Faaris

@scaling_shields Genius

my uber driver last night makes more from his passengers than uber pays him to drive them picked me up at 11pm in marbella car was spotless smelled like cleaning products QR code taped to the headrest "whats the QR code for" "my detailing business. you need your car cleaned?" "nah im good. but whats the business?" he pulled over and showed me his phone live booking calendar 4 appointments already scheduled for tomorrow €150-200 per car all from people who sat in his uber and scanned the code the play: he drives uber 4-5 hours a day in wealthy areas every passenger sits in a spotless car that smells like a showroom for 15 minutes QR code on the headrest goes to a booking page he shows up at their house next day and details their car in the driveway 90 minutes per car 4-5 cars per day €150-200 each "uber is my lead gen. they sit in my work for 15 minutes. if its clean they trust me. i dont need ads or a website. the car sells itself" last month: - drove 140 uber rides - 38 people scanned the QR code - 22 booked appointments - average job: €170 - detailing revenue: €3,740 - uber revenue: €980 makes nearly 4x more from the passengers than uber pays him to carry them "doesnt uber have rules against this" "probably. i dont read the terms" "what if someone reports you" "then i drive for bolt. same thing" no ads no content no website no marketing budget a €6 QR code sticker from amazon and a car that smells like his portfolio most people would hear this and spend 6 months building a brand and a website and an instagram page marcus bought a sticker and started the same week the best marketing in the world is 15 minutes of someone experiencing your work he just figured out that uber gives him that for free and pays him while it happens

@ghoshal Great take

“Won’t OpenAI just kill you though?” No. And here’s why: The world is moving away from one-size-fits-all AI and toward thousands of verticalized AI products that go deeper, faster, and more tailored to a problem space. It’s far more lucrative for OpenAI to partner with companies like Dupe than to copy them. After launching the iPhone, Apple tried building everything themselves for a whole year… then reality hit, and they shipped the App Store. That became their moat. OpenAI will play the exact same game. Their defensibility is foundational models + an insanely vibrant app ecosystem sitting on top of them. Not chasing every side quest. Not reinventing every vertical. And definitely not competing with the products that will make their platform indispensable.

@lawrencelimxyz Super puff from aritzia

What are all these winter jackets I’m seeing around with a logo that looks near identical to the Solana “S”. So confusing

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@ghoshal And if I’m left brained?

If you’re right-brained, you see the world’s greatest shopping agent companion.

@vivianyuezhou Nah I think amazon etc will realize being open to agentic commerce early will be a competitive advantage long term

@ghoshal @i8ramin “Shop now” 🤔

So impressed with how well Dupe’s v1 research mode works, a total confidence pill for shoppers to make informed (not impulsive) choices. Great work @i8ramin and team 🫡 coming to an iPhone near you, get it here apps.apple.com/us/app/dupe-co…

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@sid_chava To get fat easily

I often think about how fast food has ridiculously inflated post covid. whats the point of getting fast food if I'm gonna spend 15-20 for an order.

@ghoshal Amazing, would love to hear more about this, pls check DM!

@faariszh we're going to do this, its already in the works

New $DUPE app coming together… scaffolding’s in, testing in full swing. “Research in detail” is shaping up to be a killer feature. You’ll finally see why Google Images, Perplexity, or ChatGPT aren’t built for shopping. Verticalized LLMs just do more when they’re trained for one thing: helping you find the best deal. We’re coming for top of the App Store on launch, and it will be with an app that’s going to get 10X better from there, fast. Who wants a TestFlight?

@nathanleexyz Shayne is my goat

@faariszh what is your answer

which

@shayne_coplan ✋

who wants to watch football with me this sunday? in nyc gonna be beta testing the new polymarket US app

🐐 @shayne_coplan

@klyra 🔥

@nathanleexyz W space

agentic commerce is such a sneakily interesting space

@nathanleexyz Yes

bring these two back? might turn pantheon into vibe-coded founder app suite tbh.

@nathanleexyz Ein helles bitte

4 days in bavaria, for some reason seeing a different kind of goose threw me off

@nathanleexyz tufffff

@faariszh there is a reason why a joker is in a deck of cards

if vcs had their own jesters there would be no talk of an ai bubble right now. some funds need a jester more desperately than others