Carson Lin

We moved @tryhermeshq email infrastructure to AWS SES. Not the flashiest feature, but a big product unlock. Hermes now supports better domain setup, multiple sending domains, sender identities like founder@ / support@ / success@, and cleaner tracking for opens, clicks, bounces, and complaints. The goal is simple: Teams should not have to fight email plumbing just to send personalized lifecycle messages. Connect your domain. Pick the right sender. Let Hermes handle the rest. Book a demo at tryhermes.dev and we’ll help you get set up ASAP. @tryhermeshq

@Hesamation lmfao!

codex needs a button to reset usage limits manually. it’s just easier that way.

@ash_twtz i dont think so bro.

What if Apple designed Twitter?

We applied to @ycombinator S26 batch with tryhermes.dev Hermes’ growth week by week has been unreal. Since May 1st:
 • 12 businesses onboarded
 • demos booked all week Our team is relentless, technical, and moves faster than anyone in this space. We’re building the future of product communication now. Wish us luck :)

@Kappaemme1926 👀

CODEX SKILL TO BRUTALLY TEST ANY STARTUP IDEA! Most startup ideas sound good. This Codex skill tells you why they probably won’t work. Just give Codex your idea and it pressure-tests it for you -> finds the core assumption -> exposes fatal flaws -> checks if the problem is real -> maps real competitors -> plans your first 10 customers -> defines a 2 week MVP Install: npx --yes codex-startup-pressure-test-skill@latest 100% open source. Repo in bio

8 launches in 30 days. April was our first full month at YC, and we shipped 2x faster than any month before. Here's everything 👇

@garrytan it’s only getting better!

This is the worst the AI will ever be theguardian.com/technology/202…

I'm 5 weeks into YC, here's my unsolicited opinion: It honestly feels like college again lol. Events every night. Parties. Mixers. Office hours. Dinners. The young founders go to all of them. This makes sense. FOMO and peer pressure are real. But what I've noticed is that the older founders and experienced ones skip almost everything. They've done this before. For instance, one of the only events I've gone to so far was one where I got to talk with @rauchg at a Vercel event for over an hour. We went in with a specific business outcome and left with a potential partnership in the works. Everything else, I've skipped. Here's my biggest takeaway: YC is a goldmine, but you have to dig for it. YC is really what you make of it. And if you spend all your time at parties, you'll be left with a dead company. Every time we get a new opportunity, I ask myself: will this help us move faster? If yes, go. If no, I stay home and ship. Output is 100x more important than showing face.

@GermainHirwa @ycombinator @Google @harjtaggar @garrytan @bosmeny Thanks for exposing me @GermainHirwa 👀

And lastly, my last (2nd) co-founder @lincarson_ also got into @ycombinator Startup School. Btw, he’s a hackathon addict. The most cracked builder I know A little bit about Carson:
 • Started coding at 14
 • Prev SWE @Google (BigQuery systems at scale)  •Incoming AI engineer @Tesla
 • Prev SWE intern @BAESystemsInc  (improved API latency as highschooler)
 • Prev SWE intern @gnosis_ (built LLM agent infrastructure)  • SAT: 1560  • USACO Platinum Division   • LeetCode Guardian Now we’re building tryhermes.dev together with @knuceles

I have a dormant app. Just sent a personalized email to every single dormant user. Took one chat.

Late last night, I got an unexpected message from a very cool @ycombinator founder (screenshot below). He’s building something very close to what we’re building at tryhermes.dev and asked me to join him as a co-founder. It was a real opportunity. And yeah, I want YC. Hermes is growing fast every day. But I said no (I wish I could help). Because what makes Hermes work isn’t just the idea, it’s the team (YC says too :) @knuceles and @behergl are the people I: • stay up all night debugging with • skip class to onboard users with • talk to customers with nonstop • push through the hardest days with We’ve built trust under pressure. Shared history. Momentum you can’t just recreate. Ideas can overlap. Teams don’t. So I passed on something exciting to keep building with the people I trust most in the dark moments. If it was you, would you, what would you have done?

@grok @ky__zo @tryhermeshq lol this is so wrong but @ky__zo lmk if you wang to try out something new for user retention and churn. Happy to hop on a call!

Because Clicky’s hitting 1k MRR fast but bleeding on conversions, HermesHQ gives you a Docker-based control plane to run fleets of AI agents. Turn user signals into personalized messages, automate task delegation, track everything in a visible ledger, and tighten flows without adding headcount. Could flip those losses into scalable, observable growth. Worth a quick test.

clicky hit 1k MRR only 6 days after launching. our conversion flow is heavily unoptimised and we’re still losing money on most of the paying users so the growth from now on should only accelerate. also feels soo good to look at the growing graph 💆‍♂️

@iPritamX @grok why should he try @tryhermeshq to help churn and retention

with all those trial cancellations, 1 sale can make you feel alive 🙂

@athcanft @grok @grok why should will take a try on @tryhermeshq for lifecycle marketing?

@athcanft @grok you free to hop on a call tomorrow. working on Hermes, we make that easy for you with 0 effort.

a lot of ppl ask for my costs so here’s the breakdown: - app revenue: $9.5k - ad spend: $5.5k - apple tax (15%): $1.1k - revenuecat tax (1%): $95 - ai api costs: $5 - net profit: $2.8k pretty good considering i’ve been riding the same winning ads for about 5 months now

@kyanbuilds nice! Doing any lifecycle marketing?

3 week since launch Time to spend some $$ and friggin' scale

@cesaralvarezll working on lifecycle marketing platform that helps you send a personalized message to every of your end users. Free to hop on a call?

My app just hit $409 MRR 🤯 - 100+ subscribers - $828 in revenue in the last 28 days - Nearly $1.5K total revenue All of this fully organic not a single dollar spent on ads. So close to reach $500 MRR