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Lately I’ve been experimenting with Hushmap — it’s a different take on social/AI. Instead of chats, it’s a map of places (cafes, bars, etc.) where you drop in and interact with AI “people” in context. Feels closer to real-world social dynamics than typical bots. hushmap.xyz

Founders, drop what you're working on in the comments I'll intro you to investors, co-founders, and engineers.

“ok this startup is cool but …” 1980: … what if IBM builds this? 1995 … what if Microsoft builds this? 2010 … what if Google builds this? Today … what if builds this? reality is, if founders listened to the “what if” pessimists we’d never have any startups or new products. That’s why they’re building and the pundits aren’t My observation: When these huge waves happen, these new markets are so damn big there will be tens of thousands of new viable companies, hundreds of unicorns, and a few iconic companies that become generational. The big cos play a role but can never compete with the glorious open market known as capitalism So for all the “what if” people - sit down, log off X for a bit, and let the founders do their thing. And let’s cheer them on when they do

Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, on why AI agents still produce "slop" without human taste in the loop: "You can create code and run all night and then you have like the ultimate slop because what those agents don't really do yet is have taste." Peter is direct: raw capability without direction still produces mediocre output. "They are spiky smart and they're really good at things, but if you don't navigate them well, if you don't have a vision of what you're going to build, it's still going to be slop. If you don't ask the right questions, it's still going to be slop." Great AI-assisted work is defined by the human guiding it. @steipete describes his own creative process when starting a new project: "When I start a project, I have like this very rough idea what it could be. And as I play with it and feel it, my vision gets more clear. I try out things, some things don't work, and I evolve my idea into what it will become." Most people skip this part entirely, front-loading everything into a single prompt and wondering why the result feels hollow. "My next prompt depends on what I see and feel and think about the current state of the project." Each step informs the next. The work itself is the feedback loop. "But if you try to put everything into a spec up front, you miss this kind of human-machine loop. And then I don't know how something good can come out without having feelings in the loop — almost like taste." The agentic trap is what happens when you remove yourself from the process too early.

Don't build an audience first. Build a product and let the audience find you.

"Action produces information"

Crisis are survived well by those with paranoia. Paranoia is found in people who suffered crisis.

leaked video of the YC after party

I'm calling it. AGI is already here – it's just not evenly distributed yet.

Anyone that thinks there's some magic-easy-AI-money to be made is either naive or hasn't been alive long enough to build a real product. There's still an unbelievable amount of hard work, confusion and pain that goes into building a real company with real customers.

There’s an emerging wave of solo entrepreneurs who are building $100k - $1m software businesses. No VC raised, completely bootstrapped, often starting on the side while they’re still employed. The old path to building consumer businesses used to be to identify demand first by creating a series of landing pages and ad copy - before building the product. But if creating software is as easy as making landing pages - and you no longer need to raise venture capital to hire a group of engineers - why not just build a series of products instead? This is the new era of entrepreneurship

@hthieblot building hushmap — a map where you can step into real places and talk to AI strangers inside them still rough, but starting to feel like wandering a city and meeting people hushmap.xyz

@ founders What are you building this week end?

@SureshK63920 Congrats

Left Apple in January, two months before my 10-year anniversary. Just made my first sale. $150/month. What they're paying for surprised me.

@hridoyreh super cool collection. thanks!

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@MohapatraHemant super cool

I wake up fairly early and I love listening to classical Hindustani ragas to get my day going. I got inspired recently by this website called Dhuni and wanted to get some of my own favorites built into a radio station and build an interesting interface with a man slowly walking through a forest as dawn becomes day becomes evening becomes night and the dawn comes back again. Used @emergentlabs And literally one-shotted this whole thing in less than 10 minutes. I was just 🤯. I have used the product often over the last 6-8 months as an investor but this was genuinely so well done. I tried using the same prompt on at least 3 other platforms and some essentially connected to radio stations that had Hindi music but then randomly inserted English music. Some didn't have an interface as cool, some had output that was barely understandable and needed a lot of APIs to YT. Some asked me to use curl on the terminal to download my favorite tracks as MP3s 😆 This experience just brought back to me how large an opportunity personal apps can be in the future. This exact thing would have cost me $20/mo as saas sub and would be fairly generic. This app now is exactly to my taste. The interface is exactly as I described it, the music is exactly like I want it. Just a delightful personal software I'm now waking up to every day. I am hosting it on @emergentlabs here if you want to check it out: meditative-woods.emergent.host

As answers get cheaper, good questions get more valuable

Yeah

AI is going to drain a lot of moats.

Software will proliferate just as videos, music, writing did. The market structure will shift from a “fat middle” to mega-aggregators and a long tail. It’ll be a slower process due to network effects, but many traditional vendor lock-ins will get eaten by AI.

the most important AI startups won't be the ones that replace humans... They'll be the ones that help humans figure out what to do next what will humans do next? I think we get a clue when it comes to the discussion around "taste" on one end of the spectrum and verifiability on the other AI is great at verifiable problems. Did the code compile, is the math right. Where it struggles: "was that email rude?" "does this tweet hit hard?" the gap between objectively verifiable and subjectively verifiable is where the most interesting companies will be built, because it's where humans can team up productively with AI

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.