Ashvin Praveen 🇲🇾

IT'S FINALLY HERE! 🔥 Freepik is now Magnific! 🔥 They loved the brand so much they decided to rebrand their/our name/domain. Let me tell you the story of how two guys created the fastest growing bootstrapped startup EVER in history and the love story with Freepik 🧵👇

Google’s design.md format is soo interesting & cool approach with them open sourcing it. Been using a similar structure across all my web projects recently.

"These cursors seem like a small touch, but it's the first time I've seen AI feel human." Here's my new episode with @tomkrcha (CEO of Pencil) where we covered the most mind blowing AI design tool I've ever seen. Tom showed me: ✅ Swarm mode with 6 AI agents designing an app at the same time ✅ How to load a full design canvas inside Cursor and Claude Code ✅ From design to working website in one prompt Some quotes from Tom: "We launched 2 weeks ago and now have 100,000+ users. Craft and care still matter." "Most vibe coding platforms are too linear. You should be able to explore 20 variations with agents." "All this magic on screen...behind the scenes, the agents are just writing JSON." 📌 Watch now: youtu.be/w4RY7PnfRU8 Thanks to our sponsors: @linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams linear.app/behind-the-cra… @Replit: From 0 to full stack app in 2 min. replit.com/?utm_source=cr…

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

I created a Claude Skill that make beautiful slides on the web. The world hasn't woken up to the fact that code can create much better slides than most PPT tools. - Claude interviews you first about aesthetics, then generate a few directions to "show not tell", and you can pick your favorite - Cool transitions and animations - Interactive hover states and cursor effects - Auto-fits on any screen - Supports converting existing PPTX files to web-based slides; preserves original images and brand assets I asked Claude to make a slide show about this skill to showcase what it can do. Link to skill below

Gemini 3.1 Pro is insanely good at animating svgs

I just translated @mattshumer_'s "Something Big is Happening" (that has >100mil views) to Chinese, Malay, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, German & more. Wanted to share the ideas with my friends & family who don't speak English primarily. Now you can too. rosereader.vercel.app/en/something-b… 🧵

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings. OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.

We are rolling out more detection for automation & spam (and a lot more to come). If a human is not tapping on the screen, the account and all associated accounts will likely be suspended—even if you’re just experimenting. While we aim to support legitimate use-cases of agents, this will take some time to do properly. For now, we recommend holding off on plugging in your bots. If it’s critical, you can use the official API.

@jia_seed soooo cool! just saw the launch announcement in discord, super cool use cases!

i proposed... introducing jam. you build, jam spreads.

lots of posts saying claude cowork just killed hundreds of startups they’re wrong. here’s why: we’ve seen this narrative before. it makes a clean, simple story, but it’s not how markets actually work openai devday 2023 tts launch: people said it would kill elevenlabs and similar startups reality: demand for voice exploded and the category expanded into more specialized tools. elevenlabs is doing better than ever chatgpt enterprise: people said it would kill b2b ai startups reality: it unlocked budgets, made ai procurement-safe, and created demand for everything it didn’t cover workflows, permissions, memory, integrations big labs ship a default experience that gives massive free education and proves the behavior actually works users try the flagship, then immediately ask for more: vertical focus deployment control privacy multi-model deeper integrations my prediction: 10x more workplace agent startups next year because of claude cowork every workplace agent needs long-term memory and context management across tools like gmail, slack, and google drive @hyperspell is building that context layer if you’re building a workplace agent, reach out. we’re betting on builders in this category the era of workplace agent startups isn’t over it’s just getting started

Just spent the long weekend recapping the year and goal planning. Here’s a framework for planning I’ve found useful: 1/ write down everything you did based on photo albums, ig stories, posts, diary entries 2/ categorise them and write key highlights by category 3/ then set goals based on what could be a deeper focus / where you wanna invest more time in & where you could spend less time Notes: I think studying the past is a lot more important in goal setting than just planning for the future and it lays a much better foundation of what’s feasible and realistic, but also what’s possible I spent a few hours on this, spent 80% of the time recapping the past, 20% thinking about the future. Did you all take a similar approach? or how did you go about setting goals this year?

@cherrybearies wait gone as in it reset? what was it before

Ded wanted to do some minor editing on this tweet but didn’t know editing it means the views etc will be gone…At least now you know I didn’t lie when I said I have no playbook AT ALL I really learn by trying and failing🥲🥲

@cherrybearies I had a super similar experience! the only challenge was explaining to my parents why i was dropping out of engineering to do marketing at a 3 person company 😂 but yeah i love the learning rate and adrenaline

Joining a startup fresh out of uni was the best decision I made. Here’s why: 1. I have nothing to unlearn Being new meant no corporate habits. No “this is how it’s done.” That made learning somewhat easier. 2. I am surrounded by hungry people Ambition is contagious. Being around people who move fast and raise the bar daily brought out my own fire to keep up and push further. 3. I can optimise for growth, not comfort I had little to lose. Early career is the only time risk is cheapest and learning compounds fastest. 4. I have no playbook Uni had a set curriculum; a startup didn’t. I wasn’t just following instructions. I made calls, owned outcomes, and created solutions. 5. I define where I fit Uni taught me where I might fit. In a startup, nothing is fixed. I got to explore, experiment, and define where I could truly make an impact. I’m glad I started at @ManusAI 🙌

when ur small startup went so viral it made the big brand sweat

We've had a year

linkedin's "Year in Review" is so bad, we built our own linkedin wrapped lol 1k+ users in 24h! if you've been posting on linkedin, try it: cleve.ai/wrapped