Curtis

I spent months paying recruiting agencies $15k+ to send me the same mediocre SDR candidates I could find myself on LinkedIn. So I built an AI that does the entire job in under 2 hours. For free. Here's why recruiting agencies are the next middleman to get automated: 🧵

@boringmarketer the agencies charging retainers for 6 weeks of work that AI now does in 30 minutes are about to have a really uncomfortable pricing conversation with their clients. the ones that adapt become platforms, the ones that don't become case studies

I have been compressing marketing agency services from 4-6 weeks to 30 minutes during my pilots. There will be brands that operate in house with our infrastructure and there will managed services (ours included) that leverage it. But the traditional agency model is going to be disrupted in a big way. More soon.

@Seanfrank can you make it even smaller?

finally made a wallet for all my followers on here <3

@a16z 4x generation growth needed and that's before AI infrastructure is even fully factored in. we need a full grid upgrade the US, plus hardened facilities against potential EMP attacks (can't wait for this narrative in the next bear market)

Electricity demand is accelerating faster than at any point in a generation. Getting to a fully electrified economy means generation needs to grow more than four times from today’s levels — and that estimate doesn’t yet account for the next wave of AI infrastructure now coming online. But America's grid isn't ready. Heron Power founder and CEO Drew Baglino writes on how to build one that is: a16z.news/p/americas-ene… @baglino @heronpower

@HarryStebbings the safe path just means the risk is hidden and deferred. at least with the risky path you know what you're signing up for

On my way to interview one of the greatest minds on the planet. A show that will be listened to by millions. On the way, I pass the dorm room I left 11 years ago when I dropped out of my law degree. The safe path is less safe than you think, the risky path is less risky than you think. Chase your dreams with everything. Today.

@HarryStebbings @Jason consistency is the most underrated competitive advantage because it's the one nobody wants to hear about. 11 years and 3000 episodes is the kind of compound interest that no shortcut can fake

Rarely is the action itself hard. What is hard is showing up day in day out, doing the action when everyone else doesn’t. Recording a podcast is not hard. Doing 3,000, 3 per week, 4,000 hours, 10 years. That is hard. @Jason taught me the most valuable thing: “This is a game of who can survive the longest. Just keep going.” 11 years now, we just keep going. 😉

@dramaricic problem solving and impact nothing feels better than solving a problem and helping others

What is your goal as SaaS builder? - Financial freedom - Personal satisfaction - Problem solving or you just love building?👇

@thenowhereway agreed tools changed but the hard part didn't

Nobody talks about this: AI removed the skill barrier. So now the game is: - Taste - Positioning - Distribution And beginners are weak at all three.

@ProductHunt me asking a coworker for a meeting recap: be concise, respond in bullet points, do not hallucinate

messaging my coworkers like they’re AI and I’m prompting them

@forgebitz this is the same gap between productivity tool & job replacement we need domain specific agents that understand your exact industry and positioning. context is so imp

wild that no one has really made the perfect ai assistant yet tried many, always a bit meh still a massive opportunity

@jasonlk agreed If AI costs are a rounding error compared to the revenue it generates, optimizing for the cheapest model is just leaving quality on the table. save pennies on tokens, lose dollars on output

"How important is optimizing model costs? In some cases, it's very important. Look at OpenRouter's data. There is a large set of customers optimizing on open source models, mini, haiku, etc. But ... other B2B + AI Apps, it's not that important. The credit costs aren't massive, and the benefits from using the top Opus/Sonnet models are so high ... you still with one platform. And just invest more and more in it." with @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll + me

@1Umairshaikh agreed the gap between product and paying customers is still massive

Vibe coding made the first 20% free. The last 80% reliability, scale, edge cases still costs real engineering. Most people quit at 20% and call it a launch.

@sherifgjini a lot has been learned! happy to take what I've learned to Q2! x.com/curtismakes/st…

We hit the Q1 Whats the progress so far?

Q1 wrap for shortlist: 500+ qualified candidates delivered 20 matching engine improvements shipped 50+ city specific SEO pages live 5 free hiring tools launched 1 failed Product Hunt launch 1000+ cold emails sent building in public means Ls count too. what are your Q2 goals?

@Seanfrank you forgot add peptides, slap longevity on the label, get a podcast bro to promote it, and price it like it cures aging. the DTC wellness playbook is just a mad lib at this point

Do it. Launch a gummy brand. Add creatine. Put fiber in it. Add protein. Make it spike your testosterone. Make it help you sleep. Chase the LTV. Raise 20 million. Raise 50 million. Beg customers to not churn. Call them if they try. Cry if you have too. Put it all on the line.

@peer_rich new claude code feature unlocked: thermal paste stress tester. we truly are living in the future

i just had a garry claude moment claude code got stuck in a weird loop and hiked up my CPU to 99% and suddenly my video call started crackling, macbook got really hot and everything started lagging i wouldnt be surprised if it could cook USB sticks

@dgt10011 the wildest part is most retail investors can't even participate. a $1tn company being built entirely in private markets means the wealth creation is concentrated before it ever hits a public exchange. by the time there's an IPO the biggest gains are already gone

OpenAI is now worth more than every S&P 500 company except 12. It has no profits. Those 12 companies have a combined age of nearly 1,000 years. OpenAI is 10. The most disruptive wealth creation event in human history is happening right now, entirely in private.

@hthieblot love this, launches are iterative not a one shot event

You can launch the same product 3 times on X within 2 weeks and get completely different results. First launch: 2K views Second launch (new hook): 50K views Third launch (more product demo–focused): 200K+ views Same product. Different execution. In this case, the first video was actually the most expensive to produce, but the value prop didn’t resonate. The third launch was done at 2 AM with just a webcam and a laptop, and it crushed. Stop putting all your eggs in one launch basket. If you launch and get 30 views, nobody has heard about your product yet, you should relaunch ASAP. Always be launching

@foundr the boring operational stuff nobody wants to build is the thing that actually lets you grow without everything catching fire

Scale the systems, not the chaos.

@pmddomingos at this rate we'll be there by 2028.the singularity isn't when machines become smarter than us, it's when a seed round deck with 'AI' in the title auto-generates a trillion dollar market cap

It's not the singularity until an AI startup reaches a quadrillion-dollar valuation on the day it's founded.

@a16z when every company needs a data center and every car needs a plug, efficiency can't keep up anymore

Electricity demand was essentially flat for decades. Now it’s exploding. Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino: "Energy efficiency more or less negated the growth in energy services." "The net electricity delivered to accomplish those energy services stayed basically flat." "Even with all the AI things that are going on… And that has allowed more and more compute capability for the same percentage of GDP electricity production." "It's changing now that we can find more applications for AI than ever before." "We are seeing electricity growth higher than it's ever been before." "It's because we are seeing broad based demand for more electricity — compute, transportation, industrial electrification." @baglino @heronpower