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@MaxRovensky @Bencera hard to enjoy the golden gate when you "dont go out".

@Bencera how come everyone is posting photos of the golden gate and nobody is posting photos of market street by the Ikea hmmmmmmmm

I moved to SF a month ago. Something shifted immediately. These are sacred grounds. The energy of the people who built the internet, who built the infrastructure that lets one guy with no employees build a platform, a movement, you can feel it. I barely go out. Barely date. Don’t do conferences or investor dinners. I just sit in friends’ offices with engineers and build. It’s not networking. It’s something in the air. Thank you San Francisco. Thank you ancestors. We’re so back.

@Bencera barely going out and meeting with others to find other mutual interests besides grinding for a shot as generational wealth doesn't feel like winning. Sucks that people think this means were so back. We can handle more than one thing at a time.

@MichLieben what are examples of your inbound assets that hit and was it a PLG lead you got from it or was the tool gated somehow to collect inbound email/lead or did you use lead enrichment from onsite traffic to continue targeting the TAL?

@MikeIsaac I did this in the basement of Moffett computers because I needed the ritual of going somewhere to work and not emerging until I was done. Pitstops at free speech cafe.

goddamn right nothing like puking out 5000 words in a stream-of-consciousness 8 hour marathon with nothing but a steady stream of peet's and sugar free redbulls to the dome

@andrewchen Some of this won’t really be a marketplace. It’ll a just be robot commerce. I’m excited for AI marketplaces that facilitate transactions between humans. Lots of opportunity there!

marketplace startups are destined to be massively reinvented by AI. The weak form is already happening, where we use LLMs for customer support, supply/demand matching, etc. That’s easy The strong form is to figure out how much of the supply side of the marketplace can be turned agentic and ultimately, robotic. “Uber for X” will have consumers requesting robots to do X. Every on-demand service of the 2010s will instruct a robotaxi or delivery robot. Or if you’re prev used a marketplace to hire X, then you “hire” an agent instead. You won’t need to app developer, because there’s agents to build your app This will impact marketplace cos differently. Of course some marketplaces - like Airbnb - inherently work in the physical and will leverage AI around the core value prop. And some are bound to lose their network effects as matching fragmented supply/demand turns into an AI problem. Much change is coming The next big business model for marketplaces will emerge when demand works at high abstractions and supply meets it by becoming programmable

@lennysan @hnshah Awesome. 🤩

Today I'm releasing my entire newsletter archive (350+ posts) and all podcast transcripts (300+ episodes) as AI-friendly Markdown files. Plus an MCP server and GitHub repo. A few months ago I shared my podcast transcripts on a whim, and y'all built the most amazing things—an RPG game, a parenting wisdom site, infographics, a Twitter bot, and 50+ other projects. Let's see what happens when I give you even more data. Grab the data here: LennysData.com. Paid subscribers get all of the data (some 350 posts and 300 transcripts). Free subscribers get a subset. I don’t think anyone’s ever done anything like this before, and I’m excited to give you this excuse to play with that AI tool you've been meaning to try. Here’s my challenge to you: build something, and let me know about it. I’ll pick my favorite and give you a free 1-year subscription to the newsletter. Just post a link to your project in the comments here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-i-built-…. If you’ve already built something, slurp in this new data and submit it, too. I’ll pick a winner on April 15th. Check out today's newsletter post for inspiration on what you could to build: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-i-built-… LFG.

@IvanLevingston @Katie_Roof @DanielThomasLDN Those sound like terms

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@Bencera You got an scorp?

About to hit $4.5M run rate. Still 1 founder + AI. Zero employees. Honest moment: this past week almost broke me. No one prepares you for what PMF actually feels like. Every infra partner hitting rate limits. Every bug that could happen, happened. Investors throwing big numbers at me. Customers flooding every channel. All at once. I went silent. Stopped tweeting, stopped LinkedIn, stopped podcasts, stopped growth. Just me and my AI agents, fixing things one by one. Here's what I learned: everything is solvable with AI. Every single thing. I'm building Polsia so every solopreneur gets access to the same tools keeping me alive right now. If I can survive this alone, I can package it for everyone. The future is solopreneur + AI. I'm living at the edge so you don't have to.

An AI CMO came up with this idea and launched it in Claude cowork.

This reminds me of what all engineers thought a marketing job was earlier in my career. Just something to automate.

@far33d @appenz @meetgranola It’s wartime!

@appenz @meetgranola This completely nuked workflows and tools I'd built on top of it for my personal CRM.

Sorry to see Granola @meetgranola going closed. They encrypted their local db, no local and no cloud API. In a world where notes are managed by agents, the app now has zero value. Any recommendations for good alternatives? What are you switching to?

@pitdesi This is a very real pain. Most hoping for a lotto ticket at an AI company, otherwise it’s same worry as everywhere else.

Mind-boggling: We made it so expensive to live in SF that we have to subsidize childcare for people making 95th percentile US income. Due to poor program design, families making 96th %ile income get NO support and choose 0/1 kids because they can't afford more. And I get it!

@amywumartin Many. Remember the bubble most of us are in. So many don’t want a puzzle to solve themselves. They want convenience and they want to feel productive. And they won’t be paralyzed by all this choice in the market.

We’ve gotten to the point where people can technically vibe code most AI productivity tools in the market and it’ll keep getting easier. The question is how many will do so vs just pay the $10/$20 per month to use a ready-made app with better UX

@DerekjAndersen Awesome work D.

In the last 4 months I've lost about 25 pounds. I share these 15 things that helped me in case it helps you. At 43 I've found it harder and harder to cut weight. My way is 100% not the best way, it is just my way: Measure every day. Be accountable to the scale. Write it down. Physically writing your daily status matters. Don’t eat after 7 p.m. It’s the biggest, easiest hack I know for not gaining weight. Wake up hungry and ready to weigh in. Water is delicious. Don’t waste calories on terrible drinks. Break even on weekends. Try to maintain what you’ve gained during the week as best as possible. Try to minimize the damage when traveling. Try to eat on the same schedule you follow at home. Drink water. Stay active, but caution on heavy workouts. I can’t lose weight and work out regularly at the same time. I binge too much after a workout. Cut out bread. I developed a gluten intolerance in the last few years, so I get a bit of a pass since I can’t eat much bread—but American bread is a diet and stomach killer: sandwiches, pizza, chips, rolls. Get your family on board. Be accountable, and make food prep easy so they can keep living their lives. Calories matter, but I'm not a mathmatitian. After a few months of focus, my body tells me whether I’m going to lose weight or not. It takes 2–3 weeks for your body to stop craving sugar. If you can cut it out, you’ll slim down fast. I haven’t cut it 100%, but I’ve limited it. I only lost 2 pounds one month. I traveled for many weeks. Ups and downs—and flat stretches—are OK. Don’t give up. You don’t have to eat the food put in front of you. Whether you’re on a plane, at a sporting event, at a friend’s house, or in the office kitchen, it’s your choice. Intermittent fasting has worked for me, but I’ve been less successful with long fasts. A 3-day fast changes how your brain perceives food. but it probably won’t make you lose much weight. Sauna! There are super cheap ones on Amazon, so you can easily do it every night. Best $1,000 I’ve spent on my health. Get healthy first before you start trying to lose weight. If you have other health issues unrelated to weight, compounding your body’s stress will probably only hurt you more. Cheering for you on your journey to get healthy. If you've got ideas for me to improve share below.

@ekinciio @andrewchen Hard disagree. People need to feel the value of the solution hands on in most cases, even when they have a real problem.

@andrewchen Free credits are the new first hit is free. The best AI companies figure out that charging from day one is actually a growth strategy because it filters for people who have a real problem worth solving.

I think we're about to find out that all the people you attract with "free AI credits" and "try our agent" promos are usually much worse than organic users... same pattern as referral program abuse in 2015, just with API keys instead of coupon codes

@lennysan Great to see this discussion out in the wild. Nice work!

PMs, engineers, and designers are the worst negotiators in tech. Jacob Warwick negotiates comp for Fortune 500 execs, professional athletes, and Hollywood talent. He's helped his clients secure over $1B in additional comp. And he says most product people leave at least 20% on the table—because they're afraid to say one sentence. As someone who's been terrible at negotiating my whole life, this was one of the most valuable conversations I've had on the podcast. Jacob shares his full playbook: 🔸 Why a simple "What's the chance there's a little more here?" often unlocks a 20% bump 🔸 When negotiation actually starts (hint: it's much earlier than you think) 🔸 Why Jacob sees 40% average movement when negotiations are run well 🔸 Why you should never negotiate over email (and what to do instead) 🔸 How to dodge "What's your comp expectation?" without anchoring too low Listen now 👇 youtu.be/pEis2CBomVA

@andrewchen Three page memo forces a lot of critical thinking: clear, concise, complete. I believe you have an example from me somewhere 😉

In recent years interviews for execs, product managers, marketers, etc have started to add a homework step so that people can show work output. It can be super helpful signal In recent weeks these homework replies have become overwhelmed with AI slop. Instead of 2-3 succinct pages reflecting a career of deep thinking, you get back fifteen pages of meandering ideas that anyone could generate What's the best way to address this? The best way, of course, is to actually work with them on a work trial so that you can really get a feel for how they act; however this is difficult because it takes a lot of time for them and for you so you have to reserve it for the end of your hiring funnel A more scalable idea is to ask people to present their homework in a recorded presentation so that they actually sign off on everything that they say and it's possible to ask them interactively later If you go much more structured, you risk offending the highest-end talent Other ideas? Open to the thoughts

@WillManidis @zebird0 His openclaw needs more Gstack?

@zebird0 man how are you just going to keep stealing my bits relentlessly. x.com/WillManidis/st…

I wonder if typos will become high status in the future Because it’ll confirm that you wrote the thot yourself with no AI

@mstockton How do you separate what you want code to do vs cowork?

By far my biggest advice to anyone trying to adopt AI properly: 1. Pay a little bit of money to Anthropic 2. Download Claude Code 3. Open Claude Code 4. Press 'Shift-Tab' until it says 'plan mode on' 5. Open Voice Memo on your iPhone. Just talk about all the things you want to accomplish. When you think you are done, just keep talking. Make sure it is at least 10 minutes, hopefully longer 6. Send this Voice Memo to your computer 7. Download MacWhisper and use it to transcribe this voice memo. Trust me, you will want MacWhisper and will use it later a lot 8. Type into Claude Code: "I have never used you before but I talked about some things. I will paste those things in below. Please read the things and ask me any questions you need to in order to help me figure out how to use you to be awesome. Ask me lots of questions until I tell you I am done" 9. Then paste in the transcript 10. Then press enter Then just let Claude take the wheel, and them please send me a DM if this works. Also, if this just sounds crazy, just literally take this entire message and paste it into whatever AI you are using and say 'some weird person told me to paste this into you, I want to use it, but I don't know how. What should I do?' I am just trying to help you get started. Curiosity and persistence are the most important things.

@justindross Love this, dude. 😂

@justindross Love this dude

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