Shipping got cheap. Taste is what's left. adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-sl…

AI agents can now deploy apps to production on their own. No accounts. No API keys. No human in the loop. We built agentic deployments for @NodeOpsHQ using the Machine Payments Protocol (@mpp ) Agent writes code. Deploys it. Gets a live URL. Fully autonomous. npx skills add NodeOps-app/skills --skill createos-deploy 🧵

@BuildOnNodeOps @ProductHunt Product Hunt still a gold standard for new product launches, high quality feedback from the community

Building for users is a full time endeavour and responsibility. It’s continuous, and something we take seriously. This week’s Wall of Love features feedback from builders who tried CreateOS and shared their thoughts on @ProductHunt. We appreciate you taking the time to use our platform and share honest feedback. Our goal is simple: remove friction from the building process so you can focus on shipping and creating. Every comment helps us improve. If you’ve tried CreateOS and want to be featured in a future Wall of Love, drop your feedback below 👇🏻 #WallOfLove #CreateOS #BuildItNow #BuildInPublic

It's going to be a busy week for our CreateOS Lounges. This week, we’re sitting down with builders to hear their stories, what they’re building, and what’s next. This week's lineup: • Session with the @0xSpacecraft team: March 24, 1PM UTC • Sitting down with @lukas_margerie: March 25, 3PM UTC • Sitting down with the team building GitNexus: March 26, 1PM UTC CreateOS Lounge is where we host open conversations around the ideas, shifts, and questions that do not fit into standard announcements. This week, we explore how an AI terminal can reshape prediction markets, how an AI community can grow to thousands in just over a year, and how repositories can become interactive knowledge graphs. All sessions are interactive, so bring your questions and ideas and make the most of the opportunity to engage directly with builders at the forefront of AI. Find the individual Luma links for each session below and register now 👇🏻

@fluence_project @NodeOpsHQ Definitely a win-win kind of partnership!

🤝 We're glad to announce that we teamed up with @NodeOpsHQ and now provide Fluence global and decentralised GPU compute to CreateOS builders.

@shrutiKohli_13 @JNodeops Happy International Women’s Day to my fellow @BuildOnNodeOps powerhouses! 🔥

Lets celebrate the women of NodeOps — @JNodeops , @alex_incrypto , and @shrutiKohli_13 Three different journeys. One shared force. Heart, grit, brilliance, and conviction — shown up every single day. Here’s to the women building, leading, speaking, and winning. Happy International Women’s Day 💜

The sarcasm in Claude is top class. #VibeCoding

Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm in 1843 for a machine that did not yet exist. Today the machine exists. What matters is what you build on it. Introducing the IWD26 Lovelace Challenge: • 72 hours to build • Solo or teams of up to 2 • Deploy your app on CreateOS • Share the live link using #LovelaceChallenge in a comment or dedicated post • Open globally • Submissions close Sunday 8 March at 23:59 UTC For the best 2 builds: • Winner will receive $100 ad budget to promote the deployed app and dedicated deep dive post • Runner-up will be featured across NodeOps & CreateOS channels + CreateOS credits Sunday is International Women’s Day and the perfect opportunity to honour Ada Lovelace and her pioneering work in computing. Build, deploy, and share what you create. Good luck to all participants. #LovelaceChallenge #IWD2026 #CreateOS #BuildItNow

5/ The interesting IWD question for 2026: how many people with compound, hard-to-categorise skill sets are being overlooked right now because their work doesn't fit a job title the market already recognises? Ada waited 180 years. We could do better.

4/ Ada looked at a brass calculator and saw that it could compose music. She brought a poet's imagination to an engineer's machine and described something the engineer himself hadn't fully grasped. That is the skill stack worth building in an age of fluent execution.

Ada Lovelace's mother pushed her toward mathematics to keep her away from poetry. Ada responded by inventing "poetical science," fusing the two into a single practice. In 2026, that compound skill is the only kind AI can't substitute. #IWD2026