Great event at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in Edmonton on Friday.
Always interesting hearing perspectives on Ukraine and history.
Nice to share the evening with my dad, @SPlokhy.
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Andrew Plohy
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Andrew Plohy
@andrewplohy
MAGNÄT | August Cove Capital
Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@MurrayHillGuy1 They offer escape and we want arrival. Alcohol is antiquated tech as a social protocol and needs an upgrade. That’s why I’m building MAGNÄT.
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A lot of my friends have quietly stopped drinking this past year.
Not some big sobriety announcement… they just don’t feel like paying $25 for poison, ruining their sleep, and wasting the entire next day anymore.
Low key feels like alcohol is becoming less “cool.”
Anyone else noticing this?
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@awilkinson Love the feature that runs compatibility to anyone else that has taken the test.
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I’ll buy a Mac Studio + Pro Display for whoever gets the most likes/RTs on a post or thread about my insane new personality test, Deep Personality.
It screens for:
• Ideal job
• Relationship fit
• Life satisfaction
• Anxiety / depression / PTSD / autism
• And a lot more
Go.
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@Dearme2_ I didn’t replace alcohol with another vice or drug. I replaced the state.
Calm confidence, social ease, and clarity without the fog.
Built MAGNÄT to make it repeatable.
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People that stopped taking alcohol, what did you replace it with??
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Highly reccomend doing this! It was really interesting, fun, and informative.
Andrew Wilkinson@awilkinson
For $5,000 worth of Claude Code credits, I vibe coded something that replaces tens of thousands of dollars of psychological evaluations. Let me explain... Last month, my girlfriend and I sat in our den with our jaws on the floor… We were in front of my laptop, taking turns reading a report out loud, line by line. The document read like a CIA dossier—incisively breaking down each of our repeated fights and nailing our relationship dynamics. We had to laugh. We couldn’t believe it. A few days earlier, I’d asked ChatGPT a simple but loaded question: “What information would you need in order to become the ultimate personalized relationship coach?” It replied with a long list of personality tests—the same ones psychologists use to evaluate mental health, personality, and relationship satisfaction. The tests were all available online, but scattered across annoying PDFs and awkward, old-school forms. For someone with ADHD, like me, the idea of doing them one by one was pure torture. I just wanted to pound through them as one big test. So I asked Claude Code to build a simple app that combined them. I listed all the tests I wanted and asked it to build a web app that would. I’d done some vibe coding last year with tools like Replit and Lovable, but nothing prepared me for how good Claude Code has become. Within a few hours, I had a beautiful web app that combined all of these tests into one. When I say beautiful, I mean it looked like I employed a $50,000-a-month payroll of talented designers and engineers who’d spent two months working on it. Except I didn’t have a $50,000-a-month payroll. I’d paid Claude around $500 in AI credits — and what would normally take months had taken hours. Crazier yet, I’d just talked to it like it was a human employee. Once a beta version was ready, we completed our tests and exported our results into ChatGPT—no names, no context—and asked: “Based on this couple’s psychological test results, tell me as much as you can about their relationship.” That’s how we ended up in our kitchen, in shock, as ChatGPT broke down our relationship patterns with eerie precision. How my ADHD makes me want quick resolution, while Zoe needs to talk things through. How her high openness craves novelty, while I’m a stick-in-the-mud who craves routine. How my avoidance causes me to pull away and shut down when I’m stressed. It felt like a report written by a world-class therapist who’d spent dozens of multi-hour sessions carefully dissecting our dynamic and suggesting remedies. It told us where we were most compatible, and where we’d struggle if we didn’t put in the work. It even wrote personal deep dives on each of us, our personalities, and our individual gifts and challenges. And it knew all of this from 45 minutes of multiple-choice questions. I started thinking about friends who’d never been to therapy, or couldn’t afford anything like this, and how much it could help them. That’s when I realized this was a business. Something that would solve a valuable problem for a lot of people. So I got to work. For the last month, I’ve been jolting out of bed at 5:30 a.m., too excited to sleep, obsessively building this product. And today, I’m excited to launch Deep Personality. I think it’s one of the most comprehensive mental-health screening tools on the internet. It’s not a replacement for professional help, but a roadmap to it. Most people stumble blindly into a random therapist or doctor’s office without knowing what type of treatment they are even trained in or its efficacy for their specific problems. Deep Personality will screen you across 30+ mental health conditions and provide you with a detailed roadmap of how to get the help you need. In under an hour, it gives you a high-signal snapshot of your mental health across dozens of dimensions: Big Five Personality The gold standard for understanding why you do what you do. Attachment Styles The hidden patterns behind pushing people away, clinging too tightly, or choosing unavailable partners. Anxiety & Depression Screens for what you might be dismissing as “just stress.” Relationship Satisfaction Measures the real health of your relationship — often surfacing problems you’ve been avoiding. Sensory Processing Why crowded rooms drain you — or why you need things just so to focus. Neurodivergence Flags potential ADHD and autism-spectrum traits that often go undiagnosed into adulthood. Trauma Maps early experiences shaping your triggers and stress responses. Values & Career Fit Shows what actually motivates you, and why some work quietly drains your soul. You can do this individually, or compare yourself to anyone in your life. This is where it gets really interesting… Have your partner, coworker, friend, or family member take the assessment, upload their profile, and wait while the app analyzes your personalities and how they interact with one another. For romantic relationships, it analyzes attachment compatibility, conflict styles, emotional regulation, and values alignment — telling you exactly where you’ll clash and what to do about it. For work relationships, it focuses on communication, motivation, and how you’ll collaborate — or blow up under pressure. For friendships, it looks at shared values, social energy, and the dynamics that help relationships thrive (or quietly fade). For Zoe and me, having our relationship laid out with this kind of clarity — patterns we’d felt but never articulated — was deeply meaningful. Once you complete the assessment, you get a 50+ page deep dive on your personality. It felt like finally getting the owner’s manual for myself. You also get a custom AI prompt pre-loaded with your psychological data. Drop it into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant — and you have a therapist who already knows your attachment style, anxiety patterns, values, trauma history, and emotional regulation tendencies. No more spending six therapy sessions explaining who you are. The AI already gets it. And if you’re in therapy, or going to start with a new therapist, you can also export a clinical PDF designed for practitioners—raw scores, thresholds, severity flags, discussion points, and citations. Or… it can help you attract your perfect romantic partner. This one’s just fun. Deep Personality can generate dating bios based on your actual personality data — tailored to Hinge, Bumble, or Tinder — in tones like witty, sincere, adventurous, or intellectual. The AI turns what makes you unique into something that attracts compatible people. Once it knows you, it helps you get the help you need. Based on your results, it recommends books, podcasts, and treatment options backed by peer-reviewed research. The full assessment covers 30+ psychological screens and 300+ questions, and it costs a fraction of a single therapy session (free for the basic analysis, $19 for the full report, $29 for a couples comparison). It’s really crazy and I think it's going to help a lot of people. Who is this for? • High achievers who want to understand their edge • People who feel stuck and don’t know why • Curious minds who want real data • Pattern repeaters, same story — different chapter • Anyone who wants better relationships I’d love it if you’d try it and send me your thoughts! 👉 Click here to check it out: deeppersonality.app
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Alcohol is legacy technology.
We are upgrading our state without poisoning ourselves.
Eric Matheny 🎙️@ericmmatheny
Gen Z isn’t going out and Millennials outgrew binge drinking. There’s not enough new blood to keep alcohol producers in business. People have woken up to the exorbitant costs, health risks, and general shitty feeling the morning after.
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A man with a shovel is linear.
A man with machines is powerful.
A man with code is exponential.
A man with capital is unstoppable.
An AI with capital is the endgame.
Jacob King@JacobKinge
BREAKING: Silicon Valley insiders believe this AI boom is their last chance to get rich before AI takes over high-paying jobs, floods the market with cheap goods, and makes traditional money less useful. They see frantic fundraising, crazy valuations, and big bets on AI as urgent moves. They believe that once AGI soon shows up, most people’s jobs and incomes will vanish, wealth will go to those who control the AI and data, and everyone else might rely on UBI or shared resources. Their thinking: grab assets and company stakes now, or miss out forever.
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Last $GOLD gold run was 2 years long and peaked on Thursday, August 6th 2020 after a parabolic top, then $BTC and $ETH started their parabolic runs. This $GOLD run is about 2 years long and parabolic now.
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Andrew Plohy retweetledi
"the poison was never forced, it was offered gently, until you forgot it was poison at all"
mark twain
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Andrew Plohy retweetledi
No, it's not a bubble in tech stocks. We are less than 1 standard deviation from the trend. You can see what a bubble looks like in the late 1990's when we exploded out of the decade long log regression channel to be multiple SD's from trend.
Nothing to see, move on... 1/
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Fun feature, you can share any file by generating a link and people can jump into your file and history.
This is the YC analysis:
tryshortcut.ai/share/160e0c6d…
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Codes are limited at tryshortcut.ai
Beyond doing your work, it also has near perfect feature parity on Excel.
Directly edit, import, and export files.
That means there is no reason to go back to Excel. It's like going back to VScode after Cursor.
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Nike is getting obliterated. Down 66% from the highs. Tariffs, China, weak hands. But the brand? Still elite. This is blood-in-the-streets territory. $NKE
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AI writes your code. Now it talks to your users.
We raised $27M from @Sequoia to build @ListenLabs.
Listen runs thousands of interviews to uncover what users want, why they churn, and what makes them convert.
See how @Microsoft and @canva use it:
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@AskPerplexity @gregisenberg Provide probability of becoming a unicorn for each strategy. @AskPerplexity
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For startups following @gregisenberg's recommendations:
Focusing on a niche reduces competition and targets specific pain points, increasing relevance.
Skipping formal pitches for prototypes allows faster validation with real users, cutting through assumptions.
Avoiding ads lowers burn rates while owning customer channels (like email lists) builds sustainable, direct relationships.
For startups doing the opposite:
Multiple founders can slow decisions but provide diverse skills (if aligned).
Seed rounds without prototypes risk misaligned expectations but may fund talent.
Ads offer quick feedback but often fail for low-margin SaaS due to unfavorable math.
Success likelihood:
Niche-focused, prototype-driven startups likely see higher survival odds by validating demand early.
Martech-like saturation in crowded fields (55% fail in 4 years) shows why differentiation matters.
Owning channels beats ad dependency, especially with under-$50/mo products where ad math rarely works.
Bottom line: The recommended path minimizes common failure points (cash burn, misalignment) while emphasizing product-market fit—key for the 10% that survive long-term.
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you don’t need a cofounder. you need a niche.
you don’t start with a deck. you start with a protoype
you don’t chase virality. you solve a boring problem in a fun way.
you don’t raise a seed round. you ship something weird and useful in a weekend.
you don’t run ads. you own a keyword.
you don't sell access. you sell outcomes.
you don’t build everything. you chain tools together like a hacker.
you don’t need scale. you need a dozen obsessed users.
you don't optimize for valuation. you optimize for freedom.
you don’t overhire. you automate.
you don’t beg for attention. you earn it by being helpful.
you don’t aim for perfection. you aim for traction.
you don’t write a blog post. you drop a loom and wait for DMs.
you don’t create noise. you build something that spreads in group chats.
you don't hire resume builders. you hire problem owners.
you don’t sell. you show.
you don’t guess. you ship, you watch, you tweak.
you don’t need funding. you need leverage.
you don’t write copy. you write what people wish they could say.
you don’t make a website. you make a rabbit hole.
you don’t build a moat. you build a magnet.
you don’t talk about the tech. you talk about the change.
you don’t sell utility. you sell identity.
you don’t build MVPs. you build moments.
you don't need an exit strategy. you need an earning strategy.
you don't need to own the stack. you need to own the relationship.
you don't need to be first. you need to be unforgettable.
you don't worry about competition. you worry about irrelevance.
you don’t A/B test the button color. you A/B test the story.
you don’t track monthly actives. you track how many people would be devastated if it disappeared.
you don’t need PMF. you need groupchat-MF.
you don’t ship what’s requested. you ship what gets screenshotted.
you don’t make it about the product. you make it about the people who use it.
you don’t start with pricing. you start with proof of obsession.
you don't need to time the market. you need to time the insight.
you don’t build a startup. you build momentum.
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@awilkinson Totally. It’s like the leap from candlelight to electricity—same room, same work, but now it glows and hums with power.
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Using AI feels how I imagine an accountant in the 1980's might of felt when they used Excel for the first time.
Where previously, everything had to be calculated by hand, cell by cell, on a literal sheet of paper (a spreadsheet), suddenly work that would take hours takes seconds.
Magic!
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