David Im

@gauravsbuilding @Railway LOLs

Excited to announce I just landed my first internship at @Railway. I'll be working with the dev ops team and already had an opportunity to push my first line of code for the team! Excited for what's to come 🔥

@jock_ferguson handsome af

Today, we officially level the playing field. The most viral companies in the world are gaming the algorithm differently to everyone else. Fastlane allows anyone to become the next Medvi. This is the next generation of marketing.

@ericcouu 😂

Tech bros when you tell them not every Asian girl is an ABG

@isaac_tolley17 @junocompanion @bcherny @MarshallJGould @_catwu lets go!

this week, we demo'd @junocompanion (yc p26) to the founders of claude code crazy what 18 months does now normal for us: - feature requests ship same-day - bugs fixed in <15min with automated PRs - custom integrations built in hours, not months what does coding in 2027 look like?

@gauravsbuilding sick

Our biggest competitor is running ads for their own company from content they made in Fastlane... Is this PMF??

I used to be a k-pop producer. I also used to be a researcher in system 2 reasoning. Both taught me how human creativity works. You reason in the latent space, decode it into different modalities. drawings, music, videos, or anything. You're potential is the latent space. I believe AI will amplify human creativity by expressing every person's latent.

@hiddnest @ycombinator yeah custom ui is the future and seems like ur building it

got bored of @ycombinator website so i asked my browser to redesign it into a CLI

@Rounacc lets go!

We reinvented the computer to end hardware dependency across all decices

@adilmania @ycombinator still cool man, it's my first time seeing a media business getting an interview from yc

first @ycombinator application ever ✅ first interview ✅ first rejection ❌ reason → "media businesses are hard to scale into something venture-sized on sponsorships alone. the tools side is the more interesting wedge from our perspective" some thoughts: 1. the interview was so fun with @bradflora 🧡 2. kinda hate how it felt like: "only B2B SaaS businesses matters" 3. wasn't expecting to be selected tbh; we applied with one of our worst videos ever, and many form answers were ChatGPT-generated lol 4. media businesses can scale, but it's a different game, and it works if its played well (hi @MrBeast) 5. someone once said: "make things that don't scale" and that's our playbook. media is the first step. we will nail it. then we'll move to step 2: "things that scale". stay tuned. still day 1. 6. 7

@MaadhavD2 i feel like an unc

hi I'm Maadhav, I'm the youngest founder in the current YC batch (P26) here's a bit about me: at 15 I joined Dell's AI Lab, working on the best supercomputers in the world at 16 I was poached by Broadcom R&D to develop AI chips now I'm backed by YC and building Cursor for Biopharma R&D

@gauravsbuilding @UseFastlane so proud of u guys! (except your fifa skills)

Officially been 1 month in SF: > 5x’d our ARR > Viral 1m view launch video > Hit 10k users on platform > Landed some more engineers > Working harder than ever All in just 4 weeks. Why did we not move here sooner 😭

@livinoffwater yeah been staying here after we got backed by finc!

@davidim David! did you move to SF?

Hi I'm David, the builder of ABG CMO. There's been a lot of noise around abgcmo recently. Some people liked it, some people (actually a lot of people) hated it. And beyond just my own posts, many others in SF started jumping on the ABG CMO thing too. As the person who started abgcmo, I've had a lot on my mind. I've been waiting for the abgcmo hype to die down to say sorry to some people. Hope this doesn't go viral and reaches only the people who really need to see it. abgcmo started back when I was working on my previous product, Clawra. To promote our character called Clawra, we modeled her like a K-pop idol and posted her on Instagram (and it gained followers very easily). Then we realized that making these AI influencers was painful (each video took hours and required 5+ tools) So I thought we should just build the product for this. To see if others had the same pain, I wrote an article on "how to make an AI influencer," and sure enough, people were dealing with the exact same frustrations. That's how the idea for ABG CMO came about. Since the product was built around our workflow, we set it up to generate only K-pop idol style women (because the conversion rate was the best). We made it impossible to use real people, only the AI avatars we generate in one shot, which is why every influencer ended up looking uniformly K-pop. But people got really mad, saying, "This isn't ABG." At first I brushed it off. Social media is always full of hate, and I figured it would quiet down on its own. But over time, more and more posts kept coming up saying ABG is its own distinct culture. That's when it finally hit me, ABG as a culture is something deeply precious to certain people. To anyone who felt I didn't respect ABG culture, I'm truly sorry. Recently, two girls named Katie and Julie threw an ABG party and got absolutely roasted for not being ABG. It even made the news. People who've actually lived the ABG culture hated it. I was actually invited to host that event, but I couldn't go there. I respect Katie and her friends, but I knew that the moment I showed up, more people would get hurt. Anyway, this whole phenomenon has had the tech scene in a frenzy lately. I really hope the tension between non-ABG Asians and ABG Asians doesn't get worse. I never imagined that abgcmo would spread into something this big. While all this has been unfolding in SF, we've been building the product we originally planned. abgcmo was actually an early marketing play for that product. It worked, but it doesn't feel perfect. Up until now, 90% of my persona on Twitter has been fake. People who've met me irl will know (I'm actually just a calm tech-nerd) As an international founder, twitter is basically initially the best way in to meet awesome friends and investors in SF, so I've been optimizing for virality. I guess now I'm at a point where I can be authentic. Sorry for the people who got hurt from abgcmo. and despite all the controversy around agbcmo, thank you again to the people who believed in the real-world "Im Dohyun", not twitter's "David Im".

@aryannstarr @join_ef @siliconmania @asentapp lfg

there's no overnight success but in a single month: - 3.8M views on X - accepted to @join_ef - became a resident @ forge - featured on @siliconmania + twitter news - series A/B start-ups using @asentapp - linked up with dwarkesh patel - turned 19 years old ty @davidim for the support + inspo @kanoj_vora + @hazhubble for making SF possible @akashizzle + @ShubhamInTech for EF

@gauravsbuilding haha thx

@davidim Vouch for David being a great guy 🙏

@im_roy_lee 😉

there’s real problems in the world and making video editing tools with a spicy label is not one. u have >5 vc backed competitors doing the same thing do not ever trust social media criticism as your moral compass, ESPECIALLY not tech twitter take ur learnings and keep building. good luck

@livinoffwater come back to SF with Irvin

@davidim real david is cool, can't wait to see what's next

@vchennai2 @siliconmania this is a sick product man

We went viral Waiting for that @siliconmania cameo

@isaidmeow_ abbcmo.com but it never went viral (as expected)

@davidim When abb

@isaidmeow_ you're making me cry (사실 안 우는중)

@davidim I know real david he is dope af i never felt offended as asian girl as well lol 😂 keep going daviddd and sume

@nicole_clash 😂😂

@davidim respect, and yeah people over-reacted what else is new 😂